Helo world :X This is gonna be a rojak post of many thousand different things (:

I really really miss last year. Or maybe secondary school (points at sec 2~sec4 specifically) :S

Miss the friends, miss the classrooms, miss the lame stuff we'd do, miss guides, miss all the childish games, miss the simplicity, miss the naivety, miss the fun, miss the environment (? hm....:X), miss the teachers... well...there's a bunch of stuff there i don't really miss either, but that isn't the point, cause the stuff i miss outweigh the various idiots :P

Meh. Really. I believe i've said this before :X JC is fun and all. New friends are nice and retarded and fun and all. But it's not the same. And with JC there seems to be this added pressure of complicated webs and tangles that i never really had to bother with previously :/ hard to explain, but it's just there. Sometimes some parts is like navigating between two groups drifting further apart because i happen to be right smack in the middle. Like animal farm. I actually enjoy the company of bird and tortoise whilst nyx and joey are complaining that they don't like spending time with the four of them (bird, tortoise, dilly and van) alone because it's weird. -shrugs-

Yea, bird and pig probably have something going on. bird especially and pig is more aware now. I doubt tortoise and dilly, but who knows :/ but if there's seriously something on, then i think i might just have to agree with joey and nyx. That's probably why if it's karaoke, i wouldn't go with the 4 of them solely if it were the case. However, the fireworks where it was just the 4 of them seemed ok to me :/ idk anymore. I'm not making sense either. See? complicated x.x

And then there's this ever present topic of 'love'. Who likes who and whatnot. Crushes and whatnot. IMO, it's pretty ridiculous. I'm swearing off it until uni at least (: still, when you're in a group full of girls, it gets really annoying and confusing :/ especially when you see a live romance blooming in front of your eyes. lol.

Also, i really miss the YES competition :S that was one of the most fun and fond memories i had in sec sch :X the presentation during the entrepreneurial marketing made me really think a lot about it. (i kop-ed the template that was rotting in my com given in sec 3 for the report we had to submit :P) i used the old ppt as reference too. And because of all i learned in sec 3, i could make the presentation much better. (it's nothing about ego. it's just a fact that i put a lot i've learnt previously to use :x) I seriously learnt more during the course in sec 3 rather than during this elective. Which seems ridiculous, because you'd have thought that an elective given at a tertiary education would give you a more comprehensive and indepth learning experience. -shrugs-

I had really fun in the one week chionging the ppt for the PixiCon presentation and doing the prototypes. It reminded me so much of the fun times in sec 3 doing YES. Unfortunately a lot of unforeseen circumstances occurred on the day of the presentation itself, and cause a lot of bad stuff to happen :x but i finished the presentation feeling quite happy. Then thinking back on a hindsight, i realised a lot of terrible stuff :X

Basically, joey had stomach flu >_< so she couldn't come. I couldn't find my phone to bring to sch that day, so i was also incommunicable :S which made matters worse. It was only during hist (1 period before the elective started) where i found out that joey wouldn't be coming and that we had to print 2 copies of the slides and reports from nyx. Great. Panic. Cause joey edited her slides for her presentation purposes and in doing so actually deleted off some info. So, in order to take over her slides, i needed that info, which meant i'd have to edit the slides. Which i didn't have time to do. more panic.

Elective was right after history. History ended late. We rushed to the gate to get the prototypes from joey's mom, then rushed to the elective room where we were rather late :/ Then we requested for time to do a bit of editing and to go and print, explaining our circumstances to kenneth tan. whilst nyx went to take her birdcage casing, i tried to do editing on her mac. FAIL. i was major panicking because macs don't behave like windows and the VP (another of our teachers) looked pretty pissed off at us cause we looked totally unprepared. Which is totally unfair to say.

Then we had to go print the report and slides. Which, may i mention, they only smsed us like...at 10+~ 11. elective's at 3. we have lessons in between. To make matters even worse, zap's computer was super duper epicly slow. so by the time we finished printing we were like...40 mins late. VP was epicly pissed with us as well. Especially since we looked super unprepared :/

So sitting down and watching the other group, whilst feeling not as prepared as we should be (especially since we had to take on new slides)...the whole thing started. The first group was long since not even competition (not that this was a competition :P). They read from scripts. Not even cue cards. Scripts. They're information were simply. Not really enough. So it kinda gave me more confidence :X

The 2nd group were the TA kids. They're natural speakers (: But then as they described the packaging of their phone, me and nyx immediately did um. handsigns under the table. RIP OFF. FREAKING RIP OFFS. freakingfreakingfreakingnooobs... it was an obvious rip off. because the week before we had elevator pitches to do where nyx described the tube packaging of our phone. And the TA girl, nicole was still asking us about how impt would packaging be since packaging isn't really seen. Guess what their packaging was? Snow globe like. Obvious rip off. They wouldn't even have thought of packaging if not for our group and our tube packaging. No wonder they wanted to go first. freak. However, although they were good speakers. they're presentation was rather draggy and unprofessional :/ talking about surveying, they kept going "we asked our friends" etc.

Then it was nyx and my turn to present. Nyx started with the features and everything. I thought she was pretty good. i also thought that our prototypes would own, cause the first group had none, whilst the TA kids used a file and paper as visual aid. We were the only ones with proper awesome looking models. Then it was my turn where i was super duper nervous :/ but according to nyx it was ok, so~ AND we also had a video advertisement which none of the other groups had. Which makes it obvious that our group put in the most effort and were technically the most professional :x We were the only group with SWOT. And the vp was commenting for the TA kids presentation that it'd be good if they had swot. Hah.

But what makes me really pissed is the teachers' evaluation of our presentations. They focused more on the positive side for the first two groups and more on the negative side for our group. it was really obvious that it's cause we caused a delay :| but that's seriously unfair.

For example. VP complimented the TA group for having visual aid (i.e. their file and paper).

What he said about our prototypes: Never let it leave our hands during the presentation cause it distracts the viewers (ok, that was a good point)
Then he also commented how nice it was to have the rubber grip for fidgeting like he taught us before, but "who knows if the rubber would come off" wts?! Furthermore, we said the fidgeting was the 360degree turn. the rubber grips was to prevent the phone from dropping easily. seems like he hasn't been listening.

So basically a whole lot of stuff the VP said about our group was our shortcomings. He didn't even mention how we had SWOT and the other groups didn't even after commenting before that SWOT is good. He didn't even mention anything really good about our phone models, choosing to comment on our lack of foresight and that only. Now, this would be ok, if he had done the same with the other groups. But no. For the first group, who paled in comparison (not ego talking), he didn't say much negative things about them. Said a lot of good things, how they seemed confident about what they were saying. Seriously? i couldn't see. He complimented the TA group, said they used visual aid, yadayada. Our group? Nothing much nice. The only thing probably was "i'm really heartened to see the effort all of you have put in" which he basically said to every group.

Then the other teacher said that our presentation should be less solemn and we should rely less on paper. WHUT?! Ok. solemn, fine. Black and white slides :X BUT relying on paper?! i only looked at my post its 2~3 times before i didn't even rely on them especially cause of joey's slides. Nyx didn't use paper either. The first group basically held the scripts in front of them and read (had some eye contact) and that wasn't even commented on. And they're telling US to not rely on paper?! W.T.S. ._.

Yea, so i'm really annoyed at the injustice of it all. Negative feedback is one thing. But couldn't they have told us what we did well as well? They didn't seem to have any qualms giving the other groups positive feedback. Thanks.

Seriously, i learnt almost nothing from this course. All the work in the presentation was the things i learned in sec 3. SWOT and etc. :/ sigh. What was an awesome topic has just been ruined by those stupid teachers. -disappointed-

Anyway, i really hate my math tuition teacher. Really really. LOL but the previous rant has left me in a not-ranting mood.

So anyways, yesterday went to use the B&Js ice cream voucher and then study with hui jia, jj, nyx and joey. i fail really badly. managing to drop the voucher D: luckily jj had kop-ed one voucher from jasmine so we still had one left. i really really fail badly >_< meh. Ice cream was good though xD And studying at macs was...

small table :X but got some math done xD creepy overly cheerful music from the prize stations across macs served as bg music. Made nyx go mad though xD but seriously...scary music :X like clowns LOL. not that i'm scared of clowns, but the same concept :X

can't wait for tues tues tues. see my beloved cchms and dearly missed frieeeeeends :D

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