Into The Lion's Mouth

Friday, January 8, 2010 at 1:30 AM
I've had a very good time meeting up a primary school friend in the afternoon. One of the few primary school friends that I still talk and keep in contact with. Had lunch at Asia Cafe (or rather I had lunch) before we adjourned to Pyramid to hopefully catch a movie. Unfortunately the movies we wanted to watch are a bit too late for me as I had dinner plans later. So we slowly walked around, had some things to nibble, quench thirst with a lychee and watermelon drink (awesome by the way) and checked out the arcade and had some archery done. Completely impromptu but on hindsight, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Dinner with some of the OCFers at Murni and to celebrate some past and upcoming birthdays. But given the recent events of which I only just found out days ago, most of the attention is directed towards one person. I find it surprising about it because I only knew the step before this only weeks ago. Says a lot about how I'm not in the loop anymore. Again I did a small head count at the table and again I still find the same proportion as I saw in OCF lately. 50%. Then it gave me a theory, give it a few more years and that percentage will soon approach the Golden Ratio (conjugate), about 62%. Maybe it will stabilize at that ratio. That would be soooo geekily cool but at the same time a tad bit depressing.

Speaking of geeky, a friend gave me this brain teaser out of nowhere because he is stumped on solving it. So he gave the problem, thinking that I should be able to solve it off all people being a "former" mathematician. So I looked at it and immediately I know what to do. "Sweet! It's a sudoku type problem. I know how to solv...wait, how many variables are there?...........Sweet! I know how to solve it". Right there, I knew my third year Operations Research subjects have not gone to waste. A few hours later, I solved it with the help of the computer. Felt quite happy which leads me to believe that I have chosen the right second course to do. I love the thrill of a solved problem.

Anyway, short update. Kittehz of Singapore! Ai iz coming to teh Big Kitteh Citi!!!1! Form 15th til 21st Januaree. Clear thos daets plz? Kthxbai.

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