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Another year passed, lots of memories created, made few friends, got hurt, made mistakes (and blunders) , learnt and … so much more. A whole year feels nothing if you do not retrospect but if you sit back and reflect there is so much there … really! So now I present my journey 2017.

Being NUS School of Computing alumni, my friends and I have answered to a lot of queries to a lot of aspirants by replying to their emails, having hangout sessions, meeting in person and through so many other channels. So we thought to compile a list of the common questions which are asked by Masters of Computing aspirants. Feel free to put your questions in comment section if you have something which is not covered here and you do not find any information about it online also. But before we move on to actual list of questions I would like to put a disclaimer here.

During my early school days, I was part of that small group of students who were afraid to speak in front of a bigger group, got bullied, and resisted to speak against anything wrong happening with them. I didn’t even feel confident enough to take help from my parents on this matter. Years passed by and I opened up with my dad. He understood my problem, helped me fight and standup against anything that is wrong. He always used to tell me to think

With so many things squeezed into just one year, I found it an interesting idea to retrospect 2016. So I jotted a couple of major events that happened in this year.

Singapore had elections coming on Friday and it was time for us to plan for some trip to enjoy our long weekend. Thats how we planned for Tioman, a small island in Malaysia. The most preferred way to go to Tioman from Singapore is via ferry which could be taken at Mersing. We booked a 10 seater cab which picked us up from our home in Singapore morning 5:30 and dropped us at Mersing ferry terminal by 8:00 AM (well that was quick). The best part of hiring a cab and starting early was that there was no queue either at Singapore immigration or Malaysia checkpoint.

SSHing to a machine behind NAT has generally been a daunting task. One of the common way that people tend to use is through forwarding a port from router on to the machine. But it is not always the case that a person has access to router configuration settings of his network. I recently stumbled upon an awesome tool named ngrok which solves this problem very elegantly. Even though this tool’s mail purpose is to take your localhost online but it has many other features out of which we will leverage one now. Let do it: