got out of the prj meeting today plenty pissed. The things the prof said were quite insulting. And to accuse me of not doing enough. Me? of all people. Fuck you I say. This type of person have absolute no use in my world. I genuinely hope a car runs over him, while he’s down, squirrel bits off his nuts or worst!
it seems that every year around this same time I’m piled up with work. Here’s a breakdown of what I’ve been doing on the past years on valentine’s day. (and when I say work, I mean work. The kind that goes on till midnight or later)
2007 - assignments
2006 - assignments
2005 - assignments
2004 - assignments
2003 - work freelence
2002 - work OT
2001 - work OT
2000 - on the plan
dang….I’m a workaholic (as if I didn’t know that already).
as my estimate went, I woke up passed noon, just in time to head out the door by 2:40 and make the 3:20 class. The class went much better than usual. Normally, I would be really sleepy during this class because my first class starts at 9:50 then have lunch and work in the lab for whatever time I have left, which makes it a really long day. After asking a few questions about the assignment, it turns out I’m pretty much done with the assignment. I must have built the project from scratch at least 10 time, due to a strange error. Anyhow, the prof said if you can finish the assignment in and hour and a half, you will do fine in the test. heh heh by now, I can build the project from scratch in 30mins.
Something about the group project…turns out the multi file upload thing the leader put in is the version tracking machanism. I’d just found out today. Oh man….where to begin? WHERE DID HE TAKE HIS DATABASE DESIGN CLASS? sigh…a whole lot of complications went into the project because of that change. A lot of uneccessary changes.
Why am I so into data design and such? No, of course I don’t plan to have a career dealing with that full time. I just want to be a very well rounded developer(note physically, heh heh).
so it’s Sunday night, time to pick up my sis from her ski trip. She told me the bus be at the gas station at 1:30am. I got there 1:30 sharp, waited waited and waited. End up waiting till 2:15, then the bus arrived. I should have wore my long johns, my legs were freezing. Luckily I wore my big fluffy sweater, so at least my body wasn’t cold (unlike the guy in the suv next to my car with the runny nose). Not sure if I should head to bed now. I’m still quite juiced from the coffee, and my early class tomorrow got canceled, so I could afford to wake up at 2pm and still manage to make it to the afternoon class on time….maybe I will just keep on working on assignments.
Got a box of cheese cube today and what a surprise it was when I opened up the packaging. They actually took time to put these chic little graphics on every cube, all 24 of them different, very neat stuff. This is what I would like to see more of in product packaging here in Canada. The other day grocery shopping at the Shopper’s Drug Mart on Yonge & High Tech, their beverage display was almost enticing enough that I would pick up a product for no reason. The display was plenty colourful with some better than usual packaging, still far from anything you’ll see in Japan convenient stores but it’s much better than anything I’ve seen locally. Oh and I think I saw someone there whom I met at a party 2 years ago,…though I can’t recall her name at all.
男人
拔刀見血
言出必行
That’s pretty much what I live by. Doesn’t matter the importance of the task, as long as I said I’m going to do it, I follow through. So obviously, I went work up early this morning and headed out for breakfast at Kiva. Great scrambled eggs, they were just perfect. It would be wonderful if I can do this every morning, wake up around 8, head out to breakfast around 9:45, finish breakfast at 10:30 and head to where ever I need to be. (would be even better if I’m in a suit driving a 328xi. I know, I have wierd dreams. But they are achievable dreams)
It was thursday, time again for the weekly group project grilling meeting with the prof. He was totally on the case with the delete user issue. From my own experience and all 3 of my db profs, the only conclusion is never delete critical data such as user account. Archive inactives yes, delete never! I hate dicussing db issues with developers who doesn’t understand it. Anyway, it wasn’t all bad. Supposely, we are the 2nd best group in terms of progress.
With my labs done, I just might go out for breakfast tomorrow. (my classes start at 11:40) I want some scrambled eggs. On the topic of food, lately I’ve been craving for some McDonald’s strawberry sundae. Mostly because of sentimental values. Remembering the good old days of working at Central and the whole design team eat out every day and occational go out for dessert afterwards. I do miss that. It’s something that doesn’t happen much(or at all) at any place I worked for in Canada. In this supposely lazier country, people always seem to be rushing home, and the office is that place you don’t want to be in but you have to.
(p.s. mysql can’t check for minimum length. The short password issue isn’t exactly my fault. But then again, I’d rather that the heat than to point out who’s fault it is for the sake of harmony. Less confrontations, more production!)
With all the stress lately, I just had to take a bit of time off. So I decided to go watch a movie after classes.
Pan’s Labyrinth
I loved it. Rather difficult to catagorize where this film belongs to or even just to describe it.
If I have anything to complain, it’s the way it was presented. I hate subtitles layed over the scene. Subtitles belong on a black bar under the picture, the font size was also too big to be view comfortably.
So for anyone who hasn’t seen it, go watch it!
This weekend has be something of a developer hell for me. Originally, I had just about everything done for Sunday’s submission on Friday. Then surprises happend, the team leader changed specs and data structure without tell any of the members. So everything I worked on goes in the crapper. Since he was still changing things, I wasn’t able to start working till 8pm Sat. Worked till 3am. Sleep a little, took care of the weekly tasks, then another little change. I end up using the whole weekend to work on in. I do admire him for trying to make the system perfect but this is production time, stick to the specs and get it done. That’s the priority. And as to proper proceedures…none were taken. The following is how I do things whenever I’m in the leader role.
1. discuss with other members concerning the spec change/proposal
2. create a standalone demo app(not with the current build!) to demonstrate the effectiveness of the change
3. estimate the fesibility
4. If everything works out, then implement to the build
Yes…as you might have guessed, I was plentily pissed. 12 hours of work going into the crapper twice. I got 4 other assignments due at the end of Feb, and I’d just lost 2 days to work on them. You are thinking, why didn’t I take the role of team leader? Taking on 5 courses (all coding) isn’t easy, I just don’t have time for that.
Today was a pretty bad day too. Some stupid girl with a cold sat next to me in class. For sakes, there’re only 12 of us and 35 seats, have some decency and respect for others, seat away from the healthy people. Some people are just jerks with poor hygiene.
Just as a precaution I got some Neo Citran. It’s the mirracle drug for me. 2-3 packs with a good 12hr of sleep, everything heals. If the company that makes it ever ask me to be a spokesperson for it, I’d be glad to do it.
nothing much happening today besides lots of work with the database and because I wanted(needed) to rename some columns to proper names, I will single handedly rebuild the entire project. ….This Sat is gonna be insane. Anyhow back to the topic. A few days ago I was searching for old Chinese TV shows that I really like. This is by far my favorite: link
I’m actually looking for the torrent to it so I can watch it whenever I want to. I like the 2000 Taiwan and 2001 China production ones the best. Great special effect and good cast. I’ve actually found a few clips of the Singapore version,…man was that a piece of crap. Beside the hot actresses, it’s not worth wasting a second to watch it. Terrible acting, dialogs, cheesy effects and what’s with the perm on the protagonist, he looks gross.
Consider the last production is in 01, I hope someone makes another one for 07 or 08. Just don’t ruin it with modernized dialogs and cheesy effects.
