Easy Days Are Here

After the semi-stressful testing days, i feel more than confident that i passed. For the hands on, to low ball myself, i expect a 40-45/50. The same goes for the multiple choice part. We will officially get our results by Tuesday. The next few days afterwards were really laid back and easy... even to the point of disorganization.

Wednesday we had a lecture about quality assurance for half the day. Thursday was our official first day of POST project where we just briefly touched upon each position of the group. There are 8 members in a group, the project manager, module leader, CC, SQA (quality assurance), DBA (database admin), and 3 software engineers. Since I'm the 4th member of the team, i am the SQA which is an easy position i feel. I make sure coding standards are being followed and so on. Since the project has to go in a certain order, the PM's are supposed to get the requirements from the "user" and relay it to us. When i speak of disorder its because the 1st day is for requirements, but the meetings for the PM's got pushed back from the middle of the day, to the end of the day, to the next day.

The past days i would come in the morning, check my mail, then proceed to look around to see if anyone is doing work and noticing the entire class either playing computer games, listening to music, or watching a movie. I would then go take a coffee break with my buddies from the other class for an hour, and come back to see nothing has changed and make my way home to relax.
Friday was different because we were lectured on AJAX, but nothing was hands on. Its an interesting feature in java that most might have noticed on certain websites. Its used for quick information requesting and response without changing the page. An example would be during html form filling, every button you type would have an auto complete type feature. AJAX is powerful, but its more of a convenience feature for sites. After that lecture we had another one for about 20 minutes on how to use Visual Source Safe (VSS) which is a Microsoft product to help in handling versions.

Friday night was really fun because HR had arranged a batch BBQ at Metropole restaurant. Everyone went and had a good time. The gang pregammed in my room and played some cards. To hop off topic real quick, whenever Indians see you playing cards, they automatically assume you are gambling, so we couldn't bring cards for the dinner. The dinner was held outside buffet style with tables in a circle. After eating, we introduced flip cup to our HR team and they were definitely having a blast. Of coarse the frat guys me and Flowers cleaned house during those games.

After our POST project, we have off that Thursday and Friday followed by a couple of ILI sessions the next Monday and Tuesday. So we're planning to go to Thailand for a 6 day vacation once everyone gets the test results on Tuesday. Apparently Bangkok's nightlife is the best in Asia and the exchange rate is also 1-40 so it will be fun and cheap.

And here i am Saturday afternoon.. not doing much. Counting down the days till B'lore. I will try to get pics of Friday from other people since i didn't bring my camera.