Hmmm, how should I describe yesterday?
We made plans to go to Johor Bahru, Malaysia as soon as our presentation ended. It was meant to be our last presentation yesterday.
We reached school as usual, 9am and sat outside the class due to the lecturer stating that only the group presenting will be allowed inside, with the exception of each group's representative to ask questions.
He was the one who said that each group is only given 20 minutes at most to present and the question-and-answer session. He was the one who said that each member is to keep the speech to 1 and 1/2 minute.
So, why did he allow blatantly allow the groups to cover more than 30 minutes of presentation, hence exceeding the timing and left the two last groups hanging?
It pissed me off to no end that we got scammed into coming to the non-existing class, wasting two full hours sitting outside the classroom in our formal wear.
This is what I hate about people. He was the one who make it a point to say those instructions and everyone was present to hear it last week. Therefore, it is only polite and correct to adhere to the instructions.
Even if the students themselves exceeded their allocated timing, then, proper timekeeping should be made. I don't see a problem with Special Interest Tourism presentation a couple of weeks ago. The lecturer made sure that there is 5 minutes grace should a group exceeded time.
Naturally, we were angry, given that we are the 4th group. When the 3rd group finished, the hour was up and the lecturer had to rush to another class. Please, don't do something you can't even keep.
If he had wanted a long presentation, just say so and allocated the presentations over 2 weeks, alright? This is common sense. Don't go making false promises just because you are a lecturer.
The worst thing was, he assumed that we will be free, for him, and he wanted us and the last group to present at 1pm. Sheesh, what did he think he is? That we exist purely for him, for the school?!
So, we told him, that we are leaving Singapore at this moment and we will not be free. Which is true, we already made plans to go JB in Malaysia to sort of celebrate.
And he did not apologise to us. Please, for god's sake. The least thing you could do is to say you are sorry for keeping us waiting. Sighs, this shows that teachers aren't infallible and have no sense of apologetic.
Originally, he wanted us to go back on a Friday to present but a friend said that he is flying off on Friday, again due to his empty promise that he will change his class to a Tuesday. Urgh, what is the matter with him, anyway!
Anyway, so now, we're still not done with our presentation and had to go back to school on Tuesday to present, from 11pm to 12pm.
We took group pictures and surprisingly, we took a class photo too. For a class that never bond in 1 year, this is really surprising.
We changed and took a bus to Woodlands and from there, take the MRT to Jurong Est interchange before going up the bus to Malaysia.
It was quite exciting actually. I have never travel overseas with friends before.
The bus sped all the way to JB and we were shocked that the bus seemed to know where to stop and the commuters seemed know where to the bus, when there are no bus-stops. The commuters stood under trees and the bus will pick them up. Strange.
We had fun in the big shopping mall called Jusco. They ate at Pizza Hut and I had take-away KFC. The food is cheap there. Of course, we mustn't forget Baskin Robbins! The one we did for the franchise project.
The ice-cream cakes look so nice and the flavours are plenty. Too bad there is no Love Potion. We ordered triple scoop ice-cream and it costs us 13 ringgit, which is cheap for us. Normally, one scoop would have cost around S$ 3 plus.
We did some window-shopping and walking around. I though that their OPI nail polish will be cheaper there but, alas, that's not true.
By 5.30pm, we were leaving the place and had to walk a long way in order to take the bus home.
It was fun, albeit a little too short. Although my feet were killing me.
