Self-Introduction

Hi, my name is Oh Swee Jie. Although my name is not that long or complicated, people tend to say it in a way that makes me feel awkward. If it makes it any better, calling me Jie is fine since my family calls me that way.

I am currently studying in the School of Informatics and IT (IIT) of Temasek Polytechnic (TP) under the course called Game & Entertainment Technology (GET). The name itself implies that it is related to games and includes teaching us the process of making games by having us learn programming languages such as Java, C# and C++. Although it is quite tiring and troublesome during the game-making process, you feel a sense of achievement at the end of the day for creating a game that runs successfully as well as to show better appreciation for the hardwork done by other game developers on their great game titles which are out there in the market.

Although I am spending most of the time in school, I do have some hobbies. Before I came to the polytechnic, I used to collect Trading Card Game (TCG) cards such as Pokemon cards. I think the hobby started when I saw my brother collecting them first. At that time, I was fascinated by the wide range of cards and the unique look that each of them had to the point that I decided to start my own personal collection. I remembered myself going to the nearest card store on a weekly basis just to buy a packet of those cards and add them to my collection. Sometimes, I get a multiple of the same card while other times, I get a rare one. No matter what, I still collected them all.

After enrolling into TP, I stopped my card collection as more time needed to be given for my school work and soon it stopped completely. Even though that is the case, I still keep the cards with me even till today and I also found a new hobby of playing computer games which is the reason I entered GET.

I also enjoy watching movies but mainly funny ones and those that are action-packed. I like watching funny movies because life is so stressful and these type of movies allow me to de-stress. The action-packed movies I am referring to are the ones with comic superheroes and I loved this movie genre after watching Spiderman. To date, I have watched almost if not all the movies of this genre such as Iron Man, Hulk, Thor and Captain America. I guess the next movie that I am looking forward to would be The Avengers.