Okay... so I haven't updated regularly in the past couple of days, BUT its not that i didn't want to, but because I had tons of PROJECTS and ASSIGNMENTS(plus a TEST) to study for.(i've been sleeping at unearthly hours and waking up for school 3-4hours after) And for all you jay see people who do not know, in poly, deadlines are DEAD lines; failing to meet them is failing altogether. And being late for ONE SECOND is considered non-attendance aka being ABSENT! Oh and be thankful that you even have teachers who are at least remotely more interested in teaching then scolding purely for the sake of it! (hates QUAHPY!)
Alright, enough ranting for now... on to the real stuff.
1. Web D Project:I got it before the holidays, but me being me, I had to leave it to the very last minute to start work. Last minute means needing to hand it in today by 6pm and yet choosing to start only at 10am in the midst one of my other lessons. Even then, I didn't really do much, until 4pm when the intensive photoshopping and css code typing began. I remembered one of my irritating classmates (who had long finished his work) announcing '5 minutes to go'. At 6.01pm, I was pretty much done, all looked great and I was almost about the submit when I realised that one of my links refused to work. I spent a frantic half hour trying to debug (it was a REALLY STUPIDLY SIMPLE ERROR). I threw my website into the submission folder only at 6.25pm, a whole half hour after the deadline. Coding in notepad can be annoying at times, but one key advantage must be that, it cant and will never hang on you.
I sometimes amaze myself with what I can do in a short period of time under pressure.
http://rey.chire.org/gallery/(Give it awhile to load. I only like the homepage and gallery page, the others are crap to fulfill the project criteria. The website is the one I submitted as is, so all the errors and mis-alignments are as the marker would see it.)
2. Test results:
I got my test results today (for the pre-holiday tests).
I was pretty dissapointed at the 62% for Maths, but on closer inspection, there were some MAJOR miscalculations! I'm talking at whole TWENTY MARKS! Maths teachers' maths ain't all that good.
Got 76% for C++ test, not too bad, i thought. (I got slaughtered in the MCQ section and minus 2% for 'presentability' in OE)
But after trying to count my GPA, i realized how far off I was from my target!
Each module is worth 4 credits and I need a minimum grade point average of 3.5/4 to get into uni and a GPA of 3.8/4 to get better placements and scholarship stuffs.
76%/25=>3.04/4
82%/25=>3.28/4
Quite far away from the 3.5 and 3.8 i need, huh?
Then upon further calculations, I realised that to get those GPA, i would need to get 87.5% (for 3.5) or an impossible 95% (for 3.8)!!!! NINETY FIVE PERCENT! I can't even get that in primary school! How can I ever in poly?! ARGH!
3.New phone: HTC Touch Diamond!I saw the ad on the newspaper, HTC Diamond going for a mere $498 on Starhub any contract! I went down with my parents to AMKHub to get the phone, but once there was told that the price was $600 and that there would be no stock (for a LONG time). On closer inspection, we realised that the offer price and first batch of the phone were ONLY for the starhub roadshow at suntec! So we went there after sending my dad off at the airport. And the first thing we saw was the LONG ASS LINE that SNAKED AROUND the suntec atrium (we walked a round to find the start of the amazing queue). My mom queued, while I went to ask what we were queuing for. When the staff said, "Oh, the queue is to get a queue number." Queuing to get a Queue Number?! That makes almost no sense! Anyway, I started queuing from 4pm and got my queue number at 6.45pm! (they sure are SLOW at GIVING OUT queue numbers!) To make it up to the tired and frustrated queuers, Starhub gave out free ice creams, popcorns and drinks. A nice touch, considering my legs were jelly and I was dead beat.
Then I thought after getting a number, it should only be 5 or 10 mins before I get called, but NO! I asked the staff for an estimated and he said "Erm... wait let me check... about one or two hours... plus?" Jaws dropped.
Thankfully, I didn't have to stand in line any longer. They said they would SMS me 5 positions before my turn to go back, so I was free to roam around Suntec. Alone. (my mom went to my Grandparent's place)
Well, his estimate was, abit off? I was back at the road show after a quick dinner and walking it off around the huge suntec city, about 2 hours later, worried that they 'forgot' to send to SMS. Only to realise upon reaching that my queue number was a long ass time away from being called! So I just sat the floor in an empty corner and waited. I got so bored that I played the bicycle game on my handphone (the HTC Touch which has NO number pads?) It was tough, but it killed time and tested my patience.
free ice-cream
free BRANDED mineral water (there was also free popcorn)
there were people still queuing AFTER I got the phone, if I waited from 4pm-9.45pm and these people start queuing at 9.30pm, erm... what time will they get their stuff?!
AND FINALLY,
The HTC Touch Diamond (
http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_diamond-2368.php)
4. Totally Random Fact:Today, my younger sister asked me what was the highest and lowest valued currency against the Sing dollar. Apparently, she needed it cos they were studying Currency Fluctuations in Social Studies. (wow at P6? What are they teaching kids these days?)
My immediate response was British Pound and Indonesian Rupia. She immediately said WRONG! Her teacher had specifically said that there 2 currencies were not the correct answers.
Determined to find out a poorer currency then Indo and a richer one then the GBP, I did some searching and found out that:
SGD1 =ZWD7,764,416,292.77
The Zimbabwe Dollars was imbah-ly weak! (If u have a $2 bill in ur wallet now, you'd have over $14
billion dollars in their currency!) Imagine paying $28billion dollar for that macdonalds happy meal!
BHD1=SGD3.65It had to happen some day. The British pound is no longer the highest valued currency! Far from it, its now only 2.7 to the sing dollar, a far cry from the 3.65 of the Bahrian Dollar!
Ok this was a REALLY REALLY Long post, so I shan't type any futher.
The Exterior didn't look too bad YET..
Walk in... Does this look like a restaurant to you? Or does it a Candy store?
My sister up close... while waiting
the place was well done up with disney characters and kiddy designs
the hand-washing area?
This macaroni and cheese cost ten bucks!
The signature Mickey Mouse Pizza... (about the size of a pizza hut personal pan - $15!)
my dad n I
the other pizza...
the free ice-cream given to the birthday girl...
my other sister posing with the disney characters
I took this outside the mall (i thought it looked nice somehow?)
Cutting cake back home
The cake + dry ice