Mixed Entry

Hi, lacking entries for about 2 weeks.
First, let me begin with today meeting for assignment.

Went to school at around 12:15 to explain Java to my friend from Engineering. The whole school was quiet because of school holiday - SUNDAY! At 1:40pm, Ryan and Lokman reached school and we started doing EWAD proposal. I did screen flow diagrams while Lokman and Ryan edited the proposal.
At around 4pm, Kaiwen arrived and we change to SWEN assignment. We prepared ppt slides for presentation.

October Intake Orientation
Last week, I was busy because I was in charge of Logistics for our IIT school orientation. The orientation was 2 days (Thursday and Friday). Being in charge of Logistic together with Ryan, we went to Sports Complex and brought many things such as chairs, amplifier, walkie-talkie, so on and so forth. This October Intake, there are two classes/care groups for Diploma in Information Technology and one for Diploma in Mobile & Wireless Computing. This time, there are very few international students. None of them are from Myanmar. I was also taking photos of orientation. The orientation was very first one organized by our IT SIG and MWC SIG. It was a success because of all the efforts from SIG members and especially good planning and arrangement from Yang Lin and Quin Quin.

Canon Photomarathon
Then on Saturday 20th, I took part in Canon Photomarathon. It was my first time joining that kind of big competition. Over 1000 shutter bugs took part and it was Singapore's Biggest Live Photo Contest recorded in Singapore Book of Records. I woke up early, at about 5:30 am in the morning and went to the registration venue which is Suntec Convention Center Lobby. I reached there at about 7:20am. And to my surprise, there were lots of people. The queue for registration was so long. Need to queue for about 45mins to finished registration. Met with Serena, Suan Yang, Marian, Dickson and Noel there. Went up to lvl 3 for briefing and announcement of theme. The first theme was "Passion". When I heard the theme, I was not sure about what to shoot. We all walked around Suntect and thought of what to shoot. Time given was short. We needed to return to Suntect by 12:30. The time was around 10:00am. We thought and thought. Finally we decided to go to shoot at Maxwell Food Center. We took bus and went to Amoy Street. We did not managed to reach Maxwell Food Court. Instead, we took photos at Amoy Street Food Center. We also took photos at Chinese Temple near the food court. Then, we took bus back to Suntec to upload photos. I couldn't took good photo to submit for the competition. The photo I submitted was just so-so.

Then, we reached Suntec at around 12:30pm. The queue for photo uploading was also so looong. Second theme was "Challenge", also a difficult theme to shoot for me. Suan Yang suggested to go to a underpass tunnel near Singapore River to shoot a photo for his idea. At the underpass, he asked Dickson and Noel to jump and kick at each other in the air. The shot was interesting. For the second time, I didn't shoot a photo. Instead, I submitted a photo taken in the morning.

Third theme was "Playtime". We all went to food court first to have late lunch at around 3:30pm. Then, went to top level to shoot children playing near Toy R Us. After that, we went back to Suntec to submit photos and rested and viewed the slideshow of photos submitted by participants. We all were tired after shooting the whole day. At around 8:30, results were announced. We all did't win any prize. SY challenge photo was in Top 10.

I had gained a new experience of walking here and there, travelling and shooting the whole day.
The follow is some of the shots taken during the day.



Week 1 of October Semester
Finally, long awaited semester started on 22nd October, Monday. First lecture started at 12noon. But I went to school at around 1oam to print out lecture/lab notes. After printing, went to Mensa alone, had lunch and attended 2hours of lecture (Software Engineering and Enterprise Web Application Development). After one hour break, attended 3-HOUR LAB. My first taste of block teaching. I got 3-hour long labs everyday from Monday to Thursday.

EWAD is interesting. Teach about how to develop a web application using XTHML, Java, Servlet, JSP and databases. I now will be able to learn how to create a web application as well as database connections.

SWEN is PBL subject. During tutorials and labs, we need to do our own research for assignment part 1 which will due in one week time. Me, Ryan, Lokman and Kaiwen grouped together and did research from different resources such as wikipedia, the Internet as well as some thick books from library.

Block teaching enables me to focus on only two subject which is good for me to concentrate and find out more about these subjects. But one drawback is that, assignments are due in very short time. So, we need to start and do assignments as fast as we can in order to avoid last minute rush to finish them.

End of a long and mixed entry.