The VJC computing course has been an incredible journey. Full of ups and downs and downs and downs and downs and downs....(in terms if results). Now in September 2000, the journey is near its end, but what i have learnt about computers, about the Internet, and about myself, will only serve to guide me in my future.

Admittedly, I am not the normal science student. I have different ideals. Getting CDEO for the promotional examinations was not a pleasant experience. For a 18 yr old boy with big dreams, sacrifices had to be made. I dropped Physics. I dropped it to pursue things i believed to be more relevant to myself. Perhaps i could have done well in Physics in 2000 if i had dropped Computing instead, (which is what many teachers and the honourary principal encouraged), but i would not have regretted that as much as i would have regretted not completing the course, not having accomplished Daidiking, not having tried for Thinkquest 2000. I made my choice. And i never looked back.

I strive not to see VJ as an institution that was to be a stepping stone for university admission. VJ computing course was my only link to that, something that was relevant in life, something that was relevant to my future. The programming skills, and the web deign techniques i picked up, was more a skill than an examination subject, these i can truly appreciate what the teachers have input. And i hope they are proud of the output.

Daidiking was a massive project. It started off as a bright spark of an idea, since no one had done it before in the way i had intended it to be. I had trouble at first, but was able to progress with the help of Danica. Then somewhere along the way, Waikay chipped in to provided some DelphiX expertise too. Great things aren't meant to be achieved alone. I am thankful for having such great seniors. The accomplishment of Daidiking, was not to be just an A-grade. It was significant in that i did it. I managed to complete this long and treachorous journey which i didn't have much confidence in at first. I proved people wrong. I proved myself wrong. I proved myself right. I deserved to feel immensely proud.

Thinkquest 2000 was also of paramount significance to my JC2 year. I was distraught. Absolutely nothing for all the months of sleepless nights. I refused to believe, there was anything to be considered incompetent in the content or design, that it was not even good enough for the semis. But bigger things lay ahead, i had to let it go.

Anyways, i had gained the friendship of 2 Romanians who have asked to work with me again next year, because they have never met anyone so commited and talented (perhaps). The coach sent me an email with the subject titled "HOPE" and said things about God blah blah. Never put much in those. I believe in myself. I believe i fail in many small things so that i will accomplish bigger things. Then i believed that i haved failed in many bigger things so that i would eventually be very successful one day. And on that day, i will look back upon the time when i found myself in VJC.

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