10 Math Graduation Questions

1. Calculate Interest Payments

List Price:                  $226,000
Repayment Term:      5 Years
Annual Interest Rate: 2.6%
My Downpayment:    150,500

Q: Calculate your monthly payment?
=> Simple Interest

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2. Calculate Investment Growth

For a 5-year investment of 1,000 at 6% (annual) interest with monthly compounding
=>Compound Interest

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3. To be cont

“What makes you proud of yourself?”

Got lost in a strange place.. an aunty’s trying to sell or offer sth (!?). She asked me – everyone a few questions – trivia ones before this:

– What makes you proud of yourself?
– Hmmm. Well. hmmm.. (it’s a hard question, isn’t it?)

– I basically know what I love (I’m lucky to know what I like & love early in life…) … & I’m doing it…
(showing her & got lost again in the sweet vivid dream)

It was just a dream – vivid one.

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vào 1 đêm dài lộng gió,
20 tháng 7, 2014

* another first time

Better Management

Lately, I’ve experienced  2 incidents that frustrated me a lot. The curse sounds simple: lost data!

First, I lost my 1-hour or so of work through LibreOffice. I have to admit, word document management is one of few drawbacks, together with hardware support probably (? – music played in Windows seems to sound better than in Ubuntu though its support certainly keeps improving), of Linux compared to Windows as Libre and its predecessors Open Office still can’t match the fellow M. Office in Windows. One encountered this before should know how it feels like…

Second, I’ve lost an entire archive folder without having any back-ups at all. Then in an attempt to recover it, I almost lost my whole disk storage for some stupid ignorance. What a pity! At least I managed to get the later back.

These 2 curses show how poor my (files) management is considering I’m an developer.. So I decide to do some researches & make some changes. I considered signing up for an online auto backup for my local files but I know it wouldn’t gonna help before I manage my local files better.

Two of my major changes are files/folders management (store it securely, access it easily & never lose it) and password management. I’m gonna talk a little a bit about the later.

To this day, to be honest, I still store all my passwords in a text files and just-a-little-better on Google Drive.

I don’t know how you do it but Google Drive at first seems not a bad choice for me.

First it’s a cloud services meaning I could access it everywhere.
Second I use Two-Step Verification meaning no one could access it without literally stealing my phone – damn secure isn’t it? Since I accept the fact that if I could ever lose my google account, I would lose all my other accounts that stored inside, this process makes sense.

After doing some research, I realise this is not perfect as it seems to be:

1. Google Drive is a 3rd party services, Google could stop it anytime they want.
2. Google could sell our data – we never know.
3. Passwords are stored manually & in the plain text
which means I would eventually have to create my own passwords for each site
which would then make me tend to use short, easy to remember passwords and eventually the same password thorough a list of sites.

Then I find KeePass who as a dedicated software does an arguably much better job than the Google Drive who is supposed to be just an advanced online storage like Dropbox.

As for the security, Google 2-step auth seems pretty decent but how about when your friends wanna borrow your laptop and accidentally see sth they’re not supposed to see. For KeePass, you have to enter your master password everytime you login. This is sometimes irritating but is 100% safe. KeePass do everything an “cascadeur” like Google can’t and offer even great features! Go explore!

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As a dev, I know the secret shortcut Shift + Delete. But after a few catastrophes, I realize human errors won’t always happen but when it happens, it’s costly. I try not to be lazy again. I would just “soft” delete it first and later go to the bin and trash it. I’m trying and would never ever use Shift + Delete again.

2046

It’s not wise to be too trendy as trends never last (whether it’s a game, fashion or technology) But it is good to keep up with the cutting edge technologies or notice what’s going on at the very least.

This hot game above is called 2046 – very popular at the moment yet soon it would be gone with the wind as fast as what happened to Flappy Bird and its older fellows. They all share a few similarities: simple rules, easy to play, purely for entertainment –  they help you kill your time in case you don’t know what to do with it 😉

The intriguing thing here is when you know the game’s “trick”, it’s relatively easy to earn points compared to just move the square randomly.

In a broader view, when you have a system in place, it’s much easier to move forwards. Things will surely go wrong. Obstacles will surely appear. But they’re not a big deal. System is indeed the biggest difference between SD & FS because moving around like headless bull won’t help even if you’re fast.

Updated:
Unbalace!
We’ve gotta be unbalaced & be focused as balance doeant seem to work!? 😉

My Ideal Day

No more 9-to-5. No more working for a dime. I’m living my life (!?) & not someone else’s!

My Ideal Working Day

• It’s a sunny day & I wake up at 6 5 am.
  After washing-up, my ideal day starts with:
• Do some work-out & exercises for 20′
• Read some book for another 20′
• Cook or help my love prepare our breakfast
• ….

Details here:

In total, I will spend:
– 5.5 – 6 hrs of sleeping
 vs 7 – 9 hrs as of now
– 7 hrs of productive working
 vs 8 for 2 – 3 hrs of productive work as of now
– 0.5 – 2.5 hrs of excercising
 vs 0.5 – 1 hrs as of now
– 0.5 – 1 hr of reading/learning new stuff
– 3 – 4 hrs of dining
– 1 – 1.5 hrs of planning
– ~ 1 hr of personal hygiene
– ~ 1hr of complete chilling out
& have ard 1.5 hrs dead time (commuting, etc.)

A few years back, I fantasized my ideal girl in which I said I don’t wish to find nor expect any girls to be that ideal. That saying’s not applicable here though. I do want and will do whatever it takes to make my ideal day happen!

It was never tougher!

Things changed so dramatically. It was still great in the beginning of the month & now it’s as tough as ever!!

Everything’s against me…

stressed out…

depressed…

I close my eye hoping tmr will be better… just a little bit…

Either give everything up or …

People I trusted..

I will remember this…