26 Nov 2009

THAT day...

so...i woke up feeling fired up for the day and reached college quite early.

due to some technical problem with mail service...turned out we weren't confirmed  for workshop that morning. no one's fault really.

anyway...i wanted to go home to sleep some more. but decided to stay coz i had no confidence in my preparedness for the seminar. so i wanted to practice.

had breakfast with friends...chat some. daydreamed some. worried a lot.

after that..i hung out with the other seminar group who's presenting on the same day with us. in between...i took a few winks coz i was really sleepy and was feeling the beginning of the onset of headache.

for lunch...had a long queue with WKien. practiced a bit for the seminar...then lunch....then practice one last time some more.

after some discussion with the other group...we decided to switch the order of presentation. and i'm glad. i'm really really glad we did that. coz i really dislike being the last group ever.

so...how did our seminar go?
it was okay. but not good enough. we were off track on the true purpose of the topic. our presentation wasn't clear enough. some of the content we presented weren't suitable. some of the suggestions wasn't scientifically strong enough to be suggested. time allocation for certain subtopics were inadequate. oh....and we lack critical analysis [something i'm aware of since the beginning but overlooked anyway. what the heck are you doing, NLT?].

all is not lost however...
we had a good gauge of what fast food is. we had a strong main journal. we did well on conducting a survey about HUC's student's attitude towards fast food, which makes it a strong basis for our campaign. and......oops...no more.

Can we reduce FAST FOOD consumption in Malaysia?
the answer should be yes.
instead of focusing on fast food as the big bad wolf totally, we should've focused on distinguishing healthy fast food vs. unhealthy fast food, i.e. western fast food vs. local hawker food.
instead of focusing how to eat fast food healthily without all the chicken skin and mayo, we should've put our effort on creating awareness that the audience have choices all around them.
instead of mentioning our survey in passing, we should've delved more about it and made it to our advantage.

and yes. Local Hawker Food like nasi lemak, roti canai, wan tan mee, chee cheong fun....they're all FAST FOOD. it's just that they're comparatively more healthy than Western-Franchised fast food like McD, KFC, Pizza Hut, etc.

you don't believe? search for the definition of Fast Food in Malaysia. especially one by a Malaysian nutritionist, Tee something. [i'm too lazy to put the definition here for now. if i'm in the mood, i might post sth about fast food in Malaysia someday.]

so...was i traumatized? not really.
it was a valuable learning experience. and i realized that i'm starting to not take criticism personally =)
a couple of things though...i wish i was more of a planner and more firm.

and now we have the campaign left. i hope we will manage it well. i hope we accomplish what Dr. H wants us to do.