What a Team!
Man!!! This team like came out of nowhere. As Sam had exlpained, we used to kill time by gaming
(Warcraft2 yaaaah!) on the internet. It happened that we played at the same site -MS Gaming Zone
and got to know each other a little bit better after awhile at the end of 1997. When we found
out that we share the same zeal in programming, Sam told me about his project on Scheme and how
he had planned to submit the project to thinkquest competition. I was like: "well, sounds interesting,
count me in!". Boom! There I was in! It was god's bless that James was hooked by Sam's Scheme
page and took the time to write an e-mail to him. By god, James was surprised finding out the
guy he was contacting was actually a teenager since Sam's knowledge on AI is amazing. After hearing
about our plan on making a Gen5 entry, James was willing to help us out with his awesome graphics skill.
So he became our third member and official graphics man. It was this weird that three of us (
one from Houston (me), one from Chicago (Sam), and one from Japan (James) ) got together to
fight this Gen5 competition. We have never seen each other nor talked to each other on the phone.
It's by the magic of modern communication that we were able to work very well as a team even though
thousands of miles apart. We are bound strongly by the belief that one day we'll get to see
each other in LA Final and receive the overwhelming honor of being a 1998 thinkquest winning team.
Good Time and Bad Time
It sounds pretty cool so far right? Like this project is always fun or something. Tell you the
truth, for this project each of us had sacrificed greatly. We are all busy juniors and seniors in high school and
each of us was already having a heavy load of pressure from summer school, regular school, extra-curricular activities (summer camps),
SAT tests (not to mention our great need to go out and have fun with friends). In order to
make this entry as good as it is now, we had to adapt to very strict time management. However,
sometimes it still doesn't work and we just have to pick and choose. However, I feel everything
we had done was worth it and I am very proud of Gen5 being such an awesome site. =) I will never
forget the moment I got 3DTTT program (my major contribution to Gen5) to work and defeat myself constantly.
The joy of doing something you didn't think you could have done is undescribable. There are
endless Gen5 stories, entwined with joy and frustration, to tell but essentially saying: Gen5
is something I will never forget in my whole life.
About Me
I am a young adult as confused as any other young adults are. I find too many things in the world
interesting and there seems so many things I should do that giving me 1000 years is not enough.
While trying new things as they come, I hesitate on whether I should just remain loyal to the
old things; while blasting with the illusive social life, I doubt whether I have retained a good
nature. But one thing I am sure is that I'll never be satisfied by staying where I am and not
making any difference. I will keep on learning, trying, and playing and I doubt that there will
be an end to that.
Me and Go
I started playing Go when I was in the first grade. But I didn't play it seriously until 5th grade.
Ever since then I improved fairly fast and reached my current rank (6-dan, which is almost the highest
amateur rank) last year when I received the great honor of winning the Redmond Cup Championship
(North American Youth Go Championship). I'd say Go gave me much more than just a game. It gave me
an unique attitude toward achievment and an appreciation of the perfection. Some of my
friends think I got smarter growing up playing this strategy game. Actually, that's possible
but I am not sure about that. If that's true, Go'd have saved my life cuz i can't imagine myself
surviving in this cruel society if I am any dumber than I am right now. =)
Me and Programming
I love programming cuz I love putting my ideas into reality. Although computers are not too
intelligent for now, they carry out intructions with perfect accuracy. This way, if we
are smart enough to construct a general definition to a task, the computer would be as good (even better than)
as us in doing such task. And this electrifying fellow wont forget things either! I took my
first computer science class two years ago and ever since I've been picking up different languages.
For now, I am pretty well informed in Pascal, C++, and Java (just learned this).
Houston
Houston is a modern city and fast-growing too with its resource and good living standards.
I moved to Houston 3 years ago and I had to adapt to a new environment for me. I think I've done well
on that too. With the help of my friends, I don't feel like a stranger anymore. I love all my
friends in Clear Lake High School and being NASA's neighbor.
