Citibank-UM Intervarsity Case Study Challenge 2008

Finally, the case study competition is over!

We somehow got into semi finals unexpectedly...

Yeah, it was unexpected because we kinda did the write up last minute~
Our thesis was near to its deadline and the whole team consists of members with 3 different timetables...and...my thesis team consists of a different group of members with 3 different timetables also!!! Didn't get to meet up with them much so I did really little for the case study thing. Sorry guys for all the unattended meet ups and also the times when I turned up super late :( Apologies to my thesis team members also for frequently rushing off to meet up on the other side... *kneels down with tea in hand*


28th August - Presentation of Giordano case study at UM as semi finalists

We were supposed to reach there by 8:30am but there was the Merdeka Celebration rehearsal thingy going on at KL and the traffic was like super slow! Seriously~All the cars were practically crawling like one inch every 15 minutes O_O (okla I'm exaggerating but the traffic was really really slow).


Mr. Ng fetched us there ler he's so damn nice lor! Look at the traffic!


Wen (I know her name is not spelled this way but this is the way it sounds haha) and Ling in the car


Reached there around 9am (I think) but the presentation has not started off yet and UM gave us leeway for being late (The organizers are super nice!)~

We were the 8th team to present and as we moved towards our seats I saw my secondary school friends who are studying in UM! They are one of the semi finalists too :)
Really great to see them after such a long time and I guess I was too busy chatting with them + being nervous for the presentation so no pics of them were taken wtf so damn regret -.-

The first team to present was really great and I guess it had most of us almost peeing in our pants... No pics either... I must be really nervous at that time until I forgot that I brought my camera swt

and when it was our turn to present I became super super nervous and practically mumbled everything that was written on the screen -_-
*sigh* after so many years of presentation and I'm still like that why lah


Lam Lam pink pink hahahaha (internal joke) presenting~
See I so happy chit chatting with Wen coz it was already past my turn...what la so unprofessional wan you Shi Min *smacks self*


After everyone presented the GM of Giordano gave a lil' speech to comment on several points for us to take note of~


Giordano's GM was there! Don't play play!


Then there was a break after that and lunch was served at UM (as usual I can only eat the kuihs coz I'm a vegetarian *sigh* damn hungry actually at that time). When we went back to the lecture hall for the finalist announcement, we got another shock...

Our team was one of the 5 finalist!

We really didn't know if we should be happy or sad...
Ling actually just came back from Sabah on 26th and she's in an extremely exhausted state,
Wen already bought a bus ticket to go back to her hometown,
Lam Lam pink pink was still very shocked about being in the semi finals and
I was worrying about the unreplied customers' mails, stuff that has not been posted out, missing out on important information for IB on that day, Selvi's stuff that was still with me, and a couple of unreturned tutorials with friends that were going back to their hometown on that day...

and in case you're wondering why I'm worrying about all these stuff when I can easily go home and do all of them first...

NO, we don't get to go home! I'll explain about it later...


Ling and Lam Lam pink pink with our FREE Giordano t-shirts and the finalist tags (Lam's face so blur haha)
Oh ya can see Ah Liap in this picture!!! (behind Ling) One of my secondary school friends who's in UM now~

And as I was about to take more pics...

They announced that we were to head off to Eastin Hotel in like 10 minutes or so -_-
Everyone had to go there together (there's a bus to fetch us there) except one team..
That team had mid term on the same day at 8pm so they will be going there after their mid term (OMG they're under so huge pressure also can do so well in their presentation! Malu la we all).

We will be given a new case study after we reach Eastin Hotel and answers are to be prepared and presented on the next day at the conference room. Handphones will be confiscated (They got return to us right before we present la haha) to prevent the finalists from getting help from others and laptops + supporting materials must be left in the conference room (we can work on our case there), i.e. we cannot being 'em back to our rooms.

Chi kek or not?!??!??!!!


28th August (still same day) - Preparation of new case study at Eastin Hotel as finalists

Ling with her upset face at Eastin Hotel's lobby


Wen making her final sms-es


Ok she was upset until naik gila already
Note: she wanted to wear that string of finalist tags as a belt


Or maybe as a necklace -.-"""


Checked in after a short wait~~~


Ling's luggage! Eh you plan to stay at Eastin for a week ah?
LOL jkjk she had to go back to Ipoh on the next day straight away after the presentation ends hence the huge luggage XD


She even brought along her favorite doggy -_____- (it's a cushion like pillow)


Her super watch that we always use to time our rehearsals


My stuff scattered as usual... *sigh* I just can't be neat
(Eh not fair leh! I think some of you guys' stuffs are here also!!!)


View outside our room~what else you expect la Eastin is located in the city lol


Eh blur liao paiseh


Don't like that la take again come guai guai


Jeng jeng jeng~Cute lil' Wen posing :D


We took a bath, went for the case briefing, got our case, went back to the room and started to read the damn thing...


Very rajin...


Also very rajin...


Good poser as well haha (pic a bit blur coz zoomed in)


Obviously the lazy one was busy taking pics of the rest


We had buffet after reading the case for like 1 hour or so, sponsored by Citibank of course~We are poor students okay

Didn't bring my cam down so no pics of the glorious food offered there and also the hungry us grabbing whatever food we can see O_O (haih me being excluded la coz most of the stuff I cannot eat also :( but I did grab like a whole plate of cakes and cheese tarts *happy*)


And it is really true that humans tend to feel sleepy after meals so...


Aiyo~who are these people?!!!! *Ahem*


29th August - Presentation of SingTel case study at Eastin Hotel as finalists

The tag


Eh Lam Lam pink pink again haha~
I was really really nervous! >_< " scary experience


Photographing the photographer hahaa


and the zi lian photographer wanted a picture with a nicer pose...

But my hand was shaky and he commented on it right after i clicked on the snap button!!
wtf memang photographer pun like that also noticed


So I took another picture -.- Happy liao ma?
(It's still a lil' blur due to lousy camera not my fault this time :p)


3rd prize~! from UM (I liked this team's presentation very much!!!)


2nd place!! from KTAR


Champion!!! from UM also~~I missed out on this team's presentation coz we were practising outside :(
(pic super blur coz the photographer keep moving here and there and I had to aviod him and fast fast snap -.-)


Left Eastin rather early coz Mr. Ng was rushing off to Singapore~

Our super nice lecturer, hehe can't see face paiseh... HOD of Finance Department


~Wen and me~(picture so dark also can c my dark eye circles! Really tired...)


Although the whole process was really exhausting and all of us had many sleepless nights, it was an eye opener and a great experience. There were many creative presentations and also many great presenters that I might have not been able to see if it weren't for this competition. Big thank you to Mr. Ng, Ms. Chui, Mr. Tee, and all my fellow team mates who made this happen =)