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Thursday, May 13, 2004

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things have been looking a little down past few days. well latoya got voted out. :( although i think that all of the finalists have some quality that is their saving grace...
i dunno. i can't seem to adapt to IB. last time in sec 1 and 2 it was listen in class, read thru notes once, then go for test.
but now, need to read through complicated stuff, do assignments, and worst of all do group projects.
some interesting dynamics here-- check this out
when we have a single person who does a lot of work coupled with some others who do some work, the 80-20 rule apllies. 1 person do 80%, 4 other pple do 20%.
now i can't say that happened for my first project, butat least a 20-50 rule then ( i did about half the project).
hmm. so i was kinda pissed, and we all don't need to know what happened later. i think u know anyway.
but hey. check this out.

LAA - Kal + Mun
Conceived : Quite good
Actual : .... (just look at their anthology)

LAB - Kal + Mun + Joel
Conceived : Also quite good
Actual : Quite good but apparently not original enough

hmm. and so on.
simply put. Best members not equal best marks.
infact, i have a theory.

Workers and slackers theory

many people in the past, in the present and potentially in the future have complained about group members not doing their fiar share of work.
yet can multiple hard workers pull the group up?
a case study of mun's group is necessary. often mun's group would be analysed as the best group,
understandable cause mun is the best.
but here's something. they don't always (well actually they have never) gottten the best marks.
so is it really true about the best group?
by law, a group will have workers and slackers.
some people will naturally do most of the work!
example: LAB project
Me (can work)
Poon ( a bit slack)
BZ (a bit slack)
Mingyi (just really slack)
Jason (can work)

so here we have 2 people who can work. yet it ended up that jason did most of the work.
i think at the end of the day, it all boils down to people wanting things to be done in their own way.
in that sense we all want to control the whole scheme of things to our liking.
now something else.

this is to specific members in my class. u should know who you are. anyway you 2 work together all the
time.

now. i complain to mervlyn, u say lots of shit about me and insult me and so on and so forth.
fine. if you say so.
geog field studies come around.
you want to go with mun and jason.
but they already have a group.
so you pester them
and then jason has to ask mun
and mun says no
and then you recommend to yvonne lim that she choose the groups.
perhaps this hasn't so far-reaching effects because
1)yvonne lim had some mind to assign in the first place
2) its restricted to 3.9

but i still have a few sticklers.
1)why do you act in the exact way you criticise and bitch about
2)why do you insist on getting your way
3)why do you not realize that you were acting in the exact same way that i was?
4)and thus, you still have a problem with me despite the fact you act exactly the way i used to act.

doesn't make sense.

in other interesting and totally unrelated events,
1) saw pek ying sze (rg deb8er, sec 4, vice head prefect) around josh's place. jogging. hmm. interesting how many people i know or can recognize stay there.
2) at recess before a maths test, was dicussing girls with a large group of people (lol)
3) we got a class ball (we found it) and it got scribbled all over (theres one section with BS loves jenn and BS loves litzee and all that)
4) went to josh's house. it rox. (well i've been there i think twice before, but it still rox)

anyway, i better go now. haven't done my geog and not intending to do it tonight. mayb after sch instead.

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