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The dining room cashier said. I didn’t even think it was a lot of food.

Wh00t! I got 18.3 out of 25 for my Systems Design and Implementation interview. I missed out on
a couple of marks due to not recalling my tutor mentioning that the seven design principles will be
in the interview. Must have zoned out or something. Heh. Cheers to my tutor Niresha Mudalige. I
think I’ll go to sleep now and wake up early tomorrow. Nite people.

of which I got full marks! 🙂 wh00t. Tell you all something, actually I just finished it 15
minutes before the tutor checked my work! =D I feel like I’ve gotten away with murder. Heh. Cheers
to Thong Le, my Java tutor!

Muahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! The Monash University exam timetable came out
today.

10/06/2002

CSE2200 Systems Design & Implementation 09:30AM

CSE3208 Unix Programming 02:30PM

11/06/2002

CSE3510 Documents & Imaging Systems 02:30PM

12/06/2002

CSE3420 Developing Graphical WWW Applications in Java 02:30PM

14/06/2002

CSE3400 Applications Programming with C++ 09:30AM

No one can beat my sweet exam timetable! 🙂 It’s perfect! The Monash University exam period is
from 10/06/2002 – 28/06/2002. My tabletable allows me to finish everything in just 4 days instead
of dragging it over a period of nearly a month. Just the way I like it, baby. Plus, this gives me
more than 4 weeks of holidays! wh00t! =D

I have a piece of advice for everyone. When you put important stuff like assignments on a floppy
disk, make sure to make two copies or use a web mailing service to mail yourself a copy. I had an
assignment due at 2 pm and thus I took the 1:40 pm shuttle to my campus to print it out. Yes, you
know what’s coming. I didn’t realize it at first. I was thinking, hmm…my document is taking a
long time to load. But that nasty grinding sound tipped me off. I tried using another computer in
the hope that the first one’s floppy disk drive is somehow faulty. Nope…it didn’t load there
too.

Anyway, I signed the pink CSSE declaration forms, handed them to Franky (my assignment partner),
took the 2:40 pm shuttle back to Clayton, ran from the bus loop to the halls in 7 minutes (a
personal record!) and burst into my room to send the stuff to Franky, who printed it out and handed
it in coz I couldn’t get back in time. Oh, and much thanks to Franky for the kang tau. 😉

What’s the moral of this story? Don’t copy that floppy.

Oh wait…that’s not it. It’s “Always make backups“.

The halls proxy server goes down something like once a week? WTF? Is it too much to ask that a
reasonable quality of service is provided? This is a Uni for Christ’s sake. Get your fucking act
together. Fuh…this is how I feel about you guys.

I just went to slops to get something to eat. The meals are around A$3.60 and because I was
wearing pajamas (no pockets) I didn’t bring along my wallet but just brought A$4 in coins. Now, I
had some herbed chicken with rice, and because the dish beside the steamed rice usually comes with
rice, I thought that will cost the standard A$3.60. However, at the cashier I was told that rice is
extra for the chicken and thus it costs 90c more. Don’t ask me why they charge 90c for a scoop of
rice, they just do. Anyway, since I only had A$4 with me, I had to go back to my room and get 50c
and come back. Hmph.

Today is a holiday so there are no classes. Unfortunately, my Java
tutorial has been rescheduled (!) instead of cancelled – to
8 am on Friday. Damn, and I had worked so hard on my timetable to give
myself a free day (Friday) even though I’m taking 5 subjects. Guess I’ll
have to wake up at an unholy hour tomorrow for my 1 hour commute to my
campus. Anyway, ANZAC Day is a day where Aussies and Kiwis sit around and
eat
Anzac biscuits.

Nah, just kidding. It’s a war veteran commemoration day. Read more about
it

here.

Weather : Rainy and depressing and cold

Picture of the Day:

That’s food from the Halls dining room. Any wonder why we call the dining
room slops?

Oh, and for everyone that has been waiting with bated breath to hear how I
did on my C++ test (yeah, all three of you), I think I did okay, but then
I’m an optimist. Unlike some people who always say that they didn’t do too
good (even though they did) because they don’t want brag, I always say
that I did pretty good, even though I maybe just barely scrape through. I
read a psychology paper some time ago that suggests that people who
consistently overestimate themselves are actually less intelligent than
people who underestimate themselves. This is because they don’t have the
correct frame of reference or something. Hmm…does this mean I’m dumb? =D

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do you get marks deducted for doing something extra. Hmph. Oh well, the
assignment specs did say to follow everything to the T, but the fields
didn’t make much sense to me so I added in something extra. For that I got
a -1 UNWANTED SCREENS AND ACTIVITIES and -1 Additional fields in ????? ???
(unintelligible). I don’t blame the lecturer though, coz he DID say to
follow the specs. But that doesn’t mean I can’t rant a bit. :).

The comments read:

1. Additional Fields in ???? ???

2. Incorrect Layout of Cards

3. NO PRINT FACILITY

4. UNWANTED SCREENS & ACTIVITIES

And I did have a print facility too, and what’s more its documented in the
User Manual. OK, enough of my bitching. Just felt that I deserved more
than an 8/12. Oh well.