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Right. Here is the day by day account of um... Sydney. I may remember interesting things later that I will post, but here's... this.
Monday
Got up at 3:40 in the morning, picked up Puna and went to the airport. Waited for a while, got on the plane and left at 6:20. The trip took 3 hours 20, so we arrived in aus at about 7:40 aus time. That was good, nice and concise. All the necessary numbers. We were met by this guy and went to the hotel in a bus and went to our rooms and dumped our shit and sat in the eaty place in the hotel and talked to some people and then got ready and got in a bus and went to lunch at this place. The lunch was massive, like a 3 course meal. I was the only one who actually finished all of it. I could have easily vomited afterward though. We had dinner at the hotel, and I had what I thought was good lasagna, but it had mushroom instead of meat so it was disgusting.
Tuesday
Sightseeing tour. Saw opera house harbour bridge bondi beach etc. We went on a harbour cruise on a boat then a three hour guided bus tour around Sydney. We had dinners at some resaurant. I had a burger and it was shit. It had meat and onion and lettuce and that was it.
Wednesday
Practice competition day. Stuffed up one of the questions royally. Figured it out afterwards though. Many pep talks. Had dinner at an asian restaurant, very strange manner of serving food, they sort of brought it out in little bits at a time. Ate with chopsticks. After dinner we taught one of the Hong Kong guys how to swear. He had a big list. It was great.
Thursday
This was the competition day. We got down to the university and blah blah and the comp started. I stuffed up the first question by doing it the wrong way around, but got it the second time. I got the second question first time. We were the only team to have an incorrect submission on any of the first two questions, and so we were last because of the ten point penalty. The scores didn't change at all until near the very end of the competition, where Australia had what they thought was a perfectly working program, but didn't want to submit it because they were winning anyway and didn't want to sacrifice the ten points, because then Hong Kong would win. Australia had a guy posted at the door with the floppy disk ready to submit their answer if any of the other teams submitted. Then Hong Kong submitted an answer so Australia did too, but they both failed. A while later, five minutes before the end, I submitted my answer to question four which I had been working on for about one and a half hours and been testing for about a minute. I heard one of the people in the Australian team say "Shit! New Zealand's submitting!". No one had expected that. All the contestants waited for our result, staring at the little place on the screen that said "TESTED", waiting for it to change to "PASSED" or "FAILED", and then after a while it said "PASSED" and there was much celebration. That wasn't the end though, because Australia had fixed their program, or so they thought, and about ten seconds before the end ran in with their submission. While it was being judged the Australians realised they had put a slash instead of a backslash somewhere in their code, so we all knew it was going to fail. Sure enough, it did and there you go. It was quite comical indeed because Australia and Hong Kong, the two favourites to win, came last and second to last respectively. Afterwards we went to a cyber cafe to have a counter strike battle. That was pretty gay, I sat for like an hour while my computer was updating and shit until I changed computer. I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier. Counter strike got boring after a while, I talked to people on msn, read email etc. That night was the dinner of the conference that was being held with the competition, it was a big formal affiar, we had to wear jackets and ties and everything. It was funny as, all the food had long complicated names on the menus but the main course was just steak and beans. We had to go up on stage to be presented with our trophy, and then there were photos and shit afterwards.
Friday
Got up had breakfast walked around went over harbour bridge had lunch came back on train went to airport sat plane was late as leaving but then flight was quick got home 11:20ish.
Oh yeah, I don't actually think I said that we won the competition in there. Well, I won the competition. Max helped, he pointed something out to me. Puna didn't. He smells.
Monday
Got up at 3:40 in the morning, picked up Puna and went to the airport. Waited for a while, got on the plane and left at 6:20. The trip took 3 hours 20, so we arrived in aus at about 7:40 aus time. That was good, nice and concise. All the necessary numbers. We were met by this guy and went to the hotel in a bus and went to our rooms and dumped our shit and sat in the eaty place in the hotel and talked to some people and then got ready and got in a bus and went to lunch at this place. The lunch was massive, like a 3 course meal. I was the only one who actually finished all of it. I could have easily vomited afterward though. We had dinner at the hotel, and I had what I thought was good lasagna, but it had mushroom instead of meat so it was disgusting.
Tuesday
Sightseeing tour. Saw opera house harbour bridge bondi beach etc. We went on a harbour cruise on a boat then a three hour guided bus tour around Sydney. We had dinners at some resaurant. I had a burger and it was shit. It had meat and onion and lettuce and that was it.
Wednesday
Practice competition day. Stuffed up one of the questions royally. Figured it out afterwards though. Many pep talks. Had dinner at an asian restaurant, very strange manner of serving food, they sort of brought it out in little bits at a time. Ate with chopsticks. After dinner we taught one of the Hong Kong guys how to swear. He had a big list. It was great.
Thursday
This was the competition day. We got down to the university and blah blah and the comp started. I stuffed up the first question by doing it the wrong way around, but got it the second time. I got the second question first time. We were the only team to have an incorrect submission on any of the first two questions, and so we were last because of the ten point penalty. The scores didn't change at all until near the very end of the competition, where Australia had what they thought was a perfectly working program, but didn't want to submit it because they were winning anyway and didn't want to sacrifice the ten points, because then Hong Kong would win. Australia had a guy posted at the door with the floppy disk ready to submit their answer if any of the other teams submitted. Then Hong Kong submitted an answer so Australia did too, but they both failed. A while later, five minutes before the end, I submitted my answer to question four which I had been working on for about one and a half hours and been testing for about a minute. I heard one of the people in the Australian team say "Shit! New Zealand's submitting!". No one had expected that. All the contestants waited for our result, staring at the little place on the screen that said "TESTED", waiting for it to change to "PASSED" or "FAILED", and then after a while it said "PASSED" and there was much celebration. That wasn't the end though, because Australia had fixed their program, or so they thought, and about ten seconds before the end ran in with their submission. While it was being judged the Australians realised they had put a slash instead of a backslash somewhere in their code, so we all knew it was going to fail. Sure enough, it did and there you go. It was quite comical indeed because Australia and Hong Kong, the two favourites to win, came last and second to last respectively. Afterwards we went to a cyber cafe to have a counter strike battle. That was pretty gay, I sat for like an hour while my computer was updating and shit until I changed computer. I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier. Counter strike got boring after a while, I talked to people on msn, read email etc. That night was the dinner of the conference that was being held with the competition, it was a big formal affiar, we had to wear jackets and ties and everything. It was funny as, all the food had long complicated names on the menus but the main course was just steak and beans. We had to go up on stage to be presented with our trophy, and then there were photos and shit afterwards.
Friday
Got up had breakfast walked around went over harbour bridge had lunch came back on train went to airport sat plane was late as leaving but then flight was quick got home 11:20ish.
Oh yeah, I don't actually think I said that we won the competition in there. Well, I won the competition. Max helped, he pointed something out to me. Puna didn't. He smells.
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