Robert Frost's Decision

During my secondary school, everyone in the school read a poem by Robert Frost called The Road Not Taken. It questions us to pick a path for your future. It teaches me on being responsible on the decisions. Its has been years after I first encountered this poem, this poem still does not fail to frequent me whenever I am making hard decisions. Dear Robert, did you really sigh when you took the road less taken?...

February 27, 2012 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

New Life

After a month into my new job, I got my new life. Despite the jam, I woke up early to get to my office. I learned to code, debug. The best part of the day when you get to type commit into version control. Back home, I cook my own dinner. Attend online lecture after that or continue on my journal paper. Before I sleep, I read a few chapters....

November 3, 2011 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

How I Became A Programmer?

I learnt programming even before I receive my former education in primary school. Even though I did not learn to create a full blown application, but it did teach me problem solving, flowchart and logic programming. The Turtle My first programming language is Logo (Wiki). Logo is console consist of a turtle that draws according to the command given. We can draw anything using command like Pen off, pen on, turn right, turn left…...

July 21, 2011 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Bersih Really Rally?

Last Saturday (9 July 2011), Malaysian all over the world came together and march to demand for cleaniness in Electoral. I was in Klang Valley but yet I didn’t join it. For me this march is even bigger than a march itself. Many would think it is a peaceful march for the better future for Malaysia. However, many people joined this rally with different purposes. Each have their own agenda to see them happen....

July 11, 2011 · 5 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Data Engineering

Since the invention of computing devices, we have seen numerous data explosions. Reasons? Storage devices are getting cheaper but the storage ability is growing. It is now easier to share information especially through the cloud. Connectivity between human and non-human became more robust and sophisticated. Devices are made widely available. But there is a big problem here. Although we have expected the growth of data exponentially, but there are little ways developed for us to manage and fully make used of the data available for the greater benefit....

May 11, 2011 · 2 min · Shern Shiou Tan