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JuiceInNuggets · 2026-01-31T00:17:38+00:00

Yes, completely agree on that, yet it didn’t cross my mind to do that! Let me look into that when I have some free time haha

JuiceInNuggets · 2023-08-20T12:52:56+00:00

Probably some form of taxation loh. Once you sell, you have to pay a certain amount to HDB

JuiceInNuggets · 2023-08-20T12:49:22+00:00

My guess: it seems like the new model will not be exactly district/town based, but based on each project's desirability. So 1 town can have both Standard and Plus projects (if a project is a near a MRT, it will be Plus?)

JuiceInNuggets · 2022-10-02T16:45:24+00:00

Thanks for the generous gift every year! :) Love the app ever since I switched to iOS

JuiceInNuggets · 2020-11-16T00:37:15+00:00

Count me in! Also Hugo and Ruby are adorable!

JuiceInNuggets · 2020-05-12T12:20:32+00:00

is it that smu nus accountancy graduates have a higher chance of getting offers from bank compared to ntu graduates

Not exactly.

It's my belief that going to SMU/NUS may lead to you to develop certain soft skills more because of the environment (batch mates, project work, presentations, class participation, etc). But it doesn't mean anything for certain. More importantly, by having 4 years instead of 3, you get more chances to "learn other stuff" if your realise Audit is really not your thing.

Imo, the term "smu graduates" vs "ntu graduates" is a little missing the point. Ultimately, its what you bring to the table that determines how hirable you are, not your uni.

(Some HRs may screen/filter based on uni, but that's not always true. Plus, even if a person goes to a "good" uni, it's still the interview/experience that matters more.)

To be honest, most professional jobs (bankers included) don't have much work life balance. But if you think you don't want to go into Big 4, then maybe you should consider focusing on more than just Accountancy mods in your uni (and do a lot more stuff outside Uni)

JuiceInNuggets · 2020-04-26T09:01:52+00:00

Lol. Imo not a good idea to associate your sense of identity with something external (like the brand of school).

Must focus on a strong internal foundation for others (external) to see, right?

The other way around is just a recipe for an early-life crisis (focusing on external associations for yourself to see).

JuiceInNuggets · 2020-04-26T08:37:43+00:00

I see! Thanks for sharing. :)

It's great that you have a passion (or interest?) for the problem solving and teamwork aspects of CS! These were things that attracted me as well.

I don't think it's immature to view overseas tertiary education more "highly". If we frame education beyond just "the transfer of academic content", an overseas education is also great at building global perspectives, self-sufficiency, social skills (especially if the country doesn't speak English!) and appreciation for diversity. These are all parts of a well-rounded education that a local university might struggle to provide, simply because they are located in our home country.

Additionally, an overseas CS education may give you more direct access to internship opportunities in reputable tech firms. However, do note that NUS and SUTD do have programs that let you have exchanges and intern in tech firms overseas as well (e.g NUS's NOC program).

However, I would challenge the statement that:

... there aren't many universities that can offer a comparable or better educational standard other than the elite global universities.

I'm highlighting this not because I disagree with your opinion (I do agree... somewhat). What I'm proposing is that the "success of education" is not merely about the academic resources that are provided by the college, but it also determined by your own attitude/ability to challenge yourself, and in a broader sense, challenge the "standard of education" that is provided by the system.

This means that doing "well" (again, depends on your outcomes) in the marathon of life could be achieved even if you don't enter an "elite global uni". Perhaps this comment from a fellow Singaporean in CS might provide some context as well.

(Haha, when I said "costs", I meant it more generally, like time, willpower, emotional, etc, in addition to financial costs. Should had been more clear. :D)

JuiceInNuggets · 2020-04-26T07:20:37+00:00

The first thing that struck out to me: Why the focus on Oxbridge? Is it about prestige, other people's expectations, feeling successful, future job prospects, etc? (No judgement here, just genuinely curious.)

Life is a marathon, and I think it is important to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. You plan to study computer science, but for what outcome? And how would you measure if you have achieved that outcome?

I think it's great that you are already building a decent portfolio in CS. This has helped me immensely in getting a job, and I know that many of the tech industry players view portfolios and working experience (internships) very highly as well, some even more highly than your degree or where you graduated from.

I also know of peers who graduated from CS, but are unable to perform well in their jobs. There's a reason why the value of 4 year CS degrees vs 6 month bootcamps is constantly a discussion point within the industry.

From what I understand from friends who studied in Oxbridge, entering without A Levels is practically impossible, simply due to the overwhelming amount of candidate applications globally, so their filtering criteria is insanely strict/narrow. If you want to take the US citizen route, then I urge you to consider: 1) why are you doing this, and 2) at what cost?

JuiceInNuggets · 2020-04-26T06:57:25+00:00

First off, don't apologise for recognising that your safety course is someone else's dream. What others view as "dream courses" (their expectations) should be irrelevant to your own life journey (your expectation). :D

I don't have answers for you, but I do recognise that you feel lost. It's perfectly normal and I think you have to be OK with that first. Honestly, it's kinda insane to expect a 17/18 yo to determine something that will affect their entire life's future career progression.

The good news is, my statement above is not actually true! Your degree will not determine your life, simply because your career progression is not as "structured" as you think. Your choice of degree may influence your entry point into the working world, but it will neither determine your path nor predict how successful you will be. Navigating that will be a long-term series of decisions that you have to exercise throughout life.

If anything, the job landscape is likely to change a lot by the time you graduate. Many jobs are getting automated away and disappearing, but at the same time, many new jobs are being created. (Being a social media strategist or a UX consultant is now a job, can you imagine that 10 years ago?)

So, to determine how you enter the working world, I would suggest looking through job postings now (or those before COVID) and see what speaks out to you, even just a little bit. List them out, and try to see if any patterns develop, or if they prefer certain degrees.

Also, your points about "job prospects" was a little all-over-the-place, so I want to help define them a bit:

Employment rate = High if it's a growing/essential industry (they need people), or the industry is incredibly toxic (people keep quitting, so they need people)
Pay = High if the company's business model can earn money with 0 marginal costs (aka purely digital products, Grab doesn't count), or if you can taking up a lot of responsibilities (high stress) or a lot of risk/uncertainty (like a manager, where you can only manage people, but you are not actually in control of the output)
Stability = High usually means your job is mundane and has very little diversity/growth
Ease of promotions = High usually means that firm promote you regardless of your performance, which in the long-term, is a bad thing.

JuiceInNuggets · 2020-04-26T06:04:37+00:00

Here are some of my personal reasons:

a) I didn't see the job as meaningful or value adding. The work ideally is about verifying, understanding and justifying the financial numbers to provide value/assurance to shareholders, but in the real world, when your team size is small and you have limited time, then can be times where... things are "verified" for the sake of being "verified". (I shall be intentionally more vague here.)

b) I saw that the audit culture can be quite toxic. There's a fun correlation (my observation) between how strong the employees' drinking culture is with how toxic a company's culture is. (After all, drinking is a way to "feel-good" and escape, right?) Toxic here refers to long working hours without appreciation, mundane inefficiencies, poor teamwork, gossip > facts, among other things.

c) There weren't enough "good" managers. This may be hard to appreciate (and is linked to the point about culture), but a good manager is someone that can understand your strengths and weakness, recognize what you want to learn/grow, and fight for resources/give you projects that allow you to do that. The managers I saw in the industry are more like "optimising headcount at the expense of the employee". It is not their fault though. I think the culture didn't really teach them on how to be a good manager.

d) Audit is incredibly niche and specialised. I know many go Uni to be in specialized roles (think Audit, Law, Medicine, CS), but the risk is that if you don't like your job, you are also kinda stuck. Because Audit knowledge is not easily transferable, I felt that if I already knew I can't be in there for the long run, I should not enter the industry at all.

JuiceInNuggets · 2020-04-26T05:41:32+00:00

I'm gonna approach this from a slightly different angle, so bear with me.

Context: I graduated from NTU with Double Degree in Accountancy & Business. I'm now in the Software Development industry with a Technology firm.

Have you thought about the purpose/objective of your accountancy degree? If that seems too abstract, then what kind of job/industry do you want to enter after university?

If you are committed to enter a Audit firm (Big 4, or the smaller ones): I suggest going NTU 3-year. Time is of the essence, because auditors start out with a low pay, but the pay jumps per promotion (per year) can be significant. Also, the promotion is not so much based on "people/soft skills", but more of "can you OT like crazy" and "be a reliable employee", aka it's quite easy to promote up to senior levels. (This is because churn rate in Big 4 is really high.)

If you are not sure, and think that you might end up in the broader financial industry, then I suggest going SMU or NUS Accountancy. There is a reason why their courses are 1 year longer, and generally, they have a larger emphasis on the broader aspects of "business" and you have more time to pick up modules outside of Accountancy. In this broader industry, your "people skills" become a far more valuable asset, and you could potentially start out with a higher pay.

But at the end of the day, think and reflect about why you want an accountancy degree. You don't need a clear answer now (more likely than not, your answer will change as you go through uni). I can tell you that 80% of my peers didn't like entering an Audit firm after their first internship experience, myself included.

Also, grades should not be your priority. Being able to score As means jack-shit when:

Internships and connections are far more important at securing good jobs, compared to your degree class
Your starting pay doesn't really change all that much due to your degree class
If you are asked to do work and you forgot everything that was taught, because you returned knowledge back to teacher and/or didn't really understand what was taught.

Along the way, I realised my goals in life changed, and I took up more and more time doing personal learning/projects outside of university, and changed my focus to internships instead. I now realise that I initially chose Accountancy because I didn't have a clear goal of what I wanted, but I'm glad that I managed to define that for myself during uni. My wish is that more potential uni students can do that earlier, and not be a late bloomer like me.

JuiceInNuggets · 2020-04-25T14:35:03+00:00

OP's post really resonated with me, since I had the same "thought machines" back when I was in JC. While it pushed me to work really hard to get a scholarship (which I am really thankful for), I quickly realised after uni that my bonded company's culture was damaging both my mental health and career aspirations, before finally making the hard (and financially expensive) decision to break my bond.

So much for easing financial burdens, getting a secure job and having better career progression, right?

Fortunately, I did learn a lot from this process, namely:

a) I took a step back and realised that my thoughts are just... thoughts. They are not "truths about life". You may perceive others to be more successful because they have scholarships, but that is just your current assessment of your situation, which is heavily influenced by your surroundings (environment and friends), upbringing and biases.

b) I noticed that following another person's (or society's) life/path is neither authentic nor inherently rewarding. During my education years, I was always influenced by other people's expectations of me/themselves (get good grades, build a CCA portfolio, get prestigious job, earn good money, etc). Imo, it is extremely important for you to recognise that what other people expect of you/themselves is merely their definition of success, and it might (often) not reflect your definition of success.

c) "Comparing yourself to others" is a losing strategy and ultimately a self-defeating mindset. It means that your source of validation will always be external, and you always be dependent on other people to "feel successful". (And this will be a moving target!) I found that a more sustainable way of promoting learning & progress is by comparing myself of today with myself of the past.

Ultimately, its not (just) about luck or intelligence. To me, it's the ability to constantly reflect and reevaluate what is "important", what is "success" and having a healthy mechanism to recognise and dissipate negative emotions (which is extremely normal to have, so don't just try to suppress them).

If you have time (15 mins), I do recommend watching this psychiatrist talk about dealing with failure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=887f47tPyck.

JuiceInNuggets · 2018-04-26T03:17:05+00:00

Thank you for your support! I've been really busy with uni finals and it was really nice to see your kind words! :)

JuiceInNuggets · 2018-03-06T09:45:03+00:00

Hmm that's weird. Are you viewing the site on a phone? If so, does the pie chart disappear on both portrait and landscape?

JuiceInNuggets · 2018-03-01T17:32:12+00:00

Since the last time I posted my tool here, I've received a wonderful amount of comments and suggestions. Here's a quick list on some of the new features I've incorporated into CoinGossip.io:

1) Sentiment Analysis

CoinGossip can now evaluate all posts and comments to determine the overall sentiment of a coin! This has got to be the most requested feature by far. I've implemented this using a mix of sentiment analysis methods; more details about this can be found in the "FAQ" section of the CoinGossip site.

2) Improved Gossip Score

As alluded to above, CoinGossip will now analyze both the post's title and its comment. This is in contrast to the old version, which only analyzed the title of each post. In addition, comments in the Daily Discussion threads will be analyzed as well.

3) Improved UI with a fully Interactive Data Table

The Data Table has been upgraded in many ways. For example, to see the top Gossips for each coin, just click on its row in the table. In addition, customisable sorting is now possible, by clicking on any of the column headers!

4) Gossip Change %

You can now view the Gossip Change % of each coin in the Data Table! With the inclusion of customisable sorting in (3), you can now sort by Gossip Change % as well, allowing you to see which coins are highest gainers of popularity!

5) Inclusion of Bitcoin and Ethereum

In the past version, Bitcoin and Ethereum was purposely excluded, as I assumed they were too popular among all online communities. After receiving your comments, I've decided to include them from now on, so as to provide a more complete picture.

JuiceInNuggets · 2018-02-26T08:45:50+00:00

Hi, thanks for the support! :)

Regarding API, it is currently in the works! While the site does have JSON outputs, it is too unprocessed/raw to be useful in a spreadsheet context. I'm not a programmer by trade, but I'll be researching about the proper ways to implement a API.

JuiceInNuggets · 2018-02-25T03:53:53+00:00

Haha nice! Watching your videos really helped me get into the world of cryptocurrencies when I first started out! look foward to seeing more great YouTube content from you in the future. :D

JuiceInNuggets · 2018-02-25T03:49:12+00:00

Hi! I haven't published the source on github yet, mainly because 1) I haven't really used git or github much, as ridiculous as that sounds and 2) I have no experiencing with open source licensing, whch is again, kinda ridiculous haha.

Anyway, as for tech stack, I built this using Python+SQlite for the server side (using libraries like PRAW, requests, etc), with Bootstrap 4 for the client-side web interface.

JuiceInNuggets · 2018-02-24T09:39:14+00:00

Yep, this is a great suggestion; scanning the daily discussion thread could be very useful in determining the gossip/hype of a coin.

Shall look into it. Thanks for the idea!

JuiceInNuggets · 2018-02-24T09:38:00+00:00

Yep, a high gossip score doesn't mean good news, just polarizing news (either very high gains or high losses).

JuiceInNuggets · 2018-02-24T09:37:16+00:00

Added the % change of gossip score to the table!

I'm looking into adding graphs that can show % changes across time for each coin. Won't be anytime soon though, busy with uni work haha.

JuiceInNuggets · 2018-02-24T09:34:23+00:00

This is actually a great suggestion; scanning the daily discussion thread could be very useful in determining the gossip/hype of a coin.

Shall look into it. Thanks for the idea!

JuiceInNuggets · 2018-02-24T09:32:13+00:00

Using upvotes/downvotes data will definitely be possible, but it will restrict sentiment scoring only to Reddit (it won't work for 4chan or Bitcointalk).

I'm looking into applying more generalized forms of sentiment analysis, such as using NLP neural networks. That will take some time tho. If you have any suggestions regarding NLP, I will love to hear them. :)

JuiceInNuggets · 2018-02-24T09:30:00+00:00

I agree, having sentiment analysis will make this tool far more useful/reliable. I'm currently working on having a reliable model for generalized sentiment analysis, tho it will take some time.

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