The holiday has been over since a week ago, and I am now entering the second week of the fourth semester of my study in BiNus International. Well, I think I should start with the evaluation of what I have done in the holiday, based on the plan I wrote in the previous blog post :
- Learning Japanese : Well… haven’t done a lot of learning Japanese, my progress was so slow, and now that it is just two weeks left before the departure to Tokyo, I think I should try a bit harder.
- Evaluation Reports : Done on time. ^_^
- Skating : I skated once a week during the holiday, except for one
missed week due to the floods. Well, after the new semester starts, I
found it to be difficult to maintain the frequency, but I will try to
skate… perhaps on every Thursday night. - Organizing Photos : Most of the photos are now organized and safely archived in my desktop server. But there are still a few photos (newly taken) in the memory card, should organize those as soon as possible I guess… Should prepare and try the Aperture software soon, so organizing photos will be easier in the future.
- Organizing other files : Well, I haven’t done a lot of this… and now the number of files are still growing… T_T
- ICPC Preparation : Well, still going to the trainings (or discussions, to be precise) regularly. Solved a few interesting problems… and now should start preparing the team notebook.
- Reading Lonely Planet - Tokyo : done during the floods (got nothing to do without electricity back then), but still not sure about how to spend the extra free days in Tokyo…
- Equipment Preparation for Tokyo : has not even started… but has decided to go for a new 2GB CompactFlash cards (instead of buying a Digimate photo bank), go for a new lens (still waiting for the cash T_T) which should be a Tokina 12-24 F/4 (wide angle zoom) and/or Nikon 50mm F/1.8D (a cheap sharp prime lens). I even thought of having a Nikon AFD 80-200, but then it is too expensive and carrying it along is not practical too.. The other one is that I should find myself a decent compactable tripod, (self-standing) monopod, or a gorillapod. It was very difficult to snap a slow-shutter night scenery in Kaohsiung and Hongkong without a tripod, so at least a gorillapod should help a little bit.
Now, enough with the holiday evaluation (which also contains plans…), and let’s talk about the new semester. Well, the first class I attended was the Computer Graphics class, by Mr. Raymond Kosala (he is a good lecturer, met him in previous courses). Heard that this course has been altered (upgraded in difficulty level) to match the quality of Murdoch University (a partner of BiNus International). Well, it comes with a very big project of modelling our campus. It is also an individual project. Wow!! I guess that’s quite too much for a project, but it’s marks 50% of the course, so we don’t have any other choice I guess…
The other classes went fine, oh yes, I forgot to mention, that the Student Services altered the schedule of my class so that now Monday is free for me ^_^… But the alteration was not announced until Monday (19th of February) morning, when we have already arrived in the campus!! What sort of service is that??!? The announcement was NOT even put in the website until Monday, but then it was backdated to 17th of February!! yes, that’s how those operations people do business.. I clearly checked the website on Sunday night (18th) and it wasn’t there…
The other thing was there are only five students for the Software Engineering stream, and therefore there are just five of us in the Object Technology class… and… uhm… not much else… I was also appointed to coach the preparation for programming contests for BiNus International students (preparing for BNPC) which is also open to high school students (preparing for TOKI), but since it wouldn’t start until next week, not so much need to be worried for now.
Well, I guess that’s it for today, and thankfully when writing this blog, I remembered that tomorrow I have to submit the project proposal for Computer Graphics!!… (almost forgot that one..)
-Kurniady
