Sunday, November 15, 2009
End of week 3 of my 17-week internship programme. It's a better week as compared to the last 2. The work given is incredibly irrelevant but I accept the challenge:
To touch up a few scenes in the program/game/software by editing the xml code.
- Shift a few models to the correct position. (just changing X, Y, Z position that's all)
- Check if information of the model is correct. If incorrect, replaced the information with a new image.
- Crop almost 100 irregular sizes of raw images into 1024 x 768 and put it into the program/game/software.
It wasn't as difficult at first expected but cropping 100 images is not fun!
On Friday, something ridiculously happened and had the entire company (4 of us) laughing out loud. It was afternoon around 4pm, I refilled my bottle and at the pantry, I saw a box full of kuehs at the table.
~ The CEO bought them in the morning and he messaged everyone on Skype this: "Hi guys, I bought some kueh kuehs. Please help yourself to them at the pantry.". My company supervisor ate 1, the other intern ate one, me and the other guy did not. Why? He's vegetarian and doubt it's ingredient. I, just don't like it.~
It was 9.30 in the morning when the box entered the company and at 4 plus in the afternoon, the box is still filled with the 'sticky pastry'. I asked the rest of the people, "Are we going to keep the kuehs until Monday?". When they realized that, everyone broke into laughter. I told the 'more senior' staff that me and another Intern doesn't like it, what should we do to it. He said, "DUSTBIN!". I wonder how he stay so calm after replying with a hilarious one word comment. The 4 of us argued where it should end up and the other intern brought up that the box is already filled with ants and it's nest!!!!! Then the senior guy said, "Off it goes into the DUSTBIN !!!". LOL. When I left the company at 6.30pm, it was still around. I hope its already gone when I go back to work on Monday!
At the end of the third week, I finally showed what the company business manager I'm capable of. He gave a task which I complained immensely because of how demanding he is but it ends up well. I showed him the completed task reluctantly and he responded by gave me a pat on my shoulder and said, "Well done. Thank you.". That's quite a surprise; to be acknowledged by a manager! Now that I know what he's looking for and is in his 'good books', I'll keep up the momentum and impress him with what I've got. : )
I seriously wasted this weekend playing a new Massively Multiplayer Online game, Red Cliff. It's an decnt game to be honest; it's 3D, tons of options and customization, lots of hard work and effort put in for a free-to-play game and has a strong influence of the Romance of Three Kingdom. I looked forward to playing this game since last week but after experiencing it, I decide to call it quits.
In conclusion, work is slowly getting better. I'm looking forward to a new challenge and hopefully I can impress another manager or the CEO. Discontinuation of playing Red Cliff is the biggest turn around change.
And I'll be looking forward to the first grading and possibly my first pay. :)Labels: ITP W3
Posted at || 10:27 PM
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