Friday, July 29, 2005
today was a busy day. but there are many kinds of busy days. days that are busy and useless. and days that are busy and evenftul and practical. i had the latter. let me share with you..

i dragged myself out of my bed after my girl woke me up at 8am. which is about the best alarm clock available on the market because others dont seem to work as effectively. nothing beats having to make yourself relevant and your speech make sense when you are groggy and half dreaming. you sorta like try to prove you're not actually groggy and half dreaming so your mind has to wake up. so it began at that time. nice 5 mins conversation. knew i could depend on you. love you loads.

reached school at 9am. or 9.15am to be exact but its God loves me more so i get a bit more stretchy time. i had my presentation which contains some residue of my fury from the previous day. which is no use blogging about because i'm not one who has angst in my heart. so i'll leave that be. anyway the other group went ahead of us and they came out looking like 7th month came early. with their pale faces they told us that the teacher shot them down and said all the words except for 'you suck'. you know whats the worst thing? 5 minutes ago while happily chatting outside awaiting our turn, we realised that all our powerpoint slides was in the thumbdrive which was conveniently left in my house. tell me jeremy's my sister and i'll be much happier.

so we went in, balls and all with no intention to impress but just get the job done and escape with our pride intact. we had nothing in our hands and like lambs to the slaughterhouse we walked in with weary legs. my group member jing fa had a copy of it in his gmail account. but the ppt had NONE OF MY SLIDES! worse, it had no animations, no pictures, no coverpage, no ending slide, oh somebody shoot me. it was an incomplete ppt but it was better than nothing. so we sat down and requested for 5 mins, hastily added in my slides from my gut memory. and the worse thing was that all we had prepared to present from yesterday was not written down on cue cards and all our fervour and enthusiasm had gone because of the delay. we not only had nothing in our hands, we had nothing in our heads. the end is nigh. so we stood like troopers and read from the remnants of our memories.

jing fa, kang an, jun xiong and i. not prepared mentally. just recovered from the scare of having nothing to present. having inferior ppt slides compared to the powerhouse animations others had to offer. my slide wasnt even the same as yesterdays. and worse of all, having just analysed whats left of the previous group which were seemingly more well prepared. a debacle? you sure bet. so whats the verdict?

Excellent.
Very well coordinated.
Very matured style of presenting.
Excellent speech.
Good eye contact.
No script reading.
Professional.

report wise?

Very good intro, executive summary (i wrote those of course), conclusion, etc etc.

i was like what the fuck? i think i might have died and gone to heaven. the good coordination was because we bothered to say 'next slide please' with ease of speech. the excellent speech was because all of us were naturally gifted. good eye contact comes from EOC. no script reading was because we were too bloody lazy to write down anything. and here's the funniest. matured style of presenting was because we didnt put any fanciful animations and pictures! get a load of that. i think vivien ko had seen enough of techno mambo jambo and found ours a breath of fresh air! talk about luck and blessings in disguise and good fortune and twist of fate and tables are turned and all the little boys and girls with angelic faces holding hands and dancing under a big tree with clear skies and bright sunshine. golly by the end of it all they were actually thanking me for not bringing the thumbdrive. @#$$%^&%&^@%$%%#&^@$%@ ???!!!

after that i had efma and business finance revision lecture. and then the dreaded french test.

dear jing fa, took time off even though it was his birthday today to sit me down for 1 good hour and tell me whats coming out for tests. and through hard work and 'divine intervention', i knew the question before i saw it and answered with simplicity.

my motto for sem 1: test the water
my motto for sem 2: work hard and get good grades
my motto for sem 3: success, what ever it takes

hence the 'divine intervention'. ; )

afterwards it was still kinda busy cos i had to pick up some stuff i ordered and give it to my girl.

she was happy. the world is at joy. what else matters?

and then i met Loy (finally) to pass him money for helping me get my mum's stuff. 3 cheers for Loy!

what a fantastic day. wouldnt mind reliving it again. minus the 9am wake up time please thank you very much.





sammy says. at 2:30 PM