boring description of today (1am - 530pm)

today is the first time even i pulled out of competitions. bloody hell. it's so damn tough this time. three worker classes, all implementing threads, one was stoppable thread. each threads calling the rest of the threads. one with infinite loops. nuts i tell you. what else was there? abstract action handlers, wasn't it? well, anyway, i pulled out. so i'm left with one competition right now. but that's okay, i'm expecting to score big in my last week's projects and this one project this week. let's hope i'm right, otherwise i'm so screwed.

anyway, this morning, i had quite some fun with my friend who's residing in the states right now. at 1am here (1pm in carnegie-mellon u, PA), we both compete together in a 75 minutes online competition. it's freakin' tough but fun. the first question was easy. it's just flipping a prose, something like:

ABC
ABC
ABC

becomes

AAA
BBB
CCC

quite easy really. it was the second question that was getting difficult. i knew how to do it in general, but it's difficult to implement the correct things. it's dp with memoization (bottom-up approach, i think). i have difficulties calculating certain important numbers. oh, and i can't believe i used a wrong method! blah! idiot! took me most of the 75 minutes to finish that question (while it took me less than 3 minutes to solve the first question). anyway, i didn't have the time to solve the third question. it was on Young tableau.

anyway, i was ranked 117 out of more than 700 people. my friend was 170. and we both passed that qual round. so now we're going to round 1 next next week. oh, and my rating went up (similar style of rating as in chess). went up big. it went up about 100 points from 1369 to 1471. i'm very close of being upgraded from blue to yellow (yellow is from 1500 onwards). my aim is to be yellow by end of round 1. then i'll slack. i just want to get the free t-shirt they're giving out if you managed to pass round 1 (meaning advancing to round 2).

well, it was fun. after the competition, we chatted until almost 5am. talking about all sort of rubbish. you see, my friend is a really avid mathematician (no that's not his major, he's a cs major). so he likes analysing the result of the competition. and analyse it he did. oh and he was complaining about google code jam because google never emailed him about the qual round which was like on 5 or 6 sept, which already passed lar! well, he still has tccc to look forward to!

oh, and i should tell you this, he happens to be my ex-classmate in jc. oh well. smart guy! (:
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enough of boring description. moving on to my life today. i woke up at 2pm, sat down in front of my computer, surfing net, listening to songs, bathe. wait. did i bathe already? oh, no, i haven't! sorry! i'm too lazy right now. oh, at least i did eat lunch. that's good. you know what? my life today is boring too! too bad!

anyway, lastly, i've got two more songs that i really like in the span of a day (so three songs including the song i posted yesterday). well, i'll post one here and keep the other one to myself. so here it is, barenaked ladies' told you so.

Told You So
Barenaked Ladies

I never jumped in and rescued you,
but I wanted to
I didn't tell you which way to go,
'cause I thought you'd know
You had a problem with your new found
wealth, you brought it on yourself
I never told you I told you so, but I told you so

Have to let it go
it's time to let it go
Now I can't believe
It took so long to leave
Perhaps one day I'll grieve
Or I never will

I never told you I agreed with you
I don't think I do
I wasn't sure quite what the whole thing
meant, but I'm glad you went
I never thought that it could be painless,
but it is I guess
I had myself fooled into needing you,
did I fool you too?

Have to let it go
it's time to let it go
Now I can't believe
It took so long to leave
Perhaps one day I'll grieve
Or I never will

A viral infection that can incubate for years
Caused by affection fallen deep into arrears
No medication to procure
Makes me pure, there's no cure, I am sure

I never mentioned how I've prayed for you,
and now I've paid for you
I never said that I would wait for you,
it's too late for you

Have to let it go
it's time to let it go
Now I can't believe
It took so long to leave
Perhaps one day I'll grieve