Collective Soul

It has been almost whole week I’ve been sleeping either very late or very early and at the same time, I’m either waking up very late or very early. It’s all for presentation!

For such a long time in my life, I have never worried about presentation even when I was in the university. Sometimes I can even afford to forget totally about it yet I still able to just stand in front of the class and blah blah blah some bullsh*t and still get at least a B+. Now presentation seem like hell to me.

For almost everyday when I get my presentation material check, there must be something that I need to alter or add (maybe remove) something to it as comment from my boss. This has been on-going for the whole damn week and part of the reason I did not update this blog with any post at all.

However, all this effort was appreciated by at least one of the most important person in the company. That’s the company admin division director who also attended the presentation session. I was so nerveous when I look at how good my other colleagues presentation material as well as presentation itself. It give me quite a bit pressure that I almost forgot what I wanted to say. I just sat there listen to nothing other than my own heart beat. Hate to admit but I think I was just scare then … just like asking a small kids to go to bed in the dark room. You have no choice but you need to do it somehow.

Slowly as time passed, it’s already 11:41 AM … a final thank you from Yee Chang in his presentation mean that it’s my turn to present. I try my best to calm down (I was having a Halls sweet in my mouth then). I give a bang and it started off with “Good Morning to all my fellow colleagues, the topic of my presentation today … “.

I felt I was speeding with my words but at the same time, I tried to make my voice as clear as possible so that all the audience can catch up with me. I was getting much better after the 4th slides and thing start to be more stable then. I gave some minor jokes along the presentation and etc and finally, it’s the final slide d. It’s very much to my relief and then it’s time for Q&A session. A simple question was directed to my and sure enough, I take it with full confident. No more question, then the Mr VIP gave his word. Just a rough quote from him as below: -

“Beejay, I can see that your team has put in a lot of effort in implementing this system. I can sense that it’s not simple and a lot of criteria and constraint is involved to get the correct data for migration. I want to thank you for all the effort. Thank you.”

Well, that was very much a surprise to me. I didn’t expect that at all and I failed to react. I just replied with a simple “Welcome”. Hmmm, now I know what is the feeling of being appreciated and recognise. Just great!