Awaiting the arrival of...

My beloved lab demonstrator for Structured Programming. Yes, I am finally back in UTP after spending about five days in Ipoh during Chinese New Year. I must say that it hasn't been quite a memorable one, considering the fact that the atmosphere of CNY this year is almost inconceivable here in Ipoh, which was quite a disappointment.

Anyway, now that I am back in UTP, life will continue as usual, with lots of assignments and researching to do. Being a working Wednesday, my friends and I are currently in the Multimedia Lab waiting for the demonstrator to arrive, but it's already 40 minutes past the actual time of the lab. Oh great, as I'm typing this, the demonstrator has just arrived. I do wonder what is he going to do now.

Now, the demonstrator is saying that he is not supposed to conduct our lab session. Apparently he was just passing by the lab. It is true that he is not supposed to conduct our lab session because he isn't our demonstrator in the first place. We have a lady demonstrator who is a new student of UTP. In UTP, all postgraduates must take up some experience in tutoring undergraduate students as a pre-requisite to graduate with Masters or PhD. This particular lady did not do a good job of tutoring during her first lab session with us, so we brought this matter up to the lecturer. The lecturer thought that it would be best to have an experienced tutor to accompany her so that she would gain the necessary experience, too.

Having a little background in programming does help make things easier for me now. Previously in Form 4 and Form 5, I had the experience of programming in Visual Basic. Now, we are programming in C++. Although it is a different programming language altogether, the main concept is still the same, revolving around the "If... else..." ideology.

Of course, I couldn't wait for our lecturers to start teaching the codes and our lab demonstrator sure failed to make things clearer for us. Therefore, thanks to Jared, he has taught me on the most important things that I should know, commands and what-nots. Now, it is like programming back in Visual Basic; the only difference being totally text-based and not object-oriented.

My substitute lab demonstrator has announced that the lab session for today is actually cancelled. Now, why didn't the announcement come at all in the UTP E-Learning service? Thanks to them, I had to wake up at 7.00 a.m. just for this 8.00-a.m. lab session which was cancelled in the first place. Great!

By the way, to all my readers, there is a high possibility that I will be shifting off my blog from Blogger to Wordpress. Don't worry, all the posts that I have will be available for viewing in my new blog home.