The EE2079 Design and Innovation Project (DIP) program is a five-week compulsory program for all full-time second year EEE students, held during the special session in May. All students are expected to exercise mature responsibility and active participation throughout the DIP program, to the satisfaction of their project supervisors. Regular attendance in assigned laboratory is compulsory. The normal working hours are from 8.45am to 5.15pm on Mondays to Fridays. A Design and Innovation Competition is usually held in the last week of the project, to encourage students and their supervisors to come up with the best innovative design. Prizes are awarded in the following categories: Gold, Silver, Bronze and Merit. This event is compulsory for all project groups and contributes to the overall grade of each student.
After 4 weeks of slogging and burnt weekend, I had been assigned to demonstrate our project to the DIP judges for the preliminary round. It was never easy from the start as I know that as an engineer-to-be, what I was going to show would be of utmost importance to my group. If the demonstration fails, which it did during the first few times when we showed to our professor-in-charge, those nasty members from my group would simply put the blame on me and my fellow team-mates for this lousy "show" that we have put up. However, Lady Luck was with us on that day and the program that we did was working unbelievably well. Many came and congratulated me, including those who were actually waiting to see us drown. Screw you! Sad to disappoint but I had managed to prove those nasty, self-oriented and narrow-minded people that it's me, your beloved leader and my team-mates who had made this live demonstration a real success. After hearing from our Prof that the judges were impressed by our work, everyone is delighted and we all know that we would be getting a high grade for our impressive performance though we are not able enter the finals by a near margin.
Today was the oral presentation component where each group would present their work to the Prof. I was pretty amazed by the fact that someone who had been playing games in the lab throughout the entire DIP would have something to present to the Prof too! But after watching his presentation, it just show how stupid and hypocritical he is.
You sure you even know how to callibrate the 2 cams?
Algorithm written? yes..but not by you!
I suppose its lack of gaming time for you.
My oh my, since when did Prof come to the lab to teach us how to do our stuffs in the 1st place? Its the Phd students and research engineer who "rescued" us. Stop pretending.
Sigh.. Just as we thought he could smoke his way through. Another member from his team who was assigned the same task as him stunned this great pretender by coming up with the next slide.
It seems that his partner is not that kind afterall. HaHa. Though I believe that he might end up getting a high grade too because of the high marks we got from the competition, I really hope that he could stop thinking that we are all idiots and by not reporting you to the Prof doesn't mean that we are afraid of doing so. We just don't want to make life difficult for you because we know that you are such a failure and perhaps, this might be the only module that you can see a "A" in your transcript. Sometimes, I really wonder if he would look back and ask himself if he even deserves a pass for this module. Regardless, I would always remember what he told all of us. It's indeed "inspirational".
"I'm a good thinker, but not someone who can do things very well."
ELxxs Ng aka BOSS
Finally, I would like to thank my team-mates(Gary, Cheewai, Kim, Fei, John, George) for your support, be it morally and physically. We never walk alone and we did it together. It's my honour to have a chance to lead you guys. Also, not forgetting the other members from the entire group (especially Tan Hua, Minh, Nyan, Samuel, Charlton, Zeke, Dhyey) and our supervisors (Dr Lijun, Ye Minyt, Mohammad, Mashiff). It was really a fruitful experience for me and I believe for all of us, when we met up almost everyday for these 4 weeks to learn about digital image processing.
