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Monday, December 04, 2006 ♥ 5:56:00 PM
Dear all,
Firstly, I would like to say:
GAMTRONICS HAS WON!!!
Yes it has been a long time coming but my team won Splash!
Woohoo thanks for all your prayers and encouragement guys and girls! Thank you!
Thank you God!
30th November was the day that we went down to Singapore Polytechnic to have a showcase of our wares to the public.
One of my mentors Chester was called up for reservist so only my other mentor Adam and together with other mentors in charge of the other teams went down.
Before we stepped into SP, I saw a terrible accident that unfolds ahead of the road that my bus was traveling on.
A lorry had knocked down a motor cyclist at the road junction to the entrance of SP man!
I could see that the cyclist was badly injured as he was unable to move. The bus that ferried us to SP have to turn at that exact junction and the front bumper came sooooooooo close to knocking into the motor cyclist’s head as he was lying on the road.
I was so worried that I did a quick prayer and thank God the bus did not even nudge the motor cyclist. As we left the scene I prayed that nothing serious will happen.
After the bus has stopped at our destination, we found out that we have to walk a looooooooooooooooooooong way to reach the convention centre where the showcase was held!
Cool morning exercise man!
Upon arrival at the convention centre we occupied the center area man! ITE College East basically dominated the showcase with our huge force of 14 teams! LOL!
Setup of equipment for the showcase was a breeze and we hang around, chatting and poking our heads at the various projects from the other teams at the showcase.
Man all the projects from ITE, poly and university are so interesting! My only complain is that there was a serious lack of games man!
I was so looking forward to seeing lots and lots of games since there was a ‘Consumer’ category in the competition but was greatly disappointed. However there were truly interesting games to makeup for the lack of quantity,
I honestly felt from the bottom of my heart that the game produced by Xin Yi’s team was cool man! Their graphics and game play concept is so nice! I asked about the graphics whether it was 3D but it wasn’t! Man! Amazing! The 2D image was that great man! It looks so like 3D!
Many people visited their booth and were interested in their game, even one of the personnel from Sun Microsystems voted for them!
If only the enemies in the game, the ghosts, could show up. Otherwise I believe they would have won the ‘Consumer’ category. Rats!
Sigh…what a pity man. I pray that they will win in the future.
Another disappointment comes from the JCs. Only ONE team showed up, which was RJC. They were the best of all man. Coming to the showcase without anything and only having it in ‘concept’. Yeah that is oh so cool man.
Finally the time came for the announcement of the prizes. We were ushered into the auditorium after packing up and waited with bated breath for the MC to announce the winners. However before the announcement, we had to wait like crazy through a series of speeches by some prominent figures from IDA and SCS (Singapore Computer Society).
After their speeches were done…the results came. The consumer category for ITE/JC section was announced. What I can truly say was that those who display a tremendous lack of confidence in winning actually won some prizes! I hope the confidence and hope in you guys have risen after Splash yeah!
The enterprise category for ITE/JC section came. I closed my eyes and prayed.
“The winner of Splash 2006 ITE/JC Enterprise Category goes to…”
I grabbed the seat handles hard. My teammate Benjamin, who was sitting beside me, went very quiet feeling extremely anxious.
“GAMETRONICS!”
OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDD! WE WONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
My whole body cramped man at that point because there were too much tension in me lol!
Nevertheless I mustered all strength and we stepped out to receive our prize.
OMG! OMG! OMG! We wonnnnnnnnnn!
All the decisions and sacrifices Gametronics made, WAS WORTH THE EFFORT!
Thank you God for all this time!
Thank you God for Your faithfulness!
After I have collected the prize and my team had shook hands with the VIP from IDA, we took a picture and after that I was still trying to recover from the shock and was confused as to where I should exit!
We did a demo of our application afterwards and once the ceremony ended, we start taking photos like crazy and everyone was like congratulating my team man!
I also took photos with my mentor Adam and wanted to take more but unfortunately the bus arrived. Those carrying the equipment back to school boarded the bus and we parted ways as I was one of those taking the train back.
As I took the train back with Ke Jun and Andrew, breathing a sigh of relieve that everything is finally over. All that left is to collect the prizes man!
I would like to give a heartfelt thanks to Adam and Chester, our mentors, for guiding us and teaching us throughout this entire period.
THANK YOU MAN!
Also I would like to thank everyone back at SUN COT, for showing good comradeship. It was real good that everyone helped each other out to fulfill their tasks and learning new things from one another.
This is what the spirit of being in SUN COT is, to advance together!
That’s all guys! Till the next time!
God bless!