Today’s the last day of Worldskills Singapore 2006 held in Balestier ITE and I didn’t blog about the competition the past few days because I’m not allowed to talk about it technically or I’m just too tired to be blogging about it.

The hard-to-sleep nights before the competition each day really affects my mood to prepare myself for the competition. The thoughts about the competition kept on running through my mind like an endless loop and even running a shutdown won’t work on my brain. And initially I was rather proud to be on a faster pace but eventually I was slowed down due to unforseen circumstances that interrupted my planning, e.g. I did the usual procedure to install some files and it worked in my training but not here, and some software I am so unfamiliar with. The provided lunch was bad as well thus I have little energy left for the afternoon.

Marcus (the chief judge of my trade) gave a little debrief today by telling us that:

All these are just for experience. There will be more things, and more difficult scenerios you will face when you are working in a company. So there’s no need to feel sad or negative about it and don’t let this competition affect you.

Its a good consolation because at least, I know that my benchmark score is rather low to be able to work in a big I.T. based film. But still, I still managed to tell Pat that at least I am in the top 9 of my trade in 2006 and this is a good merit to my portfolio These 3 days there I really learnt quite a few new things on the spot itself and I am proud of it as well!

Win or not is more or less not important to me now. I should just prepare myself to get ready for my Tekong Chalet in October this year.

And thanks to those who wished me good luck and those who has been giving me their support. Without you guys, top 9 would never have my role.