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First week of school, no lessons really except lectures.

Here are the interesting points I remember from the lectures:

FNA1002X - Financial Accounting.

Perhaps the reasons why professionals usually run Partnership ownership are:
1. Do not need disclose their financial status
2. Less taxation

Big 4 (Singapore’s big accounting/auditing firms)
1. Deloitte and Touche
2. Ernst and Young
3. KPMG
4. PricewaterhouseCoopers

MA1301 Introductory Mathematics

“You can’t say you don’t know, you can only say you forgotten”

The lecturer claiming we should read up our primary or secondary mathematics textbooks if we couldn’t remember the essential maths. I guessed this is what they meant as “at university level”. But at least Ratio theorem was something new I learn that day.

CS2301 Business and Technical Communication

“Remember Atari”

Was the speaker’s case of poor documentation leading to the fall of the legendary company.

CS2103 Introduction to Networking
Perhaps I heard the concepts before, so I found it boring until the lecturer showed us the interesting flash movie of

Epic 2015

CS2105 Software Engineering

Listed Ariane 5 as example of a very costly software failure. See here for more “buggy” stories

Revision on Recursion

Interesting famous computer puzzles were describe like

Hanoi tower, Fibonacci sequence, GCD (Great Common Divisor)

Other than lectures on the first week, I did some other activities in school: Orchestra practice, swimming, Nus Run

The week ends with fireworks watching and a tired body sinking into deep sleep.