Travelling Plans

Abe is on her way to New York sometime next week. Meanwhile i've started making my own plans to go somewhere (or not) in the summer. This is my current thinking and my options.

1. I can choose to visit Ghana

3. I can go shopping and visiting the USA.

3. Stay in London and get my driving lessons before the summer is over.

For option one: Yeah it'll be great but the cost is prohibitive. I'm looking at spending over close to £1500 (if not more) by the time i'm done. This is really off-putting. Yeah so i havent been in Ghana for 4 years but it's not like there's some yearning in me to go back. Especially if it'll cost that much.

Option Two: This seems like the most likey... but then there's this little annoying detail of getting a visa. I hate queues. I hate waiting around. I like to keep busy. It such a hassle getting a visa to go anywhere. Yeah so i have a few months heads up and i can secure the visa even if i dont end up going but i'm hard-pressed for time but if need be... i suppose i'll find time to get the visa.

Option Three: Is the least appealing... i keep thiknig that i should get a driving licence. But then i also keep thinking that i'm not ready for a car and that if i do get a licence i WILL go for one just for its sake... and then have all the costs that come with it.

You'll see the Faf Decision making mechanism at work over the next few weeks so you'll know when i decide what i decide..

Anyone got anything to say that may sway me to a specific option?

Exam Results Back

Yay!
Programming Essentials = A+
Problem Analysis & design = B+
Professional Skills = A-
Systems Analysis & Design 1 = B

Just as well that i got an A+ in programming. I've been programming for a living this past year.

I'm quite surprised by my result in Professional Skills cos it involved presentations (which i think i'm crap at) and 1000 word reports on topics that i prefer to ramble on about (i feel retrained here). I suppose the one thing that i should've done best in was the website assignment. Funnily enough that it what seems to have cost me the few marks to make another A+ here. Obviously the markers dont like "simple" functional websites. And i wasnt in a mood to put marqees all over the place. I've had three years to outgrow flashing text and moving banners.

Problem Analysis and Design. bah! it's all my fault. I left the assignments/workbooks till the last minute and had to rush thru it over night. I had to leave one whole question unanswered because i did not understand it and did not have the time to ask for help. Maybe i shoulda taken the risk and lifted someone work and dumped it right there. Nah... i'm too scared/proud to do that. Lesson learnt though. This term, i'm trying to keep two steps ahead of schedule. At least with the non-group work, i can.

Well I'll be damned! System Analysis and design. If i ever felt confident about my results in any of the modules, it had to be this one. The final exam was a multiple choice quiz where you got your results right away. I got 205/240-something which is the highest i know of. That's 82%.

Now i can only blame the B on the group assignment. Truth be told, i did very little on the group assignment. I couldnt find my group members and we were supposed to get all the work done over the xmas period. I found them around the 5th of jan with only a week to submit a really big report and a propsed system for a fictitional business.

I got in there and started co-ordinating things but by then it was too late to re-do any mistakes there might have been. I stuck a few diagrams in there, tidied the work the 2 girls in the group had done and stuck a nice contents page on the front. The other guys in the gorup well... I cant say anything nice about how much they contributed so i'll stay sctum.

In any case... yay for that!!

I've learned a few things about team-work from the first term:

1. I'm not a team worker
2. If in a team, and work is shared, i'll still go ahead and try to do all of it, just in case.
3. I dont have to please everyone nor do i have to give second chances
4. Not to expect anyone to be nice to me or to give me second chances
5. I do really well at things i enjoy.

You Know Your Blog's Made It When...

When you wake up in the morning and check the messages people have left overnight on MSN msnja and you get one that says:

So go on, try it.

Here's an extract anyway if you cant be bothered to read all that here's an extract:

"The following" being one of my entries last year on how my language was changing. The good thing is that i DID manage to wean myself off it.

I'm a bit embarassed though when i go back to read the entry, i only barely manage to put my thoughts accross. No so much the spelling mistakes as the ommitted words. I suppose i should be more careful with my posts now... y'never know where they'll end up.

Nah... to hell with it!!