National StrITwise Challenge 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
I was thinking whether or not I should post pictures up here. Then I decided I was too lazy and tired to save the pictures from Yuting's email and take out the memory card from my phone and stick it in the card reader then to the laptop. And upload it to Blogger. Yup so since I'm not bothered enough to do so, too bad then. :D
Spent at least 9 hours @ Ngee Ann Polytechnic Convention Centre today. Hmm. I wonder how I survived. Basically most of the time were spent manning our booth. And making sure our robot model didn't break apart or anything of the sort.
StrITcombat: Got totally owned by Steggy (the big fat ugly adorable dinosaur robot). Didn't even get past the first round. Don't mention. Gahh why do they have to randomize three times!
StrITd∑sign: I'm kind of satisfied with our robot model. :) Presentation went well. (Duh, because I didn't present :D) I think we're lucky. Judges who were judging some other groups looked much sterner and stricter and less likely to give high marks. HAHAH.
StrITsmart: I don't know. Byorn said it was easy. I suppose so, since we came in third for that. Up till now I still have no idea what they actually did. Sounds childish, with all the puzzle fixing and stuff.
Anyway, most of the time it was superr boring. Like in the afternoon, when all the judging and everything is done except for StrITsmart. I was so bored and tired I fell asleep. But I woke up soon enough because it was too friggin' cold and my head kept dropping downwards and sideways. No, not literally dropping. If not I won't be able to fix it back. Hmm maybe duct tape would do.
But we still got sixth place! Quite unexpected. Yeah so it was this Philips Micro Hi-Fi System (or so it says on the box) which was big and bulky and heavy. Had loads of problems trying to lug it back home. My arms weren't feeling very great after that.
I'm planning to sell it off. Anyone interested? Tell me. :)
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Felt like I left out a lot of details. But I don't care already. I'm too tired to bother. Not sure why but I've been feeling exceptionally tired these few days. Even more tired than during the exams (as a matter of fact I wasn't really tired then.) Yeah so whatever.
Good night.
Spent at least 9 hours @ Ngee Ann Polytechnic Convention Centre today. Hmm. I wonder how I survived. Basically most of the time were spent manning our booth. And making sure our robot model didn't break apart or anything of the sort.
StrITcombat: Got totally owned by Steggy (the big fat ugly adorable dinosaur robot). Didn't even get past the first round. Don't mention. Gahh why do they have to randomize three times!
StrITd∑sign: I'm kind of satisfied with our robot model. :) Presentation went well. (Duh, because I didn't present :D) I think we're lucky. Judges who were judging some other groups looked much sterner and stricter and less likely to give high marks. HAHAH.
StrITsmart: I don't know. Byorn said it was easy. I suppose so, since we came in third for that. Up till now I still have no idea what they actually did. Sounds childish, with all the puzzle fixing and stuff.
Anyway, most of the time it was superr boring. Like in the afternoon, when all the judging and everything is done except for StrITsmart. I was so bored and tired I fell asleep. But I woke up soon enough because it was too friggin' cold and my head kept dropping downwards and sideways. No, not literally dropping. If not I won't be able to fix it back. Hmm maybe duct tape would do.
But we still got sixth place! Quite unexpected. Yeah so it was this Philips Micro Hi-Fi System (or so it says on the box) which was big and bulky and heavy. Had loads of problems trying to lug it back home. My arms weren't feeling very great after that.
I'm planning to sell it off. Anyone interested? Tell me. :)
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Felt like I left out a lot of details. But I don't care already. I'm too tired to bother. Not sure why but I've been feeling exceptionally tired these few days. Even more tired than during the exams (as a matter of fact I wasn't really tired then.) Yeah so whatever.
Good night.
Friday, November 13, 2009
See I knew it.
I'm so psychic. Yet another script checking day today. English and History. :(
English: Essay - 17.5/25, Paper 2 - 36/50. Total B+ only laa. CAhas to must pull me up. :/ Essay was marked by Ms Koh. Should have been Ms Lam! Then I might get higher marks. :D But the question wasn't nice in the first place. How to write about my neighbourhood! The market? The random flats?
History: 30/50. D: I want to cry laa. So low! :( B- leh. Like that how to get my PSP! Waaaahhhhhh! Anyway, assuming I get 85 or more for CA (which is highly impossible), I can still get an A-. But that won't be enough. Aaaaah. It's all because of Friday the 13th. (I was going to say something right here but I decided it was too offending. So there.)
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Fine I shall stop ranting about such a demoralising subject. Anyway I spent practically the rest of the time in school (which is a good 7 hours ?!) trying to build our very imbahh robot! It's not exactly very stable or anything, I'm just comforting myself. :|
The robot kind of looked nicer when the different body parts were separated. Serious. After we stuck all the random parts together, they started breaking apart. Friday the 13th again. It does have a great force, doesn't it? Ohno this is getting more demoralising. Gahh.
Okay whatever. Tomorrow's the real thing and I just hope everything goes smoothly. And that includes the robot being able to survive till the end.
I'm dead tired now. Robot don't collapse on me.
I'm so psychic. Yet another script checking day today. English and History. :(
English: Essay - 17.5/25, Paper 2 - 36/50. Total B+ only laa. CA
History: 30/50. D: I want to cry laa. So low! :( B- leh. Like that how to get my PSP! Waaaahhhhhh! Anyway, assuming I get 85 or more for CA (which is highly impossible), I can still get an A-. But that won't be enough. Aaaaah. It's all because of Friday the 13th. (I was going to say something right here but I decided it was too offending. So there.)
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Fine I shall stop ranting about such a demoralising subject. Anyway I spent practically the rest of the time in school (which is a good 7 hours ?!) trying to build our very imbahh robot! It's not exactly very stable or anything, I'm just comforting myself. :|
The robot kind of looked nicer when the different body parts were separated. Serious. After we stuck all the random parts together, they started breaking apart. Friday the 13th again. It does have a great force, doesn't it? Ohno this is getting more demoralising. Gahh.
Okay whatever. Tomorrow's the real thing and I just hope everything goes smoothly. And that includes the robot being able to survive till the end.
I'm dead tired now. Robot don't collapse on me.
Friday, October 9, 2009
BOOMZ.
My sister's watching somerandomBOOMZ japanese anime on okto. -o- And she's trying to imitate what they're saying. So irritatingBOOMZ.
CCA was kind ofbusyBOOMZ today. The first hour we were doing SDMA. Actually my group didn't exactly do anything in the first hour. We were waiting for the tripod. -.- And I was lost anyway. No I wasn't. I was in the computer lab -- not lost. Yup so we were just slacking.
The rest of the 2 hours we were doing StrITwise. We were supposed to come up with 5 designs for the robot, but... I obviously didn't. I only drew two, and twolousyBOOMZ ones too. But in the end we still used Wan Ling's design. (Duh!) And we spent the rest of the time finalising all the randomBOOMZ attributes and colours and design and storyline.
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Ignore all the extra BOOMZ. -o-
My sister's watching some
CCA was kind of
The rest of the 2 hours we were doing StrITwise. We were supposed to come up with 5 designs for the robot, but... I obviously didn't. I only drew two, and two
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Ignore all the extra BOOMZ. -o-
