Just before June 2023, my broker account went up from -20% to 170% while I was sleeping. Ultimately, I was lucky and was riding on top of this AI bubble. However, I had zero idea at that moment, not until late August last year. The beginning was January 2023, and my first win was in early February in Singapore, where I bought one call option on AAPL and was rewarded with a 480% profit (120$ from 25%)....
In February, I went back to Singapore to revisit my past life, and it was where I started programming 10 years ago. In April, I was back in my motherland ever since the pandemic started, and it was the place where I spent my childhood. In July, it was my third visit to Japan to meet my Ryuta’s aniki once again since 2019, and it was always a special place for me....
It was late September 2015 when I came to Sydney for my Foundation Studies at UNSW, and my class was called CP8. It has been almost 8 years, I never realise how fast time goes. After the event in Singapore, I went back to motherland for a while and even went to the US with my mother before coming to Australia. You know I was stupid, naive and miserable. I almost looked down on everyone in my class....
This one was never finished and has been in draft for half a year. I am just making it public now, not checked or anything but you get the idea. I always wanted to try trading because my father is a trader, and it sounded very cool. He often tells me about his trading philosophy but less on how to trade. He was so happy when he was talking about it....
Last week, GPT-4 was announced. Then, we had the Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot X and even more AI powered tools. Funny that I was discussing whether my past ten years of programming was meaningful. It is fast how things change. Last time, I went to UNSW for the 30th anniversary of CSE. The speaker said something like this, AI is overhyped now but will be underhyped in the future. That future… is now....
After almost 8 years, I was back in Singapore earlier this month to celebrate my 10th year of programming. Also, I wanted to test a few things to prepare for my next Japan trip. A lot had happened, yet I was back again to face my past. The trip was sort of sudden, but I made up my mind to go. I had been staying in Sydney for the past 3 years in my room working remotely....
As the trip gets closer, my emotion towards Singapore grows stronger. My days in Singapore weren’t the greatest, and it was rather miserable instead. For some reason, it always comes back, and I cannot forget about it. I spent most of my time in Singapore programming, and I rarely went outside except for school. That’s how I spent two and a half years there. I only met other students and my guardian once in a while....
In late 2016, I got the idea of making an iOS app for World of Warships. It was a fun game, and I wanted to do something for it, just like what I did before. This is how my journey began… Making iOS apps was the reason why I started learning programming in the first place in early 2013. After almost 4 years, I thought I was ready and started working on WoWs Info....
I had no idea what I was doing before I was in Singapore. Every day, I woke up and went to school to study but for what? I had no goals back then because all I needed to do was study and get good grades. Life in Singapore was truly memorable. I was doing crazy things, and I have no idea how I did them. Talking with my classmates was hard because they had no idea what I was talking about....
Two years have passed. Everything has changed including me. I am no longer that simple, and I don’t like it. The ceremony today was great. It was only two years late, and nobody I knew was there. It reminded me of lots of great memories at UNSW. They will not fade away. I get a bit emotional because I knew they won’t come back anymore. There are too many feelings in me and very complicated....