It was this day, one year ago.

A lot has happened, a lot had happened.
Some I remember, some I forget.

But it is that very day, which in my mind still remains.
To clear it seems, to clear it feels.

Do I need to forget, or do I not?
Do I want to forget, or do I not?

Maybe some day I will, or maybe never.

Whichever the case, I hoped I’ve moved on; I want to move on.
To make better memories of the days to come
To someday look back and be able to smile

But can that be found in the present?
How long more will it take?

Well Lord you know all things
So where do we go from here?

Anyway, Happy Halloween y’all

One reason why I don’t find Minesweeper a fun game is that oftentimes it’s just a game of chance. After working so hard to uncover 98 mines I usually come to a point where the last mine is hidden under a few tiles of equal probabilty. What difference is this than rolling a dice or tossing a coin?

Well here’s a new way to play Minesweeper.

Instead of trying to uncover the mines, we shall verify that a given state of the game is possible. In other words I present to you a “freeze-frame” of a Minesweeper game, with some tiles uncovered, some flagged as mines, and the rest covered and you tell me if that is a possible scenario.

Now the game is actually solvable without any element of luck like the Sudoku puzzle. Idea was from an interesting way to present the P=NP? problem with Minesweeper, which by the way is NP-Complete.

We need more lecturers who can present ideas in such fun and creative ways.

There’s no reason for me to be at Arts on a Friday afternoon. There’s also usually no reason for me to be in school at all.

However, just today I had to be at the Arts canteen at noon to meet some friends. Was kinda amazed at the number of people I met there, who had little reason to be there (i.e. not from Arts Fac)

Cheesecake called out when I was looking for my friends, and Jelly too just outside the canteen. Bumped into Kevin Yong when walking back in, then his sister popped out behind him, mentioning that there seemed to be a lot of people we know converging at the canteen today.

Even Pastor Wilson and Derek were there. Shanli was also there when I was walking thru the canteen to A6 to hand up my assignment.

Such coincidence.

Was finishing my shower when I heard my mom exclaiming, “zoek fo le! zoek fo le!” (著火 - Cantonese for “caught fire”)

Having a rough idea of what had been going on, was actually rather amused even before stepping out of the bathroom. And I just had to laught when I saw the flaming bread in the toaster oven.

It was really on fire. Burning.

Fresh from the oven

Wasn’t out of control so we just snubbed it out with some wet tablecloth.

Trust my dad to toast some bread. I’m always amazed how my dad, brother and sister can mess up such simple cooking tasks.

Renew my life Lord Jesus
I never want to be the same
Renew my life Lord Jesus
Change this heart inside of me

And I need to be transformed
Into your likeness Oh Lord
Change this heart inside of me

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Excerpt from Wikipedia:

Clinical depression is a health condition of depression with mental and physical components reaching criteria generally accepted by clinicians.

Although nearly any mood with some element of sadness may colloquially be termed a depression, clinical depression is more than just a temporary state of sadness. Symptoms lasting two weeks or longer in duration, and of a severity that they begin to interfere with daily living, can generally be said to constitute clinical depression.

Scored 28 on the Beck Depression Inventory test. I wonder how reflective it is.

friend
n.
1. A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.
2. A person whom one knows; an acquaintance.

Going by the first definition, I don’t have any. Upon serious thinking, all my friends belong to the second definition.

Someone whom I know well, likes and trust. Someone who reflects the same to me.

It just sux not having one in this world.

The Daytona machine down at Bugis got reduced to normal arcade mode. Though it’s still 2 games per credit, the race is so short it’s not so fulfilling anymore.

Damnit. Where else can I go to now?