Friday, February 10, 2006
Lets see how I am going to write this entry, the week was filled with the hustle and bustle of preparing for the technofair project exhibition and Thursday was the first day of the, it was a big major event and booths set up all over the place, the 2 days (Thur and Friday) was filled with all sorts of surprises, most of it pleasant.
The main thing that we were awaiting for was the examiner review, and it went quite well. Those who went into the review are the A-grade cases for evaluation for either an ordinary A or a distinction. Several visitors expressed interest and intrigue, and were even impressed.
I was approached by several prominent lecturers requesting me to continue my project post-graduation at school so that it can be made into a product.
But after all that I've been through and the hours spent, somehow the sense of achievement has been dulled by the pressure that has been felt.
Well, I found out that they told my supervisor that I was an award recipient. But when questioned why I kept mum, even though it made them proud, I just didn’t know how to reply. When I learnt that another classmate won a even more prestigious award, I decided to keep quiet, after what is my cert compared to his?
Actually, with everyone getting awards left right and centre, my classmates getting multiple awards, she having gotten twice top student, another group writing papers, and my buddy winning 2 prizes, honestly I did feel inferior.
But now I am told that I've won an award, we won a merit prize for our lifesaver watch project and only today was I told that our booths were supposed to have been at the Atrium and there was a mistake, how was I supposed to feel?Maybe the person who told me that I've won something was trying to console me. Actually I don't even know whether I won anything or not because it was told to me by mouth, so to reduce the damping disappointment, I am going to assume I have not won anything, I guess there is a certain level of fairness in this world, you'll know if you deserve it or not.
I didn't feel the usual elation, but still there's this lingering sense of disappointment when I was at the prize giving ceremony seeing everyone step forward to receive their awards.
Anyway, after Thursday, was the BME meeting. Well, the meeting was eventful, and we managed to solve many issues and things were done. Finally we're getting somewhere again after a long post-xmas hiatus. I had a very supportive committee and I am very happy with that. Very soon I'll be stepping down from my post as a Chairman and I hope the new committee will be able to take the reigns smoothly.
Gosh, in the blink of an eye 3 years has passed. And I just realized that we still don't know a lot of each other. it's a pity and we're now into our last week at school before graduation.
My pals and I left school and went to Bugis because I wanted to buy a printer from SLS, I had my eye set on the Canon Pixma IP3000, but when we arrived there, every shop was out of stock and one salesman even told me it was a discontinued product. For a techno-informed like me, that was a major blow. How can I not know something like this! For a second I didn't know how to react and that was so exceedingly embarrassing. Now I have to do my research and budgeting all over again.
Then we treated ourselves to a fine dinner to conclude the completion of our projects.
My partner and I at our booth.
7:43 PM
