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My inactivity on my website and my laziness towards actually making it look better is justified by the fact that it’s exam season, and I do the IB diploma program. It is very rigorous, they torture you with the exam, the exam board itself is…very questionable, and I have to do 6 very heavy weight subjects, all with coursework. Math I picked the hardest math that the IBDP (or just the IB) has to offer, Higher Level Math: Analysis and Approaches, or just HL Math AA, or HLAA. Analysis and Approaches means that it has more pure math content and less of the weird statistical graph theory geometry stuff that Applications and Interpretations has to offer. It’s also because universities love HLAA students, especially for Computer Science. ...

I have been living in Singapore for 10 years by now. Eight long years ago, I moved into the house I am currently in. I was assigned the second bedroom in my house, counting from the beginning of a long corridor that began in the living room. I had no desk, just a piano and a 90cm bed. I also had a large, long windowsill that spanned the width of my room; a large concrete slab with nothing on it. ...

WhatsApp is bad. WhatsApp is evil, and they do not deserve a spot in anybody’s lives. They hate their users. Note that this article will contain swear words. If you can’t handle them, look away :) TL;DR WhatsApp is evil. Meta is evil. They steal your data, they have control over you. This is just a case study; for a change, use Signal. Backstory. Yesterday morning (13th May, around 9am GMT+8) I tried to create a new community on WhatsApp, on my desktop, for an up-and-coming mathematical society at my school. ...

What? IGCSEs. Cambridge-assessed final examinations. As of writing this article, it is the 5th of May, the night before my IGCSE Coordinated Science (0654) paper 41. They are quite stressful, as you can tell by the title, but it really isn’t all that much. IGCSEs are simple! All you need to do is memorize the markschemes, do past papers and you’re good. Even if you aren’t comfortable with 5 entire topics, you can watch a few YouTube videos and cram all of it the night before! Such an easy life, no? ...

NOTE Am I a tech nerd who blogs about technical stuff? YES! But do I have a life? yes. This post is not technical, and I will only continue writing this format when I feel like it. Scroll down if you wish. A long time ago… When I was 11 or 12 or so (back in 6th grade), I had one of the most amazing math teachers ever. She was great at her job, but most importantly, every time the class and her had an interaction everybody would burst out in happy laughter; there was never one negative moment in that room. ...