A special Assignment

Beginning tomorrow and for a period of 2 weeks, I'll be assigned to conduct a special operation in several key areas in Brunei, along with my fellow colleagues. More updates on this will come soon.

Doesn't Seem Like a Sunday

I'm at Fizzie's right now, just about finishing our marketing report and presentation slides for tomorrow. So far so good. After all this is done tonight, I've got another task to do; my presentation script for the upcoming Language Presentation Skills Competition. My language tutor needs to see them and I'll have to do a trial run on my presentation by tomorrow afternoon. And I've only got 2 days before the big day.

Clearly I'm not enjoying my Sunday, and I don't think I'll have another perfect Sunday for the next few weeks prior to the final exams. Yep, this is gonna be fun.

HSBC Chinese New Year Dinner

Good thing I've completed my marketing assignment on time because I had been called up at the last minute to attend the HSBC Chinese New Year 2008 dinner show at ICC last night. I had to operate the projectors throughout the event. It was an all-Chinese show. Heck, I didn't really understand a word, so I just sat there by the mixer throughout the show punching buttons on the projector controls till the whole thing ends.

Furthermore, I was in my 'kusut' mode last night because I was supposed to be at home to print my assignment, the last thing I needed to do before submitting the whole work today. As a result, I had to sleep late.

The End of Procrastination

Finally, my first attempt of avoiding procrastination this year is fulfilled. Our group managed to complete our report assignment on time. Due to be submitted tomorrow, we were able to start compiling everything as early as last weekend.

This is a marketing assignment on Consumer Behavior and Advertising Analysis, and we've decided to focus on the Nintendo Wii as our product research. It has been a really interesting research that we've conducted so far.

At last, I should be able to get a really good sleep tonight.

Reflections

Just got out of the meeting room for our Business Project meeting. Apparently the whole school yearbook project has been brought up. (most of us thought the idea was scrapped). Looks like this is gonna be the toughest year for us. It's what 'final year' is all about.

Only less than 5 months until our final exams. My statistics class is still crap. If I don't score my stats well, I wouldn't make it for the work attachment. I've already planned out where I wanna go after this course, but it seems that the whole stats issue has been a huge barrier that's been getting in my way.

And now we've got 3 huge projects to organize within a period of 4 months; Social Responsibility, Main Event (Mini-Expo and Consultation Week in campus) and the Yearbook. The Yearbook is probably the most challenging task ever to be given to students in the history of the Business School. What's more, I'm elected as the lead designer for that project. Whew, there's just so many things I have to do at a very limited given time!

Mr Iswandi did, however, stressed out a very important message to us during the meeting. "If you're able to accomplish all the projects, assignments and your studies altogether, then you are able to do time management well, and that reflects how you're able to work under pressure because this is what's gonna happen in real life once you get a job."

He's right. I should be able to do all this. It's what I've dreamed of, to work under pressure. I realized now that I've been put under a test, and I should prove to them what I can really do. But simply saying it isn't enough. I gotta start doing something about it NOW.

Assignment Blues

...and I thought I promised to myself to end procrastination and get my work done on time. But noooo ~. 3 holiday assignments and all of them getting done in the last minute. The worst one would have to be my Business Accounting assignment, the toughest of all 3, covering on Ratio Analysis.

But on the positive side, the whole experience on analyzing accounting ratios on a particular plc sure pays off, as I began to realize out of all that... well, I think I've found a new hobby that I could consider venturing on; Real Estate. Hey, won't hurt giving it a shot. ;)

"Would you prefer Stocks, Bonds and Notes with that?"