Tuesday, August 12, 2008 @ 2:47 PM
Entrepreneurship Day is over!
After nearly 3 months of struggling, it’s finally over! Entrepreneurship Day (ED) is finally over and I guess I did manage to do quite well at the end of the day. I give my best and I’m happy with the results. The day before, I was still worry about the whole presentation but after numerous rehearsals, I still feel that I have all the contents of what I’m gonna say the next day.
It was not easy at the beginning as I have plenty to say for the presentation. As my teammates have told me, my part is the soul of the entire project. With such a heavy task, it shows how important it is to tell the judges everything. Moreover, the timings that I had seem to be more difficult for me to speed through the presentation. Imagine with a 5 minutes portion and I spent an entire of 9 minutes to complete my presentation part, it drags everyone’s timing down.
On judgment day itself, the same thing occurred, with me saying too much and the team has to speed through everything. We did not finish the conclusion part but it seems that the judges are happy with our DETAILED analysis. One of the judges even said that our project is workable and this probably shows that we can score high for this project.
After the presentation, Kenny and the rest were mentioning about my mistakes on my part and it is really a few good words of advice. I understand that my presentation skills are always very bad. Once I got nervous, I will go crazy with my sentences not seemed to be linked together. Stage frights is a phobia for me I guess. Although I’m often on the stage singing, it is still hard for me to use such confidence in presentations. Maybe a bit more of confidence and understanding what I have said will be better. As the saying goes, “Think before you say anything”.
Anyway, few days later, one of the judges called Kenny and explained to him that he is interested to work with us for our project. The judge was known to be a person who has an online portal in advertising magazines to the readers online. Hence, with our online portal, maybe he can plan to do some investments in our business. It’s a good idea and I really think that it is worth to try.
However, with an amount of $10K, I guess my Mum was mentioning that I should push that idea aside and concentrate on my studies. All the possibilities of failure in the business will come into my mind and think again, I have my National Service to attend for. Where’s the time for such things in the future.
Yes! I decide to drop the project, maybe letting the rest to handle the project. I’m happy with my achievement during the entire project and if you ask me, am I satisfied for what I have done in this project, including the presentation that was quite screwed? I will reply you that I’m happy with what I have done. Not that I’m affecting others but I tried my very best to make the job done. Yes, I tried. =]