Black coffee

8:47 am

Beep beep beep.

SNOOZE

8:57 am

Beep beep beep.

Arghh. I hate Spanky. He should be the one here trying to meet 60% attendance criteria for our competition.

Oh and later, I have to go to the book fair with my dad. How will I have the time to summarize my worksheets for B, as well as practice song for my singing competition next week.

Although I loitered a lot yesterday. I did end up spending a lot of time making worksheets...

So these were the thoughts that buzzed around my head as I stumbled my way to the bathroom to groom.

9:17 am
What have I been doing for the last 20 minutes. I think there is still time for me sneak some noodles and eggs from my school canteen before 9:30....

9:24
I bump into a familiar friend, Larry, who I met in year 1 in Uni. He was waiting for his girlfriend, she was late as always, so accompanied me for breakfast. I placed my usual order. Ham and eggs with noodles, extra egg, black coffee.
"black coffee" he said with a smirk.
"uh, yea? "
" you still get black coffee? " he said with that same smirk he had years ago.

Tbc

Important meeting 2

3:45pm Footbridge. Oh crap, I forgot to bring my ipad, I've spent so much time transferring embarrassing Skype photos of Spanky to a private album earlier today, and I forgot to bring my list of questions, and I forgot to bring my pen...Well, EW0 dude is always late, plus he hasnt replied my email, maybe he's going ot get back at me at 5pm, so why don't I head back and pick up the stuff that I need. 

Just when I was about to head up the elavators, my phone rings. Alas, it is the EW0 dude. He calls and asks where I am, I lie and tell him I'm in the library. He says he's in the building across, and would like to meet me there.

I run.

I run as streamline as I can.

I try not to sweat.



Thanks to the typhoon, I was not as sweaty as I thought. However, just as I head up the elevator, EW0 dude calls again. I guess they were not as patient as I thought..

Remember, it's better to be a bit later, than to be messy and sweaty and nervous. I tell myself. You are a lady. Ahem, I am a lady. 

Ah, 11th floor of Li Ka Shing Building..interesting, isn't that where the Deans of the schools are situated? What a strange place to meet?



As I open the door I find myself shaking hands with 3 various heads in the campus management team. The CFO, the manager, and other head officer.

While, I was presenting my idea, (luckily in English), was the most detailed, un-HoneyMilkegg funnied, professional presentation that I ever given. I was so calm, despite running running 800 meters for the last 5 minutes.

I have never been so proud of my presentation.

Then the EW0 dude left for another meeting when he realized that things were going very smoothly. The 4 of us remained in my seats and fired a serious of questions, such as how heavy the bin is. with each question, I as able to provide a different diagram. Very well gone HoneyMilkEgg. The lady seemed to be the most aggressive of them all. She spoke very well English and she was able to generate her sets of ideas. She had 2 important questions though, and the general question amongst them all is HOW much can they actually save.

I need to leave for dinner now, basically we had a tour of "the entire operation of a cleaner from the collection point to the sub collection point, to the mobile trucks and the finally compression place. The lady has made her idea about what she thought about her project. I wished Spanky was here. He is much better at casual chatting and selling compared to me. I'm just a presenter... :(

My approach is quite passive, until I can come up with a solution to solve the customers problem, I won't try to hard sell anything. However, given that situation, maybe what I have done is correct? Could I have handled it differently if their final decision were unchanged? hmmm...

Important meeting 1

Two weeks ago, Spanky and I decided that he would be incharge of meeting the head EW0 dude. When we finally got a hold of him, he wanted to meet us... One day after Spanky leaves to NB. Okay great.

So the meeting turned to be a positive meeting. I was super nervous and got diarrhea many times before the meeting, as I have never met with head of any department for anything other than misbehaving back then in my youthful school days. (Actually I don't think I've ever left it)

Anyways, we set up to meet a campus management guy to take me around the campus to understand the trash logistics better.

3 weeks gone by and not a single reply. Within those 3 weeks Spanky has came to HK and has left. Oh well, maybe the EW0 dude was just being nice.

All of a sudden, yesterday I recently a weird "recalled email"  from the EW0 dude. I guess it should has set off warning bells, but nope, I didn't do no shit... So I did my business as usual, went out for vocal lessons, gym, and watched TV drama until 5am.

It didn't seem to matter to me if I needed to set an alarm in or not. My plans for the day was to ready Nietzsche, then go tutor some kid. Simple and stressful.

So I stumbled out of bed feeling terrible, I can feel the swell in my left eye. It was from some dirt that got in days ago, I've been ignoring it and its been growing bigger than ever since. (on top of that I like to tear up to sad Taiwanese drama scenes during my late night marathons) Ai...my bad

So I head to the bathroom and pee while checking my phone, like what any 21st century city living kid/teen/adult would do. Time 12:58. Preview bar: Spanky wechatted, a dozen whatsapp messages from vocal lessons groups, unread emails...

However one email caught my attention, EW0 dude.  Oh yes oh no, he EMAILED. So I opened my email immediately, in the email he said that he wanted to arrange a meeting at around 3:45pm, and hopes I'm around campus at the time.

Okay, so I know its a very last minute meeting, but I'm just meeting the trash collection manager, and hes going to take me on a tour, so all I have to do is to warm myself up with our project idea, practice my usual product description, but in Cantonese this time. Then we can collect the data, and modify, boom, done. Last time, I waited for over 20 mins. So ill expect the meeting to be around 4.

At home, I was a bit rehearsaling, my momma was outside and I just feel uncomfortable if she can hear the slightest bit if noise from me. As I rehearse, I remind myself that although I don't have alot of good vocabs. At least I need to eliminate the slang/uneducated works like "gum, D, la a" As well as the chant " I need to grow up,  I need to grow up,  I need to grow up,  I need to grow up,  I need to grow up...."

3:40pm off I go..

I wore a dress similar to this today.