We all want to be exceptional, don’t we? We look at our peers that we perceive as overachievers, getting their 10k a month internships, starting side hustles and businesses that are earning big bucks, and scoring well in school. We admire their tenacity and drive, that all-encompassing energy to achieve everything they can, while lamenting our mediocrity, chastising…

So I just finished up the book called The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel. As part of my practice to start writing more often and to ensure I actually learned something from reading the book, here are some of my takeaways. This summary will be a mixture of personal…

Context: This is a journal post of mine that I really like. I actually really like writing, now that I think about it. I think I might post more of these in the future. Enjoy :) 04/07/2021 Sunday I’m in quite the pickle yet again. Here’s me slacking off on…

I’ve never been the best university student. Coming here, I straight-up told myself that I wouldn’t care about my CAP. For those unaware, CAP in the National University of Singapore stands for Cumulative Average Point, which basically functions like a GPA in other universities. The maximum CAP available is 5.0…

MVC. MVVM. MVP. MVowiefnuwoabugqo4ubg. When my professor went through this lecture, being the intellectually slow computing student that I was, naturally, I was confused. Like REALLY confused. Worse still, when discussing with my groupmates on the architecture of our application, two abbreviations, MVC and MVVM were being tossed around like…

Throughout my Computer Science journey in NUS, time and time again I’ve come across the concept of S.O.L.I.D when it comes to programming. Back when I was a wee freshman, the concept of S.O.L.I.D first came up in my second semester. Of course, being the lost and intellectually infantile freshman…