2008's ending... =(
Friday, December 26, 2008
Haha.. 100th post, after a long hiatus since 10 Sep 2007.
Backtracking to the last major events last yr: RVCC Chalet and FLL!
Sighs, I couldn't rmb anything about the chalet le... =X
FLL was fun!
Our team, Gamma De, managed to acheive the 3rd in Best Robot Performance (although awards only given to the top in each category).
Rawr, I could have gotten full points and not let Jun Kang's team win the Best Robot Performance tt easily. Damn, accidentally shifted the "P-90" jig while the robot is exiting base, causing it to go off-course. =(
Well, take it as a good experience since it was very fun! (And FLL judges are, say, lenient too! xP) -> Hopefully none of the FLL Singapore officials hear that! =P
And that's the end of 2007! =P
As for 2008, thr's only one phrase to describe: a tangent graph -- full of ups and downs, like a rollercoaster ride.
First I got sorted into 3D, tgt with Shu Wei, Zheng Xiao, Shu Yinn, Jeffry and Grace. Then the name 3Dots was suggested during a class meeting to decide the class name and it got stuck with it for the year. Everybody was super high. The form teachers were Mrs Audrea Khoo (who teaches Maths too), and Mdm Chia (later replaced with Mrs Marie Wong).
Changed teachers several times, tgt with fluctuating results. =X
I managed to get an A1 for term 1 Product Review *claps*, total credit to Mdm Chia Ai Ling! Unfortunately she had to go for maternity leave and then transferred to MOE HQ... Why must MOE HQ leech all our good teachers away?! Well as expected, my LA score dropped drastically to my kindda usual std when she left.
(She was replaced by some weird teacher that just sits thr and clicks slides. =.= Then she was replaced again by Mrs Marie Wong, who manages to teach some crap out, at the very least.)
Same goes to SS for the entire yr. Had diff teachers during Sem 1 and had Mr Eugene Lai as our SS teacher from Sem 2 onwards. Aha, he's strict yet interesting! (He seems to be "hotter" than us all the time! xD)
Chinese is Mdm Guo, Geography is Ms Tan...
Chemistry teacher was replaced once to Mdm Ong Hwee Hien! She's such a fantastic Chem teacher! =)
Gosh, our Physics teacher was Ms Tan Hui Zhen...oops, i mean Mrs Yuen. =D Had some weird case study (courtesy of Zhu Shenjie as the subject) that if you pay attentn in class, you'd screw up, and vice versa. =.=
Maths was pretty fun with Mrs Khoo. Unfortunately she had been transferred to MOE HQ too at the end of this school term.
There was this human-angel game AHA! Gotten Jia Li and Ho Ching for the first and second time respectively and my "angel" was Mu Wei and Jia De for the first and second time respectively. Quite screwed though, ended up buying banana as a last minute present.
Well, that's basically all in terms of academics...
RVCC!
Managed to participate in a C competition, National Olympiad in Informatics, but didn't win anything. The fun thing was exceptionally nice buffet. (YAY! Ming Sheng don't be jealous. =P)
Then had several buffer competitions prior to NJRC...
National Robopreneur Carnival - marks the official transit for RVCC to NXT. Ended up screwing the competition - somewhat like micromouse but you get to hardcode the robot's movements - since we were still raw with the NXT. Totally pawnage by our RCX competitors, however, it's a matter of time we had to change to NXT, and screw a competition up...
Participated in YDSP Computer Security course, before I had to signed a few indemity forms and Memorandums of Understanding.
Then me, Zhi Jie and Ying Hao was supposed to join NSC LEGO Challenge. Apparently we didn't know when the prelims were held and missed it.
So wham, kind EX-COs let us join Hua Yi Sec Sch's RoboChampion, a competition to "prepare W3 cluster schools for NJRC", since some teams from other schools withdrawed. Two teams of 3 from different schools are supposed to work tgt to completed two missinons. Worked with Zhenghua Sec Sch, whose senior (not part of team) came everyday during the preparation sessions, and the team members only came on the competition day itself. We did Mission 1, and they did 2. We were rather ok (but slow) in Mission 1, but they utterly screwed M2. Thus we went over to help them (by a lot), and though our robot perf sucks, we won the Best Teamwork Award. Scammed. =.=
Ahhh time for NJRC. I was grouped tgt with Cheng Yu, Li Zhen and Yun Fei, and the team was called Hermes (and no, it's not herpes). We partnered with SG Envir Council to sell their items and earned fr teachers by quite a sum. =DD Unfortunately due to poor planning of me most of the profits was used to recoup the losses in hotdogs selling on the NJRC day. Sorry. =( The research ppt was centred arnd the idea of a PM's National Day Rally Speech, which was quite a nice idea suggested by either CY or YF. Robot ppt was utterly screwed, kudos to me again. Seemed to be over-reliant on the ppt and made the judges feel that we don't understand our robot well enough. Funny thing is that some other RV teams managed to win some robot ppt awards although the robot model is about the same. =X Screwed up again.... sorry ppl. =( Robot mission was all well for Mission 1 with full points and rather fast timing, until Mission 2 (surprise mission) when everybody changed to "land bot", thanks to our dear **, n got an egg. I was damn sad that I didn't get into finals, for failing the team, and what made me worse was that other teams who didn't score full marks for Mission 1 but scored sth for Mission 2 managed to enter finals instead. WTH! Luckily during the prelims YF and CY managed to crap to judges that we've alr finished selling our hotdogs and SEC books, and also explaining the use of NEA panels (thanks Joe!), and scammed that we earned quite a lot. The judges believed it and we gotten a 3rd in Entrepreneurship. *Stunned* The last time I gotten a medal/trophy was in Pri 1, for some crappy Sports Day Boys' Relay 3rd. Zhi Jie's team won Championship WOOHOO!!!! 3 CHEERS FOR RV! We own Fuhua!!! =DD Ahh, a nice ending to NJRC! =)
After NJRC then I received a new Acer Aspire One AOA150 laptop, thanks to SingNet Broadband. Then went to use it for creating a 3D class video and lost it in sch after 1 mth and 5 days. WTF!! FREAK!! Until now still can't find it. It could already be in the incinerator now... ='( Just when I lost my laptop, my external HDD crashed. What in the world is going wrong for me?!
Participated in Ntl StrITwise Challenge then, and it was BULLSHIT. RoboCode was screwed up (it's a long story about integrity and plagarism - was eliminated in the first round), RoboDesign we had toilet paper soldier =DD, then don't know about the quiz. Too bad there wasn't any StrITwise Quiz Lucky Draw this year. Thank goodness the RVCC's attendance was very high - A LOT of people came, everyone's morale was boosted. =DD It seemed that I had joined the group wrongly again for StrITwise, since the other 2 groups won sth, again. Maybe if I hadn't join StrITwise, certain things may not have occur...
Then it's club chalet!! 9 to 11 December of morale-boosting fun! It was damn fun, with KBox and WWW. This time the chalet is at third floor, number 2322. Sorry everyone for making your climb so high... =( Mahjong, cards, 99, "murderer" and the usual games. I went for night cycling this year (during 1st night) and I managed to learn how to cycle (fast only) in the first time that I've ever cycled, and didn't crashed. AHA WOOHOO!!! =DD Ended up spending $75.90 during the three days. *GAWPS* After chalet ended, we toured around JP2 and ate at KFC (JP1). Then we went to play bball near Sylvia's house and Ser Ming fell down and fainted. Everybody was damn scared lah, but luckily we had our medic Wei Jie. =DD Apparently a few days after chalet we went back to same place to play bball and a lot of people kenna tripped (by Wei Sheng uhh? xD). Sighs. That place is screwed LOLS! =X
More info of what happened during chalet can be found at Ser Ming's blog. Lazy to type out, and also forgotten some events le after 2 weeks... =DD
Now time for FLL 2008, that's gonna be held next yr. This time I'm in research with Justin (JK and Wei Sheng in-charge of robo), with the absolute wonderful help of Cheng Yu and Melissa (though they aren't technically in the team since there wasn't anymore slots). Hopefully you two see this: THANKS SOOO MUCH!!!!! =DD
Gonna pray damn hard that I won't screw up FLL, for it wouldn't be just a disappointment for the team but for Cheng Yu and Melissa who placed their utmost effort in doing the best research too.
Hopefully Lady Luck's on my side on the 11 Jan 2009. (Lady Luck, you'd better come and find us in National Library hor!)
Well, that's it.
School's starting again (although it makes not much different since we come to school most of the time during the holidays), and I've yet to finish all the holiday assignment. Must pia alr!!!
Awaiting the exchange of presents this Sunday (at least I would know who gotten me HAHAS!).
May FLL 2008 be fruitful. =)
P.S. Does anyone know who are the Swiss Cottage Sec and Nan Hua High students who tagged? =P
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