5.02 Windy

Today weather was quite hot but not as hot compared to yesterday at 35 deg.
Highlights of my day:

1. PM Lesson {Morning} (2nd Last) 1/2
2. Visit to the Information Engineering School {Mid Morning}
   - Lab session
   - Network Room's Orientation
3. Lunch at 小田园
4. PM Lesson {Afternoon} 2/2
5. Dinner
6. See the rehersal of tomorrow's event for the school's orientation (end of the military training)

some architecture scenes of the school of Information Engineering

pavement outside classrooms/lab room

students in the lab room used the computers to learn and complete their exercise on the programming language they are focusing.

network room (the only network room in the school)

The room is established in 2007 and the entire things in the room (servers, structure of table, etc.), all-in-all it cost about $1,000,000 RMB ($200,000 SGD). There are 8 tables, form of a team of 6 person. Each table is accompanied with a server. A server consist of a Controller, switch, router, firewall, patch panels. Also, there is a teacher's table that is also accompanied with a server. To complete the entire architecture set-ups in the room, it takes about 8 months. The function of this room is to provide students with the ability to experiment and tryout of the various networking functions. Below is the picture of the server.

cost price: $50,000 RMB

a law enforcer?/along the street of resturants, they provide free car washing service for customers.

here we are: 小田园

dishes highlights

the only unique food we ate today: green veggie with a certain bean paste/蜂蛹蒸蛋 (feng yong zheng dan) steamegg with a kind of kun zong 昆虫! But, it is delicious!

After a day of the PM, we headed out... ... and Blow wind Blow!

After dinner, the upbeats of the rehearsal attracts me to have a view of it. It's nice eh, the lights and stage performance. Here goes:

folk dance

mixture of dance (popLock/break/etc)/solo singing

slowdance (group)/closing to debrief


Reflections:
Today it was quite a surprise that we're going to visit the school of information engineering to interact with the students and get to know about their system. It was quite a last minute decision and I didn't really managed to prepare a list of questions to ask them.

Anyway anyhow with the limited time, I managed to get to know a little of a 4th year student, pursuing a IT related course for 4 years. I get to know from him that he have to finish studying 7 programming language in this final year before he graduates. Some language such as PowerBuilder, ASP.net, Java, etc.

I then asked if he like the course he's currently studying. He told me that it is rather a good course with a bright future but, he also complaints that there are a lot to study. Furthermore, he said that these language are just like maths, once learnt and digested into memory, easily forget in the future. Thus, he claimed that this is rather irritating for him that he have to refresh his memory again if he decides to do it again. To that, I agree with him to a large extent.

Anyway, by chance then we talked about internship training and to my surprise, they have 2 choices - either offered opportunities from the school or venture on oneself to source for a company to work in, throughout the 4 years in his university. Which means every year, one could grab hold on the opportunity if there's one, to have internship with the company.

Otherwise, one would have his free time whilst other are in the internship. For his case, these coming November he'll be going for an internship.

Although it's an short chit-chatting session with one of the IT student, but I felt it's a fruitful interaction with the friendly student.


jac {take care all}