week 10 semester 2

Assignments due dates are getting closer as the semester is drawing to a conclusion, i have got 3 assignments and 2 more tests remain for the last 3 weeks of university, its a pain, but its a short lived pain. our group has started testing, i've been asked to complete the screen shots for parts of the testing, which was simple, but during the testing, i have enocountered some of the technical difficulties which was expected, those kinds of errors are must to be fixed before the final systems are to be handed over, it wasn't any complicated error, every time i encountered those errors i report it to the group programmer dyee, who then fix the areas that has errors, but the current state of testing is still progressing.
i think there areis not long to go until the system is finally completed, the group has done awful lot of work to get to this stage, i'm very much looking forward to the expo when we actually have a completed version and display it to the clients, i can now imagine the satisfaction i will be feeling at that time.

week 9 semester 2

Finally the User manuel is finishing, this week when i finished the glossary i had a feeling of satisfactory, there are only a couple of things to be done which is the FAQ's and some more testing, but at least i can see the finishing line. The user manuel has been a large document, which the team put alot of efforts in.
Surprisingly this week i missed my chinese test, it was the first time in a long time i missed an assessment, because of so many assessments going on at once i just really taken notice of it, but lukily i emailed my tutor on the very next day to explain the situation, and she was very understandable, so i had another chance of sitting the test a day later which was really good, i went alright in the test, it was my first language so i didn't have any hassels or difficulties, at the beginning of this semester i set a really high standard for myself to work as hard as possible which i have done it so far, but looking at the schedule for rest of the semester there are still alot of work to be done.

week 8 semester 2

It has been a busy week for me, there was a couple of assignments and presentations completed, but the most scary part of this week was my oral presentation for Chinese, i'm not really a good presenter, in some way i found it horrified to stand in front of a class full of strangers to talk, but on thursday when i actually did my presentation it was alright, i had my head down the whole time and red the speech i prepared, occasionally i lifted my head to look at the tutor, one thing i found it strange was there was not much comments the tutor wrote for me, because when others were doing their presentation the tutor was constantly writing notes, but when it comes to me it suddently stopped, pretty strange, i was unsure whether that was a good sign or bad.
This week i think i finished the final part of the User manuel, and was assigned to another task of creating a glossary of terms, when clady send me the whole user manuel i was shocked, there were so many pages, and looking at those pages i saw the parts i did, it really gave me a feeling of satisfaction, i felt i did my part for the group and contributed, even though some of my parts were adjusted by the other group members because of the standard of English wasn't up to the standard or other reasons, but still i was really happy with my contributions.
the end of the semester is approaching, really can't wait, but looking at the course schedule there are so many more assessmentsto be completed, its going to be tough.

week 7 semester 2

Finally i have recovered, this week i have been starting to goto classes, from monday i went to majority of the classes to catch up on the work i missed out on in the last week, it wasn't much but still had some to keep up. This week i supposed to have one assessment the first of this semester with my chinese class, and i was prepared but sadly the teacher was sick and i went to uni for nothing, and paid alot for the parking as well for like 2 minutes.
this week i have completed another task for the user manuel, it wasn't overly hard, but just took sometime to complete, i was pretty happy with my work, but i know there are alot that can be improved on such as being more depth on details of the screen shots, explain more on the functionalities of the fields and buttons, and finally use more probably i can be a bit more specific in some main properties, rather then being general overall

week 6 semester 2

this whole week has be horrendous, after last week's accident i had to force myself to stay home for the entire week until thursday where the scars were actually healed abit. But with all the time i stood at home i managed to finish the work assigned to me by Clady. it was so boring staying home, there weren't much things to do, so i had to look for some uni work and other times i just sat in my chair watch the olympics, which kept my spirits high because china was winning gold in almost every event.
in the early days of the week i constantly checked myself in the mirror just couldn't believe the damages i did to myself and the situation i was stuck in, i wanted to goto uni to keep up with the work, as well as catching up with some friends, it was frustrating. the only communication tool i used was MSN which only gave me a limited access to seeing what my friends were doing, and chatting to the group members about the group work.
Through out this whole week i became olympic addict, i sat in front of the TV for majority of the day just to watch the olympics, my emotions were fluctuating, when China is doing well in some events makes me happy but others makes me want to turn off the TV. sometimes i even felt i should be in China at this historical moment, with so much fun activities and souviniers availiable, it is a once in a life time chance to attend such a big event in my own country, seeing the joy and cheers in the city, i really wanted to be part of, i wanted to celebrate along some of my friends and family in china, rather then here by myself, hopefully in my life time olympics would be held in my city Shanghai, i would definetly be there.
Yesterday was the last day of the olympics seeing the closing ceramony makes me really sad, over the past two weeks it has been memorable, i feel i'm very much used to watching the events, now i feel so empty don't really know how i'm going to survive without it.
anyway back to reality there are few weeks left in the semester, i got to catch up, the tests and assignments are nearing its due dates, i sounds scary, but this semester my elective subjects has been pretty straight forward, it is all in my original language, and is below the standard of mine. i feel confident, there are so much to look forward to at the end of the year.

week 5 semester 2

just came back from seven last night, it was horrible, got kicked out of the club once more, i drank so much that i throw my own cloths in the bin and fell onto the ground a couple of times and hurt my face now i can't leave the house it was embarrassing. this week has been really slack by me, didn't do much study at all, apart from monday i went to uni, the other days didnt manage to go at all, i feel my life is in a mess again, need to change the way of approaching my life, no more alcohol, no more clubbing.
back to school work, this week has been very fruitful, i joind the team on monday we discussed and worked on the user manuel, i saw the part i did, i was fairly disappointed with, even though cladi said it was well done, because i thought my english is still not up to the level i would like to be, i still cause the team some concerns as they had to make some changes, but im always looking to improve hopefully there will be results seen in the near future. Anyway the user manuel is progressing well, its a big document, but the team members are working very hard on, let's just wait for the end of the semester, it will be the best

week 4 semester 2

this week has been really busy, started off on monday when i attended the meeting with my group members, after that i supposed to have a class but due to my mum's illness i had to leave early and head to the hospital. but on monday i had some of the work done for the group, i started my part of the design doc, but didn't manage to get it finish, so had to goto the library the next day to finish it, it was fairly simple part, but when i realise there were much more parts ahead of the team to finish off it made my head felt dizzy, but still im confident of doing well this semester. seeing my team members working so hard it really inspired my work ethics, for the first few weeks of thsi semester i really felt slack, didn't manage to finish off anything. but one most important factor that encouraged me even more were Collingwood won against the useless Saints, im so proud of my team.