from green to black

tough week

like all odd weeks, this one is tough. thankfully it
has been saved by bits of humour and very hmmm happy
conincidences, twice so far. i certainly felt very
lucky then.

so it happens that i have to do a lot of things by
myself, like research for 2 whole project presentations.
well it seems like i tend to get people who tend to
believe that i am the best person to do the job. right
much as i dont mind being thought of as more capable
i do mind when people dont pull their weight.

so here goes a story, about a presentation that has
just passed. its a story about why i CANT STAND
insecure GUYS (girls have legitimate excuses due to
their mental wiring so lets focus on the guys, cant
comment about a mind i've never been in right?)

have you ever had a guy come to you wondering if he
can ever do anything right? well chances are if you
only knew older macho traditional stubborn arrogant
men. no. but this new breed of metros, emos and
pretty boys really take the cake, because they can
be so girl-like unsure of themselves!!!!

this project group member, has presentation fears
because he does not know about the subject. he's
studying to be an engineer in case you are wondering,
and its a singapore studies module so he can S/U it.
he doesnt do any work or research or reading and
expects the group to do everything for him. of course
we end up doing it. why mess up the groups performance
when this clown will just exercise his option of not
counting this grade in his score.

so he goes, " how ah i berry worried, i dunnoe, very
stress, how ah?"

me, " come lah, never mind i help you, what you dunnoe?"
proceeds to give a comprehensive lecture on his part
specifically outlining key points.

him," wahh thank you ah, thank you, master, you're so
zai" (did i ever tell you i hate suck ups?)

me," eh dun call me master lah, more importantly, you
understand or not? at least learn something from the
course lah."

him, " dunnoe leh. i'm not sure lah. i scared to try."

me, "ok, which part you dont understand? i explain again"

him, " dunnoe lah, everything lor, sound so confusing."

me, " huh really everything ah?" another member comes
so i had to re-explain everything again. i even typed it
on his computer so he could see the darn key points.

and imagine this, a continuous i'm not good enough and
me comforting him throughout the whole week before the
presentation. then on the night before came the big shock
(ok, not a shock anymore, because i expected it. if people
dont do their work which they say they will mail to you,
they probably didnt do anything, so i prepared the whole
project.) he really didnt do anything!!! so he made me
explain it to him again online.

and the best part! he copied and pasted my answers and my
pre-prepared script unto his script. he even demanded i
skip my lecture before the tutorial to go through the
presentation with him one more time.

i ignored his sms in my lecture of course. there is a limit.
though i did rush out after the lecture to give him
more last minute pointers.

in the end, we did our presentation. he was the first
speaker and i would round things up. things didnt look
good at first, and the class was unimpressed with the
mumbling and fumbling through. then it was my turn. the
presentation ended more favourably after that. the
clincher? the tutor clapped and then asked me, hey
how come not all of your group members presented? and
she pointed at him.

me," no ma'am, he was the first speaker"

laugher and applause. nuff said.

posted by green unseen @ 7:50 AM