It’s 2:12 AM and I am procrastinating for an individual assignment from that same business class my team is from. I was inspired to make this post by the Youtubers who shared their experience of working with a terrible group. One of the videos replaced the names of her teammates with video game characters. So, since I’m working with this team for the semester, I will give each of each of them a new name as a guide for the future posts.

All the names I use are from Mortal Kombat because it’ll make venting in future posts more fun. And it’s just seems funny to visualize my team situations with the MK characters because they look so extra. 

I’m in a team of six people. Two guys and three other girls besides me.

I will call one of the guys Goro because he’s tall and has a beard. Goro is my least favorite MK character. He looks so creepy. The guy I named him after isn’t, but he does annoy me.

The other guy will be called Baraka because this MK character looks extra. The Baraka in my team ,though, is nothing like him. 

Then, for the girls. I renamed two of them as Claudia and Bertha. Claudia is now Sheeva and Bertha is now D’Vorah. To me, they’re the most evil looking female MK characters so they match up with their real life counterparts. 

Last is Skarlet. Skarlet is a female MK character that doesn’t talk in the game. Similarly, the girl I call Skarlet rarely talks in the team. 

The previous week we had the chance to pitch our ideas / projects in front of an audience and to the winners of the most voted ideas were assigned the rest of students to work in teams on it.

The winner ideas:

Mithi’s  Uniteers: Create a platform to connect organisations with volunteers

Sam’s Booku Booku: A platform for exchanging books 

Brian’s SP-A-M: Entertainment news

Leo’s Contractr: A platform that connect job seekers with organisations for contract jobs

I am in the Booku Booku team. The idea is was very simple but when we were getting deeper and deeper, we are actually facing many challenges how to build the project. The most important is I’d say the user experience side - how to simplified it to the way that people will actually use it / will be willing to ship books - in exchanging for points, not for money.

It is really great experience to see how to work in a team, cooperative among each other and have it synchronised well through git commits. Ohh... and I forgot that before the pitching on Wednesday we were going through rspec and testing our apps. But for now let’s have a look for the PHOTO of the WEEK:

Our lunch after pitching ideas on Wednesday 30th Dec.

The last day of 2015 we still had a class where we started to build the projects.

...HAPPY NEW YEAR...

I celebrated the New Year in KLCC - the twin towers in Kuala Lumpur. Unfortunately I was on the wrong side of the twin towers, the side where was no firework... with million other people. It was quite funny see how people prepared their mobile phones to record the firework and basically nothing happened. Well...

On Saturday I spent my time in Starbucks balancing the year 2015 and planning / making goals for 2016. Today I was in our class with my team boss Sam and Ifran. He is playing here on a guitar right now and the MAGIC on Sunday looks like that - completely empty.