Merry Christmas!

Today is Christmas, but my family and I don't celebrate Christmas, so no presents for me. However, I hope everyone will enjoy today and receive many presents!

School term is going to start soon and I seem to dread going back to the hectic life. Everyday will be tiring and sleep will always be insufficient. It will be back to the days of spending money, time and energy. What to do? We have to work hard for our degree so that we will earn more in the future, to pay off our debt. Kind of ironic huh, borrow money to study hard just to earn more money to pay off the debt. However, in the long run, such an investment will be worth it (hopefully).

With this new government initiative of Smart Nation, with the rise of technological start ups, the Internet of Things and BILLION dollar technology firms like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, computer science seems to be the craze. In Singapore, it is hard to find such globalised firms and software engineers might not be able to demand wages that are comparable to those in the United States. However, with a rising demand for programmers, I think their pay should increase. The government seem to be encouraging more programming lessons for the youths and in the future, my job security might be weaken as I will lack basic programming skills. In order to not lose out to these people, National University of Singapore forces all engineers to take at least a programming module and mine was CS1010E Programming Methodology which is C language. However, I have no idea how to apply this knowledge and I am curious as to which programming language will benefit or even complement the skills that a Mechanical Engineer will have in the future. Is it Python? Java? C++? No idea, hopefully there will be a kind soul who can advise me on this.

The current trend of the world seems to be electronics and many things require computer. Computer scientist, computer engineers and electrical engineers will be able to ride on this trend, what about mechanical engineers? I always hear that the world will always require mechanical engineers, but I always wonder if they will be in high demand, will they be cherished, will they be respected? These are things to ponder. You may wonder why don't I choose those courses? I have explained it in my previous post.