砂漠のJeffire

Jeffirean Stories

Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Monday was a day full of meetings. In the morning it was with the community service grp Project Radiance. I was late by around 10 mins but there were people even later. I was looking around the level to find that seminar room but fortunately, a very pretty girl came to lead me to the room. Initially we were walking together towards the same direction until she asked if I was going for the project briefing. So it turned out she was the project IC. Hahaha. As mentioned by many friends, there are really so many pretty girls in SMU! However my idea is that most university girls are pretty so don't think wrongly of me!

Didn't know there were external speakers. They were volunteers from Tsu Ching (Ci2 Ji4). They spoke with an taiwanese accent, and soon we found out that they started from taiwan and now have 38 branches around the world including Singapore. The English-speaking speaker was very humourous and tried cajoling us into more interaction. Haha. I was the first to volunteer as a group leader when I saw that nobody wanted to volunteer on first call. Looks like we need to learn to be more proactive.

In the evening there was another meeting with the SCS (Student Card Scheme) Dept of the BizCom (Business Committee) at, guess where, Coffee Express of Kinokuniya! I learnt a great deal at the meeting, and realised SMU is an expensive place to study in because one of them mentioned most students there were affluent. I hope he's not that right in the sense that maybe these affluent people are not that spendthrift. Anyway, there was this doe-eyed, pretty girl sitting beside me who was very initiative and full of ideas. Woah. A possible big star in the coporate world in the future. Anyway, this SCS Dept is very interesting with the personalities and their job scopes. Basically the project now is to get shops/outlets/restaurants to participate in a card scheme where our student cards can be used as privilege cards, something similar to the SAFRA card (but without the annual membership fee). It was then I got to know that the SMU student card can be used at McDonalds to get discounted prices. Wow. Then this realisation led to us thinking that our marketing of the card privileges was disastrous because nobody had used the card before at companies who had already participated. Anyway many ideas were exchanged and we were even trained on spot a la a OJT at the Heeren where we approached shops to join the scheme. I was assigned a shop but I wasn't very keen to speak so it was disappointing to them. In the end, the senior spoke on my behalf and we got the contact of the marketing manager. Then they assigned the follow up to us. Now I had to follow up with the retail manager. I just sent the email. Wonder if I would be reprimanded for changing some words in the proposal and also only writing the email as opposed to calling the person directly. My idea is to only call when you get no response electronically, so let's hope the manger reponds soon. I will decide whether to join this CCA pernamently pending on the reaction of the company and also the SCS people. This CCA is primarily a marketing based group but actually I'm more interested in entrepreneurship, so I had contacted another CCA grp as well to see if there is a trial or something to grasp a feel of things there.

Was at AMK Blk 217 with the Project Radiance group yesterday. This project is about gathering information from the elderly to create a medical IC for them so that they can use it when visiting any doctors without encoutering communication barriers when describing their ailments/medical history to a new doctor, especially in emergencies.(if it happens so coincidentally that one of your elderly relatives are living at that door, please help to get the idea across). I volunteered to be a group leader and had a senior called DC as my coordinator, an elderly but dynamic, vocal and friendly volunteer from Eden Community Service called Michelle, and another senior Ada and a fellow freshie, YM as team members.

It was difficult initially as we met doors that were never opened and people who couldn't understand what we said. If not for Michelle, we would have absolutely achieved nothing. She's so versatile in her languages! Cantonese, Hokkien, Malay, etc etc. I could speak simple hokkien only so wasn't of much help. Haha. Anyway it was a day well spent as I've got to know new people and seniors who gave us advice for our courses.

Jinki dialled over from Australia last night. It was such a surprise! Anyway he's pretty fine there and probably hope he can update his blog soon once he gets his net access.

My driving lesson today was fine except for the usual errors my instructor pointed out, I am glad I'm getting very familiar with it. Another 12 days to the test!

Tomorrow it will be another round of visiting at BLK 217 in the evening. Hope more of the elderly will be at home and we can get to spread more of our word around.

It's Dorothy's birthday today and I will like to wish her all the very best for her 21st birthday. Too bad I can't send her anything because she had shifted and I don't know how to link up to her except by calling her, which is not appropriate! Haha! Ok, dun get mistaken with the idea ok.

My brother's 18th birthday is tomorrow! I hope he can accomplish his dream to be a professional soccer player. I think he has no hope of achieving that in Singapore. Perhaps will ask him to go overseas to see if there are any opportunities around.

Sigh, this entry is not up to standards with its poorly structured paragraphs. So much to say, but so difficult to say that much.

Regards
Jeffire

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