Monday, March 07, 2005

finally, cleared 30% of HRM with the presentation and interview on the topic "Selection" today. i'd love to type out what my project group did for this topic but it's too long and draggy and it'll end up being incoherent and u'll prolly be bored to death. so i'll juz summarize. for the sake of myself so when i read my archives 10 years down the road, i'll know what happened. =) basically, our project group is supposedly a team of HR people from P&G to select an applicant for a position of an Associate Product Manager in the baby care division. the entire class had to submit their resumes for my group to review and finally, 2 applicants were chosen for the interview. so rubin and me interviewed these 2 applicants (the 2 smartest guys in my class, i feel) today and one of them actually made us lose face a little by asking a question that was really quite difficult to answer cuz it's about P&G and since we aren't really from P&G, we merely smoked our way through. and it was embarrassing cuz the whole class that was there as oberservers were laughing. sheesh. lesson: next time when u go for an interview, don't outsmart the interviewers. they won't pick u to fill the post. ya anyway, we picked the other guy who was more humble and gave better answers and was very confident and composed throughout the whole interview. there was a lot to learn from this project. it wasn't the usual boring presentation where u present whatever research u've done. there was role-playing for this topic, and a lot sponteneity (how-tf do u spell this) was required. cuz u'll nv know u'll get outsmarted by the interviewee. so, even though we over-ran the presentation by half an hour (we used up 2 whole hours), the tutor commented that it was quite successful and she was smiling when she said that. so i guess we're all gonna get a pretty decent score for this project.

the english test i had was pretty easy. cept that i careless omitted some "dashes" in my answers which are apparently very important. what's more important is, it's over. but i'll be back to bitch if i find out that i didn't do well for it when results are out.

i intended to fix my camera for my hall's DND but the canon customer service man said it'll cost me $250 inclusive of gst to repair the optical lens. that's like half of what the camera cost when i bought it. fecking expensive. so i didn't repair. firstly, i don't have $250 by next week to pay up. secondly, i didn't even drop the camera or did anything harmful that could've spoilt the lens. lastly, the repair price is juz too high. the camera first showed signs of deteriorating lens was 2 months back. sometimes it worked fine. other times, it's juz dark on the screen. but it's not the problem with my lcd screen. it's the lens. i can look at the photos stored in the CF card. but it's problem of the lens. then until more recently, the lens totally died. don't buy fecking canon products. canon failed me three times. my 2 printers and now the camera.

i miss home.

janet at 5:28 PM