Just returned from the AIOC Informatics Olympiad Selection School at the ANU in Canberra.

Congrats. and good luck to the IOI 05 team (Chris L., Chris C., Ramana, Alex, Jono [reserve]) heading for Poland.

Informatics School (aka "algorithm camp") consisted of basically a daily ritual of: wakeup, breakfast, walk to CS, 1hr lecture, 2hrs comp lab, walk to burgmann, lunch, walk to CS, 1hr lecture, 2hrs lab, walk to burgmann, dinner, walk to CS, 1hr discussions, some more lab time, walk to burmann, sleep...

so i've actually walked about 60km during that weekand ahalf ..

first free went to LAN gaming, 2nd free saw 'the Interpreter' (nicole kidman) in the city ... the movie was pretty good, except the ending with the anticlimax.

well back home now... with over a week of hw and study to catch up... grrr.... going to be totally screwed over for the HYs...

oh well- here come the photos...

breakfast @ burgmann hall

the CS labs with linux comps

PHUN...

the "tutorz"

the quizmaster... Dr. Ben

SMILE EVERYONE!! .. ppl watching the final playoffs in the RoboRally game

playing Bartog on the last night

leaving canberra...

canberra airport

up in teh clouds... i fly....

sydney harbour or botany bay.. or some other random place near the airport...

farewell.. jono, xi, chris, jarrah, and me

(i know chris from cosmology and the rest are from ruse... its a small world indeed )

here are pics from cosmology residential 1 (february 05)

yes i'm a very up-to-date person, arent I? :P

me

ruse ppl: ming, minmin, ken, hang, louis

me... guess which dish this is....

that's right... its THE dish.. parkes radio telescope

mmmm..... *drools @ the power*

volleyball... or better... past sunset = night volleyball :D...

on the rooftop of some observatory...

MOPRA telescope

Australia Telescope National Facility

SUSI - Sydney Uni. Stellar Interferometer

moon through a 'scope

Saturn through a 'scope

a better pic of Saturn.. u can see the rings

Jupiter.. u can see the diagonal bands

3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope

the interior...

look!- hang is patting the mountain... lol

Schmidt telescope i think...

trivia night! ruse yr11 vs. rest... lol

time picture taken: 5 am in the morning...

that's right we stayed up all night... but we had a 8hr bustrip afterwards... :)

proof that God is lefthanded.. top left corner lol...

Wow! I forgot this thing existed... last entry like 6 months ago...

Ive got a lot of catching up to do... so.. to recap on the last 6 montsh of my life:

cbf to type- so i'll follow the good o'l tradition of uploading grotesquely large hi-res photos to do the explaining.. (and lure the unsuspecting reader who happens to stumble into the quicksand of the doom of his/her download limit!!!.. Muahahahhaha..!!!

lol jk

january - holiday to singapore, malaysia, china, hong kong, macau

china hotel lobby

really long bridge in hk

aww.. how *beautiful*(...

some zoo in china

some really crazy goldfish...

macau casino

wahhh... so tired and boring today...

so tired from tennis - actually, a very good challenging game :D for quite a while.- was me and tyrone vs. han jin and louis. We only won the 2nd set. but played a bit of "volleyball" wiht a tennis ball. lol,. very fobby :P. me and louis caned in the first set. tyrone and han jin was leading in the 2nd but we had to leave, with that set unfinished.

dropped them off @ westfields, and came back for lunch. spaghetti. yum :D.

damn, no good movies seem to be coming out this holidays. looks like these coming holidays will be pretty booooring... study for maths, english, sci, history, geo  exams first week. got sd hsc in 3rd week. *yawn*... boring 2wks coming up... but after next term, i might be going overseas. :D yay! first time i leave australian borders !

damn, soo boring now. i look forward to sunday afternoons during the week.. but when it gets here, it feels so boring and hope for school. sci excursion tmr. wow this last week is so bludgy.

cbf to do any work now. CS1.5 is somehow down now, so thats no good. time to dig out good ole warcraft3 + TFT exapnsion.

hello everyone,

my first xanga post [wow, big deal?] (sarcastically)

today is saturday. boring day really.

woke up@ almost noon. got some brunch. went for usual swimming in afternoon. came back home. felt really bored and sleepy. did some reading. dinner. h/w. now this.

well looking forward to some tennis tomorow :D. havent played for lik 2-3 weeks. damn, there aint any good movies to watch after.

then school on monday. the wkend seems to pass so fast.