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Cartoon of the Day : SMILE!
:)start with a smile...
I am so happy today!
Deep down in my heart .... I kept giggling since yesterday evening. Done for the Drama group midterm. Looking at my bloated stomach I feel bad but everything is finally over and I am happy about it. I had been consuming a lot of sweet stuff unconsciously. I stressed out a lot from the beginning of the week till yesterday.
Not having our group portfolio put together really worries me... this is not the worst, our skit was kinna rejected by our Drama prof right from the beginning. We were brainstorming hard to crash out creative ideas to present out metaphor of the theme. "Life as an Emergency Room…”
As a group we went through different stages. Our first meeting was largely characterised by silence and uncertainty. Everyone was quite polite and generally reserved. I am thinking that all group members were initially silent because there was some confusion about what we were supposed to be doing, so no one wanted to look or sound stupid by speaking up irrelevantly. Needless to say we had a hard time getting the ball rolling.
Between our first and second meeting, we were thrown into a state of confusion as one member of our group withdrew from our group. At this point our group was characterised by pessimism, resistance and ambiguity. It was a tough period for our group as some tasks had been assigned to every member of our group. Besides, this member was our emerging “leader”. We had no idea where to go from here .
Our next challenge was to maximise our individual potentials by exploring our creativity skills and channelling them into coordinated work. Some of our initial ideas did not seem to fulfil the objective of our project. In some cases, we couldn’t think of the right symbols to represent our metaphor, in other situations we did not have enough people to execute our ideas. We were frustrated.
We were quite desperate to achieve our goals and it seemed like as we put in more effort, it got even more difficult to get things to work. Eventually we decided to develop a thought web again. After we came up with our new thought web, interesting ideas began to flow faster. As we came up with new ideas, we definitely had new problems too. One interesting thing though is that we consistently embraced each idea that was put on the table and looked at it carefully. We freely critiqued all proposed ideas and constructively agued the relevance of the different ideas that we shared.
During this phase, every group member was comfortable sharing his or her ideas and feelings. We freely gave feedback to each other and solicited feedback. We consistently explored actions and changed settings to fulfil our goals.
Finally, we feel like a team, especially because we really did not have a clear “leader” while we went through turbulence, failures and frustrations. After riding on each other’s wings and rubbing off on each other, we feel like we have explored creativity and have a beautiful piece of art to show for our toil.
* What happened is .... our piece is still on a rough side according to Barbra (our prof) 40 minutes before our actual presentation starts. CHUA SAI! We were all stun! Thank God! Taka cooled us off by saying: "Give her what she wants... changed the skit and run through it." Easier said than to be done... we took more than 2 weeks to work the skit and that is far more than impossible to change it at this point of time. Struggling to either stick with the initial idea or came up with a totally brand new skit... we finally did make a wise choice. Once again I learnt the KANASAI spirit "EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE" :)
Of cz we were under stress, butterflies' knots in stomach....
Fear had overshadowed our nervousness.
Guess what?
We did an excellent job! 10x team!
Fallon, Ayo, Taka and me, we are all happy!
Other skits are good as well...
but I really needa give tones of credits to my group members!
BRAVO!
We had the least group members compare to others...
no surprise, more workloads!
In addition, we are an international group consisting one canadian, Kenyan, Japanese and malaysian.
Good and bad in the sense we have our own ideas and it sometimes seem too diverse to pull our heads together. Still, the team spirit shines!
The actual performance is the best of what we had been practicing for the past 2 weeks.
I was happy with the audience's responses especially when Barbra commented on us after the performance.
"GOOD JOB!" she shout out!
Barbra was obviously surprise to see a tremendous change in us. She was happy!
Loosen my muscles after we hit off the entire skit!
I received good compliments from my other mates too :)
My group members said they are happy to see me out of my shell.
Probably I am juz too shy to act after leaving the stage of drama since college.
When we decided to replace the original skit, I was so in pain...
I am playing the main role in the skit and anyone who knows me well realize that I have short memory span... I don't wanna be the blacksheep of the group and really concern about disappointing them during the performance. In a such a short time we had, we came up with a new routine. Thank God! He is so merciful... allowing me to expand my mental capacity in that state of urgency :)
The piece flows extremely well :)
Thanx for your ride Fallon! RIDES I suppose haha... Fallon used to live at Laval Blvd (the place I am currently staying) at the age of nine. She was surprised that I walked home every other nights whenever we had goup meetings. From then she offered to drive me home after every Thursday night's class. :)
Most important > I wanna thank my buddies for such persistent support especially Bernice and Anna... They shared my ups and downs throughout whatz going on with me.
辛福笑脸就送给我亲爱的朋友们!
好开心哦!
3 Comments:
yeah...(clap clap clap)...this shows that quantity is not the matter...the matter is how well ur team performs which is the quality...bravo girl bravo...!
10:15 PM
10x big bro drew :P
ur compliment makes my day :)
12:05 AM
no big bro andrew la....common, im younger than u la...
11:13 PM
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