Archive for January, 2008

Testing testing Pt II - the impt of usability

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Still on the same project, i carried out the user testing again with the new prototype. I didn’t know guys are ok with light purple. After the completion of this project, i’ll be back to the normal 18 hours-per-week lessons. Aiya… since the system was so unstable, i had to test the software every morning (thus the self portraits … throughout the two weeks).

So now, busy with report and findings analysis. But i totally enjoyed the process. At times during the recordings, you can hear James (”er… can i shift the table in?”), Cherry (”wei… wanna makan?”) and Andrew (”aye, i go to the tea-with-director session first hor”)… haha

Desserts (stressed spelt backwards) buffet

Woo-hoo! Before the buffet, we were reading on strategies on tackling buffet in one of the mags, but when we arrived, we realised that there’s no need for strategy, it was a quality vs quantity kinda thing. The sugar must have gotten into all of us, we put aside our work stress and chill the nite away.

Topic of the nite: Guys and their agenda (and bits of the triangle at work)

CNY


pic taken by *

According to Mike, bees represented good luck and prosperity (in his country). So there you go *… you just let millions of dollars flew outta your window when you decided to be brave and drove the bees out.

Completed a CNY e-card for Zel’s cousin just becoz an ex-student was complaining and whining about how the school never taught him about embedding html in Outlook, how to convert Flash into animated gif, and about web hosting. Sigh… some pple just refuse to take up the responsibility of googling it.

The almanac says i must wear more gold this year… *blink blink

Plans have been made… got beer and bak gua, i’ll be there… haha

The thomson kid is back

Family kept bugging me to move back since there’ll be empty rooms; then Forrest how? then freedom how? then independence how? The irony is that my bro has choped himself a big room when he has his own pad down the road. My lil niece has demanded a LCD TV, SCV, new bed sheets … gawd… how many times is she gonna stay overnight? I remembered my bible teacher says humans are filled with greed and selfishness…

Wei wei … viewty

Cutey was the accidental name my friend came up with over msn… no… i wasn’t referring to myself (with my annual fringe)

I’ve never had a phone that is so difficult to use - now i truly understand that bad usability can leave the user frustrated, very frustrated. I can’t sms when i drive :(

I’m turned off by the low battery life and i don’t even feel like sms’g anymore … another case of a victim of clever advertising. But i realised people’s tolerance of bad usability actually grows with time. NEED.ANOTHER.PHONE.AFTER.CNY

this note was found on the table in response to the “yi lu shun feng” note i left her the night before… must document all these moments b4…

maybe i should stop being the black sheep of the family…

For the first time…

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

It’s been a year I’ve joined tp; met new faces, took up few challenges and all was well… but i broke down for the first time at work… about work. It was unexplainable, i was too overwhelmed. I can take bad jobs but not bad leadership. I saw 2 colleagues broke down last year due to the same reason.

Anger turned to tears… that was something new to me.

Anyways, a brand new year… a bad start (with tears and sickness); but i guess i must go on, esp the service last Sun reminded me to take on the challenge and that He will be there for me.

‘Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:7′

Oh well, the year ahead: look for a new apartment, see if there’s any studying opportunity, improve my tennis, increase my work productivity, try to be more creative… etc…

Friends

Always a joy to catch up with old buddies.

It was a great christmas.

Self reflection

Gawd… do i look like that when i evaluate presentation?

Hapi 2008

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008