“Rural Return”

In a few hours, I’ll be heading to Kedah with family to celebrate Hari Raya there. There is a lot of things to be celebrated tomorrow and the day after. Firstly, my dad’s birthday and then Hari Raya Aidilfitri, a festive day celebrated nationwide.
On a more personal level, this 1st October will mark one full [...]

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Laws and Crimes

Today, I had three hours of lecture on Malaysia cyber law. The lecturer, David Len started by talking about computer crime and how the definition of computer may cover any electronic device including printers, mobile phones, storage media and so on. He then continued by introducing to us the existing legal framework in Malaysia concerning [...]

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Tom Go Server

Edited 29/09/08 : Translation for TOM Go Client GUI is provided. Many thanks to Munyi for the work.
Since I recovered from sick, I have been wanting to start a new life. Being the geek that I am, this means reformatting my PC and reinstalling software. Haha .. I am so hopeless
I thought the [...]

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Go, War and Sun Tzu

Just to what extent do we agree that a Go game is actually a war?
Chess is a battle, Go is a war. I am not suprised if every Go player in the world has heard of that saying. I previously dismissed any relationship between Go and War, thinking that Go was just a game and nothing more. Just what benefits [...]

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Plenty of room for research in Go AI

Woke up early morning and happened to watch the game human vs. machine on KGS. White is 8-dan Korean professional Myungwan Kim and black is MoGoTiTan. Previous game between them, MoGoTitan won taking 9-stone handicap. This time, MoGo took no 7-stone handicap, and lost terribly

Haha… MoGo played the ladder despite white having one extra liberty [...]

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I love Excel

When I first started out at my job, I moaned “I was born to excel, not to do Excel”. I didn’t know why I had to do silly things like adding and removing specific data from a worksheet, merging tables, rerepresenting data in a new format and so on.
At the point when it became unbearable, [...]

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Needing a bigger dream

Had ”quality” time with my dad at Mandarin Oriental’s Lounge on the Park just now. He spoke at length about working, business, shares, professionalism and for the first time, I listened to all these intently.
I realise I cant play Go forever. I mean, I cant rely on it to provide amusement throughout my entire life. [...]

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Insight into Vietnamese Go

Had a chat with Keira just now. She was checking whether I would be going for Thai University Go tournament again this time. Sadly, I said I can’t. Otherwise I will probably lose my job for taking too many leaves.
Anyway I took this opportunity to discover more about Vietnamese Go.
I got to know few Go players from [...]

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Speedy speedy recovery.

Third day being sick. So uncool.
Yesterday, despite massive headache, I stopped by at Japan Club and had two games of Go. My headache stopped for a while during the games, but it returned overwhelmingly after finish. It’s like injured  sportsmen who could still play well but risk greater suffering later. Weird. Is this the work of [...]

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Uh-oh

I am not feeling well. Been sleeping the whole afternoon. And the worst part is, I have a whole day class tomorrow and also a bit of work to finish before Monday.
No enjoyment this weekend
Is being sick a way for the body to tell me that I need to rest? How do I [...]

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