I know that this will be the toughest semester ever since I laid my eyes on my POT 5 group members. I must be very sway to kenna them....
Let me introduce them man... then i shall start to write about my experience of working with them....
The Slackers
The ones who doesn't do anything or do very little normally kenging their way through or get their assignement ready-made from their close budds. I don't know man... but TP seems to be filled with them.... anyway, I got two in my group... not one ok? TWO FREAKING SLACKERS MAN.... this really ups the "die for sure" and "dread" level in me... let's name them C and S shall we?
next... we have
The NATO Veteran
Someone who has a lot of bright ideas but only knows how to NATO ( No Action Talk Only ). Wants to do this or do that... but end up doing nothing... hmm... lets name her X for simplicity sake....
finally,
The Kan Cheong Spider
Someone who panicks easily and turns crazy, throwing temperamental antics around. I thought I have somebody I can trust... turn out I was very wrong.... lets name her Y shall we?
I really dun want to do this but I feel so aggrieved and disgusted by this person that I decide to include him as well....
The Sleeper
This person turns out to be no other then my POT lecturer... this fella has been dozing off in class for more then 2 occasion... never have I encounter such things for the last 2.5 years in TP... according to my friends... he has the habit of picking his nose as well... I dunno man... but i trust my friend more then i trust this lecturer... Afterall, it was he who practically me plucked me out from a class of twenty plus and throw me in hell together with my loser group mates....
Lets call my lecturer Beatles ok? not that i have anything against the pop group beatles but he happens to be named after one of the beatles member.... so what the heck... its just a name for simplicity sake....
*Tale Start*
Practice of Technopreneurship is a module that is actually all crap and tries hard to teach TP BIT students the entreprenuership so that they won't go out to look for jobs and compete with other in the fast shrinking job market... what the heck! if they are successful they may even create jobs for fellow singaporeans... All in all it feels like a conspiracy... I think i smell a rat here... but I do know that if my fellow group losers ever get successful as an entrepreneur(s), I rather be jobless for the rest of my life and eat myself rather then work for them... anyway, we are supposed to write a business plan and present it to a mock venture capitalist roleplayed by a lecturer....
I was panicking when we were left with two weeks + for the project... so I sent out a email to them telling them wat are our respective portions and told them to try get some work done... It was the semester test week and everybody is busy with their mugging.... I sent a sms later to tell them to check their email and do their stuff while busy muggin while they have the time.... guess wat? I received a reply sms from S saying that he wants to study and concentrate on his semester test.... what a joke! his reputation as a slackers spreads far and wide... all the way till neverland I think! He and books simply cannot and should not be clustered together or even be mentioned with the same breath as it will mean an insult of such irreparable magnitude to books, knowledge and the entire academic world!
oh boy! was I entertained... being the kind gentleman i always was... i decided to play along... i wished him luck ( loser will need it anyway ) for his paper and told him to concentrate on his paper first and try to work on it if he has any free time to spare... let me emphasis on the word 'try' ok? I got a sms back from him saying that he will only start doing after the sem test. I detected a small hint of hostility from this sms and decides that something needs to be done before it escalate into something big...
So I called the f***ker on his hp and acted all friendly... i feel like a hypocrite at this stage but decides bear with it for the sake of the group. True enough, he was out and i can hear loud background noise... f**kers out either clubbing or having supper.... I pretend not to notice and try to explain the meaning of 'try' to him... when i hanged up my phone, even my bro said that i sounded damn fake over the phone.... This proves that I am no mediacorp actor material unlike my fellow losers grp mates!
I think the others probably just read and deleted the email and SMS.... anyway, no time to worry abt that at that time... need to mug for test too.... sometime during the week, miss X start bugging me to send her the email again for her... she never recieve... i think i end up sending the same email to her at least 4 times and to the rest at least two times for i really scared that they will not do their portion.
so after the term test, nobody did anything and i was greatly disturbed at this stage.... I have been appealing for their resume all this while and everyday upon checking my email, all I can find is those stupid spam mails... wrote another reminder SMS to them... but well the results are all too predictable... they are simply cant be bothered losers!
Finally got all their resumes in after hounding them like crazy. when i enquired about the status of their work, with the exception of miss Y, they haven start their work yet! i am so infuriated inside but managed not to let it show....
I felt that Miss Y is the most trustworthy and hardworking of them and decides to let her do the market research. But miss Y is unfortunately not very bright and very deluded as she still insist on doing a proper market research on the subject when the due date for the project is like 4 days away... i was telling her earlier that we should use whatever we have so far and fake the research... she then went ahead to print the survey and interviewed others... but i got to hand it to her... showing such courage under overwhelming odds... *clap , clap* Her resume shows that she's the top scholar for her sec sch some more..... smart academically, but lacks street smart i would say....
oh yes... lets talk abt the resume... i realise that S used to be in Scouts too! It suddenly dawned on me the reason why the movement seems to be declining over the years... what a loser... when i asked him about it recently, he mentioned that he was sacked for a poor showing... Ha! serve him right! Happen to look at the details of the file and discovered that the author of the document is another of my friend. S that bastard must have somehow sweet-talk my friend into passing him his copy so that he can conviniently change the things inside to show his... I feel so disgusted to be in the same course with him....
The group decide to meet up during the term break to check on progress.... C obviously decides that he is gonna be sick that day and hence its a no show for him... I kinda expect something like that from him also..... he's has been awfully low profile and quiet recently... that means something bad is brewing. To be honest... I had the unlucky chance of working with him for a project during year 1 macroeconomics... his work was done by another girl in our group then....
Miss X apparently has something wrong with her mac at home as what ever she sent to me is always gibberish and all messed up... got tired of asking things from her via email and decided to get it from her directly in school.... Miss Y, on the other hand, does not have internet connection at home....
S decides to help the group by generously contributing her gf's project for POT last year. His gf is one year older then him and currently doing a degree in a local Uni... needless to say, his gf's business plan is very solid and convincing... the bastard actually suggest handing in that copy with changes. oh guess wat? his gf's lecturer then is none other then our lecturer this year, the infamous beatles! I told him to ditch the idea immediately! Wat an idiot to even suggest it in the first place...
Now both miss X and Y holds a part-time job so meetings are quite difficult to schedule... since nobody do anything, meet also no use.
Finally three days before the deadline, miss X smsed me saying that she's doing her portion and will stay up all night to do so, i was chided for hitting the panic button. Now i get the blame laid on me.... It makes me feel
really guility man... Honestly, not only had i hit the button at that time, i had also smashed the damn thing in and ripped it off the wall... how dare she chide me for hitting the panic button! I was the one doing the compiling, submitting and printing all before the coming early monday morning!
After i managed to lay my hands on all their work for compilation purpose.... I discovered that each and everyone of them wrote abt the concepts differently and all the portions dun match together... most powerful was S who suggested did the financial sheets. He detailed a raw ingredient cost of 300 dollars for one million customers... (we are opening a novelty restaurant here). I seriously wonder if its possible to sell a food product to one million customers with a raw material cost of only $300. We must be selling air, I think....
If I were my father's age, I would have suffered a stroke, rolled over and died on the spot when I saw that he estimated an annual increase in 1 million customers a year... Singapore had 4 million people only and he wants to serve 25% of the population in a year ? Our entire market The remaining financial statements were just as bad and I have yet to encounter a restaurant of 3000 sq feet earning 200 over million dollars a year... He obviously pulled the info off someone else project.
Poor me then spent the last 2 days compiling and researching like crazy... Nothing in their respective portion of the business plan matched... why can't they even talk to each other to find out if they are on the right track ? our friend S can even quote the marketing budget prepared by C wrongly...
Miss X then smsed me on the final day at like 8+ p.m saying that she has some pictures that she would like to contribute to the project. But she couldn't make up her mind to send me which picture. I was in no mood to entertain her so i simply smsed back to her that it wasn't important to include pictures in the business plan and it was kind of her to find some pictures.... (*sarcastically* of course!).
I finally managed to finish the project at 1.45 a.m in the morning. Slept till 7 a.m then went to school to submit the damn thing. On the way to school, I decided that the hardest thing in doing project is not working hard and slaving like a dog, it's having zero amount of support from your group members! I decide at that juncture to stop being so foolish and do the project while others just enjoy the fruits of your labour. We can all fail together for all I care. I can probably scrape by with a lousy grade. Decided to wash my hands of the presentation. I will just prepare my portion of the slides for the presentation... I didn't turn up for the presentation rehearsal as I felt that it wouldn't make a difference... I guess that it really infuriated ms Y as I casually arrived two hours late by going to another group's lecture and was scolded by her infront of the whole class... embarassing for me I admit.... I apologised of course saying that i need to go for my medical checkup later... which was true anyway... I was way past caring what the group thinks of me at this stage.
anyway, our presentation bombed terribly as Beatles said that we were not convincing enough although I doubt that he was even listening in the first place since he's sleeping or dozing off most of the time....
To my dismay, we have to work together for another portion of the module.... I dread doing projects wih them again...
This entry is getting too long... Think I shall stop now....
