Perception

My results for the term were released last Tuesday, the eve of Christmas Eve. I was a little apprehensive about knowing how well or badly I did for the semester, and even on the morning of that fateful day itself I was still slightly hesitant about checking my grades. When I did, however, I was [...]

Tags: CAP, CS1101, CS1105, CS1231, EC1301, NM2216, Results

These past seven days have been terribly busy for me, mainly because I’m in the middle of an eight-day employment term with Singapore Pools. I was rather lucky to secure two jobs within a span of two days, the first an internship with Avant Global, and the second this current temporary job as a surveyor. [...]

Tags: Avant Global, Betting, Customer Service, Job, Singapore Pools

As I previously anticipated, MySQL has proven to be a difficult language to learn. I’ve familiarised myself with most of the basic commands used to create and modify databases and tables, along with carrying out simple SELECT queries to retrieve data. I followed the examples provided in the book and I was honestly quite alarmed [...]

Tags: Apache, Delicious, HN, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, WebsiteDB

I spent some time in the past week getting started on PHP, and so far I’ve covered majority of the basic concepts. The syntax of PHP is quite similar to Java which I’m already familiar with, so the examples given have been easier to follow and understand. Another area that these languages have in common [...]

Tags: Avant Global, Internship, Interview, Java, MySQL, O'Reilly, OOP, PHP, Startup