I did mention on my first post that we will attempt to get guest posts on relevant stuffs. So I’m very pleased to let you know that we have managed to grab several people to guest blog here. In the next 2 weeks, you will be treated to a sneak preview for the conference bag (by Haizhou Li, the local organizing chair of the conference), the first among several posts on Malaysia (by Su Yuen, a junior in National University of Singapore—NUS, raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), a preview of the famous durian (by Mahani, a linguist), and NLP in user interface design (by Jesse Prabawa, a PhD student at NUS).
I hope you’ll enjoy their posts. More such posts will be coming your way in subsequent weeks (we have several exciting topics currently being explored by other potential guest bloggers). Oh, and do support the guest bloggers by showering their posts with some love (i.e. posting comments). d:
P.S. d: (: ): s: — in case you’re wondering what they are, these are the reverse smileys. They are kind of my personal touch left behind from the era of using MSN Messenger (now I’m almost exclusively using GTalk). I didn’t like the emoticons produced by MSN Messenger, so I decided to “twist” my emoticons to avoid automatic conversion to those silly images. Since then, it becomes a habit that is stuck til now.