The Real One.

Have been another 2 busy weeks trying to prepare for a fund-raising carnival at my school. I worked with a team of 6. Well, probably more. But the 6 was official, so let it be.

But the 6 didn't seem productive at all. Of course one of them was me and I and another friend worked hard to try to make our stall at the carnival successful. It was designing, printing, preparing, typing, telephoning and trying to sort out massive amounts of money.

I don't mean to show off, but that seemed to be the scenario. The rest of the team was basically just sitting there chatting irrelevant topics and they actually called themselves redundant personnels. Ridiculous, eh.

Well it did for me. Pretty offensive or rude too.

On the day of the carnival, I was in charge of introducing the stall and the game of the stall to the visitors with half of the team. The rest, along with their friends, were in charge of the gifts. Now as I had warned them never to give out too many gifts at one go, they thought we have lots of gifts enough to fill the planet so they started distributing gifts and even sending visitors boxes of gifts - as in all pens.

Towards the end of the carnival, our stall went flat of gifts. Thank goodness no one came since then.

But when I and another friend cleaned up our stall, we found an extra box of pens sitting there. Now who told me there weren't enough gifts?

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Some said the stall was successful. Maybe from a visitor's view it is, but from an assistant leader's view it isn't - messed up numbers and gifts, messy arrangement and resources allocation...

I'm not sure if I'm the one being too strict and serious over these things. But at least this is my values and I do think it is important to keep them. After all it's a "business" - even if it is for one day.

Looking back, I am still pretty much frustrated about it... but it did make me rethink the real face of each person. Some people may seem really hardworking but in reality they are never serious. It still gets me thinking.