first day

okay. so today was my first day of work @ NIE.

morning was rather screwed up. met jamie at 730 to get to NIE by 9. in the end, our boss sms-ed us that something cropped up (don't want to say what ><) and well, we had to go to her apartment to look for her to find out what was our job. in the end, we took a taxi which turned a whole round around nanyang avenue which is quite big without finding her apartment. zzz. alighted and asked people around for directions and eventually figured our way there. taxi ride = $11+ wth.

okay. so our job's something regarding a new programming software called scratch which is supposed to be developed for educational purposes. hmm. well, i've not really tried using it, but going by the vids that we tried, there were some useful ones but at the same time, lots of not so useful ones (cuz it's free software and everyone anywhere can upload like youtube, so quite a lot of irrelevant stuff). also, it looks a bit like flash but i think the more important part would be the programming itself that the learning actually takes place. haven't tried programming something though.

but anyway, lunch was eaten at some cheap food court at NTU which is a stone's throw away from our office (not lumpy's throw). and the office totally rocks. there's brilliant facilities, a big LCD screen as our com screen, a relatively fast com with internet access, very nice chairs and a big resting area for ahem rest times. and it's a big room to the 3 of us so i'm not complaining.

it's nearing christmas which means the hols are about to end. i still have no idea what my jan will be like ><

bye (:

Patrick