I present to you..

"Good morning, er, afternoon to, to.. my supervisors, Dr.'s Kenny and Keith, Dr. Teoh and my fellow students. Today.. wait. Let me first make a short introduction of ourselves. My name is Vijendran, in case you don't know (nervous laugh) and this is my group member, Tommy Yip. So let me begin. So as you know... Why are we doing this? What's the motivating... factor behind our.. why we chose this subject....."

It goes on like this for the next 10 minutes or so. That's my presentation in a nutshell. I can write okay (i think) but when it comes to talking, i'm a nervous wreck. It didn't help of course that my part of the slides were done pretty last minute and i had little or no practice. Plus formal clothes make me uncomfortable. And i had diarrhoea on that day. Talk about a quadruple combo! It was definitely one of the longest 8-10 minutes i've experienced. But i survived to tell the story, so i guess it wasn't that bad. Got okay marks even.

It says a lot when i blog about engineering stuff, especially when it involves a super minor presentation. But that's about as much excitement in my life now, plus with all the pressure from others (rat shoe) to post something this is all i got. Actually i've got heaps of material in my head but somehow that doesn't transcend to typing up a post.

Anyways, on the night of the presentation we headed out to this steamboat place called Summer over in Sunway. I arrived 'bout an hour after the supposed meeting time (valid reason in tow - i was kidnapped!) to find the rest eating joyfully, laughing and joking about. I then saw the reason for all the chirpiness - the chivas bottle on the table. Oh, the dinner was to celebrate two of our classmates' birthdays, whose birthdays are 2 days apart. So in true Malaysian spirit, we celebrated their birthdays together so as to save some money. Pictures: