Thursday, October 26, 2006
wat a happening month
firstly.. i wanna thank all of you for celebrating my birthday for me... really enjoyed the evening and am very blessed by your efforts.. serious! esp the planning.. card.. cake.. etc.. basically everything la... hope all of you enjoyed it as much as i did.. =)
next.. it has been a long and tiring month for all of us im certain... maybe its time for some testimony of how much God bless us haha..
for the whole of the last 2 weeks.. i been working on this project for my database module.. i am supposed to come up with this web application cataloging music albums, artistes, as well as songs... and for 7.5% only.. its certaintly a lot of work... esp the troubleshooting and fine-tuning of the "behind-the-scene" codes...
even on my birthday... i was rushing through the project report which was due at 5pm.. with totally nothing done except the cover page (which i designed long ago for fun).. i had to juggle between coding the project (due the following wednesday) and coming up with the project report.. thankfully.. i managed to get everything up and done by 4:30.. and submitted it before the "jam-period"..
yesterday was the deadline for this project.. and my group is supposed to do a demonstration/presentation of it at 10am in SOC.. and guess what... on tuesday night at around 11pm.. i discovered something horrible beyond words.. the codes done by another project mate could not be fitted directly into the main project.. and majority of it produces at least 4-5 error per page... at that point.. i was totally mind-blank.. donno whether to scold him.. to ask him to do again.. or to troubleshoot thru everything and get it working..
after much consideration.. and the fact that i wanna ensure that everything WILL work the following day.. i decided to re-code the entire thing based on what he has done again.. by normal standards ( or rather.. my own lousy standard ).. doing such a task would require like 2-3 days at least.. but i remembered in my desperation.. i asked God to give me strength and wisdom and speed.. and thx God.. i managed to skim through the code rather quickly.. and by 4am.. majority of the application is working fine.. with only 2 nagging problems that i cannot solve..
however the following day morning during lecture at 8.. somehow donno how i also cannot explain why.. a solution just popped into my head.. so i quickly skipped my lecture and went out to code them in.. and miraculously.. all of them work in the first round of coding aka no finetuning/troubleshooting needs to be done.. amazing rite... those who did programming before will know this is nearly impossible... haha
something nice happened during the project demonstration itself too.. as i was explaining to the assessor how our application works.. both me and my members saw certain logic error in our application.. it was like... GONE CASE.. i just quickly press the link to another page... and the assessor didnt see that.. fastest fingers win~ wahahaha..
overall... i got a rather decent grade for this project too.. i got 17/20 for this .. though i kinda regretted on not doing that extra bit to attain the remaining 3 marks lost... but oh well... considering what happened just less than 12 hours ago.. a miracle has already been performed! =)
i also wanna share about my mid-term results.. the initial scores i gotten was 46/60 for database, 8.5/20 for software engine, and 68/100 for comp.networks.. i was quite happy with my DB results and my networks results.. both much higher than the average of 39 and 55 respectively.. and yet at the same time quite upset by my SE result.. next came moderation of marks for DB and SE.. after discovering of mistakes in marking by both lecturer and students.. my DB score went down by 2.. and my SE marks went up by one.. but on average.. im still doing badly for my SE.. at the very least.. i failed it... when i see the excel file on the results... im seeing double digits (10 n above) and one pathetic 9.5 in the midst of them.. super demoralizing..
den this morning... due to oversleeping and reaching sch late by 30 mins.. i decided to go for the next slot of tutorial and went to compcen to check email etc instead.. realised that the SE marks are changed once again.. so i clicked on the excel file... the single digit was gone! haha my marks went up to 10.5 for some unknown reason hahaha.. song bo :P
so in general... i did quite well for my mid-term! and for projects that has already been graded.. i gotten nearly perfect score for all of them! Praise the Lord man =)
Hope this encourages all of you as we continue in this long and arduous journey in NUS.. things are definitely not easy.. but there is definitely a way out despite circumstances... and dont be too surprised when things turned out much better than you expected.. we have someone working in ways we cannot see ;)
... now back to work on my just-around-the-corner projectS deadlines... 5 down 3 to go~~
:P
