26 July 10: Close call!

Wow today had a close call.
Business Process Management (BPM) project was due today and I was chionging since last Friday. I needed Microsoft Visio and the school labs weren't open on weekends. So had to chiong on friday and today. I was the compiler, which meant I had to arrange the whole report for the group. It would have been alright, but I (being my OCD self) needed the report to be in one format, needed the English to be corrected, and the charts to be all nicely aligned. I was in school since 9am today and all the way til 6pm, minus lunch and lessons, I was compiling. I finally finished it and it was 55 pages long. At least I got to practice my Microsoft Word skills. But whoo! That was close.

20 July 10: Not the best Tuesday.

This is not my favourite Tuesday. Not that I had a bad day, I just felt it could've been better. Today was so meh compared to my other usually exciting Tuesdays. Okay summary of last week.

I'm having skate trainings 4 times a week now. Tuesdays til Fridays. It's fun, but a little tiring. I took advantage of my 3 day rest (Sat to Mon) and allowed my legs to heal. My Crazy tricks are improving. I can do 20 cones a bit more consistently now, though I still frequently fumble with the Crazy Sun.  When I don't fumble, the whole thing is quite smooth, and definitly faster than before.

It rained today. Sad. We had to use the IITASc concourse, and the floor is really bumpy. Tough to do tricks or slides. I'm now working on back one foot, and I'm using back cross to enter a left back foot. I can only do 4 cones so far though. Grr... 

Kay school now. I FINALLY FIGURED OUT QUESTION 4!!!!! Our PRSP project consisted of 4 questions, and questions 2 and 4 were more challenging than usual. I figured out Q2 after a while of thinking and trial and error, but Q4 had me thinking the whole 2 weeks. *satisfied sigh* I love programming... I'm getting closer to my goal of being the best programmer in class. Let's see how I do for the exams. Wish me luck!

18 July 10: New Blog

Alright, i've made the new blog:
packtodeck.blogspot.com

This is all about Magic, the Gathering, so go there and read the 3 posts that Brendan and I have posted!

14 July 10: Busy Busy Busy

Hmm haven't updated this blog for a while. Most of the recent exciting events were about Magic, The Gathering, and all that was put into planeswalkerz.blogspot.com.

Okay updates then. Skating. Trainings are now 4 times a week (Tues, Wed, Thurs and Fri) because we have a skating competition coming up in September. I'm gonna improve myself as much as I can. I started playing around with moves I know already, tweaking them here and there just to see if they look nice or make the move easier while making it look harder. Most of them were flops. Lol. I did improve my Mabrouk though. Here's a breakdown of Mabrouk:
Front Cross, then
Eagle, followed by
Back Cross and 
Reverse Eagle, then repeat.
I changed it to:
Front Cross, then
Eagle, followed by
Back Cross and
ONE FOOT.
This allows me to swing my right leg 180 degrees and with more accuracy so that it's easier to enter the front cross. It sort of works, but I'm still having trouble. The key is to maintain balance at all times. I'm hoping this will come in useful, because after I do it I can continue into a one foot, and then back into a Mabrouk or a Mega. The speed is way to great for a Sun, but I'm gonna see if I can slow myself down, then once I can do Sun, it shouldn't be much of a problem to enter any of the Crazy tricks.

We learnt half cross today. And I was the second one to get it! Yay! Leonard beat me, but our trainer Ping Hwee (?) saw me first. It was extremely awkward at first, but then I realised this is a move based around control and flexibility, and that speed is not an element in here.

Okay enough skating. Let's go to school. I think I'm slowly but surely improving. I'm getting more consistent with completing my school work and projects, especially programming. We're now doing programming in PRSP and ISOFun, and I'm catching on quickly. I think my reputation for being a good programmer is slowly beginning to grow, because some of my classmates are asking me for help, or even referring to me for checking. I feel good about that, but I've gotta be careful not to get a big head. I've already been told I come across as arrogant sometimes. 

Remember I said that there was a girl I was interested in? Well, not anymore. Not much anyway. After having a nice long chat with her, I found that she isn't who I'm looking for. It's not that she has bad traits, she just has different interests. I've also decided something: I will not look for a girlfriend, I'll let her find me. My justification is that if the girl likes me, and the feeling is mutual, nature will take it's course. When I get a sign, then I will start to work on the relationship. I will wait for the right girl to come into my life, and if I have to wait an eternity, so be it.

Okay back to school for a while. I jut discovered that there is a free bus to TP from the bus 69 stops. I felt so dumb. Now I can get a free ride to school without wearing out my skating wheels. Yay! 

New note: I'm gonna start a new blog this saturday. It's gonna be related to MTG, but because it's such a big thing, and since I'm (probably) gonna be blogging for Ernst and Brendan as well, I think I'll need a new blog, just so everything can fit in. It will be my first blog with pictures, which will be provided by Brendan. 

7 July 10: Crazy

Oh man Friday is gonna be packed. Here's my schedule:

8am-11am, Some Etiquette workshop.
12.30-6.30pm Charity Golf thingy
4-5.30 JA Company Meeting
6.30-7.30pm BBFin Test
6.45-9, Parent-Teacher meeting
6pm-9pm Skate Training

How am I supposed to do everything at once??? This is one of those times I wish for cloning powers. Actually, I wish for telepathy and/or mind control powers more than anything. (more on this in a later post)

I'm not going for the JA Company Meeting or Parent Teacher meeting or the BBFin Test. We have a makeup next week. Yay... Lol. My Saturday is totally free though, so I can catch up on homework or projects and read up before for next week.

Poly life is packed. Especially when you're participating in so many activites and roles:

Class Rep
Skate training for competition
JA Company VP Marketing
Leader for 2 groups
4 concurrent projects
1 annoying (okay, not really) programming question

Sigh. I'm so sleepy. Nights, world. 

New post on planeswalkerz.blogspot.com

Results and Changes

I got back my results for my term test and they were dismal, to say the least. I failed SAS. This was the paper that had the screwed up question. Lemme quote:

"For any of the FIVE SDLC phases, explain it's purpose and the deliverables involved."

Now hang on a sec, let's breakdown and analyse the sentence structure. 

1) "For any of the FIVE..." this part tells me that there are 5 SDLC phases. I know there are 8, so I was stuck here abit as I was wondering when we had been taught 5 phases.

2) "...explain it's purpose..." this part tells me that I'm supposed to explain only ONE phase.

So right here I'm stumped. I was getting more and more frustrated as time went by, and I had to finish the other questions or else I wouldn't have enough time. Even after I came back to it, I was still pulling my hair over this stupid question. So, I failed.

It should have been:
"For each of FIVE SDLC phases.." or
"For any FIVE of the SDLC phases..."

I was so stunned that I didn't realise the question was worth 10 marks.

Hell.

The only subjects I really scored in were PRSP and CMSK, but those don't count because PRSP was too easy; almost everyone in class got an A and one person even got full marks. CMSK also doesn't really count becuse I wasn't a proper exam, it was just a test. And it was an email writing test.

I've resolved to work harder, focus more and play less. Here are some major changes I'm gonna make (well, major for me anyway):

1. I've deleted most of my games on Monique. I've only kept Tap Tap Revenge 3 and Unblock Me.

2. I will only roller blade on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

3. After the M11 Prelease this Sunday (which I don't think I'll be able to go for), all Magic will be strictly business. I can't afford to play much now. I MUST get Diploma Plus.

That's it. Those are my major changes.

New post on planeswalkerz.blogspot.com.

5 July 10: Interesting conversation, very interesting person

I just had a very interesting conversation with an equally interesting person last night on msn. We talked about psychology and hypnotism and lots of other stuff to do with the brain. Talking to her was fascinating (if Ms Audra saw this conversation, we'd both get an A for sure), and I also learnt alot about myself. Good reflection time. I'm really interested in delving into this world, but I understand it can be dangerous, so I that's why I want to learn to protect myself. Set up defensive measures. Yeah.

She's fascinating because there was a lot about her I didn't know about, and I now that I've learnt a bit more, my interest is piqued. I have a feeling it's still just the tip of the iceberg though, and I'm looking forward to knowing this girl better. Yes, I like her. 

Wish me luck.