Class presentation for BMW today! I am really heartened by the level of enthusiasm of my group mates in preparing for it. Honestly, despite the labor we went through making the slides, we had a pretty good time together. :)

I must highlight the fact that for some of us, making a pitch isn't an easy task to go through. I myself, I admit, public speaking isn't my forte. I have to thank my mate Ganghao and Eric, for carrying the extra burden of making the presentation. I would have offered to do so but I don't feel secure without adequate preparations. Eric appeared to have experienced a little stage-fright. Whenever, I fail at something, I always remind myself of President Theodore Roosevelt's quote (which uses a boxing analogy):

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

I sent an SMS to both Eric and Ganghao: "Good job for the presentation! It wasn't perfect, but then again, nothing ever is :)"

Ganghao's reply was, "No problem. I just do what I can, having fun I guess lol."

:)

Everybody is unique in his or her own ways. Some talents are concrete (obvious) while, others are more subtle. In a team, what matters to me is that you give whatever you are better at. If you can't, you've got your friends to carry you through not just literally, but through support and encouragement. Don't matter, it's over. Looking on the bright side, I'm just really motivated to give it my 101% for the other project commitments after today.

On a lighter note, the twins in my group, Yilin and Yating are super adorable/funny. We wanted to print our DM Brief today. After printing everything, we just left the WHOLE FILE in the photocopying room. Can you imagine that! We went to collect it, and after exiting the library, we realized we left our marks allocation slip behind. My jaw literally dropped. We searched the room for it but it was nowhere. Guess where we found it after that? Yating and Yilin stapled them to another copy of the brief we printed for Nee's group! It's seriously drama quality.

Yilin are you reading this? It's payback for your content in your blog :P