Bottega Veneta  Leather Coassiale Keyring (in brown)

Damn, wanted to get a Bottega Veneta signature key ring in black (exactly same as above pic, but in black). Thought they would have it on sale and turned out that only light colors were on sale and black/brown (their signature colors) will never be on sale. The keyrings and handphone strap (long) is on sale for $175 but only light colors. So if you’re looking for dark color stuffs on sale, you can give BV a miss

Wasted my effort to orchard + the outrageous parking rate at Heeren ($6+ for 2 hours plus). Weekdays parking is easy but expensive !

The competition was oh-kay. Was bloody shagged after the whole thing.

4 hours of programming -> 30 mins break -> another 4 hours of programming.

Even so, I still didn’t managed to finish despite my relatively fast pace of doing things. I could say that I only finished about 70% of the requirements. Most of the competitors didn’t manage to finish also. Kinda impossible to finish. Design from scratch, full fledged CMS (Export database in .csv, manage users, manage content, manage menu), registration, admin login, etc etc. There are still many more requirements like inserting the data they give you. What pisses me off is that they give you a .csv file for you to import into the database and the order of the column is jumbled up and you got to spent your precious time (yes, 8 hours is barely enough to finish even if you got godlike speed in doing things) making them work.

So my approach ? Screw all of those shit. I went straight to code all the functions, disregarding all the information they give and adopting noob-like web design. Even so, I didn’t manage to code finish all the functions (Search Engine). The other competitors from the other polys and ITE has god-like design. I think their design is like 3294823 times better then mine, not sure if they had their functions up as well.

20 people (4 each from SP-NP-NYP-TP and another 4 from ITE) in this Qualifying Round, only 6 to 10 will go in the finals. Results will be on 7th July. Crossing my fingers real hard that I’ll go in the next round.

Programming.. Programming and more Programming.

My Final Year Project is left untouched as I’ve to prepare for my World Skills Qualifying Round which is on 18/06/2008 (Friday). Whats worst is that one of them is in JSP and the other is in PHP. And we all know JSP can go die for all I care. It takes 123093284782384238748234 gazillion years to compile and run on my notebook (yes, my notebook is slow but what to do). Besides that, to do a simple task, you need to code 129803273848234832 more lines of code compared to PHP if both the languages is supposed to do the same thing (mail() for one such example). Balls to JSP but still, I’ve to used it for my FYP as it is more “godly” (ha-ha) then php and Java allows us to “earn more money” (double ha-ha).

After the competition, there is still the Mid Semester Test to study for which is on 21/06/2008 (Monday) and 25/06/2008 (Friday).

CRAP !