Whew.

Last Sunday was the worst nightmare I ever had for an outing. Bad luck fell upon the group of us who went to East Coast to celebrate Gillian's birthday. First was that Donald crashed into a bloody Chinese foreign worker, and literally bent the wheel of that dude's bike. He was learning how to ride a bike you see.. And had to chiong, so that he wouldn't topple down. Still can't believe that he doesn't know how to ride a damn bike, when he's like rather active in sports one. Diaoz. In the end, we wasted our bike rental to spend time argueing with that idiot and Donald compensated him 19 bucks for the filmsy wheel of his (+ pedal, which came off and shoved back in). Next was that we were waiting for the last bus at bus stop (to go home), outside the east coast food court or watever you call that place. After waiting for several minutes, the last bus came and sped off in front of us. Stupid lor! It was the only bus that was servicing that bus stop, and it actually didn't bother to stop or what. But yeaa.. i can still say the day sort of alright ba.. We should do that chilli game sometime soon.. :D
Had a quarrel with a group of my classmates earlier today.. I just feel that they should have voiced their opinions earlier about the grouping for UO2 on the day itself we decided, rather than wait till the next day to settle it. If you are unhappy with the groupings, voice it out. Don't make swop changes to the so-called groupings, and make us assume that you have agreed with it. It's really over the board to write the word "Rejected" all over the paper itself instead of signing their signatures, which pisses me personally. I don't think it's funny. I bet that Alistair himself was feeling that too, when I spoke to him about it at first. Now, he have to get another freakin' piece of paper or erase all those stuffs. What sort of respect do you have for him as the new class monitor? It's totally unacceptable that to give the reason that we had agreed to draw lots on Friday, and not yesterday so it was invalid.. Then, why didn't you all say so earlier? To tell the truth, I have persuaded Alistair repeatedly to do it as soon as possible, since the UO2 project was given out so that we can get our hands onto the project soon. 3 weeks for the project isn't alot of time. Not only that, it's really a huge trouble for Alistair to write a customise message to each group about the grouping and the problems, and send it to everyone else, when the effort comes to naught. Also, the balloting was absolutely fair. What's more the top players of the 'game' is evenly spreaded I would say.
[Retracted a statement here, so as not to offend anyone while at the same time it is rather contrary to the main point I am trying to say which is to speak up...]
I guess we'll be having another balloting tomorrow, which I hope this matter will close by itself somehow. I certainly don't mind redrawing those things again. So in conclusion, if you guys ever want a re-ballot next time, say so on the spot and don't wait for everything to happen le then ask for changes.
Going back to my tutorials...
Comments
well.. i do agree that makin changes to the groupins wil hurt.. but.. i guess.. if we voiced it out.. it wil b the same as wel baz.. things happened for a reason.. n we al noe wads the reason behind it.. lets find out a wae to resolve this.. n put it in the past baz.. it can b so easi if we do communicate.. :D
Posted by: PeI sHan | November 9, 2006 6:51 PM
Hurt? I'm perfectly with any changes to the groupings.. But what I can't stand it was the "Rejected" protest, in which the groupings were thought to have been settled. Nevertheless, I understood why you guys are unhappy with the arrangement. Just that the way things were being responsed isn't nice, you see. In the future, if there's any discontent with anything (ie feel that your group needs some changes so as to balance out), just say it out and try to resolve it once and for all.
Anyhoo, the reason we had this grouping system in the first place was to balance up the team (so that the strong can assist the weak), while at the same time mixing different individuals to work with...
Posted by: platodino | November 9, 2006 7:48 PM