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I went on a Europe tour during my Uni days and I specially went to buy a digital camera because the tour was expensive and I didn’t want my photos to be screwed up. Bought a FujiFilm FinePix 1440i (or something like that) and 2 16 MB SmartMedia cards that cost me more than $100. Each!

Those were the days that digicams were still unheard of and I was the only one in the tour group wielding one. Quite a few of them were puzzled when they saw me holding the camera away from my face to use the LCD screen instead of using the optical viewfinder.

In my Uni days when I had to go to the lab to work on my Honours Year Project, I had what I thought was a great idea and decided to bring along a thermos flask of milo that I had prepared at home since the labs were always very cold and it was great to have a hot drink.

It was then that I discovered that Milo turns sour very quickly even when you keep it in a vacuum thermos flask…

Many years back, broadband was not pervasive yet and the speeds available to the consumers were quite pathetic.

To get around this, I usually got together with a bunch of friends to settle down somewhere in campus where we could surf in peace and enjoy the broadband speed.

So far, I’ve only been to the Sungei Buloh Nature Reserve once, and that was during a field trip for one of the Cross-Faculty modules in University!

I wasn’t particularly impressed because I don’t really think I’m really a nature outdoorsy kind of guy, or maybe it’s just because I’ve had more than my fair share of flora and fauna during my army days…

Took up driving in my last semester in Uni since I had the spare time and my then-girlfriend (now wife) implored me to make use of the time and get a driving license.

Turned out to be a good move. It was smooth sailing and I passed first time.

If anyone in NUS SoC is reading this post, you should take up the Technopreneurship Minor if its offered to you as an option. I learned a lot out of this Minor and its also a good opportunity to mix around with people from different faculties.

I was a school sprinter during my Primary and Secondary School days, however I went into a long hiatus due to injuries and disinterest in running circles around the track.

I was dismayed when I went for sprint relay selections in Uni and I found that I had lost my speed… However, I can run much longer distances nowadays. Perhaps there was a tradeoff?…

Back in University we were all supposed to work on this JPEG encoder/decoder program that could compress an image using a JPEG algorithm that we had to write ourselves.

I normally do not need help with my programs, but this very one time, no matter how much time I spent, I just couldn’t get it right. I tried till it was just minutes before the deadline and I had no choice but to get some serious help from LJ.

Thanks LJ! Never forgot that save…

Went to attend a company talk in University and applied for the scholarship without really thinking I would get it as I didn’t think my results were stellar to begin with.

To my surprise, I was called up for an interview and was subsequently awarded the scholarship! That was a pleasant surprise as it meant I could pay my way through Uni on my own as well as get some pocket money!

There was this VCD rental shop across the road from my faculty where I signed up as a member and borrowed quite a lot of VCDs while I was still schooling. (DVDs and DVD players were still quite expensive at that time and the DVD rental market was virtually non-existent)

Think I watched the most number of VCDs while I was in my final year as I had quite a bit of time to spare, but sad to say, once I started work, I have never visited the place again and I’m not even sure if it still exists now…