It is week 3 now. I am currently doing 3 subjects for this semester they are:

• COMP9314: Next Generations Database System
• COMP9334: Capacity Planning
• COMPI9031: Internet Programming

I am most likely to drop one subject due to time and energy constraints(currently working and trying to minister to people). I am thinking to drop COMP9031 beacuse of some factors including this: the lecturer himself said that he’s trying to figure out what internet programming is really is.
I am really excited about COMP9314 though. Raymond is definetely very passionate about this subject.

The subject will mainly be focused on XML technology and XML based databases. Raymond has certainly improved his teaching skill, I remember that I used to dislike him in COMP9316. He still unpopular tho, my friend told me that when Ray taught COMP3311, he taught them concurrency in database, locking systems, which are really the hardcore stuff of database implementation (that is if you are interested in CREATING a database system instead of USING one), he taught me those stuffs in COMP9316.. hm so are the students getting more and more clever? I want to concentrate in this subject alone because I think I bought Ray’s propaganda that XML database is the next revolutionary thing after the relational database.

He told us that people who understand XML well will be paid highly easily and won’t be hard to find jobs, in fact he promised the star performers in our class, that if we get high mark for this subject he would pass our details to the companies that are looking for XML professionals. ANyway.. I am so very sleepy now, tomorrow have to wake up early for work, yes I do really like this subject but I gues I have to save it for other time.