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posted : Monday, September 2, 2013
title : Project group

I expected many projects that I have to do since I take Project and Facilities Mangement as my main course of study in the uni. However, the first project of my uni life is much tougher than I thought,  not the content but the people.

When the professor announced the group members in my team, my first reaction was "Sh*t". Y? This was because I was with a group of friends all from YJ. I saw them before but I didnt talk to them in jc. Thus I felt a bit uncomfortable just to imagine to work with them. Even I was not that willing to work with them, I couldnt change group -^-. We agreed to meet up on sunday for the project in UTown. God! I had to travel to school on sunday and it was so far away from my house. Majority agreed.

We should do some research before we meet up but due to my going-to-spoilt com, I just did a very brief one and went for the meeting today.

We started off with the analyzing of the questions since the questions seem to be easy but a bit tricky as well. Part a asked about the steps to time management for a project manager and the second question asked about the suggestions to let people know better about project mangement. After analysing, we gone forward to discuss about the overview. This was when I had some problems with the group of friends.

My opinion was that the approach should be focusing on the big picture then zoom down to individual phase using a certain example. However, they felt that we should just focus on one small area. This would just make the project scope to narrow down. If we going to take that approach, then the content we would be able to cover in the report would be minimal. However, they thought that we might not be able to complete the report in time as we had to hand in everything by the following Thursday. They should use their brains lo. We had a total of 7 members in a group and we were only supposed to produce a report of 10 pages. If each one of us cobtributed to one part, we could finish it in no time. After arguing for a short while, we could not even a conclusion. Thus, we proceeded with the content first.

As they discussed further, I found that they were way off from what they mentioned previously. So contradicting since they just rejected my suggestion to the max. The most retard thing they did was to use the planning one of the member took out to illustrate the time took in different phases. They was so happy when they saw the whole planning for a certain project had been planned out nicely already. This made them like those cheapo aunties who see discount items (their expressions were exactly like that). Could u imagine I was just sitting at a corner giving this kind of facial expression -___-"?! As they discussed, I found that there was a major problem among us. The problem was that the ex-YJians thought that we had the same thinking as them but we were not. In the end, I gave up on the first part becuse I really didnt know what they were going to do with it.

Therefore, I forcused on the second part. It was about the suggestions. That meant that we should define a certain problem n suggest a solution for that. They talked a lot about enhancing the knowledge. Then I was like '?? Is that the problem or the solution? ' because from their 5 min speech I could not figure out what they trying to say pertening to the question. So I did what I was good at - question them. Again they didnt understand what I was trying to say lo even thought I asked whether that was the problem or the solution.  They kept saying is to enhance people knowledge. !@#?* I felt like cursing them.

After a while, the China YJian finally understand what I was saying n answered,"we can enhance it by having more classes... through mass media..."(in the end they also didnt include this in the report) -___-" I was waiting for them to say this earlier lo. We should not waste each other anymore so I told them to say the mainpoints. Then they thought I was in a rush. God! Y I was ended in a group of low efficiency!!!

After all the rubbish, they started to split the work. Obviously I took the last part that I would not have to messy up with them.

Then this afternoon, they approached the professor whether they were on the right track. Ha ha we interpreted the first part wrongly n had to redo everything again. Glad that I didnt do the first part. *Evil* Serve them right ^^.