It's been 2+ weeks since i went without games on my computer. It's unprecedented. I don't believe it. I'm starting to believe the dark heavy eyebags/eyerings that have started to appear around my eyes have nothing 2 do with lack of sleep. IT'S THOSE DAMNED GAMES I TELL YOU!!#@&#%! @_@

On the other hand, i've found a placebo in yahoo pool. I just go in2 games and hurl random words of abuse. But i don't get same reactions i get in Gunbound when i do it in yahoo pool though. People r clueless and always go "WTH IS SHOTGUNNING AND WTH IS WEAPON TWO AND STOP GOING ON AND ON ABOUT WATCHING THE DELAY!!!". Sigh... i miss gunbound. I miss having ppl understand my abuse. Yahoo pool just isn't the same.

Now that my current semester is winding down, i think i've learnt a few big lessons the hard way about doing my projects.
1) User Interface is important
2) Documentation is very important
3) Presentation is very important
4) It's all about impressions

Seriously, it doesn't even matter if the program sux or it's been plagiarised or copied it from sumwhere, or the code isn't even optimized to work in the most effecient way possible. It doesn't even matter even if sumone else did the whole thing for u! As long as u can hand up a working copy and make it big on impressions, u're well off.

Rubbish! Utter rubbish! This is my one pet peeve. My ego took one good beating. I'm sore. I feel cheated. I feel my effort has not beared the fruit I felt it deserved. I feel so frustrated. I feel bitter. It spoils my mood even thinking about it.

I await the day of vindication. That day will be when educators start paying more attention to algorithm effeciency, innovations, however minor or small they are(it's better than nothing), and most important of all, when they start to reward inferior, yet Original work, rather than superior, but plagiarised/copied/un-original work. That day will i really know how much or how little i have achieved with my work, and where i stand in industry standards. That day will i know how far along i m, and how far more i've yet to go. That day will i really get feedback that i can value.

For now, the feedback i get doesn't help me as a budding programmer. The stuff that i think educators look for in our work is very much different from the things i'm trying to acheive in them.

ARGHWT!A#$@%$%

But the one important lesson i've learnt so far is, if there ever is any innovations that you want the assessors to take note of, it MUST be documented. I m to blame for that.

But i also know about my over confidence. It needs to be broken. May God work harder on me.

Btw, it's my first day on xanga and I have no idea how 2 use this thing. It isn't even fun. On2 another placebo soon.

Ho hum.....