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About IMO 2020 Problem 1 (Geometry)

It has been 1 month since the biggest Mathematics Olympiad in the world, named IMO (International Mathematics Olympiad) has been held virtually (due to COVID-19, of course) from 19th to 28th September 2020. This year, Russia acted as the organising country for this prestigious event for high schoolers all around the world. Frankly speaking, whenever this moment comes in each year, I always take a moment to be quite nostalgic about the last time I participated in this very same olympiad (which is actually 7 and 8 years ago. Yes, I participated twice in this olympiad). For some background, the format of this competition is that each participant needs to tackle 6 problems, divided into 2 days (so each day has 3 problems, and the problems are sorted based on difficulties for each day). Therefore, problem 1 and 4 are always the easiest in each day, followed by problem 2 and 5, and lastly the most difficult problems for each day are problem 3 and 6. For this year, I took some interest in the...
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"Yellow" Chicken Rice - Great Recipe Comes with Innovation

 Hi guys. Really sorry for this blog for being dormant for almost half a year. Too many stuffs came by and I need to basically handle those things. Poor me, but hey!! At least I'm still here, still not being soulless and still being hired in one of the amazing company in Singapore. So yeah, lots of things to be grateful on. These days, I picked on another hobby of cooking food. Lately kinda feeling quite bored with foods around here, and then I was thinking "hey, why not trying to create one?" and thus I started on trying. Lots of ups and downs, I need to say, but at last I'm glad I can be successful in creating at least 1 dish that I am really proud of. And for that one dish, I think I would like to share with you about the food, and also the recipe and the procedure of making one. The dish is basically Hainanese Chicken Rice, but after cooking, seems like I put on quite much more ginger than usual that it turned out yellow, so I named it "Yellow Chicken Rice...
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Work From Home - How It's Actually Like

Hi guys! So after such a long hiatus from this blog (I actually targeted this blog to have a new content at least once per month, but something came up and that resulted in around 2 months of being away from this), I am finally back :D Finding some spare time to even take a look at this blog seems quite too much for me these days, now with the current pandemic that led me (and also most of people in this country) to serve Work From Home (WFH), meaning that I need to do my usual work from home instead of going to office every weekdays. This really made me struggling quite hard in keeping up with things, especially adaptation. Yes, I am not really the type of person who likes to mix my professional life with my personal life (one of which is manifested through only do what matters about work in my office and leave it immediately out of my mind when I arrive at home), but the current circumstances force me to, somehow, get rid of those separation and be well with it. So that's why, ...
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Korea... or... Singapore??

"So, Bivan, now that you have moved out all the way from Korea to Singapore, how do you compare both countries? Which one is more preferable to live on, and why?" To be honest, I encountered this kind of question a lot when I firstly came to Singapore, not only from my fellow friends from Korea but also from Singapore itself, and obviously Indonesia (yes, that's the country of origin I am from). However, in this post, I am not that interested in answering that question in direct style. Instead, I am about to describe what I felt and what I have encountered that have me realised how grateful I am that God has lined up and planned on my line of life so far. First time coming to Korea, of course it's a real challenge for me. Not knowing that many people in the country of destination, plus that there are lots of rumour about suicide here and there, and for me especially the food, all of those makes my life in Korea in the beginning the hardest so far in my life. But doe...
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How to Apply for Job : A Recollection

Disclaimer : this post by no means serves as a comprehensive and thorough guide on how to apply for job. Rather, I will share some of my idea and insight, based on my personal experience, which hopefully helps you to get the job of your dream. Also, this post only covers the topic of  how to find a job in industry . Just when I was about to graduate from Master Degree in KAIST, I started on collecting all the information related to job application, starting from making the proper CV towards preparing for the interview, both general and technical. Thanks to all my friends and also my family who continuously and enormously supported me, both mentally and logistically, that finally I was able to land an offer from one great company in Singapore. Finding a job is undoubtedly one of the most important aspect in life that we all will encounter, sooner or later. However, it's also very baffling and confusing to get even the slightest of information regarding that matter (be it about t...
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An Ode to Singapore

If you asked me on why did I write this post, it’s just because... well, I actually really want to. Shortly speaking, I’m kinda desiring to start on a new blog and I’m confused on how to start it, so yeah maybe this post may serve as a kick-start for this so-called blog project hahaha. In this chance, I would like to share about my journey that leads me to where I am right now; in Shopee Singapore as a Software Engineer . As previously known, I was doing Bachelor and Master both in KAIST, after which I decided to pursue industry track first instead of going straight away for Doctorate Degree. Reason? I just felt like having not that much exposure towards industry track as opposed with the academic track, which led me clueless as to what I actually desired to do in life. Then I decided to search for work and that’s how all the stories that will follow begin. Getting to Work in one StartUp Company Just right after I graduated, I got job offer in one of the Korean Startup Company...
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