It’s I think around five months since I got into this project. When I heard what the project is all about, the geek in me got excited. When we got here it was still on the designing phase for the system, the requirement specification was not even decided yet. This made me both excited and agitated. Excited cause I will be able to join in the design from scratch, not hand-over project but really from the beginning. Agitated cause it will mean a lot of meetings and more meetings. Knowing Japanese and their love for conference and meetings, coped up in the conference room for hours is really not my cup of tea.

A week after our arrival, all we did was researched. At first, I thought, well maybe they are still thinking what assignment to give us. I did not mind at first since what we were researching, were all about the system requirements, what software to use, what library, OS and all those area. Unfortunately, no one asked about our progress and basically just being left all alone. The other two members were busy making basic specification for the system. Sometimes they would ask for  our help, but it was mostly to fix the document format. Damn, I am not their  secretary.

After a month, it was clear that we are not going to be doing any project related work yet. I really have no idea, why they hired us then. By February, we were finally asked to prepare the development environment that includes, setting up the database, trying out tools and software that can be used during development. Finally, work at last. Now I can rest assured that I don’t need to think of a  bogus work to send for my daily report.

Then came the coding phase, at first we were only given method per method not the whole class for coding, which I really don’t like. So in the end, Shiera did most of the coding for the class and I on the other hand would sometimes help “pula” in coding for some utility/parser classes and now  I’m not coding anything, I’m making test specification, a work I totally hate hehehehe.. but for now Id rather to this.

One thing I noticed though, they have been hiring MALE new members who upon arrival would immediately received coding assignment. I wonder if us being FEMALE has anything to do with it or I’m just imaging it. I have never compared myself to any member of project regarding gender issue, I just do whatever I can but I  have also not been understimated in every project I’ve joined since coming to Japan. This might be the first, as it goes, there is always a first for everything.

If so, then I’ll just learn as much as I can in this project and use it in the future. I don’t need to prove anything to anybody anyway.. So goodluck..

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