This time I'm going to write in English.

Because this article must be readable to my dear friends from TQ.

I had some talks with Sigit recently. It reminds me of the good old times of TQ. It is not just because of the competition that makes us reminiscent, it is because TQ is NOT JUST A COMPETITION. How much it had affected me, I realized only recently when writing my SOP. We had dreams, big dreams. We are workaholics, idealists, and overly ambitious workaholics as Sigit puts it.

There were no limitations in our mind. We wanted to make things superb out of pure curiosity. Work by trial-and-error. Find a valuable question, and solve it with all one can. Need to make something but don't have the ability? Just learn it. Work with full strength, non-stop.

We also had a strong believe of making the world better. We even wanted to run an international competition when TQ was taken over by Oracle and the rules were changed, favoring local teams instead of international teams.

Yes, international is important. This is one thing I learned through TQ. Contacts with other cultures makes one more aware of ones own culture. I get to develop a value standard somewhat different from my parents and even my peers. But I believe it is good.

Oh how wonderful it sounds, you must think. Yes, it is wonderful. And I find myself unconsciously implement the concerns we had that were motivated by TQ into my own life. To be creative, to have ones own thinking, to learn without boundaries, to make the world become a world without boundaries, to make things friendly, to make knowledge available to everyone.

And for people like me and Sigit who are from those not-so-developed countries. (Yes, Taiwan is one of them, if we still have this silly post-colony way of thinking. We don't have enough self-confidence.) Another thing that is important for us is that we find ourselves standing on the same position with other students from developed countries. To me, the credit goes to dear Kim. It is Kim who guided me and make me believe in myself, to gain confidence.

It also showed me how big the world is, and how amazing people can be. This credit goes to dear Jaen. He has done so many remarkable things. His depth of thinking amazes me all the time. Others also contribute to this. But I don't think I am going to list every one of them here.

And it contributes to my taste of art as well. Sigit affects me a lot. I guess there is no better way to learn other than cooperation. I have learned a lot from seeing how my teammates implement things. It broadens my thinking.

Mostly, I love the brainstorming. First go with some really crazy ideas, then evaluate.

I think it was the happiest and busiest time of my life, the years that I've been working on TQ. I was always looking forward to the deadline, that when I looked back, there was no regret, but a big "wow".

And it makes me want to do something like the founder of TQ, Al Weis, to provide this wonderful possibility to others. Because I am damn optimistic, and I want to share, I want more kids to have a chance like this.

I want the world to be a wonderful world.