Mr Lau, wanted us to rant... so...

here:

I know that “Anonymous” have been telling/ smsing some people in the class about her problems with me. However, I think it’s fair to tell my part of the story as well, and let you be the judge of what happened.

Here’s MY story:

It all started in the beginning when we were discussing about our project, I believe that it was last thursday. It all went well, we even role played as consumer and marketer to get a better point of view. As for the product, we came up with it together. Or rather, I came up with the initial idea of a calendar with recording device and then we modified it together and then we finalized it on Thursday. The company name, Cal.M was my idea, and also, we established that I should do the marketing report and that she should do the product areas as she said that she was not entirely certain/ comfortable in the marketing area. Thus, I told her I will do marketing. All was well.

And then come the weekend. Friday and Saturday, I did not hear from her at all during that period regarding BDS, all I heard was MLP, MLP and more MLP. Thus, struggling with the MLP slides, correcting “Anonymous” mistake in the slides, trying to remember my lines and typing the report for BDS, I felt overloaded as did everyone, thus I did not complain, but also managed to finish around ¾ of my report, along with everything else. I faithfully did my part without questions or complain. I only wished that “Anonymous” would show me some progress on BDS…

Then came Sunday. I was nearly ¾ of the way done and I got a real shock when I received “Anonymous” SMS stating that she’s panicking now, as she thought the deadline for BDS was on Friday! I thought that that was pure carelessness on her part, so I smsed her, saying, “You didn’t know?” and I rushed her to do her work.

On Monday, she kept saying that she was so very stressed, over and over again right before my presentation, I asked her why as she was not presenting, and yet, she still went on and on. After the presentation, we rushed to Moberly to do our work and on the way there, she brought up the subject of her mistaken due date.

She said, “Aiya! I thought submission was on Friday lei!”

I said, “Eh?! I thought Azhar made us write down the date? He also said it was Wednesday what? You not listening in class is it?”

She giggled nervously and in regret, “Eh… I wasn’t paying attention in class… But then hor, YOU should have reminded me that it was on Wednesday lei…”

I WAS SHOCKED! What?! She’s blaming me for her carelessness? I looked at her in shock and disgust. I didn’t know she was the sort to make up such ridiculous excuses and to blame others for her mistakes.

When we reached Moberly, I found out that while i have nearly completed my research and report. She merely gave me a 2 page report on product positioning, of which one page is completely redundant to me as I have already completed that part, and in much more detail as well. I waited for more, but I received none. So I asked her how was she doing, and she told me, she was still stuck on the logo… since Thursday! Nothing else is done! So I rushed her and did more of my report. That night, she sent me ONE variation on the logo. It looked like this:



I was not impressed by the logo at all, and I do not think that will be good for our grades. So the next day, I met anonymous at 10 am in hive. She has been there since 7.30 am, and I expected to see more progress. However, she merely gave me another variation on the logo, just different colour and font. Same gradient effect. So I told her to not worry about the logo as it was painful to see, and took the logo designing upon myself. In 20 mins, I came up with the logo that was chosen for submission:



Later on, I told her that I was thinking of an online survey, however, she excitedly told me that she wanted to go down to city hall to do a physical survey, and ask if I was game. Sure! So she had me print 50 copies of the survey forms. We met at the MRT at 12, so that we catch the lunch period. Rachel was SUPER NICE! She agreed to come along with us to city hall to take care of our belongings while we surveyed people.