I'll give you a second last chance.

While I dislike you with every fibre of my being, I have no choice. The authorities assigned me to you, and you to me.

I shall put up with you for a second last time. For the next one hour and fifteen minutes. In this time frame, I do not say that I will fully utilise you for the purposes I'm supposed to. I will not even say that I will use you at all. I might just stare into empty space waiting for time to pass.

Second last time because I know I will have to face you again, for my portfolio, due in two weeks. And that will be another pain in the heinie. Sigh.

Well, for now, the time frame is being used to let the whole world know how much I despise you and what I've had to put up with.

Maybe I'll spend the next minute fiddling with JES again, if it doesn't hang on me, again. JES is the application that I have to write my program on. The silly course for which this assignment is for, is so useless. At first I was so happy to find out that I can turn a picture into b&w with a few lines of code. Then I bragged about it, and I found out PhotoShop could do that with one click. So much for my bragging.

So essentially, this course is for those who, wishing to cook rice, would go to the rice fields and start harvesting the paddy, instead of walking across the road to the Aunty Susie shop to buy some Long Grain Rice.

Seriously.

I already checked out that I won't fail so long as I get 25/60 for my Non-Exam Component. And so far, I've already got...13 plus 9 which is like 22 marks out of 25. So I'll just hand in my 1/2 mark worth of this Assignment 2 which I know how to do, and I'm 0.5 marks nearer to my passing mark! Then I'll just do some crappy touches to my portfolio, compile it, and voila, I would have passed the Non-Exam Component.

I normally am not like that. This is the second IT course I've taken without a friend. I have never been so sick of a course before. Never so bored of it, never so out-of-touch. Maybe cause it's a programming course. The previous course which I did alone at least had theory parts to it. I totally flunked the programming part of that course. =P

I really do not enjoy IT. I really do not. More so the programming. The IS part of it is bearable because I can crap theoretical stuff, I can research on them and I can draw crappy diagrams which apparently depict the system.

But programming? They give you one sentence: Write a function count() where all the chicken eggs in the barn is calculated.

And you have to purge out this code where you choose a barn; ensure that the barn is a chicken barn, not a pig sty; peruse the entire area of the barn; count how many eggs there are; add in conditions in case those eggs are snake eggs and not chicken eggs; ensure there are no hidden eggs; add in conditions if there are no eggs; and print error messages when you enter the wrong farm, when you count the wrong egg, when you're multiplying or subtracting or dividing and not adding. Sort of get the idea?

Ya. I think this has gone on long enough. I really should go back to staring aimlessly at my assignment while I wait for a miracle to happen whereby someone ter-sends me their entire perfect and complete assignment or I suddenly turn into a genius and know how to work on every single part of the assignment or my lecturer suddenly decides that this assignment is meant for PhD students and not for an undergraduate level and gives everyone full marks or the uni server breaks down permanently and we are unable to submit our assignment so my lecturer has to find another way to assess us.

Miracles do happen,

right?