Seine River

I am sorry for not updating for the last 2 days. I was too busy and tired. Everyday we need to travel about 40 km from our place to the University, which perhaps the way they wanted to make us uncomfortable. Then stay there for the activities, have a (terrible) lunch with rice and a piece of meat (the 1st day was chicken and the 2nd was beef ). Ok, now's the result. We was 5th. The 1st, 2nd and 4th places belong to the home team, Sharif University. The 3rd is another Iranian team. About the ticket to the world final round. It's being discussed and not yet announced. Usually, there would be 3 tickets here, due to the large number of participated teams. Since each university can get only one, we are the 3rd. So let's hope for it. Next will be the competition itself. We was almost late, as the university did not send anyone to pick us up and take us to the university as they promised (another trick of theirs). But finally we get a taxi and arrive just in time. Though a...

It is now 1.30pm in Tehran and 6.00pm in Singapore :D Yeah, finally we arrived in Tehran. 5.45am (local time, about 9.55am in Singapore), we arrived at Dubai Intl Airport. It's a big airport and there're so many things to buy. But we did not buy anything :D 7.55am : we leave Dubai 9.40am (Tehran time) we landed after a 3 hour flight and waited for 40 minutes for the visa to be approved. Surprisingly, everything went smoothly and when we are out, the guy from Sharif Uni. is waiting for us with the team from Taiwan. It turned out that they were on the same flight with us, but they did not have to wait for the visa. 12.20pm : we arrived at the guest house. The Iranian guy could not speak English very well which caused quite a lot of trouble for us and the Taiwan team. We intended to go to a restaurant for lunch together but I don't know what was happening. Everybody (Taiwan team + the guy) suddenly disappeared and ...

I had an honour coaching the NTU ACM ICPC team joining the regional contest in Tehran - Iran (In brief, ACM ICPC is an annual international computer algorithm contest. Every year, universities all over the world send their teams to several regional contests with the hope that their teams could get the ticket (only 1 or 2) to the world final (like the World Cup :D)) I decided to make a blog for this event. 04/12 - 1 day before we leave Singapore 12.00 am. I finished packaging my stuffs. Start checking up all the necessary thing. Come out with a check list for important things: -> Passport - ok -> Air tickets - ok -> Accommodation - waiting for the other site to reply (we sent email to them few weeks ago, but still no reply yet ) -> Someone to pick us at the airport - waiting -> Visa - expected to be done UPON ARRIVAL (this is hell) 12.40am. Started panic. Tried to find more information about doing visa. The problem here is, there's no Iranian emb...