Archive for February, 2009

Slumber battle

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

I never had such a hard fight.
Against sleep in lecture. But I won nonetheless.
In Linear Algebra lecture the Professor just made me so sleepy that the only thing that kept me awake was my note-copying. But I found myself cancelling a lot of wrongly copied stuff, and even managed to dream in my lecture seat [...]

Happy to be busy

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

I realize that the only good solution to not think too much and worry about whatever I like to think about when I am idle is that there’s a midterm in two days, with a paper due on the same day, and a problem set due a day after that, not to mention the computer [...]

A short conversation: There is no middle ground

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

My roommate Zach very graciously (note the sarcasm) shared with me the following article via email:
Leading scientists still reject God
I replied through email (despite the fact that he was three feet away next to me):
“Well too bad for these smart people… they think they are so smart but they cannot be more wrong… at the [...]

A post about many things

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

I wish I had time to just type down my thoughts and reflections here. I have so so many things which I wanna write.
But I am so hard pressed for time! Spent 3 days since last weekend working on just one programming homework and then like the domino effect all the deadlines came rushing up [...]

Awesome

Friday, February 6th, 2009

I was flipping through my “Computer Organization and Design” textbook and saw on the 3rd page something about the authors:
David A. Patterson
University of California, Berkeley
John L. Hennessy
Stanford University
Google quickly told me that Hennessy is currently the President of Stanford University, and Patterson is still a Professor of Computer Science in Berkeley! How cool is that! [...]

Hey people, enough. And thanks.

Friday, February 6th, 2009

I’m moving on. Don’t need to tell me to quit.
Apparently my blog is read by too many people. Anyway there’s good news for you all.
I cannot imagine myself studying anything else but EECS in Berkeley. And I am already quarter way there to the EECS degree, having taken or taking quite a number of classes [...]

Duality

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Ern Sheong is actually two persons.
The first of these is probably the Ern Sheong you see everyday. “Confident,” has a positive attitude, Christian, believes in God and has some little faith in Him, has some sense of control, predictable, jovial, somewhat serious, tries hard, encourages other people, tries to be a better person etc.
The second [...]