The Plucky Programmer

Yes it is. After about 2 years of deliberation, our Amity’s hosting a high school Model United Nations at the in-wait for in-ternational level. For those of you who’ve never taken part in one before, MUNs are events where you get to take on the role of the delegate/diplomat for a country and debate on relevant international agendas over a period of three days. Basically, you simulate the United Nations.  [ Read More ]

Well, its that time of the year again…[half hearted exclamation mark] Now we all get to take those neat little books out of our neat little bags and start trying to neatly fit them in our neat little brains. Endless hours spent poring over the same sentence while actually texting, hardcore procrastination, monk-like resignation from the world and plain old guilt soon follow. And to add to the agony, my  [ Read More ]

I haven’t posted since the last 5 days, though I managed to make 8 drafts of unfinished posts which are still calling out to me desperately wanting to be finished.  Feeling bad about that, but its still fine, let them suffer a little more. Life’s been pretty nasty in the meantime, and by nasty I mean, of course,  loads of fun and a bundle of laughs. After school started, I  [ Read More ]

I landed on Earth in the morning, feeling queasy. Never thought I would feel like this after travelling, but 20 Hyperspace jumps would even make Thor reach for the sick bag. My plans were to apply as an English teacher in a smallish red bricked educational institution off the coast of nowhere, called Æ-MÏτÝ ZÅrκÊτ or sumthin. I didn’t find it necessary to change my appearance as the people here, I’m told, could live with unusual  [ Read More ]

It started out as plain old SpaceSet, then it became Space54t, then Space53x and finally SpaceSoLong it was. It is one roller coaster of a ride none of us can forget. The competition is about building a settlement in space like industry professionals. The team is structured into 5 departments: Structural Design, Operations and Infrastructure, Human Factors, Automation and Business Developement. The year is 2060 and you are given a  [ Read More ]