Final Year Project Presentation

For staying out late in school, from 5pm in the evening to 9.40pm at night just to help students to rehearse for the final year project presentation, it says so much about the supervisor's commitment to her students.

I am simply thankful to our wonderful supervisor, Ms. Yvonne Ng, for all the preparation she went through with us.

Thanks to the rehearsal and trial run and also the hard work of the group, the final year project presentation went off smoothly without any moment of panic throughout the duration of the presentation.

With the end of the presentation, our work for major project finally come to an end, at least for now. I expect minor changes to be done to prepare the system for Meeting Young Minds this coming March.

The talk by the Dean of School of Information Systems, Professor Steven Miller, of Singapore Management University was an insightful one. Although I tend to take such promotional talk by universities with a pinch of salt, it somehow strike a different tone this time with ex-students from the polytechnic sharing their experience. They are just so confident of themselves in their way of expression.

I'm not sure if Information Systems Management is my cup of tea, but I'm giving a try for this year admission.

Career Guide: Interesting figures

Knowing that I am graduating in a few months time, sister kindly got me a career guide to provide me with an additional avenue of information to plan ahead.

While I don't have the intention to work after my national service, the career guide is still a good reading material. One of the few interesting pages are the average monthly gross starting salary for polytechnics and universities.

Do you know that Business Information Technology diploma holders earn more than their counterparts from the pure business stream and information technology stream?

Although NUS is one of the top 25 universities in the world, business graduates from NTU and SMU are earning more than NUS graduates? SMU, being the youngest university compared to NUS and NTU, its business graduates earn the most?

Just to forewarn my readers, the above comparison is not an accurate benchmark of the worth of each university. Just some interesting statistics to share.

It's saddening to see how people throw away their humanity in this competitive race, treating friends as foes, just to satisfy their greedy desire to be the first in the race.

Before signing off, a little thanks to Amanda for the belated birthday gift. Really nice to know some of the new people in this semester class.

Intensive weeks ahead.

Just when one deadline is gone, the other starts approaching. It has been a busy semester with things getting quite intense now.

Final year project due in 11 days and 1 day later the due date, it's final year presentation.

Starting to feel the adrenaline rush in me.

My polytechnic attempted to set a world record for the greatest cumulative distance covered in 24 hours. Here's an outline of the event, ripped from the school website,

TP will be the venue where the next Singapore and Guinness World Records will be set! On 5 January 2006, Dr William Tan, a medical doctor and an accomplished sportsman who contracted polio at the age of two and is paralysed waist down, will begin a 24-hour hand-cycling feat at TP's Sports Stadium. This is an entirely new experience for him because until now, Dr Tan has been clocking in world records on the wheelchair!

TP applauds Dr Tan's can-do spirit and is proud to be the venue for this historic event. To further make this a more memorable event, staff and students of TP will attempt both a Singapore Record as well as a Guinness World Record alongside Dr Tan, by achieving the greatest cumulative distance covered in 24 hours! Some 5,000 staff, students, alumni and supporters are expected to participate in this exciting start to 2006!

Surprisingly, I was able to complete 10 laps (approx. 4 km) without break. As a matter of fact, you are disqualified if you walk instead of jog on the track.

Set me pondering why I couldn't get a pass for my 2.4 km NAPFA test.
Term test grades are out, it seems that my worries are uncalled for.

Saw an interesting news on Channel News Asia today. It's a supplementary news after the interview with Soundbuzz.com management. It makes mention of bloggers having to pay for license to play music on their blogs, at $1000 for every 10 songs.

Gosh.