As promised, here’s the last part of the entry in the Woes of PW Series. This isn’t exactly a woe but I guess I’ll stick to the tradition of naming posts.

Yesterday was a great day except for the part about me not getting enough sleep and almost dying during PE, probably due to the lack of sleep. It’s been all resolved today! I’ve gotten my 10 hours of much-needed sleep.

Right after PE, we got back our much-awaited PW results. I’m glad to say everyone in my group, except someone, got an A and they all deserved it. If I am to be cruel, I should say the one who got C deserved it as well.

A few of us met in the evening to have dinner at a certain Western food restaurant at Katong. Can’t remember the name but the food was great. Musicfest was next. It was clearly worth the $12. Great stuff.

To end off, for those who know, I’ve been working on a Thinkquest entry these days and that explains for the lack of my sleep as the deadline is on MONDAY! So for those who want to help out, please help preview the site @ this link and then help us fill out a survey here. Thanks a lot!

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Decided to switch things a little and name this “The Aftermath” instead.

It’s finally done. As Frodo said when he reached Mount Doom: “It’s done!” Since they have bid their farewells to PW, I ought to do so too.

It has been a difficult eight months to work with. And I’m glad it’s over. I don’t have to worry about the results, for a few months at least. If you want to find out what I’ve been through, you might want to read the whole series of entries on that.

Anyway, we were told to rate how our group mates and ourselves fared relatively for the project – how cooperative and contributing we were. I gave a certain someone a 2 and 1 respectively. Apparently, he has some huge ego and gave himself a 5 for both. How interesting. If there were a “zero” I would have given him a zero for contribution. I bet Miss Lim will have a huge laugh when she sees what he has rated for himself.

Sadly, I’m not done with him. There’s still an economics project. But all’s well – we can live without him.

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The BIG day is tomorrow. The Oral Presentation.

And why has it to be TODAY, when Ngee Ann Polytehnic students managed to program something that can do the same thing that what we proposed!? Well, I hope the assessors realize that we came up with this plan ages ago.

Hopefully this is the last post in the “Woes of PW” series. After that, there are two more planned posts: “The Woes of PW – Epilogue” detailing THE END of everything and “The Woes of PW – Aftermath” when I get the results next year.

Good luck to everyone.

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If I had a meter showing my anger level, it must have hit the maximum a while ago.

I’ve had enough.

I received two emails containing sources that hell knows what I am supposed to do with.

I almost wanted to send him this email:

Please do not test my patience any further.

I explicitly told you to send me your Written Report PARTS NOT the sources. I don’t give a hell damn about the sources themselves. I WANT THE WRITTEN REPORT!

Tell me, from the bottom of your heart, HOW MUCH do you think you have contributed? You think having your EOM,I & R, etc, done well is going to earn you a straight A? Think again.

I think I have already given enough chances as it is. Good luck to whoever it is. If you are reading this, take heed, for your doom loss-of-grades is nigh.

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“Your uniform is not just two pieces of cloth to cover your body.”

A major rewrite is needed. We need to do another survey and interview. Great.

The September holidays are so close and yet I don’t even feel like I’m actually going into the one week vacation. So much to do, so little time.

Yea!

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This sucks. Really sucks.

Currently, the written report only has content done by one person, i.e. mine. When you have uncooperative teammates who think there is still a lot of time left, you are in for good s***.

So, sign this petition? I signed it knowing fully that petitions are a waste of time and are of no use just so that I can feel better that there is that minute 0.0000001% chance that it might work.

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Written Report is due soon. And it is not even half finished. Tell me, what can I do?

Went to interview SMRT yesterday. I must say the people there are pretty nice to talk to. We had expected to only interview one person but it turned out to be three people instead.

They said they receive loads of complains from people all the time – there were even some who complained of “excessive announcements” at MRT stations. They are always trying to improve their services and somethings are just out of their control. I seem to be able to appreciate more of what they do after the 2 hour session.

And they told us to scan our EZ-Link cards when we alight from buses because this enables them to know how full buses are so that they can plan their route.

To be continued…

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can’t appreciate real love until you’ve been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don’t know what you’ve got until you say goodbye

P.S.: Remember the August 27 event? Well, sorry to say that the email is a little outdated – the event has already happened in 2003.

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Probably not a woe but… we got a positive feedback for interview from SMRT =) Thus proves what we learnt in economics is true. Monopolies make no effort to improve their services and it’s usually the smaller companies who are more willing to do so. Thank you SMRT!

College day today. Managed to get through the whole thing with volume 11 & 12 of Death Note. It takes very long to finish reading one volume.

And ZOMG, according to DeathGod.org, there are plans to show the Death Note Live Action movie here! This is one movie I’d not miss. =)

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SBS replied to our questions, telling us to refer to their websites for more information. Great. It’s obvious that they didn’t even bother to read our email.

To be continued…

More things to ramble on. Looks like this blog is the target of some spam bots posting SPAM comments. Thanks to askimet, wordpress filtered all of them.

BANNED IP: 205.134.172.*

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The answer is official; SBS has rejected our request for an interview – not that I did not expect it.

Great. Now how are we supposed to continue without any pinch of information? And MOE still expects us to do PW when a semi-government doesn’t want to help us.

PW, BANZAI!

To be continued…

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