okieeeeeeee.......back to the previous previous post when i was grumbling on about my enterpreneurship troubles...

incident 1:
our project is about educational toys (read:puzzles, mind games etc.) THE person ownself volunteer to send me pictures of such toys coz the main reason we chose this idea was becoz her dad was in the industry and becoz she seemed to want it alot and also becoz there didnt seem to be any probs with it at all..so anyway..she sent me a picture... of .. a remote controlled helicopter toy. now: to me that is not my impression of an educational toy at all... not at all!.... so during the meeting i ask her about it (who knows? mayb its a competitor's toy)

me: u know the helicopter pic u sent me? its ur dad's product ah?...or ...wat...competitors pdts?
person: oh its one of the things my dad imports to sell
me: but we cant really use it in this project right?...coz we're focusing on educational toys. thats are core idea
person: but we still can sell normal toys like those wat..like barbie dolls and cars and helicopters... i tell you...do business..cannot be so narrowminded one.. as long as can make money..u should buy and sell it...
me (slowly going crazy): but all the while we have been emphasising taht we are a educational toys distributor!.... i mean...then we wont really have a focus!....
person: i tell you... do business no need focus onee....just see wat can make money and sell it!...
me:... but at least must have some educational value ...
person: aiya....play barbie also got educational value wat... maybe the person grow up want to be fashion designer?? or whoever play with helicopter grow up want to be pilot??
me:............

the thing is...from day one she has been describing educational toys to us such that we have been led into thinking that we will be dealing with puzzles and those do-it-urself toy sets..(later i give some photos)... even our lecturer has been emphasising on the educational ability of ourtoys.... now...NOW...u come and suddenly tell me u want to sell any toys also can!....so wat...our business idea is like that: we specialise in educational toys that are intellectually stimulating and enhances creativity... oh yes..we actually also sell other toys too..any sort of toys really as long as they make us big money. i mean...a business has to have a focus somewhere lor..and previuosly our focus was educational toys. now apparently its just toys... i'm not saying it wont work..i'm jsut saying...i WANT TO DO THIS PROJECT SMOOTHLY AND PASS IT. i dun want to have to keep changing focus and my way of thinking every other day.

incident 2:
i was moving on to the survey part of the meetting... tellign them that we do 100 surveys and since our target market is families and youths to business ppl... we should divide our surveys into 2 parts >> 60% for families with kids... 40% for youths to business ppl...mainly coz families would be our main segment... (btw this was written down in our ICA 1 too under market segmentation but i think she didnt even read it)

me: so each person gets 20 surveys, then 12 do on families with kids and the remaining 8 do on youths to teenagers
person: no need so strict wat!.... u just go on the streets and see who can do ur survey den let them do lah!... no need like how many how many for families and how many for youths.etc....so narrow minded
me: but our target market is families and youths and above wat! wat if we survey then come out all teenagers how..so must at least see how many are families and how many are those single ppl
person:haiz..ok ok ok lor...(in those i cant be really bothered nor am i really listenign to you tone)

PLEASE LOR.... where got ppl do survey nvr decide do on who first... just anyhow go and do one....she first time do project ah...my god...please..hand me a knife now...i have to stab something

incident 3:
wanted to clarify biz idea with the group..she tells me that we are a manufacturing and trading educational toys company. ...so i ask her...if we are a manufacturing company...where do we get our product designs from???....

person: from my dad company
me: if we were a real biz we couldnt possibly take the designs from ur dad's co... no company would give away designs just like htat
me: its either we: a) design our own products... b) buy designs (too exp)...or partner with an existing company to help them expand into Singapore
person: oh!..then we design our own lor
me: we design our own.... we must come up with a product prototype leh
person: no need lah!
me:..........
person: need meh....
me: this is project is about entrepreneurship..if u say we design our own products, they SURE want to see a product sample of wat we design one...
person: really ah (in a i-have-never-heard-of-this-before way)
me munyee and kailing: yah...sure one wat... even guidelines got say
me: so iwas thinking option c) would be best and easiest to explain....
person: orh..ok lor

seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...............wat kind of person...say want to design own product....then say no need to come up with product prototype one! which type!...i have a feeling...last time those projects she was in.... she was those freerider kind nvr really do much..now we use her idea...she no choice..must give input...who knew..her input is ...... like this...sob

incident 4:
previously during our first ica.. she already told us some industry knowledge..like the main market is in europe ,etc not in asia..then most countries manufacture in china... blah blah....so... now at this stage...i ask her to go find evidence to support wat she say

person: no need evidence one lah!
me:...u cant just say things like that and expect ppl to belive u!..wat if during Q and A the judges ask us.. u said in ur presentation that most companies in this industry station their manufacturing base in china...can u tell me how u noe this?
person: ..... i've been to china myself !....i've personally seen such factories!.
me:.................................................
me:okok...if u realyl cant find any evidence or anything jsut say that we got it from our external mentor (actually i was expecting them to tell me that lor..if cant find nvm..but make up something believable)where got ppl ownself say i've been to china myself and seen the factories!..then u got go to every other country in the world to see if they got such factories too??... u go..and u saw..means got.. i dont deny that fact...but u din go other countries and din see other countries doesnt mean dun have lor.....

seriously the immature answers she gives really put me off...its like she doesnt put any effort into thinking her answers through at all...its alot of pressure on me u noe.... its like i feel that wat ever she says or suggests i msut think of ways to change it so it fits into our report... sometimes i feel like just... ARghhHHHHH.....dunno wat to say lah...

worse thing is nobody in my group initiates to challenge what she says or even volunteer any suggestions at all... J is forever off somewhere else... but when i ask him he got give idea and he will ask me wat he need to do.... so far he got do wat i ask him...hopefully he got cont
M is so quiet sometimes i dunno wat she think at all..sometimes when i look at her then she will give her opinion...K is not so bad she will throw out ideas voluntarily (however u spell it) sometimes..and most of her ideas inthe same direction as mine... but becoz she is year 1 alot of things she haven learn yet ...tt day she ask me wat is 4 Ps hahahaha..so funny... i cant remember a time where i dunno wat is 4Ps...

the worst thing is she (THE person) seems to think her ideas are right all the time...its like she keeps defending them with even wierder ideas... and she's not very polite about it she talks to u as if u are stupid for htinking of such an idea and i dun even talk to her like that!....

sometimes i feel like letting go ..but i'm too afraid taht my project will go down the drain.... and i really want to do well this year...being my last year and all..maintain my nonC record... haiz... really seems impossible now ...

got something else to blog about..but shall leave it in another post...its about... $$

okieeeeeeee.......back to the previous previous post when i was grumbling on about my enterpreneurship troubles...

incident 1:
our project is about educational toys (read:puzzles, mind games etc.) THE person ownself volunteer to send me pictures of such toys coz the main reason we chose this idea was becoz her dad was in the industry and becoz she seemed to want it alot and also becoz there didnt seem to be any probs with it at all..so anyway..she sent me a picture... of .. a remote controlled helicopter toy. now: to me that is not my impression of an educational toy at all... not at all!.... so during the meeting i ask her about it (who knows? mayb its a competitor's toy)

me: u know the helicopter pic u sent me? its ur dad's product ah?...or ...wat...competitors pdts?
person: oh its one of the things my dad imports to sell
me: but we cant really use it in this project right?...coz we're focusing on educational toys. thats are core idea
person: but we still can sell normal toys like those wat..like barbie dolls and cars and helicopters... i tell you...do business..cannot be so narrowminded one.. as long as can make money..u should buy and sell it...
me (slowly going crazy): but all the while we have been emphasising taht we are a educational toys distributor!.... i mean...then we wont really have a focus!....
person: i tell you... do business no need focus onee....just see wat can make money and sell it!...
me:... but at least must have some educational value ...
person: aiya....play barbie also got educational value wat... maybe the person grow up want to be fashion designer?? or whoever play with helicopter grow up want to be pilot??
me:............

the thing is...from day one she has been describing educational toys to us such that we have been led into thinking that we will be dealing with puzzles and those do-it-urself toy sets..(later i give some photos)... even our lecturer has been emphasising on the educational ability of ourtoys.... now...NOW...u come and suddenly tell me u want to sell any toys also can!....so wat...our business idea is like that: we specialise in educational toys that are intellectually stimulating and enhances creativity... oh yes..we actually also sell other toys too..any sort of toys really as long as they make us big money. i mean...a business has to have a focus somewhere lor..and previuosly our focus was educational toys. now apparently its just toys... i'm not saying it wont work..i'm jsut saying...i WANT TO DO THIS PROJECT SMOOTHLY AND PASS IT. i dun want to have to keep changing focus and my way of thinking every other day.

incident 2:
i was moving on to the survey part of the meetting... tellign them that we do 100 surveys and since our target market is families and youths to business ppl... we should divide our surveys into 2 parts >> 60% for families with kids... 40% for youths to business ppl...mainly coz families would be our main segment... (btw this was written down in our ICA 1 too under market segmentation but i think she didnt even read it)

me: so each person gets 20 surveys, then 12 do on families with kids and the remaining 8 do on youths to teenagers
person: no need so strict wat!.... u just go on the streets and see who can do ur survey den let them do lah!... no need like how many how many for families and how many for youths.etc....so narrow minded
me: but our target market is families and youths and above wat! wat if we survey then come out all teenagers how..so must at least see how many are families and how many are those single ppl
person:haiz..ok ok ok lor...(in those i cant be really bothered nor am i really listenign to you tone)

PLEASE LOR.... where got ppl do survey nvr decide do on who first... just anyhow go and do one....she first time do project ah...my god...please..hand me a knife now...i have to stab something

incident 3:
wanted to clarify biz idea with the group..she tells me that we are a manufacturing and trading educational toys company. ...so i ask her...if we are a manufacturing company...where do we get our product designs from???....

person: from my dad company
me: if we were a real biz we couldnt possibly take the designs from ur dad's co... no company would give away designs just like htat
me: its either we: a) design our own products... b) buy designs (too exp)...or partner with an existing company to help them expand into Singapore
person: oh!..then we design our own lor
me: we design our own.... we must come up with a product prototype leh
person: no need lah!
me:..........
person: need meh....
me: this is project is about entrepreneurship..if u say we design our own products, they SURE want to see a product sample of wat we design one...
person: really ah (in a i-have-never-heard-of-this-before way)
me munyee and kailing: yah...sure one wat... even guidelines got say
me: so iwas thinking option c) would be best and easiest to explain....
person: orh..ok lor

seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...............wat kind of person...say want to design own product....then say no need to come up with product prototype one! which type!...i have a feeling...last time those projects she was in.... she was those freerider kind nvr really do much..now we use her idea...she no choice..must give input...who knew..her input is ...... like this...sob

incident 4:
previously during our first ica.. she already told us some industry knowledge..like the main market is in europe ,etc not in asia..then most countries manufacture in china... blah blah....so... now at this stage...i ask her to go find evidence to support wat she say

person: no need evidence one lah!
me:...u cant just say things like that and expect ppl to belive u!..wat if during Q and A the judges ask us.. u said in ur presentation that most companies in this industry station their manufacturing base in china...can u tell me how u noe this?
person: ..... i've been to china myself !....i've personally seen such factories!.
me:.................................................
me:okok...if u realyl cant find any evidence or anything jsut say that we got it from our external mentor (actually i was expecting them to tell me that lor..if cant find nvm..but make up something believable)where got ppl ownself say i've been to china myself and seen the factories!..then u got go to every other country in the world to see if they got such factories too??... u go..and u saw..means got.. i dont deny that fact...but u din go other countries and din see other countries doesnt mean dun have lor.....

seriously the immature answers she gives really put me off...its like she doesnt put any effort into thinking her answers through at all...its alot of pressure on me u noe.... its like i feel that wat ever she says or suggests i msut think of ways to change it so it fits into our report... sometimes i feel like just... ARghhHHHHH.....dunno wat to say lah...

worse thing is nobody in my group initiates to challenge what she says or even volunteer any suggestions at all... J is forever off somewhere else... but when i ask him he got give idea and he will ask me wat he need to do.... so far he got do wat i ask him...hopefully he got cont
M is so quiet sometimes i dunno wat she think at all..sometimes when i look at her then she will give her opinion...K is not so bad she will throw out ideas voluntarily (however u spell it) sometimes..and most of her ideas inthe same direction as mine... but becoz she is year 1 alot of things she haven learn yet ...tt day she ask me wat is 4 Ps hahahaha..so funny... i cant remember a time where i dunno wat is 4Ps...

the worst thing is she (THE person) seems to think her ideas are right all the time...its like she keeps defending them with even wierder ideas... and she's not very polite about it she talks to u as if u are stupid for htinking of such an idea and i dun even talk to her like that!....

sometimes i feel like letting go ..but i'm too afraid taht my project will go down the drain.... and i really want to do well this year...being my last year and all..maintain my nonC record... haiz... really seems impossible now ...

got something else to blog about..but shall leave it in another post...its about... $$