Saturday, May 16, 2009
Okay so we had our preliminary Bill Presentation today at NYGH.
Getting there was awful. I was working on the script till midnight the night before and didn't have time to map my route like I normally do, so I just grabbed the bus guide and left the house, hoping that Nanyang would be easy to find.
Yeah, right. I had to ask someone at the bus stop for directions; even then I suspect I got off at the wrong bus stop, because I walked DAMN FAR before I got to Nanyang. In the end I went up on a random overhead bridge and tried to spot Nanyang's clocktower. Couldn't find it but I saw NJC. Close enough, so I ran in that direction and eventually got to the school half an hour late. -.- Eventually my teammates told me that the presentation would only be starting at 9 :/ And I ran all the way! Spent the next 30 minutes editing script/rehearsing.
ACS(I) went first, and they brought their own Apple with them wtfomg. Their Powerpoint wasn't even a Powerpoint but some sort of pro presentation. Xinyuan did some research and realised they were using Keynote :/ They were pretty good in terms of content, too.
Then Nanyang went. I won't say much, but they were quite kelian D:
Ours was...okay? We didn't really get very good feedback because people were looking for clarification as opposed to finding holes in our bill, but at least we didn't get slammed. Much.
HCI's bill was the closest to ours in terms of topic; they did a bill on the Public Order Act. I was full and sleepy after our presentation so I didn't really hear what they were saying.
Anyway it was fun asking questions and everything, but I think I was pretty mean to one of the teams during their Q&A. Still, as Mr Lee said, it's better to die today than on the 27th next month when the judges will be watching.
Some people are fairly annoying -.- I don't know if it was residual anger/resentment from the presentation or from 3 years back, but flicking your hair is NOT a good way to show that you're, I don't know, not bothered or something. Neither is nodding curtly when people say hi, but at least it's better than preening O.o or whistling, for that matter.