Hello everyone! It's been (coincidentally) exactly one year since my last post. Many things have happened since Jan 2023 and I've been kept busy on and off. Since I had a bit of time at the time of this writing and wasn't feeling so lazy, I thought I would come back and revive this old blog.
But first, I want to say that I was very surprised that the viewership on my blog kind of skyrocketed in Jan 2024 (aka this month). I noticed that some views came from reddit, so I dug a bit and found the following link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NTU/comments/191bmwu/ntu_blogs_a_compilation_of_student_module_reviews/
Wow! I never thought that my blog would one day appear on NTU reddit, so I'm very touched and (somewhat) honored that people are still reading my rants long after I've graduated... plus I think the mods have since been reclassified??? I'm not too sure, but last I checked there were some changes to the course codes. Anyway, thank you to pimogohome for taking the trouble to compile the blogs. I'm sure other juniors / curious peeps will benefit from this effort. :)
Coming back to the blogpost, there are a lot of things I want to write about. I know that I've not done my mod review for Y4 (which is wayyy overdue) so that would be one of the more important things to complete on the to-do list. But other than that, I also have some very exciting news.
I've moved on to my second job since graduating from EEE but am still working in the public sector. I'm still in cybersecurity so there's no change to that. I think the past ~1.5 years since graduation have been interesting as I got to interact with many people who are excellent at what they do and whom I draw a lot of inspiration from. Of course, there were highs and lows in my early career but I think the varied experiences have helped me to adopt a more mature(?) and realistic outlook on working life.
During my time in the workforce since graduation, I was also very fortunate to be awarded a scholarship to pursue my Masters in cybersecurity. What that means for this blog is that I will now have more mod reviews to write for my blog content for the next few years! :D That said, the content covered will have some differences since it will no longer be undergraduate EEE mod reviews (the reviews will focus on cybersecurity topics at the postgraduate level). Some readers who read my posts only for the EEE content might see this blog start to go in a different direction, but I hope that the new content on different topics will help to spark some interests in EEE juniors who might be curious to switch fields to cyber. Nevertheless, please leave a comment if you would like my input for EEE undergraduate courses and I will do my best to reply. :)
Besides the above topics, I am also considering to write about my random thoughts on working in the tech industry and other related topics. There's no set topic that I have in mind, but obviously I think my rantings will be skewed towards cybersecurity rather than the typical SWE / DSML / AI fields etc. Since this is more of a lifestyle blog, I shall refrain from writing technical stuff and instead try to scope my topics towards a more general audience. If you have any topic that you'd like me to write about for tech, feel free to comment as well! Who knows, this blog might soon become the prose version of JomaTech HAHAHA.
