What a short week
Yep... that's right... what a short week! Though the week isn't through, but I can sense that the days past by so fast since there's Labour Day and Friday is the Port Tour.
On Tuesday, I finally had the chance to present in front of all the Big Shots during the IT Management Meeting. Was slightly nervous in the beginning cos' this was the first time that I ever has presented in such a big group alone. So right after lunch, I prepared myself for the presentation: Making last minute notes to my slips of speech, relieving myself as many times as I could and constantly reminded myself that I must be confident. Thanks to Dar and all my poly intern frds who gave me their full support.
So the meeting started around 3plus in the noon. I was called after the first item (My presentation was placed 2nd) had finished. Went into the room and my manager began introducing me to the rest of the Big Shots and I began the presentation.
Overall, neither did I fare too good nor bad. I think my presentation was so-so. Despite my small nervousity which resulted in some stuttering, I managed to finish it w/o committing the major mistakes. I felt that I could do better in future presentation, perhaps maybe in the areas of maintaining eye contact plus speaking more fluently. At first I thought the Q & A session was going to be an easy one, since during the flow of the presentation there wasn't much major questions raised. Then, a big shot questioned me about my interview samples as he felt that I did not provide a realistic or concrete representation on the process of choosing the interviewees. He mentioned about statistical data, the sampling distribution, confidence intervals blah blah blah... very mathematical... which was totally different from the simple statistical data that I've presented. I was rather dumbfounded at first and started to defend myself abit. But the same questions rebounded back. Luckily, the Biggest Shot and the rest of the management helped me to and tried to defend my point. This attack and defend situation lasted for quite a while and I seemed to be in the midst of a crossfire. So in fact, the rest of the management found it ok with my simple data except for this Big Shot. I've heard that he is one of those who likes to ask difficult questions to determine the confidence of the presenter. To my surprise so far, he is known to be good to his employees and generally likes to hunt for talented employees. Back to the point regarding the sampling distribution thingy, it really didn't occur to me at all that I have to put in all these data. It's an undeniable fact that statistics play an important role in supporting arguments and facts but I felt that there were constraints to actually provide such detailed data for my presentation. Instead I would prefer to highlight my points in a simpler form, so that everybody could understand as long as it doesn't sound totally ridiculous.
After the whole presentation, the biggest shot shared with us some of his ideas and views on my presentation. He seemed satisfied with my observations and I felt that he was encouraging. I was also satisfied(including my manager) with my performance but I felt that I have alot to improve on. I'm still far from being a good presenter. Nevertheless, this really provides me an opportunity to gain some experience. No matter in what we do, even if it's right or wrong, it's the learning that counts. :)
In the evening, I met Dar in school after my work. She had her Final paper and marked the end of her education life. Yea! Hope she will score with rocketing results in her final semester! Feel so happy for her and I'm going to have another tiring year of university life to endure... Haiz. We went back to my home and had dinner prepared by mama. This basically sums up the activities in Tuesday.
Wednesday just ended a few hours ago. Met up Leng Tris Tat QQ Dar to watch movie together. We watched the "Forbidden KingDom" which starred Jet Li, Jackie Chan, 2 beautiful oriental babes and an Ang Moh. This show, should only be recommended to a person who 1) enjoys watching chinese Kung-fu movies with English Talking characters, 2) is an Ang Moh with a passion for Chinese-KungFu, 3) Like Chinese translated into Ang Moh Proverbs and not vice versa, 4) A Jackie Chan and Jet Li supporter. Haha... I still feel that Chinese KungFu shows shouldn't include Ang Moh conversations. Some proverbs sounded so weird in Ang Moh.
I'm also quite tired to write anything le. So most probably I'll be blogging tmr if I have the time.
^_^
On Tuesday, I finally had the chance to present in front of all the Big Shots during the IT Management Meeting. Was slightly nervous in the beginning cos' this was the first time that I ever has presented in such a big group alone. So right after lunch, I prepared myself for the presentation: Making last minute notes to my slips of speech, relieving myself as many times as I could and constantly reminded myself that I must be confident. Thanks to Dar and all my poly intern frds who gave me their full support.
So the meeting started around 3plus in the noon. I was called after the first item (My presentation was placed 2nd) had finished. Went into the room and my manager began introducing me to the rest of the Big Shots and I began the presentation.
Overall, neither did I fare too good nor bad. I think my presentation was so-so. Despite my small nervousity which resulted in some stuttering, I managed to finish it w/o committing the major mistakes. I felt that I could do better in future presentation, perhaps maybe in the areas of maintaining eye contact plus speaking more fluently. At first I thought the Q & A session was going to be an easy one, since during the flow of the presentation there wasn't much major questions raised. Then, a big shot questioned me about my interview samples as he felt that I did not provide a realistic or concrete representation on the process of choosing the interviewees. He mentioned about statistical data, the sampling distribution, confidence intervals blah blah blah... very mathematical... which was totally different from the simple statistical data that I've presented. I was rather dumbfounded at first and started to defend myself abit. But the same questions rebounded back. Luckily, the Biggest Shot and the rest of the management helped me to and tried to defend my point. This attack and defend situation lasted for quite a while and I seemed to be in the midst of a crossfire. So in fact, the rest of the management found it ok with my simple data except for this Big Shot. I've heard that he is one of those who likes to ask difficult questions to determine the confidence of the presenter. To my surprise so far, he is known to be good to his employees and generally likes to hunt for talented employees. Back to the point regarding the sampling distribution thingy, it really didn't occur to me at all that I have to put in all these data. It's an undeniable fact that statistics play an important role in supporting arguments and facts but I felt that there were constraints to actually provide such detailed data for my presentation. Instead I would prefer to highlight my points in a simpler form, so that everybody could understand as long as it doesn't sound totally ridiculous.
After the whole presentation, the biggest shot shared with us some of his ideas and views on my presentation. He seemed satisfied with my observations and I felt that he was encouraging. I was also satisfied(including my manager) with my performance but I felt that I have alot to improve on. I'm still far from being a good presenter. Nevertheless, this really provides me an opportunity to gain some experience. No matter in what we do, even if it's right or wrong, it's the learning that counts. :)
In the evening, I met Dar in school after my work. She had her Final paper and marked the end of her education life. Yea! Hope she will score with rocketing results in her final semester! Feel so happy for her and I'm going to have another tiring year of university life to endure... Haiz. We went back to my home and had dinner prepared by mama. This basically sums up the activities in Tuesday.
Wednesday just ended a few hours ago. Met up Leng Tris Tat QQ Dar to watch movie together. We watched the "Forbidden KingDom" which starred Jet Li, Jackie Chan, 2 beautiful oriental babes and an Ang Moh. This show, should only be recommended to a person who 1) enjoys watching chinese Kung-fu movies with English Talking characters, 2) is an Ang Moh with a passion for Chinese-KungFu, 3) Like Chinese translated into Ang Moh Proverbs and not vice versa, 4) A Jackie Chan and Jet Li supporter. Haha... I still feel that Chinese KungFu shows shouldn't include Ang Moh conversations. Some proverbs sounded so weird in Ang Moh.
I'm also quite tired to write anything le. So most probably I'll be blogging tmr if I have the time.
^_^
