On Friday, we had DSCN lab test in the morning and assignment presentation in the afternoon. Luckily, the test was rather simple. Actually, it was very simple. If we were to compare the lab test and the actual application that we have coded for our assignment, the comparison is like comparing a pea with a watermelon (Does that make sense?). We spend alot of time doing our assignment and because of that, we are quite knowledgeable regarding RMI and TCP/IP. Hence, the lab test was rather “chicken feet” or very easy so to say.

I’m glad that we are finally done with DSCN. I think we did very well for our DSCN. We implemented a ton of features onto our application. Honestly, my group is rather amazing, they are a bunch of talented and smart people who are able to code literally anything. I feel rather lucky and thankful that I’m in their group!

All in all, both Mr Teo and Ms Lim are rather pleased with our work as well.

I’m typing in this entry with heavy eyes. The reason being that I have not slept since yesterday! I’ve been working hard on my school assignment.

The past week has been a very tough week. We basically had two PBL subjects. If you don’t know what is PBL, let me give you a brief walkthrough.

PBL stands for problem-based learning. A PBL subject basically is about solving problems, real life problems humans like you and me encounter. PBL subjects are not like our typical subjects we’ve been taught in secondary school. In a PBL class, we are given a problem and then we would have to research on the internet or library to find a solution. There’s no usual spoon feeding from teachers.

Imagine having 2 PBL assignments due within the same week and they are only a day apart. The thing about PBL is that it requires a lot of time and individual researching and self study.

I’ll just get straight to the point. We pretty much did quite well for our first PBL assignment on Monday which was a subject called Business Integrated Technologies.  A second PBL assignment for Distributed Systems and Connectivity is due on Wednesday.

Mind you it is a programming subject. It’s not easy. We were too focused on Business Integrated Technologies to the point that we didn’t have enough time for Distributed Systems and Connectivity.

My groups and I finished our presentation and in my opinion, it went horrible. Basically we are suppose to design an application based on distributed systems.

I didn’t have time to complete my application and most of the functions are not working. Thus, I was standing infront of the class and talking like a fool without sleep and groggy.

My teacher asked whether if she gave us another day, will I be able to complete it?

That question seems to signify that I did not manage to complete to even hit the passing criteria and she’s considering giving me a second chance.

I shall not continue my blabber about how it’s tough for polytechnic students to enter into local university.

All I’m saying is that I’m upset.

I’ve been procrastinating on my school work.

Way to go Nazri!

I have always ponder if there is a flaw with Singapore’s education system. Do you think we study too much and did not have ample chance to apply what we have learn to real life settings? That is how I feel.

I had an opportunity lately to apply knowledge I picked up in school into real life settings. Recently, a good friend of mine that goes by the name of Kamelia, hey kamelia! a shout for you, you can check her online portfolio here and her blog here and her twitter here and her tumblr here. I’ll stop, I guess there’s no need to post her facebook profile or myspace profile or her address hah!

As I was saying, we decided to open a little business venture. Hey, don’t look down on us, everyone start small somewhere. I’ll release more information about this when we have finalized things. I’m glad I’m doing something useful in my life at this age.

Since I’m in Information Technology, I learn about computers including managing of databases. I managed to apply what I learned in school into this little business venture by drawing the database schema, normalized it into it’s third form and initialized it. Basically, I created a database which will store our customer and their order’s information.

The database is hosted off a server. I’m accessing it via HeidiSQL. In my opinion, this is better than keeping our records in a Microsoft Excel document and emailing each other to keep ourselves updated.

Hence, I feel happy that I did learn something useful after all in school.

On a side note, I am elated that I finally managed to upgrade my Macbook and my iMac to the lastest installment of the Mac OS X. Mac OS X Snow Leopard, 10.6.X and being a makeup enthusiast myself, I finally managed to grab my first makeup item from the famous MAC Cosmetics.

School has been amazing. I prefer my new class so much more. Lastly, I finally managed to give my blog a much needed new look!

What made you happy today?

• My Left 4 Dead 2 is here!
• I had fun at our Mac Pros Lab at Level 6 of the IT School.

Thanks to Ivor who suggested me on what to do!

What made you happy today?

All is left is with our main exams and then it’s my final goodbye to my current classmates.

To be honest, I hate most of the people in my class. Well Hate is strong word. I actually categorized them into various categories. They are mainly, Hate, Dislike, Neutral, Exceptional. Now I don’t want to disclose such information onto a public platform. I don’t want any drama to happen. However, if you do want to know it, feel free to hit me up on MSN.

I’m still in disbelief that time actually flies very fast. Even though I said that like umpteen times.

Basically, today is our last day of school. In the morning, i was feeling lackadaisical and a little sick to the point that i could barf anytime.

I gathered up my determination and willpower to get up and get ready for school.

LIES.

Actually, ever since I started schooling at Temasek Polytechnic, I’ve NEVER and I mean NEVER receive a warning letter before. If I were to skip the french class again, I’ll be getting my first warning letter. The thought of breaking my record of not getting warning letters doesn’t seem to entice me that much.

It turns out only six people turned up for our class. We combined with another french class that only had two students. I’m gonna miss French dearly. It is one of my favorite subjects. It’s one of those class where by you actually enjoy learning it.

Nonetheless, CSAD in the afternoon was rather brief. It’s only then I realized that this is really the last day of school and the last time I’ll be seeing my classmates in my classroom.

IT Block Level 5 Labs got a renovation and they apparently got a room full of iMacs! I reckon it’s eMac, designed for use in educational institution.

Yes, the image quality is rather flattering. It’s the 17″ Screen, White.

It’s pretty old. New iMacs are silver, like mine! But still, MACS WILL CONQUER THE WORLD.

I was literally ventilating and i was standing super close to the door.

I have been very open about makeup. Yes i like makeup. Makeup is somewhat my hobby. Do i want to be a makeup artist? No i do not. It’s a hobby.

Other then that, I’m also open about me, wearing makeup. I don’t wear anything out of norm. All i wear is foundation and finishing dust and some mint color corrector to erase redness.

Do i wear eyeshadows?

No.

Do i wear eyeliner?

No. In any case, there’s plenty of guys wearing eyeliner also known as guyliner.

Do i wear any lip products?

Yes, Neutrogena’s lip balm because we practically sit hours in an air conditioning room and the air gets dry and my lips crack and bleed.

Do i wear feminine kind of clothing?

No.

Do i wear feminine colors?

No. I wear black, top to toe to school almost everyday.

Yes my behavior and liking in certain stuff might not be the same like the others. I don’t like sports. I don’t like listening to rock songs. I prefer Marie Digby or Katy Perry. I like makeup. Though there are some things that are somewhat boy-ish in nature. I like playing games. I like photography. I like technology related stuff pertaining to Apple Inc. That’s all that i can think of at the moment.

My point is that, I’m not some kind of a full blown transexual who totally dedicated to his(?)/her life to feminine stuff.

WHY IS THERE AN IDIOT WHO IS TREATING ME DIFFENTLY?

JUST BECAUSE I’M DIFFERENT?

FOR GOD’S SAKE, I’M PRETTY MUCH NORMAL.

Well that is debatable. My voice is naturally high. What do you expect when i was in Soprano for 4 years in secondary school? I might be gentle but i don’t walk with my hand in that feminine kind of way you know. I am quite soft i usually do not resort to violence.

Guess who is treating me diffrently, a teacher. Yes one of my teachers at school.

You might be wondering, UNBELIEVABLE. PERHAPS, YOU MISUNDERSTOOD THE SITUATION BECAUSE THE TEACHER DIDN’T GIVE YOU SOME LOVE AND DIDN’T ASK YOU STUFF LIKE “OHH NAZRI HOW IS YOUR WORK COMING ALONG?”

Fuck you and fuck that teacher very much. I know what i see.

Yes a teacher who is supposedly a role model for students. On a random sidenote, sometimes i feel like i’m going to school at an ITE instead of polytechnic. The attitude of the students disgust me to the bottomest pit of my stomach.

I am pretty much very mad. This is an unbeliavable. All i can think of at the moment is decapitating that teacher’s head.

I would gladly put the teacher’s name here but some other teacher know my blog and i don’t feel like i want to create a fiasco out of this like lastime with the Sherine Wong case.

Incase some of you don’t know, there was a teacher named Sherine Wong in my secondary school and i wrote that i don’t like her on my blog ONLY. No insults. Just a sentence that i don’t like her. She found my blog. Report my blog to the principal, disciplinary master, counsellor.

She thinks i’m a teenager filled with angst. *Roll eyes* Hence the counsellor. I didn’t get any punishment because i did nothing wrong.

//Insider’s Secret.

She got mad that i didn’t got punished and she went up to the principal asking for punishment for me but the principal can’t because as i mentioned before, i did NOTHING wrong. I merely wrote my opinion that i hate her.

Anyways, the entire school knew about the situation and i was in the limelight for a week or so.  They made me remove that blog entry and i was sent for counselling. That is the LOL part of it. I still have the that particular entry somewhere on my spare hard disk just that i don’t have a computer to hook it up. And the other ‘punishment’ was that, they made me sign a contract stating, I shall not write about my secondary school teachers anymore on my blog until i am graduated. YES THAT IS ANOTHER ‘LOL’ Part.

You see the drama i went through? *roll eyes*

It arrived this morning as i was getting ready for school.

You might be wondering, why on earth did i get an iPod Touch when i already have an iPhone?

Incase you ignorant people didn’t know, Apple is currently having a student promotion. Every mac you buy entitles you up to $365 of rebate for any of the iPods. My mother bought me the iMac that cost $3,000! Yes that is a lot of money but I’m sure it’s well spent. Besides, it’s a gift, I’ll definitely make a post about it when it arrives on the 20th of July.

Macs are for people to flourish their creativity. You suck if you don’t have a Mac. (Obviously this is debatable.)

The iPod Touch cost about $388. I basically had to pay another $28 to get an iPod Touch. It is an irresistible offer.

I don’t need an iPod Touch. I might sell it or give it to my mum since she’s the best. Or i might be able to find some use for it. In any case, i HAD to open the iPod Touch to get the UPC so that i can receive the rebate.

The first thing i noticed when i touched it was that I felt a magical sensation as my fingers glide through the multi-touch glass screen effortlessly. I had to moan through the roof and my neighbor threw their cat at me.

Okay enough, i was just kidding.

I noticed that it was about two times thinner than my iPhone. All of a sudden i felt my iPhone can be use as a brick to smash people to death.

The iPhone on the left.

With flash.

Without flash.

Stack on each other. The iPhone is at the bottom.

3 Project submission

My new number nice right. I’m kinda reluctant to change because this is the first number i’ve been using ever since moving from a prepaid card in primary 4. Imagine how long i’ve been using this! Moreover, that number belonged to my sister! Long history.

Alas, the weekends are finally here.

School went on pretty smooth. Though, there is some things that is inevitable.

That’s the only thing that i really dread about.

Ohh did i tell you that i got psychology and sociology for my CDS?

Sociology is the scientific study of the society and human behavior

Whilst on the other hand, Psychology is the scientific study of the mental processes.

Anyways, my psychology tutor, Ms Marie C.. Something. I keep replacing her family name with Claire. You know that dumb magazine. Marie Claire. I like her class! She makes everyone participate so it’s not that boring.

On Wednesday, i skipped CMaths lecture because i needed to go to my mum’s office. To buy my iPhone. Yes an iPhone. Big deal? No. Since all the hype died already.

LOL

INSANELY LAMENESS.

Is the glass cup really worth keeping it? A glass cup isn’t so easy to find after all.

PS. My sister adopted another kitten. 7 cats total/ I managed to get myself Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection.