The End of Integration Moment II

Haaah.. At last, the Integration Moment II has finished.. So relieved..

Integration Moment(IM) is a "special" course in MOT (my master program--Management of Technology) which takes place at the end of every semester. It consists of a big (i mean BIG) collaborative assignment which covers all courses in that particular semester. In addition to the complexity of the assignment, collaboration problem with group members might occur (and it did in my case).

The assignment for Integration Moment I in the 1st semester was the issue of eBay buying Skype. In this 2nd semester, the assignment was making a proposal to fulfill the tender from 3 Technical Universities for a novel joint graduate school in Netherlands with the innovation of new learning. The students were divided in 2 arenas, in which we were divided again in 4 companies. I was in Blackboard, the ICT company. The other 3 companies were Deloitte (consultant for new learning and project management), Reed Elsevier (publisher and knowledge management expert), and Bouwfonds (building expert). Each company consisted of 5 students.

We had to work as a consortium of 4 companies to win the tender (around 20 people), as well as protecting our own company's interests and goals within the consortium. So the IM2 was full of meetings and negotiations. The 2.5 weeks was cramped with scheduled meetings with the consortium and the consultants(the lecturers), not to mention every consultancy documents and consortium & company papers that we had to submit. Very tiring but in the end felt like the most productive period in semester 2.

And that's the motive of this post, to celebrate the end of the IM2 on Thursday 26 June 2008, hehehe :D After the final presentation to the 3TU board, our consortium went out to a park and had a relaxing BBQ time under the warm sun, while our rival, the consortium in arena 2 was having their final presentation, haha :D

Rose's Birthday Party

Rose celebrated her birthday last Friday, although her Birthday was actually on June 10. As usual, MOT-ers gathers every time there's a chance for it, especially after such a hard week with all meetings and assignments from the Integration Moment 2.

At first I thought the party would be at 8 pm, lucky I was told by Doudou that it's at 10pm.. Gosh.. so late.. Anyway, Doudou, Mai, and I went to Balpol after having dinner at Doudou's room with Dirk (hmm, bruschetta, tortellini, and tiramisu).

I planned to go home at 12 so at least I have spent 2 hours at the party (as Harold always exaggeratively accuses me of not socializing with MOT-ers because I missed some of the parties). Plan remained as plan since I stayed there hanging out with my classmates until 4am, hehehe.. This was exactly why I told Harold that I couldn't come to a party for only 15 minutes to say hi (as he demanded) because I wouldn't be able to leave that easily. And by the way, this silly guy himself wasn't present, grrhh..

Rose got an orange hat with pinky adornment that could hold two bottles of beer on its side from MOT-ers. Plastic pipes that could be inserted to the bottles and reached her mouth like a head-microphone allowed her to drink beers while freely dancing.. Hahaha, a great gift, I would say.

It was a great night to have fun with my classmates, since we're all so close since the MOT's Introduction Week. I didn't know what I've drunk.. It's all mixed up, cognac, beers, coke, jack daniels, I had no idea.. I just realized that I wasn't the usual me when I thought that smoking might not be a bad idea (Ooops, hold on a second there, dude). Hahaa, at least I could still control myself.. Mai was totally wasted, blabbering and singing (too) happily. In the end, Alex forced her to go home with Doudou and me (well, at first she said she wanted to continue to Jorge's party in Marcushof).

On our way out of Balpol, she started crying when Doudou playfully hit her forehead with her finger. Oh man.. It took sometimes before she stopped. We started walking home since I wasn't sure she could ride her bike. But she said she could..(not convincing though, because she couldn't even walk straight)

Doudou and I spent our time watching her biking and giving direction ("Left Mai! to the left!", "Watch out that pillar!", "Don't sleeep!"). Well, she still ended up on one plant-fence though :D I couldn't help bursting laughter, hehehe.... (bad kitty bad, as Rizky would say)

We managed to get her inside her room and went home ourselves. Pfiuuh.. what a night (and early morning).

My Daemon

I haven't watched The Golden Compass yet, but I was attracted to take the Daemon test after seeing Arzee's post this Sunday morning.

So here goes the result: Fox Daemon named Ariel

Hmm, okay.. but I'd like to take the test once more.. Here's the result: Lion Daemon named Lysandra

Quite fun :)

Initiative

Self note:

Remember to require certain level of initiative from your group member next time!

Grrrhh..!