☞ Mixed
♪ Gackt / Metamorphoze
All thanks to CRS, I've decided to try to update my blog whenever I can.
Hurumph.
"God is fair. You're given the ability to write but not the ability to present." said Mdm Palam.
Or something like that.
I don't deny this. Give me a piece of paper, I can write something out easily. But if you give me a piece of paper and tell me to read its content out to a group of human beings, I admit I can't do it.
Probably I'm too shy. Probably I'm too insocialable. Probably I'm not too confident of myself. For whatever reasons, I just can't present in front of one whole group of people.
But, I hope to improve on that in my 3 years of Polytechnic education.
On to other topics.
This is the trend I've spotted ever since I started poly life. Every weekdays morning, I'd take either bus number 123 or 195 to Tiong Bahru MRT station between 8 to 10am, depending on when my first lecture or tutorial starts of course. The bus would usually be crowded, full of people rushing off to work, since it's early in the morning. Crowded meaning, there would be no seats left and the people who has to stand are packed like sardins and occupy the whole bus up till the front door. And most of them drop at Tiong Bahru, because it's the MRT station for heaven's sake, go there, take MRT, go work.
What really baffles me is that, before the bus stops at the bus stop, people would start standing up and/or shifting towards the exit, or should I say, squeezing towards the exit. And people standing at the doorway are being squeezed back, despite the fact that they're alighting too. What's their problem? It's not like they're the only ones alighting and they have to make their way through the sea of people in order to alight.
Many a time, I was the one who is being squeezed back as I was standing at the door. I alighted with them at Tiong Bahru and I speeded my way through those who pushed me back there and then.
Why do they have to do that? Everyone is alighting, it's not like they can't alight if they don't stand directly in front of the door. Even if they are in a hurry, why can't they just walk faster
after they alight?
☞ Energized
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It's early in the morning, and about 3 months since I've last blogged.
It has been a busy semester for me, or rather, us. Projects are excruciating... irritating.
Day by day, I've been looking forward to March, when the holidays would start.
After going through this semester, I'd rather take the exams than to have a group project.
This semester, we took on FOM, CD, CRS and ITAB projects. The most hateful one is FOM.
ITAB is still okay for me. Frontpage is not a big problem for me. So is CRS.
Next come CD, but this is really okay too, because the guys are totally cooperative, or rather, too bo chup to be incooperative. Just treat the group work as solo work and bam, it's done.
But FOM is the one which make me almost cry everyday, I can't get past one day without thinking of this particular project.
What do we have to do? Find a company and do a report on it and analyse on its 4 'P's.
We did on a logistic company, but not by
our choice. Big mistake.
The stuff we were taught were on Business-to-Consumer whereas logistics is a Business-to-Business thingy. And so?
The stuff we learnt are totally not applicable to our project.
Second mistake is that, we found this out on the day of submission of report.
When did we start doing on our report? 4 days before submission. Third mistake.
Fourth mistake, wrong choice of group members. 2 of them are practically non-existent.
The remaining one is, I'd put it crudely, believes in ownself's answer too much.
There is practically nothing I/we can do to salvage this already doomed project. We just go on with it.
And this doesn't end here.
Preparing of presentation. When did we complete the slides? 18 hours before the actual presentation. Again, the two of them, I can say, hopeless. They don't attend school regularly, what more meet up and discuss about what is to be done to at least salvage the situation. The remaining is also, sigh. She had some
play going on and can't do the slides, or so she claimed.
And this still doesn't end here.
Actual presentation day. JH and me arrived early just to set up the presentation and make sure nothing was wrong. And what did the rest do? They arrived late.
Yes late. One of the worst thing that can happen is that you are doing the final presentation and your presentators are LATE. Plus with a already 80%-going-to-explode tutor. Well I can't blame him, I was really to explode as well. My face was black the whole time. I was like, "WHAT THE FUCK! WE ARE PRESENTATING TODAY AND WE ARE THE 1ST GROUP AND YOU GUYS CAN JUST STROLL IN PAST 9?! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU! IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR MARKS OF THE PROJECT THEN I'LL JUST GIVE YOU WHAT I THINK YOU DESERVE."
Bam. I did what I thought. I did no sympathic marks for the two.
I believe we are able to clinch a D for our whole project. Time to study hard for FOM CA3.
And so, exam is coming in two weeks time. After 1st March, I'm free.
It's a matter of choices.