Its now the second week of the compact semester. More or less, I’m now able to enjoy my life again, not extremely busy, but at least I still have things to do. I found out that having a complete holiday (i.e. sleeping >10hours a day) is not good for health anyway. Sleeping that long, I often wake up with a headache. @_@ Sleeping 7 to 8 hours are more healthy in my opinion.

I am starting to realize how nice it is to have a balanced life. I think that in the past, I spent too much time having fun while working on something, which makes the works take a lot more time than needed. That means, less time to really have some fun. Starting from now on, I will focus on working at daytime from Monday to Friday. Other than that, it is the time to have fun, at least doing something that I really like.

The e.COM System development, however, was not quite running as planned. The reason is just like explained in the book "The Mythical Man-Month". In short, additional number of developers does not add any benefit to the project. In practice, having too many developers can also be a burden, because there will be the need of training, etc. before they can perform work. That is sometimes usually cost more time than having one person who do all the work. On e.COM System, however, I have to transfer the knowledge about the maintenance and development of the system to the next generation, because I will not handle the system development anymore after this time. e.COM 2007 will be the last e.COM to have its system maintained by me. Thus, I need to balance the work, I should try to do part of the development on my own, but at least I have to explain how it works to Binusian 2010s who are part of the team. Fortunately, this time, my experience and understanding about the system and its underlying technology has gone much much better than last year. For the time being, I will distribute the materials and have the others understands how to deploy and test it at least. I will do the modifications, because these will need too much extra effort to be taught.

For the courses in the Compact Semester, I guess there are not much to worry about. I’m quite sure that I will pass Macroeconomics with a good score overall, if I spend some time studying about it carefully (which does not mean listening to the lectures, because honestly I think it is wasting too much time). Numerical methods are fine, because I am already familiar with numeric calculations for the competitions. And for Character Building IV, definitely no worries at all.

So, enjoy the Compact Semester… (or holiday for some of you). Whatever the work is, don’t forget to have fun ^_^

-Andrian Kurniady