Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Had been looking forward to this day to come, waking up slightly later than usual, no need to wake up early and rush out to work...
I probably stoned the whole day, spent the whole day at home, took a nap in the afternoon, probably needed to rest quite a lot, havent been taking long breaks without doing anything or worrying about anything since like maybe 5 months ago.
Indeed it is quite true that it does feels a bit empty when not going to work. With the stress levels there at client side certainly makes life tougher. While taking a nap as usual several stuff went through mind, reflecting on what is going on for the 5 months, how did it changed my life.
Stating from like maybe the starting of Semester 1, when i first entered the lecture hall, looking at my name on the screen, solo poject. Mashup Using Web Ontology, i did not even have any idea what was i going to do. Much discipline needed to do stuff alone, and of course it is much more stressful than usual as i have to do everything myself without having anyone that can guide me through the journey of FYP. Not forgetting the preparation that i have to go through to plan my OPP trip which was also quite a hassle. I also had to push to get good rates for air tickets and insurance.
However it all came to a halt when i was about to go off. The Sichuan earthquake had occured and there our trip was cancelled from then. It was a disappointing moment for me although i had did my best to try to go to another location even for like a month. My attempt failed which kind of terrible. I had given up my chance to go Suzhou or Beijing with my classmates to go to Chengdu. And also going through the interviews and meeting of directors to manage to grab a spot in the Period 2 team. Guess life is just like that, sometimes one does not get what he reall hopes in life.
After that here comes the splash awards, went to help out the competition event, was quite nice to know some ppl there. Learnt a bit more about the industry slighty and what those SIM students learnt. Also learnt more about the Mashup technology.
After that specific saturday, wrapping up of my project, it was quite fufilling for myself as i managed to complete a wiki with partial information on plugins. Managed to come out the basic features of the plugin of the Mashup Creator.
Attachment was then next on the list. My OPP teacher broke the news that we are all doing local attachment instead which i kind of expected. So the attachement went on just like that.
Had attachment for about 3 months. It certainly had its ups and downs. Late nights trying to rush out project tasks assigned to me. Test cases and testing at the later parts certainly took a toll out of me. Although i dont sleep so early, i do not work that late at night when not neccessary. I had clocked like abouty 200++ OT throughout my attachment which seems incredibly high.
My team was quite great although it seems stressful everytime when i am client side. I was based at client side for about a month. Closing issues with client is certainly tring and stressful. It is necessary to be tactful in whatever u tell the client. I have had to ensure that the system was bug free then i can close the issues otherwise i would risk opening much more issues than closing a issues.
Chalet and going to batam after that was a bonus. Going night cycling and going to batam Holiday inn.
Oh well what a journey it was. Back to school next week would be more challenges for me. Going into a class that i do not know anyone would certainly be tough. These thoughts certainly made me think back the choice i made were correct.
Some thoughts i had been thinking, if i had went to college instead of overseas attachment, how would everything turned out...would i have been just the person i am now? Did i make a wrong choice of going into IS instead of Finanacial although i had been given a second choice to repick my specialisation? Would i have been happier doing the stuff than i am doing now?
Regrets or happiness, personally it just a thin line across. Although deep down sometime it feels crushed for cetain reasons.
心里不干心， 但一切有时候太迟了， 我会默默的支持你，因为你开心就好
(4:45 PM)