Fried to a crisp

Gosh, don’t I feel screwed after the presentation. Have more to evaluate now, like whether I could have made it better, bugged people more aggressively for information or whatever.. Its over and we got fried to a crisp. How demoralising. This was not how I envisioned my PA to be. There were some problems in our data and the arrows juz kept coming, If I had a shield, it would resemble.. say a lotus root? I duno why but this image juz popped into my mind. Of those sliced lotus roots that’s boiled slowly in soup. It has lots of holes. Feeling whimsical now..

Its like the worse presentation ever. I mean have you ever seen a presentation that got interrupted like 10 times? Miss Chiongster started first, and was questioned repeatedly about the ratings and how they were calculated. I admit we had some data errors. That’s our fault. I’m sorry. The rest well, its really not within our control. There were no clear instructions on what to present so we produced everything that past groups did and more. How are we supposed to check placement according to planogram when we didn’t have one to begin with? *Frustration* And we did bug people for it. To no avail though. We got a pathetic handwritten sheet of the ‘right sequence’ and were instructed to ‘make do with it’. That’s just one example of many. The head of the deptmartment didn’t even bother to finish listening. After all, we spent weeks churning out the stuff. She could have bothered to sit through it, even though we’re really just lowly interns. Spider continued, and the arrows had lessened by then. The head of dept walked out like right after I started. And some other guy walked out after her. There were no more questions after that though. The arrows had ceased by then.

There was one kind soul – TK. He actually helped us to explain coz nobody bothered to listen to us when we spoke. The same kind soul who bothers to come and talk to us once in a while.

Our supervisor invited us to lunch with him for the first time after the presentation. Our first free lunch. But of cos there is no free lunch in the world. After a meal of curry fish head, veg, frog legs, chicken and you tiao with pork floss at a zi2 cha4 stall, the bomb came … “SO what do you think of your presentation?” “Could have been better right?” A meek ‘yah’…. “ Did you have enough time to complete?” “Yes we think so, its not the time, its juz that we started out with the wrong definations and we weren’t sure what to do.” “ Oh, After which the floodgates kind of burst. And dear higher power obviously didn’t like it very much. He asked TK to drive us back and he left to visit the trade or sth …

Well, if anything, its coming to an end. I shall juz keep a low profile, stay out of further bombs and get out in one piece.