Journal: Week 80

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:08:37 +0800

✨ Highlights of the Week

was a really long week, sg ph, got a chance to allow myself to get more rest in, but grind in gym never stop tho, still got my diet on track and hit the session i planned. 1 client down, getting more clients scheduled for the next few weeks, im doing so much better every time and the feedback i got in person was also very positive, they would say things like i went thru it very detailed, patient and easy to understand. yes, love that feeling.

and got my first class in, first practical test, i was SOOO confident, i finished everything in like 2 mins, and thought i passed all test cases, then started looking around and talking to others, or even tried to help friends. thought it was such an easy start, but when i received the result on sunday night, i was like wtf i made a beginner mistake, and lost 0.5 marks T_T

it suddenly brought back quite a few memories that i made such careless mistakes at work too. therefore, this time i made a hard rule, regardless of how fast i finished, i MUST manually write down test cases and decision tree. it reminded me of how i did it during job interviews, thinking out loud, writing down thought process, sometimes, it allows u to catch edge cases that u would never have thought of.

0.5 mark but hard lesson, learnt, never again.

📋 Recap

📚 NUS

Sat TCX2004’s first practical with no AI allowed, and wrote the OOP part cold
Got it back graded and lost half a mark on one method, to a bug the test shipped with the question passes either way
Learnt that pushing is not submitting: the work read as missing on the dashboard for eighteen hours after it had landed
Found the whole semester’s slides had been sitting on Canvas since term started, and mapped the first two lectures onto the tutorial’s six questions

🔧 Projects

🏋️ Gym Buddy

Added a first-run card on each screen that names the controls it hides
Rebuilt Rank as a tiered ladder with a crest at the top, and made rank history a chart you can scrub
Rebuilt the plan landing as a numbered week rail with today marked in place
Scoped every Progress block to the month the calendar is showing, and rebuilt the records wall so a record is measured against a lift’s whole history
Moved the calendar’s day into a sheet where a note can be written, edited or deleted, and marked trained days with a tick
Pinned Today’s masthead under the exercise list, with the day’s muscles full-bleed behind the page
Made a return after time away land on the day gone longest untrained, and asked what happened while you were gone
Added end-of-cycle reviews on their own page, one per full pass through a plan
Taught the app to log band and bodyweight work by reps, on movements that never had a weight to record
Offered a heavier first set when the last session left room in it
Rendered the coaching note written after a session inline above the wheels, and put form demo photos behind the exercise’s info button

💪 Fitness

Corrected my own foot-placement labels on the squat machines: high feet take the glute, not the hamstring, and no foot position on that pattern trains the back of the thigh
Threw out the reason a fat-loss plan held real loads, once the metabolism claim behind it turned out to be worth a couple of dozen calories a day, and rebuilt the case on what survives
Caught a day drifting posterior because all three new movements had been chosen for being new, without checking they load the same chain
Kept a prescription and dropped its reason: tone is muscle at a low enough body fat, not a rep range