What a break from blogging.
With the completion on my 3 IL portfolio assignments (yes… excluding the 3 remaining, lol), i finally return to one entry of blogging since june.
Lets have a quick scan of whats going on to my life recently
1. Skipping alot of school to go teach and dunman high, forgive me.
2. Above made Richard Adams not too happy, obviously
3. Skipping abit of school to go do NJRC, hopefully no one sees, resulting in slightly more of the above
Fortunately, i believe my trombone skills are finally starting to take hold again. It feels like i lost direction for a while. Thank god.
Anyway, NJRC 2008 ended 2 days ago on saturday, about 6 pm. Yet again, i tell my friends i don’t regret skipping that presentation finals and not being able to get the award for “Tertiary Best Presentation”. This entire NJRC 2008 without winning has been too much of an experience. Running back and forth to the field tells me that a dummy robot and a friend would have actually helped. And getting into the finals and somehow not getting 40 points in a goal tells me once more to ffs program 4 balls seperately (i had 3 mins to collect 5 balls, plus i didn’t care about the cans).
Actually to my horror, i only knew the re-tries did not reposition the position of the props, so on mistake, dislodgding the balls and not collecting them means you’ll probably not collect them in a re-run. I was that close to getting a 2nd for best-robot performance (assuming it was based on only the finals). Considering i got 4th position in the surprise mission, i yet again console myself. Lol.
Teaching Dunman High started out as a horror, i must admit. But at the end of the day, they were all happy with the pizza (haha) and also i made friends with at least one dunman high junior. There was melissa from sec 1 who eventually asked me to help her recover some files from a corrupted thumbdrive. I like a variety of friends! So it was pretty good an experience. Then the guys like yankai and especially lester proved to be pretty nice actually. As a music diploma student, i do understand why most people feel robotics is awfully boring, why robolab is again horribly boring.
But i tell you, i believe that people program and construct the robots for that 2 minutes of success.
So tell me, you have a chinese saying that goes 台上一分钟，台下十年工. (There i variations, of course)
It roughly equates to, “A minute on stage, 10 years below it.”
So lets just say that 3 months in the robotics lab, and about 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 3 (including finals), 11 mins on the playing field.
10 years/1 min = roughly 5.256 mil
3 mths/11 mins = roughly 11781
You get what i’m saying, no preparation is VERY fun. Lol.
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