If last week was uneventful then this week must be bad. Although I arrived late at the tutorial, my team has yet to start our interview(turns out later we were the last LOL) and we were done with the questions! I've could have gotten more sleep! Ah, well. The interview went without a hitch, albeit a bit rushed and a quick review of the question was done. The summary was done after the tute by my other teammates which i was unable to attend due to another lecture.
Well... that's about it really. I really need to start doing my assignment and fill up this space. I think starting this week, we'd really get serious. I need to do the review questions in the paper too, it's piling up to the ceilling as it is. Ahh the beauty(or not) of procrastination.
Im off for my other tute work due tomorrow and last week. Haha... my ability to mess myself still amazes me.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
The Omen
Argh! How can I miss one post this early into the semester! Cant let the procrastination creep in can we? Speaking of reflective, nothing eventful happened(study wise anyway :P) except the fire alarm going off at K building and everyone inside had to be evacuated which thankfully let me off for half an hour or so. No, nothing was burnt down. Yes, I'm sure some of you with a sadistic mind wanted that to happen so that the assignments or something be pushed to a later date. Yes, I know cause I'm that kind of person.
Well, we still had to return and finish our presentation on the water supply system. I am amused that the whole tutorial choose the water supply system. However there were quite a lot of different explanation though consisting of the same key objects and concepts. A few presentation were well presented but no one team were over the top that it put everyone to shame. Not surprising after all that this system is already applied in place. With that, it's all that it is for last week.
Well what comes next? Don't mind the cheesy title but it's a sign of things to come. It's week... urm...5? I think. But either way, assignments are starting to trickle in slowly but only to break the dam sooner or later.
For Systems Analysis and Design, we are set in for an interesting assignment on requirement specification. Sounds scary. The first thing we needed to do were to prepare interview questions to gather information on the project from listening to an audio file that contains an interview(odd isn't it?) with the client.
It talks about the attributes of an on-line system created to help him manage bookings for golf lessons cliincs and tee off times for competitions. With a new group and ample help from our tutor we were quickly able to finish making 13 questions. The only thing now to wait is for the interview itself tomorrow. We'd see what brings, along with the assignment, which I have yet to read completely(but should). *tsk tsk* =/
Oh well, till then. *hopes that I wont procrastinate anymore*
Well, we still had to return and finish our presentation on the water supply system. I am amused that the whole tutorial choose the water supply system. However there were quite a lot of different explanation though consisting of the same key objects and concepts. A few presentation were well presented but no one team were over the top that it put everyone to shame. Not surprising after all that this system is already applied in place. With that, it's all that it is for last week.
Well what comes next? Don't mind the cheesy title but it's a sign of things to come. It's week... urm...5? I think. But either way, assignments are starting to trickle in slowly but only to break the dam sooner or later.
For Systems Analysis and Design, we are set in for an interesting assignment on requirement specification. Sounds scary. The first thing we needed to do were to prepare interview questions to gather information on the project from listening to an audio file that contains an interview(odd isn't it?) with the client.
It talks about the attributes of an on-line system created to help him manage bookings for golf lessons cliincs and tee off times for competitions. With a new group and ample help from our tutor we were quickly able to finish making 13 questions. The only thing now to wait is for the interview itself tomorrow. We'd see what brings, along with the assignment, which I have yet to read completely(but should). *tsk tsk* =/
Oh well, till then. *hopes that I wont procrastinate anymore*
Thursday, March 1, 2007
"Hello World?"... my bad , this isn't programming.
Hello world! So, like clockwork the routine of going back to uni finally arrives, but not without a twist. Curiously one of the requirements of this unit is to have us publish the trials and tribulations of our 13 week long torture. Sadistic? Maybe, Interesting? Definitely. The only thing I hope for is not to procrastinate and leave it to die(not that I can as it's compulsory) like my other two blogs on blogger.
On the education perspective, I find it captivating that the academic community in Monash responds quickly with the mainstream trends and times. I strongly agree to this approach of teaching and have an impression that it would be very helpful as a learning tool. This is what education should be.
After reading the blogs of some other students, it raised a few questions on the nature and approach of this blog. How should the writing style be? What's off limits? Yes, I ask too much. On regards to the numerous good word that I have heard of Peter O'Donnell I am quite disappointed to miss the first lecture(ouch, what a way to break my new year's resolution, on the first week =/) which is something new to me. I'll be looking forward to the next lecture.
Naturally as a blog on system analysis and design, I should be more professional and discuss issues that i encounter. In the first tutorial, we are given a warm up task of analysing a couple of non-IT systems in our lives. In this semester, it is the water system and the food supply chain system. My team which consist of Fabrian, Frank and I choose the water system.
At first, we were a bit lost on what we are supposed to do, but after an explanation from the tutor, we are clear on our objectives. Research is going on, but information my aspect(water distribution) is a bit hard to come by as the recommended websites are not as helpful as i thought. No worries though, extending the search outside those websites on the web should provide more than enough information.
Till then, thanks for reading and please drop a comment =D
PS: At least some marks allocation for the blogs. Come on, 0%??
PPS: I hate sans serif fonts.
On the education perspective, I find it captivating that the academic community in Monash responds quickly with the mainstream trends and times. I strongly agree to this approach of teaching and have an impression that it would be very helpful as a learning tool. This is what education should be.
After reading the blogs of some other students, it raised a few questions on the nature and approach of this blog. How should the writing style be? What's off limits? Yes, I ask too much. On regards to the numerous good word that I have heard of Peter O'Donnell I am quite disappointed to miss the first lecture(ouch, what a way to break my new year's resolution, on the first week =/) which is something new to me. I'll be looking forward to the next lecture.
Naturally as a blog on system analysis and design, I should be more professional and discuss issues that i encounter. In the first tutorial, we are given a warm up task of analysing a couple of non-IT systems in our lives. In this semester, it is the water system and the food supply chain system. My team which consist of Fabrian, Frank and I choose the water system.
At first, we were a bit lost on what we are supposed to do, but after an explanation from the tutor, we are clear on our objectives. Research is going on, but information my aspect(water distribution) is a bit hard to come by as the recommended websites are not as helpful as i thought. No worries though, extending the search outside those websites on the web should provide more than enough information.
Till then, thanks for reading and please drop a comment =D
PS: At least some marks allocation for the blogs. Come on, 0%??
PPS: I hate sans serif fonts.
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