Tuesday, 12 November 2024

Dream Cruise to Malacca 10 to 12 November

 
Untold Stories of Melaka, Encore Melaka is a captivating 70-minute show that delves deep into the vibrant history and cultural tapestry of Melaka. Free ticket with compliments of Dream Cruise. The performance and effects were very impressive, highly recommended for anyone visiting Malacca!  I think promotional admission tickets are available on Klook at S$20+.

Free goodie bag given upon reaching Malacca ICQS Complex jetty

Deluxe Balcony Room


Chicken rice balls lunch at Jonker Street

Tuesday, 5 November 2024

US Trip 2 to 27 November

Natural History Museum

New York Public Library


Statue of Liberty Museum



New York City Central Park

Thursday, 3 October 2024

Meta Hacker Cup 2024

Hacker Cup is Meta's annual open programming competition. Open to participants around the world, we invite you to apply problem-solving and algorithmic coding skills to advance through each year’s online rounds, win prizes, and have a chance to make it to the global finals and win the grand prize.

The top 2,000 participants in Round 2 will win a shirt. If you qualify for Round 3 and finish in the top 200, you'll win a shirt with a top-200 badge on the sleeve instead of the normal shirt.
Just like last year, t-shirts can be claimed from your Hacker Cup Profile after we have finished plagiarism checks for the Round 3 (or after we have finished plagiarism checks for Round 2 if you didn't qualify for Round 3 and have no chance of winning a top-200 shirt).

Cash prizes for the Final Round are as follows (all prizes in USD):
1st: $20,000
2nd: $10,000
3rd: $5,000
4th: $3,000
5th: $1,000
6th - 10th: $500
11th - 15th: $300
16th - 25th: $200

Human Track - What's the structure of the contest?

The 2024 season of Hacker Cup will take place over 5 rounds:
Practice Round (Fri. Sept 20th, 10am Pacific — Mon. Sep. 23th, 10am Pacific)
Round 1 (Sat. Oct. 5th, 10am — 1pm Pacific)
Round 2 (Sat. Oct. 19th, 10am — 1pm Pacific)
Round 3 (Sat. Nov. 2nd, 10am — 1pm Pacific)
Final Round (Sat. Dec. 7th, 6am — 10am, Online)

Sign up here

Thursday, 19 September 2024

Japan Trip (Tokyo, Nikko, Kyoto, Osaka) 12 to 18 Sep




Si Yuan doing a Student Exchange in Tokyo

Staying at Nikko

Wearing Yukata with Obi (belt)

Three Wise Monkeys of Tōshōgū Shrine – Nikko


Nikko Natural Science Museum

Kyoto Railway Museum

Ikoma Cable Car

Private Onsen


Kyoto International Manga Museum

Glico Man

Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan


Osaka Cup Noodles Museum

Ikoma Sanjo Amusement Park

Nara Park Deer Feeding





Kegon Falls


Friday, 6 September 2024

IOI 2024 Results




Below from Live Scoreboard. Notice all 4 members from China team have Gold ranking in the live scoreboard, but in the final results, China team won 2 Gold and 1 Silver.



I am inclined to believe the China team did not cheat. But they should not have brought mobile phones into the contest area.

IOI 2024 Singapore Team Results:
Silver - Yaw Chur Zhe, HCI Year 6
Silver - Brian Xiao Boyang, RI Year 2
Bronze - Kang Yiming, RI Year 6 
Bronze - Sun Beichen, HCI Year 5