About me

My name is Phoenixand. Although I'm not a geek or nerdy, I'm a bit of a tech savvy person. Currently I'm studying for my B.Sc (better known as "BS" in some countries) degree. Computer Science, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Plant Science are the subjects that I'm following. I'm familiar with a number of programming and markup languages and technologies(PHP, JavaScript, XML, J2EE, J2SE, AJAX, SEO, UML and the list goes on... ;-) !!!) but my major interest is on Java(Oh did I say that I'm a Sun Certified Java Programmer? Yes SCJP5.0 done!). In addition to those, I'm also into Database Programming using SQL in MySQL and Oracle DBMSs. These days I'm studying for the SCWCD exam.

I've always wanted to share my knowledge with others and I believe that this blog will help me to reach out to friends in the far corners of the world. I'm not a professional blogger and therefore, I will be writing on topics such as blog optimization and Java which involve some technical material. I started this blog to get a feel of technical writing and now thinking of using it as an additional income source as well.

I love to make friends and hate to lose any. I usually spend about three to four hours on Facebook(yeah I have turned in to a huge Facebook addict over the past few years). I love Rugby, Cycling, Football and Cricket and will definitely sacrifice the Sunday morning chemistry paper to watch any one of them on a weekend. I'm also fond of Chess and Scrabble.

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Another Busy Day :-(

Phew... I wish I could end this misery and start on what I truly love doing...yep, I'm talking about programming and lots of it... ;-) (the misery was something else).

Today I was asked to conduct a "Kuppi" for some of my fellow students on Java!!!

Gosh I have piles of other notes to study and I haven't even touched some of them :-(

But what ever the reason, you can't turn down a request(well... that was virtually a "plea") asking for some help and therefore, I agreed on it and did the kuppi... for 4 hours !!! and boy am I not exhausted now.

I wish I could sit back and watch some movie or listen to some music but that is not written in my destiny until I finish my first degree...

first O/Ls... then A/Ls... later University stuff... MSc... Ph.D
what next ???

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A Busy Day Of Work

Today was the last academic day of the first semester of the 3rd year of my degree program. I was quite relieved to see the end of this semester as I haven't prepared well for the exams and I wanted to see the back of the session and start a new beginning next time.

We had to submit 2 assignments today; one for chemistry and the other one for information technology. I did the chemistry assignment with the help of some other students and submitted it just in time and as for the IT assingment, I did it virtually all by myself and submitted 2 copies of the same file...(so much for commitment) !!!

Tomorrow, I have to attend my Java classes and I have a program to write before I go... not sure whether I will be able to complete it on the dead line.

I'm a bit tired now and I wish I could go to sleep early but however it seems that it's the last thing that I will be able to do today because some visitors are about to drop by in a few hours time...They came all the way from New Zealand and therefore we couldn't turn down the suggestion of the visit.

Now I must go and get ready for them...as if they are coming to see me ;-)

Anyhow, it's always better to be in a pleasant mood when a visitor comes don't you think so?

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