Monday, November 15, 2004

the spirit of enterprise..

its finally over... wahhs.. tiring but satistfying.

kkies lets start frm friday.. in the day, mj and i woke up at arnd 10am. our egnaro meeting was at 10am.. so we called joanna and said we'd be late.. and we were late. haha.. so yeah. at com lab 3.. arnd 11 plus..photography had their meeting there.. cheongyew[cy] alvin and the rest were there.. and egnaro was there. so yeah. after school, to my hse we go.

they wanted to go to my hse to take the things inside the packaging. i mean, when tricia and cheryl wanted to package the stock, we thought that the plain plastic wld be very plain. so we had this idea of shredding sheets of paper. with the shreds, we further cut them as they were still too thick in width. so cut liao, den put into the packaging. hahas.. so go my hse.. put licia's laminator there. take the plastic bag of paper shreds out, go bus stop.

they were complaining. screaming. tricia was crying. and mj called before that asking me if they could go my house. i was "huh? how come? im already at the gate. reaching bus stop liao." so i found out what happened. streaming results are out. and huh?! tricia's lvl position being 70, and her results.. A1 A1 and A1.. more of them. and then, her posted stream was. PoA and elective geog? i mean. is PoA even an express subject? can she take it? is this the new comb. in our batch? but tricia deserves to go to her first choice. bio and geog! oh well. temasek's a little screwed up.

then from my house we went to bugis. bus 12. and dropped at the bus stop, walked to rochor centre or smt. and found out that shop was closed. joanna make a call, person said they open at 2. it was 1.30. we went for lunch at long john.. haha.. we saw yong wei and his girl.. hehe.. ok nvm. went to the shop later. still wasnt there! at.. 2.30? yeah. so joanna called, woman said she was coming.. ok so we waited a while, den me and florence, being the PSLs we are, started organising games. played circle sit.. some scissors paper stone game.. lols. and then the woman came, we colllected our stock. and went off. but it was a long time collecting stock.. and we went off after.. rain!! and went to? the mrt station to go to south bridge road and high street centre.

went there, alighted and interchanged into the purple line.. dropped somewhere.. and went to south bridge road. bought our jewelry while me, qing jun, licia and mj went to high street centre to collect our lava lamps. but the stupid guy say no stock then! so we went back to the jewelry store..got our stuff, took bus to concourse.

at concourse, me, tricia, shirley and joanna went to arab st to buy our marketing baskets. mj and the rest went to concourse to check out the plastic bags, orange skirting for egnaro [orange spelt backwards] and stuffs.. den we settled everything, time: 6.00pm. tricia was late for akido...so we chiong to lavender mrt. me, joanna, mj got off at bedok. went to collect our T-shirts.. 25 of them. small,medium,large and XL. so a mix of it.. and then we arranged to meet marshall there. hahas..

went to tampines after that.. had to go to mj's house and get his clothes.. den went to buy lanyards at tampines mart. our old ones not enough. haha.. so we went for dinner first.. half way thru dinner, cy called mj and told him that. every stall at tm was orange. orange roof, orange skirting and all. we werent prepared for the news. we had already bought the orange skirting and paper for the roof. how? so we rushed a plan out. we go and buy black trash bag. as for the skirting..leave it. the black trash bag to cover roof. so there. after dinner chiong go buy lanyard. den go buy the black trash bag, and they left me to take care of bags.. so there.

after that mj went home to take his gun stapler. without it we die. so haha. he called and asked us to wait at the mac there. so wait lor. his dad came to pick us up, and fetch us to my house. haha. by the time reach home also 11pm..

11pm..shower. den start work. start on our business plan. solo. me. lol. not funny sia. i had NO IDEA how to write an executive summary. no idea what our financial statements were, and i was screwed up. with a rough format, i did our business plan. finished at 3.30, and had mj and marshall asking me to go to 7-11.. they were doing their work. mj[calendar] and marshall was doing the rattan baskets that we bought. tying strings and all. so at 3.30 we went out to shell to buy cup noodles. i bought 2 cup noodles and 2 soupy snaks. i opened the cup noodles there. and ate it on the way back.. upon reaching home, started on marketing catalog content. realised that it was already 4.30 am.. and a big problem was at hand.

crisis mode. we had not enough products to sell. i didnt see $1400 worth of products. how could our projected revenue be.. $1400!? so we talked abt it.. using my slingy thing.. hand gestures and all.. and we were wondering.. "CAN WE MAKE THIS?!" and all of us concluded. no. we're dead. meeting adjourned at 6.10 am. i showered, and changed. and packed my stuff. all of us were packing while taking turns to shower. by 7.00am, everything was packed, and ready to be brought down. at 7.15, our things were all in the car. trolley and everything. went up for a prayer, breakfast, and then went out. remember, we didnt sleep the entire of the night, my business plan was screwed up. in the morning, i found it next to the dustbin. i used my sec 1 geog file to hand in, and i know that we had no chance.

so at TM..we met our team, briefed the situation.. went up to the open plaza, BY THE NON-WORKING ESCALATORS. they werent turned on yet.4th floor, and had lots of shit to carry. so 4th floor..got our stall number, mj went to setup our stall design and stuffs.i had our marketing meeting.. discussed the situation, and joanna came. thank god. joanna! haha.. we settled everything. the accounts, products, pricing. everything in half an hour? so i chiong.. and realised that. we do have enough shit to sell. our projected revenue would be $1600 roughly, and the cost, $680.how? can make it la! i have 411 things to sell. 411 items. 411 objects. can i do it? yes i can. i give each of my personnel 30 items. i have 14 people roughly.. and if i give 30 things to each person to sell, if they sell 30 items each, we're at our maximum revenue. how? can win? can!. as long as they sell 15 products by 9pm, we've covered our cost. but smt major major came up.

at 12pm, mj said that stocks were running out.but.. i didnt recall sellng so much! and our accounts say so! our revenue at that point of time, was NOT ANYWHERE NEAR a thousand. hw could our stocks be running out? and according to finance, our revenue then was.. 400? 300?. how? it didnt make sense. either we had some stuff not selling. or we underpriced everything, or some people were stealing our products and money.

at the end of the day, our revenue was 800. but cost was 900, as we restocked in the day. on the way home, i took out that book that had our products written there. then it hit me.

our MAXIMUM revenue was 1600.

$940[revenue] worth of products were not able to be produced. $440[revenue] worth of badges, $320[revenue] worth of calendars, and $180[revenue] worth of necklaces that we could not produce! we lost 940 dollars in revenue. couldve done more. so we found out that badges and calendars were our main products. we marketed the badges more strongly the 2nd day.

due to the loss here, maximum revenue went down to 700++, 800.

yesterday, morning we woke up. we were ready. except for one fact. our calendars werent ready.our necklaces not either. and we had one person mass producing the badges,mingjie.how? he would break down.. lol.so i decided. "marshall, we dont sell anything. we just do badges.$440 worth of revenue to make. are you ready?"

and we sold our badges like mad. mj was going crazy, but yeah. i met lots of people. telok kurau, dunman high.. lots of them. so yeah. friends. haha.. sold badges... lots of them. together with kash. yeah man. during the charity hour, we planned. didnt sell. plan what to do after that. how? chiong ar! after the charity block [2-4pm], we wld mass sell our badges. $2 for one, $1.50 each for multiple orders.

at 6.00. our last revenue collection was due. 6.00pm. me and kash, stopped selling. i was getting cramps in my right leg once every 2 or 3 minutes. i had to rest. i went over to the stalls on the other side. dunman stalls. haha... so yeah. i mixed with the girls and guys there.. then 7pm came. prize presentation..

egnaro won the 3rd prize for best bizplan. refer to the top. that was the situation. hhaha..never expected to win! =p. so yeah.. glitzchics won 1st for most innovative product award. good friends frm there.. haha..so yeah..after the presentation, went back to glitzchics stall.. the dunman people.. mixed arnd.. made friends.. haha.. talked alot.. abt me.. them..everything..

then someone HAD to play tuo diao. shucks i got raped.jason.. lols. my shirt went off sia.. madness. my shoe gone. lols.. and i was the half naked fella. so yeah.. played a lot.

it was fun after the competition. made lots of friends.. but still. have to message my baby.. hehes.. i miss her lots. i begin to wonder when i'd see her again.. argh money. i nid money! lols.. thats abt all. and now, im still having cramps.. pain nehhx.. lol.. how? hehe.. anything i missed? pls comment or tag.. thanks!

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