Speak from your heart: September 2007

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Draw Wellington~

today was the world architecture day~~~
around the welly city, there are 3 main spots, The lambton quay, the cuba street and courtney place were packed with people from all walks of life showing their creative side on DRawIng! Sounds cool huh? at 1st i tot all of us are allowed to draw anything that u want on the road with white chalks...Been ages since i didnt draw. As wyne is archi student, so she is in charge of one of the site, me & elun also went along with her, tumpang go hav fun^^ I guess it must be an unique event~

After b'fast, we walked to the destination assigned... there are quite a lot of archi students gathered there dy... They provide us with only white chalks, i tot i could get more colourful chalks..aiks! sad to say, there is not much ppl passed by, so it was still pretty quiet~ prob the wellingtonians are not awake yet...hehe soon later, they laid out black paper on the pathway of the street, so we begin our drawing journey ^^ there are many of them laid down on the paper, doing all kinds of pose, asking their frenz to draw the outline of their appearance...hehe we tot of doing so bt then the paper in front of us is not big enough, so v jz draw stg randomly...but then end up drawing the building in front of us after v are told to do so...luckily it still fun although we could not draw wat v wanted~ lol Wyne was busying help out but me n elun started drawing the BIstro restaurant, the indian & m'sian cusine restaurant which is just in front of us...
(Elun & I started drawing...kaka)

( in the process....i m so serious into drawing....^^)

there was abit of awkward when those u see those archi student showing their wonderful talent when they begin to draw! their drawing is so nice, u just could tell which is drawn by BCA(bachelor of commerce & admin) student & which is by BA(bachelor of architecture) students...LOL>.<>
( one of the architecture student- see his drawing- so nice! so pro!)

(Masterpiece drawn by me,elun n wyne...)not bad huh?

(yeah! me with my drawing!)

(Elun & I....)

( With wyne...)

( our hand prints....Elaine is Elun's crush...hehe)

(that's the reflection ...hehe)

(wyne with this two drawn 'creature')

( can u notice that there is actually a ppl standing beside the atm machine? lol)

In between, the tutors gave out some mini choco bar & the chocolate fish!

About 12 stg, we were done with drawing, feeling bit sien so v cabut....went to visit Sebestian instead at Cuba Street. Cuba street is more happening, i guess its some sort like bukit bintang back home where there are many ppl passed by... We continued drawing...hehe drawing the buildings, all kinds of animal n cartoon characters that we could think of...haha
( posing while drawing....haha)

(drawing at cuba street..)

( happening cuba st.- evyone is busy drawing...)

(wyne,sebestian & elun are concentrating in drawing as well...)

( this is part of my drawing...hehe ^^)

After lunch at Abra Kebab at Manners St, we accompany Elun shopping at Hallenstines...while Elun is trying out the clothes, three of us hav cam-whoring again lalala~~~~

Friday, September 28, 2007

MGmt simulation

Dear readers,

2day I got mad for my mgmt simulation. Last 2 wks,I was bz-ing working on a big project of planning the production of paper bags. At 1st i was glad dat I m the production manager for my tutorial group as I thought i will be designing bags for the production. During the planning phase, indeed i m asked to design bags, but not to come out with creative ideas of making beautiful bags, yet to come out with the fastest way of doing brown paper bags in 30 mins time.*sweat* It still goes well with me though. AT first, I figured out how a paper bag is folded, then i try on my own to fold the paper bags. I came out with two designs for the base, then after discussion among our tut group, v hav chosen the base which looks more simpler n easier to them( well, i agreed with them though).

Time flies. Upon entering the 2nd wk of the planning phase, there began a wave of tension among all of us. Me myself, jiejah & wan ling (as the training manager) started to become worry n wonder how could v produce paper bags in the fastest way to hit the profit of 500 dollar to get the total 5 marks. Sadly, the general manager has also assigned me many tasks, not to say I m boosting myself, seems like I m the general manager who works evythg on it, from the design of the paper bags, making the template till the supervising the workers during the operating phase. Frankly speaking, I was indeed annoyed coz' basically my job covers evythg. Thinking of the making of the bags make me spend so much time on experimenting, measuring & trying out all kinds of methods. In between, I do hold meeting with the training team & quality control team to discuss some problems in between. Indeed planning a production is not easy, there are many problems that appear like figuring how many workers & what materials that we need, the precise measurements that we need, the most cost saving way of doing the paper bags...etc...undeniable lots of questioning that require tons of time n effort to sort it out...

Making the jig took me about 2 nights to fully complete it. Trying on papers n making the precise measurements ady took me lots of time, at the mean time cut the board of less than 0.1cm is so damn hard! I admit i m not good at using the cutter, it took me so much effort to actually cut it. At last, the line was still not straight and there are many 'crushed waste' coming out...*helpless n sad* at dat moment, I just hope that others wont blame me on my poor cutting~ But its indeed a hard task, my back aches so much after finish cutting the template! Yday I had a meeting with my tut group again to test whether how long do v make a paper bag, sadly to say it was a totally chaos, some cut it wrongly, some dint attached glue properly, some just could not get the idea how to fold it....gosh..at last, it took more than 15 mins to produce just one bag...I later try on doing it, i just took 11 mins to complete it...Perhaps bcoz the instructions are not clear enough, so I work with wan ling to improve on that n take note of evy single error that occured.
Thinking~~~
working out~~~
doing~~~~
evy moment I was thinking of how to improve of making paper bags(almost got crazy by that), how to make it better, how to make it easy for evy1 to do it, how to avoid any possibilities of error that might pop out n stuff...

feel like wanna get this done as soon as possible~~
so tired liao~~~

this morning, I woke up, still worrying on this stuff. Having the last meeting with the whole tut, not much to discuss, v hav decided on how's the production process goin on, all of us know at least know wat is their role...5pm was few hours away, but i m walking up n down, butterflies in my stomach, in my mind ~ just management simulation thats gonna operate soon! Wan ling was nervous too, she text me when i m thinking of doing so...haha...^^ Finally 4.30pm is around the clock, I got prepared n walked to Union Hall at student union building. So paiseh~ I am the last person arrived. By the time v walked into the hall, there are already heaps of people into it,perhaps all of them are anxious too...hehe ^^ V walked to our assigned tables, laid down our stuffs, waiting for our 'workers' to arrive. The operating phase of this simulation started with the purchases of materials, so our purchasing manager bought all the stationery n brown papers that v needed in the production, the marketing team went to the customer to ask for the requirements of our logos while me, the production team n training prepared for the production session.

about 4.55pm, v started our training session, but later v found out that v hav started early(nagged by Jordon)... then straight 5pm, we started the production phase, Amirah supervise the measurement n the cutting team, while me,jiejah n wan ling supervise those workers who are in charge of folding the bags while rikki n ella help in supervising those making the logos n handles. At the start, it went well as there are no any big error occurs, I m glad that a few of them were quite good at folding the paper bags...By the 1st period, thank god that v managed to produce 2 big high quality paper bags.=) after the 5mins break, v continued the 2nd period, workers are more efficient now but still our customer was quite strict & mean, they didnt gv us a high price, they were complaining that our base are not strong enough, so v pushing those workers to put more glue n fold it more precisely...At the las minute, v managed to produce the 7th paper bag i guess...But the base for the last paper bag is not strong enough, when the water bottle is placed into it, whole bag collapsed...sigh~ yet v managed to make a profit of 610 dollar. I am hapi that v got the 5 marks! =)

Yet there is another side of the story...when it comes to our turn to be the workers for the other group. I got extremely annoyed coz they took our jig to use as their template. Its so unfair!!!!!!!!!!! I heard that they make a deal with my GM saying that if they helped us got the 5 marks, we shud gv them the jig! MY GM just agree without informing me! Such a brilliant idea they hav! took our jig, n goes according about the same way as we produce, It was like copying our stuff....they know we will be more efficient coz v hav already know how to do with our own design bags. They just slightly changed the way of folding the base...AIks! I got so fed up! They are using my jig n they are producing better quality bags than us, they got their one bag sold for 150 dollar~ ish~ wat de... Ella *evil grin* keep telling me " u shud know wat to do", i nodded! hehehe (getting bad here..) all of us were not realy hapi with our managers who indirectly 'steal' our rights, so we, the workers were trying to slow down the speed ( so evil of us!!! wahaha)so that less paper bags will be produced...kakakaka.... but still we produce good paper bags for them n helped them earn heaps of profit which is almost double of our profit=(

Although we got 5 marks each, but when I think of it...I get so fed up! Unfair BUT Helpless~

From the mad & frust*** writer

THE BPG TEAM

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Wonderful spring fest!

I am too lazy to write at the moment...so just upload some wonderful pics to view...
2day went to the spring fest at botanical garden at the botanical garden...jz beyond description...its simply too beautiful...Believe it onot! All are real tulips perhaps... to welcome the lovely SPRING!=)

Flowers on the pathway...