Rotten.net 2.0, Fucked up script.

My five weeks haven't really been productive, maybe because I'm not doing things to help myself. I just feel bummed everyday, the moment I step into the ETG lab. I sort of envy this guy opposite me because his supervisor now and then visits him and assist him yet not spoon-feeding him. My supervisor on the other hand only gave me deliverables, keeps telling me asp.net is a simple drag and drop thing, blah blah.

Fuck that, time to help myself because it's the mid-presentation next week.

I'm sick, looks like New Year won't be happening for me after all.

zZz

I've just been caught sleeping in lab again, by the manager of my department. Not very lucky these days, of 3 times I had napped, twice was busted. I don't know what the fuck in the blue world he does as a manager but he's always walking about like he's at a pasar malam, prey for dozers like me.

Me: "zZz... zZz..."

Manager: "HEY! You come to my office!"

Me: "zZz... ???"

Manager: "Take a seat."

Me: *sits*

Manager: "Why are you sleeping in class?"

Me: "Dozed."

Manager: "Many times already you know?"

Me: *thinks: Twice only what??* "Uh."

Manager: "Your name? Who is your supervisor?"

Me: "Yit Jing, Mr Cheong."

Manager: "Too free is it? Nothing to do, too boring or what?"

Me: "No, not really." (I was still in a daze from the sleep, so I lied. Could've just told him it's a fucking boring project I was doing.)

Manager: "Then why you sleep?!"

Me: *thinks: Thought I told you???* "Dozed."

Manager: "You work so you sleep late is it?"

Me: "No."

Manager: "2nd week only you like that, do you know I can fail and retain you?"

Me: "Yeah."

Manager: "Then why you sleep?!"

Me: *thinks: You asked me twice, I replied you twice, now what the fuck?!* "Tired, I try.. I mean there won't be a 3rd time."

Manager: "May I have your insurance you don't sleep in class again?"

Me: "Uh."

Shit, bad insurance I've made but can I say no? And I think he needs new specs, my groupmate had been AWOL-ing for quite a few times including today and he didn't even notice. Teaches me one thing - Absent myself before sleeping at the library.

10 weeks to go, still like a dodo.

Tuesdays to Fridays are the New Monday Blues

During the third day of FYP, I was late by and hour and my DT found out because he made and early round to check on us. That's pretty bad so I've decided to lie low, by reaching earlier by 30mins. I was quite lucky since after Wed, because no spot checks were made.

But somehow, I think may not be that simple. Maybe right behind the nanny cam, we're all under close surveillance. To reach early, I've started to bring some of my morning to-dos into school instead. So if you sight any joker brushing his teeth and styling his hair in one of the block S toilets, it'll probably be me or some idiot that've read this.

Suggestions to reach school on time:

• Breakfast in school
• Wash your face in school
• Style your hair in school
• Do whatever make-up in school
• Bathe in school

This guide however doesn't apply on girls because I think almost none of them would take half a step out of their door ungroomed.

Just now while I was listening to music on my earphones, my system was suddenly muted and I couldn't unmute it. Without much thought, I guessed it was the DT disabling my audio from his machine but it was later unmuted. I'll really go insane if music is banned. Anyway this guy in my lab always broadcasts his chinese pop on the mobile. Irritating, noisy but at least there is some sort of noise.

Last weekend, dad took me to some dirt tracks around my place. It was quite a rocky yet comfortable drive. You feel like sleeping when there's a constant and slow rocking motion. The scenery was good, although it was merely a closed sea. Rare sights were the building of a dam and a huge seagull, wingspan at about 80cm. I accidentally scractched the lorry's bumper while going down a steep turn. Time to get an official license.

Rock Bottom Motivation

I think doing FYP is the worst phase of the 3-year polytechnic course, maybe for me at least.

It didn't start well that well, probably because I'm breaking all the rules.

I see other peeps' supervisors visitting them, giving them solid information and objective to be met but I only received bits and pieces and am not sure how to go about using this Microsoft Visual Web Developer. And my supervisor is so busy that not one of the calls gets through.

Yesterday, I was tired in the lab and decided to just put my head down for awhile but even before my chin touched my arm, the department manager barged in and stopped me. His office is at the corner and everytime he goes to the toilet, he'll be able to monitor us.

The project co-ord warned us not to cheat on the attendance because they've installed a camera to spy on us. So I got bored, and I went online to download GameBoy Advance emulator and a few ROMs, like Spidey 3, Ratatouille and the old school Pokemon. The reason I've decided to play that is NOT that I'm deprived of childhood but just because it doesn't require installation and it takes up only one small corner of the screen and so I wouldn't be nabbed that easily.

So I loaded the ROMs and played Pokemon red version. I took charmander as my first pet monster Pokemon and further on captured a pikachu and rattata before traning them each to around level 15. By then, I felt quite sleepy and I headed to the first gym. My game screen suddenly poofed and at first, I thought I closed it by accident or maybe some pop-up covered it. I toggled between the applications on my taskbar and found nothing but a small pop-up.

"Ho Yit Jing, playing of games are restricted in the lab, this is a first warning. Uninstall and remove any games from your computer immediately."

I now believe that my project co-ord wasn't lying. The DT can actually monitor EVERYTHING I DO ON MY COMPUTER. It's so secondary school man, nanny cams and all. I was about to curse about him to a friend on MSN when I thought that he might still be monitoring me (for all you know, he's monitoring me now). I turned a good boy, deleted the game and in a few seconds, another pop-up appeared.

"Ho Yit Jing, Thank You for your co-operation."

What the? First it was issued as a warning and now he thanked me as if I've done him a favour. Confusing. Maybe he needs students like me so job like his will be created.

This morning, I had no motivation to wake up and so I reached 45 minutes late at 9.15 am. The DT happen to reach earlier and marked me late. Think the management gonna be strict for a first few weeks. I'll try be good now and maybe strike later.

FYP = FUCKING YUCKY PROJECT

Ciao.

Emo already

Hi, I'm back in school once again for Final Year Project (FYP).

Yesterday, after the briefing (which almost ended when I'd reached), I checked out where I was posted to and it was some unidentified initials "ETG". The moment I got it, I muttered under my breath, "holy shit." I was hoping hard that I'll be posted to something more MIT based, maybe flash animation or PHP but for 'E', I could only think of 'electronics' or 'engineering'. I'll prefer to work under my own MIT side though, because that'll mean more company, assistance and most importantly, more FUN. My project co-ordinator allocated breifing time at 1 and so I had to wait for 3 hours after my briefing. During that 3 hours of waiting, I prayed not to get some circuit board project or else I'll kill myself by stabbing myself with IC chips and resistors.

I went to my project co-ord's room and there was already some people waiting outside. That further confirmed that ETG is under School of Engineering because those peeps waiting look really 'engineery'. I couldn't explain why exactly, except for most of them look slightly more mature.

I later found out that I'm doing some sort of 'intelligent assessment system'. My supevisor came later and further briefed me and the other guy in the team on our job scopes. Mine is to improve on an equiz system using asp.net, the programming language that've always hated because it's not straight forward at all to me. The other guy from SEG got flash animation, alien to him too but WHY DIDN'T THEY ASSIGN THAT TO ME!? My supervisor spoke as though I can easily learn asp.net and even told me to teach the SEG guy Macromedia Flash. Sucks lah, don't think I'll be helping much until I've figure out asp.net (or if I ever will).

The lab kind of suck too. I'm using a P4 with 768 RAM only with some free additional virus package.

One line to sum it all up, I miss working at ST Electronics.

Complaints over, gonna do research to self-learn.