Conference at Singapore - short impressions
- Singapore is quite a clean city, for its size. Large avenues for a asian city. Pretty.
- Today at lunch I sat on a table with 5 brazillians, an Indian guy, and a Chinese girl. The brazillians spent all the time speaking in portuguese among themselves, ignoring the indian and the chinese. The indian tried to draw conversation, and one of the brazillian ladies answered it in portuguese. Disgusting :-/
- Portfolio Optimization with GA seems like a more popular topic that I hoped to. I have to step up my reserach not to get scooped. On the other hand, my presentation seemed like the most fleshed out of the bunch.
- Most of the conference perks are only available for full registration. Since I registered as a student, I don’t get fancy dinners, or free trips to the zoo
- Singapore has hotspots all over it. Most of them require payment, or a singaporean phone number. They usually send you the password over the phone. Well, the wireless hotspot at Mc Donalds doesn’t. It requires a phone number, but does not check it for validity. I signed in with my japanese phone number. Yay!
- My laptop battery is dying!
- Hope it doesn’t rain saturday, which will probably be my only days for shopping and sightseeing. It is raining today, so I can’t walk around.
- Order of the Stick and Erfword are not so fun recently. Met a person from NexusWar - another online personality that turned real ![]()
September 29th, 2007 at 12:38 am
Pois eh… algumas vezes eu ouco alguns comentarios sobre como os chineses se juntam em grupos e conversam em chines apenas… Mas sera que no lugar deles, contando com a maioria absoluta de estudantes estrangeiros, outras pessoas nao fariam a mesma coisa?
October 6th, 2007 at 3:42 am
poxa que fora… é~TÃO básica a regra de nao se falar uma lingua que alguem nao entenda se tiver uma lingua comum a todos….
bah
October 10th, 2007 at 1:15 am
Where’s Flukeman’s photo? :p