Monday 15/12/2008
Bored!!!
Kevin is going to be away from 20 Dec 2008 to 2 Jan 2009!!!
Bernard away from 16 Dec 2008 to 2 Jan 2009!!!!
Ming Hong away from 18 Dec 2008 to 23 Dec 2008!!!
WHERE IS MY LEAVE ??? lol.....
Had our presentation at about 11.30am sharp. I was the first presenter. Followed by You Hock, Leonard and Wilson. All of us present to Kevin our project in slides and demo. Well, this presentation was done to see our presentation. Although, there isn't any judging but all of us put in a lot of effort to prepare this presentation. Even Wilson and You Hock said that it was their first time putting in so much effort in presentation and it was the nicest ever. Although, it was not my first time but i still put in sufficient effort for it. My first time was preparing for Imagine cup competition. I could still remember vividly that we spent months working on the slides and keep making changes to our slides. we even came back on weekend together with our Communication Skill lecturers in meeting room to discuss on the slides. Nightmare!!.
Kevin gave us valuable feedback on our presentation. For me, I stood too far away from the screen, even I didn't notice it. Quite nervous. Need to acknowledge mistake and continue with presentation.
After the presentation, it was about 1.30pm. WOW! late lunch..
We headed to Holland village to have our lunch as I need to drop cheque into the cheque deposit. *Not my money, is my sister!* haha.
After lunch, we start some research work on the new application.
Tuesday 16/12/2008
Kinda hungry in the morning. We bought some bread and ham from the supermart. And we had it at pantry.
Later in the morning, Kevin gave us some briefing about this friday event. There would be a group of children visiting IHPC. This time round Kevin would let us in charge of the presentation. Leonard, You Hock and I have to do a presentation for that event. Lucky wilson, whose the only one no need to present. Well, he could not escape the next time. We were told the stuff to present.
After lunch, I continue to work on my script that I prepare for the presentation. Then I went to research on the Quartz composer for our new application. I intend to do something like widget on the desktop for that application. I do not really know how to do it, therefore I need to research on relevant source to work on it.
Wednesday 17/12/2008
We start developing on the white board application where all of us was trying to do the overlay and make the application to display in front of Keynote. Through our research, we notice that Keynote is the 1st priority for display as it is use for presentation, therefore if it is not the 1st priority, there will be like error messages and information messages appear in front of the Keynote and distract the presentation. That was the only obstacle that we encounter with we were trying to do the overlay. Luckily, Ming Hong found a method from the API that allow us to set the priority.
[ result setLevel: NSScreenSaverWindowLevel];
After that, Leonard and I went to search for Images icon for the application. We found some pretty cool icon from Google Search engine. Due to copy right issue, we edited on the images. Once we got the images ready, we start designing the palette.
Thursday 18/12/2008
We spilt our workload equally so that we could complete the application quickly. As for me, my task is to complete with the dragging and trashing for the image. So I create an application to some testing to check if my part is working properly.
After lunch, Kevin told us that the four of us will have to present instead of three. So all of us went to practice on the demo and make sure that all the applications are working. Also we get ready the applications from tomorrow demo.
Friday 19/12/2008
Back to school celebration
BEYOND SOCIAL SERVICES
The event started at 10 in the morning.
In the morning, when we reached office, we were busy getting all the stuff ready for demo to the children and have a run though to make ensure everything are fine. We decided to have to same flow as the presentation. Therefore, I am the first to present. Feeling anxious as I am afraid that I might not be able to get the children attention and they might not be able to understand me. However, everything was fine because Kevin was there to help us for the demo. He helped us to get the children to settle down quickly and even explain to the children to let them have a better understanding. I guess is the way I phrased my sentence that make the children could not understand. We demo Lightdraw project and applications that we developed. We even let the kid to played with the drawing board, 4 player pong and light puzzle. For each demo is about 15 minutes, the kids also visited other projects of IHPC like the 2 by 3 tiles display.
Also, it was my first time doing demo to little kids. I like the way that Kevin taught us how to present because the flow of the presentation from one application to another application seem to be flawless and the messages were brought out clearly.
After all the demo is done, we joined the kids to have their lunch at the pantry, we had McDonalds for our lunch.
Then, we headed to level 15 to give the kids their Christmas presents which were bought by IPHC staffs. Kevin, Wilson and I happened to witness something happened between the kids. Guess what? Some of the kids did not get what they want, so they intend to exchange the gifts among themselves. The conversation between them were really funny and complicated. Is like I change with you, you change with her, she change with me???
Complicated??
Triangle Love??
