This author is currently on hiatus for the ignoble cause of mugging. The public is advised to remain calm, as this routine protocol has been shown to have no effect on one's violent tendencies in 96% of cases.
| Thursday, June 28, 2007 |
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I must say the Hwa Chong Internation Forum Series has been an astounding success. Except for the fact that it can't exactly fail, since it's just having an invited speaker in the school for slightly more than an hour, unless of course he and the entire Organising Team suddenly get struck by dengue and can't turn up for the event. So i was in charge of logistics for Forum I yesterday. Even though that was the first time i was in an actual OT, the experience was rather...slack. I mean, there's not much logistics to take care of for a one-hour talk, right?! Especially when half the work (venue, speaker, transport etc.) have already been taken care of liao. Eventually, the only thing i needed to do was to arrange for a sofa set, table and a vase of flowers for decoration, all of which were available at the library. It took me all of 30 secs to just inform the librarian that we needed to borrow the stuff, and it was an immediate "OK". Needless to say, i think it was quite a waste of time and manpower, having a full-fledged OT for a simple event. Serously, i think all's that needed was just an OS and an assistant, and maybe a bit of IT help from mediatech to make it work. Sure, the speaker's an all-important Hungarian ambassador - His Excellency Tamas Magda - who's come to tell us about the European Union and such, but is that much preparation really necessary? Perhaps the main reason why SLim wants to have so many extra people around is just so he can have a bit of extra voluntary manpower while making us feel important playing our "multi-faceted roles", heh. I ended up being an extra runner/doorman on the day itself (after moving the sofa set, of course.) Perhaps another motive also to ensure that there would be more people at the rehersals (the entire OT had to attend it) so there would be more victims of slim's roaring. I mean, he'll start shouting That said, i think the emcees got the brunt of the tongue-lashing. Apparently joyceling was supposed to coach the emcees, check through the script and all, but she sucks. And it all ends up being our fault as we were doing "last-minute work". I mean, slim roared for almost 10 minutes straight just because the script read "Jason Wong, Dean of Studies" (it's Dean of Student Care) even after it had already been approved by her. Luckily a phone call interrupted him, else the rehersals would have been delayed even longer - we were already dismissed half an hour late. D: Still, i guess there's some advantages of this, hehe. Firstly, the title does look good in a portfolio, despite the amount of work i actually did, lol. Secondly, there's the CIP hours (which i don't really need anyway, meh.) And lastly, we got to skip PCME after assembly to attend a tea reception with the ambassador. xD |
'Twas teh winnar at 12:51 am.
