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Saturday, April 29, 2006 ♥ 12:05:00 AM
Good evening everyone.
I do not know what the date and time will be when I post this, it will be either April the 28th or 29th.
Currently I am tired, but I strongly feel that I must type this post before I sleep.
Today marks the final battle that I had prepared for since the beginning of this month.
JavaJive.
Firstly I would like to thank Mr Nithy, for imparting knowledge and experience to me and my team that is working on this project for the competition.
I would like to thank Mr Eng Kai for his never-ending energy, creativity and effort in salvaging the project.
I would like to thank Joanna, my God; I think you must have suffered a lot for the last 1 month. LOL. Well done on your part.
I would like to thank Yik Loong, for your time and your creativity and effort in helping to develop the project.
I would like to thank Benson! Man, your designs are great. LOL don’t worry about the posters, it’s safely tuck away where it will be shown once again to the whole world!
I would like to thank Andrew for designing the packaging for the project. I am seriously and deeply sorry for forgetting to show it to the judges during presentation, as I was trying to cut my speech even shorter than what was originally planned and totally forgotten about it.
My bad. I’m real sorry about it.
Lastly, I would like to thank God for giving me strength and His presence was always there throughout the whole development process.
Thank you Lord.
We all DID our best, from developing, testing, implementing, integration to finally the presentation.
Let me give tell you what happened today at the JavaJive competition.
I arrived a little late at the appointed time, LOL. Called Yik Loong to open the door for me and was greeted by his middle finger for being late. LOL, sorry man.
I quickly set up the project and tested it. It was working perfectly.
By then the competitors has started to stream into the COT, so I quickly put on my tie, oh yeah, I have to wear extremely formal.
It’s an IT business presentation after all I guess.
Back to the tie, with the help of Mr Nithy, I quickly put it on and assign tasks to my members while I prepare my speech.
I was going over the speech while finally, the host for the event called for us to gather for an opening ceremony.
My presentation was second in line man!
After the brief opening speech, the judging and presentation of projects started.
The team from Temasek Polytechnic was the first to present, man, their speaker was excellent. It was so darn professional.
However, he got too long winded and ended up not finishing his presentation for we had a time limit imposed. LOL.
Now all eyes came to me.
From what I had observed, I did a quick analysis.
Judges wants the meat of what I say.
There is a time limit of 10 minutes.
I have done my speech and demonstration under the time limit.
I need to act normal and not freak out.
Doing a quick and silent prayer to God, I started my speech and also the battle.
I went through all the major functions of my project, didn’t use much Singlish, or shall I say none at all, did the demonstration of the project and pass the second part of the demonstration to Yik Loong.
In the end, I have plenty of time left.
I was like, WOW, our presentation was that fast?! We finished it so quickly after I literally did very detailed speech and demonstration?
Praise God for His strength!
Now the second battle arrives.
Since I had so much time left, the judges asked me questions, a Q&A session I would say.
My God, they bombarded me and Yik Loong like crazy.
BUT, TOO BAD, I RETALIATED!
With the Trinity behind me I answered all their questions clearly and all of them were satisfied and speechless!
PRAISE THE LORD!
After my presentation was over, my lectures congratulate me that I delivered a superb speech.
Thank you God!
I followed the crowd after my presentation and view the rest of the competitors’ projects. Some were innovative and creative while some were like total craps.
Oh yes and the craps came from the polytechnics.
Amazing.
After we had a break and finally at 3pm, the judges announced the winners.
Sad to say, my team did not win anything.
Oh well, it’s alright.
We gained experience, exposure, knowledge, friendship and teamwork during this period. Like what one of the spokeswomen from Sun Microsystems had said, we are all winners.
I totally agree.
God has a plan for every situation that we are in.
I did not win this time doesn’t mean I am a loser and my project sucks.
It shows I must try again and not give up.
God didn’t give up on us and neither shall I in myself.
One of my course manager said this isn’t the end but only the beginning.
I smiled at that comment.
Exactly what I am thinking.
It was a good and satisfying battle. Another chapter has closed in my life.
A new one will begin on Tuesday.
Oh yeah by the way my internship is with Dell!
Praise the Lord!
Enough with Java, now to C++!
Thanks for reading and God bless!