The module’s now over. It culminated in ANOTHER (argg!) group exercise in which me and my two colleagues (hello Trang and Sherry) had to present our chosen subject – Product packaging. It was done in the form of a literature review and was very difficult to come up with using slides to talk about authors.

Anyway, they liked it in the end and I think we have agood mark if our feedback was anything to go by – they really liked it.  If only we’d used some pictures! We dressed up and everything, and I wore my Serif Technical Support tie (it’s just my favourite tie and holds sentimental value) which I hoped would afford me confidence;  there’s literally not a day goes by I don’t think about that place, like a girlfriend you never get over.

The Presentation Groups

I’m often moaning about lack of participation in group work and unequal effort by certain parties, and I was glad on this occasion to be handed the opportunity to ‘fight back’ and show up such incompetence. One of the groups was presenting similar material to what I covered in some depth but the person ‘discussing’ it blatently did not do the work and was just reading off the slide. Well, I was not having this, given all my hard work in understanding the concept — I was not prepared to let this guy go unquestioned, so I did just that. I asked him for what purpose consumers use Extrinsic and Intrinsic product signals and what are they. The answer I was looking for (and he should have known) was evaluation, but he babbled some unintelligable nonsense.

It was a small, quiet victory for me, but I hope I illustrated my point to the tutors marking.

Afterwards a bunch of us went for a (genuine) Chinese buffet which included but not limited to chips and swiss roll. The nerve-wracking day turned into a memorable experience during which interesting conversation proliferated, thanks in part to a certain french colleague’s extreme views on the New World Order.