We have been informed of a final presentation tomorrow to the Visualization department of AC, as well as anyone interested to attend.
We started working on the slides in the afternoon, as well as on the new Lightdraw video - but we discovered, though quite late into the recording, that the software used to record the video has expired its trial period. We tried to use another freeware program, but it seemed to hang whenever it started to encode the video.
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
In the morning was our presentation to the visualization group in the AC department. After which, was lunch at a nice French restaurant around Holland Village, attended by Harold, Bernard, Cheng Teng, Situ Yi and Kevin.
After lunch, its clearing time. Cleared up room, desktop and laptop that I used for the past 16 weeks. Finally finished the report rewriting and hopefully it is better than what I had written previously. Although I know that it is nowhere near perfect, but I am determined to keep on reading and learning from other reports, extending my vocabulary and correcting my grammar to strive for perfection.
Also handed in my February Time Sheet and RFID pass to HR. Within a short time span, 16 weeks in IHPC have passed and this marks the end of my internship stint here. Within these period, many things have happened and compared to the time when we first walked in the doors of IHPC, we are now leaving it being much wiser and knowledgeable. All this is possible to everyone at IHPC who have made this internship much more enriching and entertaining. I truly enjoyed working at IHPC for my internship.
Our paths have criss-crossed and traveled parallel to each other's for the past 16 weeks. But now, our paths gradually diverge.
Till our paths cross again!
Other than that, I will definitely miss the COVE and the Wii times.
Wednesday, 6 February 2008
New Year's Eve, there is no work today.
Thursday, 7 February 2008
Chinese New Year! Today is a public holiday and thus, there is no work.
Friday, 8 February 2008
Chinese New Year! Today is a public holiday and thus, there is no work.
Reflection of the Week:
The end of 16 weeks is pretty fast.
As long as we live and learn with an open mind and accept everyone for who they are, stay humble and learn from others, we will pick up many things beneficial to us, both hard and soft skills. It makes us realize how fast life is passing us by and how to make full use of it.
Working in a research environment has helped me gain and hone my problem solving skills as well. To quote Dr Eng: "There's always a line between industry projects and research projects. In research, you never stop asking yourself 'can't I do better than this?' that's how breakthrough in research is achieved."
He has hit the nail right on its head. We always get too caught up with the specifications and datelines that we fail to venture out of the normal line of work and ask ourselves: what can I do to make this function perform better? How can I make the data in the database reusable across many applications? And other questions that help lead the way to innovative and effective ways of performing the same tasks.
Trying and developing new things that are out of the ordinary and common path is no doubt challenging and exciting. I really hope to see the real full fledged version of Lightdraw in action one day. :)
If whatever is fun isn't tiring, would we ever stop doing it?
The lesser the routine, the more the life.
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