| Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
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It snowed a lot a lot today. I think it started snowing from yesterday nonstop for almost 24 hours. All evening classes were officially cancelled by the university because of the heavy snowfall. I didn't go to any of my lectures but too bad I had a Japanese interview test, so I still had to walk all the way to Van Hise. The snow was so thick that when I was walking, my feet was actually buried in the snow and everyone had to jump over the snow when they wanted to cross the road. Crazy, ain't it? If I don't nail today's interview test, I am so gonna go mad!! Hahaha..
Okay , a bit of a good news. I had been selected to be one of the 100 participants to enter/attend Global Simulation Workshop cosponsored by various business and international organizations on campus but the main organization behind this event is O.S Earth, Inc. So what is exactly Global Simulation Workshop? Here's an excerpt from ISS.
How would you run the world? This exciting role-playing game will give you the chance to answer this question! Take part in this unique event where players will form teams representing different regions of the world, multinational corporations and global organizations that compete, negotiate, and trade for assets like wealth, technology, natural resources as they build the world they want to see. Source: UW-ISS
For more information, go to www.worldgame.org. Basically, there're going to be about 10 groups, in which will be represented as countries, corporations and global organizations who will exchange and manage resources in order to maintain the wealth of the groups. This is when skills and knowledge comes in because if you are too stingy or too generous, you may end up with nothing and makes your group go bankrupt. I'm pretty much excited to be selected to be in this workshop since so many people applied and the workshop itself will be a good experience for me for my future jobs. But reading the experiences of people who have participated before do make me a little nervous. What if I don't do well and bring my group down. Orientation will be next Monday and I hope to get good teammates. Let me tell you, running a country, even if it is a game, is not an easy task. I've done it during my 2 months stay in MMU, being appointed as a Minister of Education,it gave me headaches and emotional tantrums at certain times. Endless meetings, cooperation problems, "country's" problems, sarcastic and mean critics. But on the bright side, I got to know a lot of people, build up my leadership skills, widen my network and people noticed me. I love when people noticed me. Hahaha...blame that to my senior high school years being in the more popular girl group. Now in UW no more sparkles lerr since I couldn't find a group that I can fit in well. *The supposedly more outgoing group here is a little bit "different" than my KL buddies so tak boleh nak buat apelah kan*. I love my time there in MMU. It has been if not the best, one of the top 5 best time of my life.
So perhaps in next week Global Simulation Workshop I will be able to sharpen my leadership and problem-solving skills summore. |
| posted by efarina @ 9:57 PM |
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