Monday, September 24, 2007

Some good news

Hola senoras and mah sexy senoritas,

I've juz been on the phone to Aaron and he has confirmed some good news....we can finally start testing one of the major modules (Asset Form) by the end of this week. We intend to conduct user acceptance testing and module testing. However, we will only do GUI testing if we think its necessary and if we have time, since the client did not place a heavy emphasis on the GUI. Therefore, we intend to get stuck into creating test plans and writing the test report while conducting tests.

Also, we need to get started on user manuals. We intend to only make one big user manual intended for our client, since they will be the only ones (or people with similar knowledge and expertise) that will use this system. Therefore, it would be pointless to create a user manual for the general public.

Now that all my assignments have finished, I have been catching up on some tute work for my other subjects and I intend to use this mid-sem break to study for exams. I got 2 exams on the same freakin' day! It's never happened to me before....has to happen on the final semester in my final year! Those 2 subjects have the most amount of theory as well! So I'm gona ensure I'm damn well prepared...lol!

On friday night, I went out clubbin wit a few frenz...after quite a while...didnt drink tho...stayed nice and sober...lol...feels kinda nice to be sober when out clubbin (for a change!)...lol. We ended up hittin Bond Bar in the city (this sazzy lil' place juz off Flinders street). Met a few chicks too :P:)..lol

Anyways, I'll leave u to ponder wat happened after that...I'm gona hit the bed now....wow..its 2.00 am!

Nitey nite amigos! :)

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Heyyy

Wow I'm soooo tired! Just finished my last assignment (for marketing). That was officially the last assignment in my entire uni life. Phew! Now I just got exams and IE to worry about...lol. So at the moment i'm juz chillaxin' wit a lil' bit of Rn'b (Lloyd ft Nina Sky - Get it shawty & b4 that it was Dr. Dre and 2Pac - California Love)...lol. Ohh and watchin the ICC 20/20 match b/w Australia and Bangladesh....Aust is whoopin ass!!!

In terms of IE, we are nearly done building the system and will start testing over the mid-sem break. Also, we shall simultaneously start on user manuals. So its gona get pretty hectic. Over the implemetation period, the programmers have hit a little bit of a problem and that has slowed down the whole process a little. But its nothing too big and nothing team Velocitec cant handle. lol.

Ohh hang on ...Australia officially won the match just now....124 runs and 1 wicket (Australia) defeats Bangladesh's 122 all out..Lol!!..hilarious....wats even more funny is ricky ponting's smile on his face as if hez just won the damn world cup!....for gods sake it bloody bangladesh! They're shit! Get over it Ricky!!! That guy's way too up himself! Even more than brett lee!

Anyways I got work 2moro at 9am. So goin to sleep now....catch ya l8er :)

Nite and peace out!

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Building, Testing, Clients, Rugby World Cup '07 and some stuff in between

Hi all.

Only 6 more weeks of uni left (including mid semester break). So it’s time to get cracking on testing soon, hopefully by the end of this week. But there’s a lot of building yet to be done and we are striving to get that done by the end of the week so we can start testing. Last Tuesday, me and Aaron met up with Bill (our client) and we gave him a copy of the legal documents and also showed him a few prototype interface screenshots of the database. The meeting went well and went for about 20 minutes (Bill was on the phone to someone for 15 minutes, and the rest of the 5 minutes we talked about the database … lol).

But the good thing about Bill is that he’s not as fussy as Andrew…Bill juz looks at our design and goes “ohh yep, yep, I see wat u hav done there…nice nice…ok ok…cool….i like that yes…of course I know where ur coming from…” and so on. But Andrew is a bit of a pain in the wrong place..lol….he would query nearly everything and ask really complex questions like we’re sitting for a bloody exam!!!…lol…damn engineers! Aaron can do a really good impersonation of Bill and how he talks…hilarious!.. :)

Ok, enuff about the clients. Tarindra and Aaron have been working relentlessly on the implementation of the system. Thusiya and Ishara are involved in a bit of designing of the screens and telling Aaron “hmmm good design but this and that shud be added” or “ooooh that looks pretty in pink!”….lol…lmao! I have been slowly updating the documentation as we go along (such as the functional spec and also the detailed design, with the help of Tar and Aaron). We will hand them in by week 10.

At the moment I’m watching the Rugby World Cup (South Africa vs Samoa) and I watched New Zealand vs Italy, and Australia vs Japan yesterday. Great games – Japan and italy got their asses whooped! All Black and wallabie legends! Cant wait for the finals!

So I guess that’s it for now. Cya next time. :)

Chao!

Saturday, September 1, 2007

5 more weeks of uni left

Aloha again!

Wow another week has flewn by, leaving us with just 5 short weeks to deliver the project to the client. It's interesting to see how we said 'yep, no problems, we can finish this project by week 8 or 9...lol :) and it's the start of week 8 now and implentation's only about 50% complete. I heard Aaron and Tari are goin to work on it some more and get it up to about 70% by the end of this week. This is because we have planned to have testing finished by the end of the mid-sem break. So we have weeks 11 and 12 to fully finish off updating any documentation, prepare for our presentation (ohh and not to forget, finish off the user manuals...which will be started on very soon). So that's the low-down on the project status at the moment.

This week has been quite a hectic run, with assignments and all....but the gud news is I only have 2 more assignments left in my whole university experience....lol....hopefully it will be that way if i pass everything at the end of the year....which i sincerely hope i do!!! One of them is a 3000 word essay (due week 10) ...and this auditing assignment (also due week 10)....u can imagine how much I cant wait till week 10 is over!!!!....Ahh well, then it will be exam cram time...(not to forget the final phases of IE of course!)

On a totally unrelated matter, me and a couple of friends ended up watching Starsky and Hutch last nyte at a friend's place. Never seen that movie before....but it was gud...worth a watch...lol :) It had a couple of hot chix in it too (one of them was Carmen Electra...dayummm!!!).lol.....made the experience even more worthwhile...haha..:) Apart from that, I really wana see Bourne Ultimatum, but its so hard these days to get time out coz of bloody uni work! Also, Rush Hour 3 is coming out...and I definitely gona see that on sept 27th..lol...it will be the mid-sem break by then, so that shud be ok.

Finally, spring has sprung and I can look 4wd to some long-awaited warm weather coming up..yay!...lol :)

Anyways, time for bed :)....damn it's 2.15 am already!

Nite nite...dont let da bed bugs bite..............no really, look out for bed bugs!!!