SRR got 3rd for Grand Finals! =D Anyway, well done Nigel! Congrats on winning! ;)

HAHAHAHA. Almost screwed up the presentation when the mike failed. Luckily, we were able to project our voices. However, it resulted in me concentrating on projecting my voice and neglecting the elocution part n all the gestures. nvm. Its all over. We're really very lucky that we got into the top 3. We must be grateful that we are already the 3rd out of the dunno how many hundreds of teams participating in Projects Day this year. I was quite surprised that the judges said they liked our project idea. I screwed up the Q&A session initially, but we later proved to them we had a deep understanding in our product by answering fairly well. LOL. The judges ask one question, then lets say Kai Ming answer. Then Leon will add on. Then I add on somemore. LOL.

I was really surprised that DEME didnt get into top 3 at all. I'm so surprised. I cant believe that actually got the Merit Award. I thought you all presented really well. All 3 of us, Kai Ming Leon and I, said last night that DEME is a sure-win one, unless they really screw up the whole presentation. After the presentation, I was thinking okay, maybe not sure-win, but still high chance of top 3. Really a disappointment. But, you all still have numerous external competitions that can submit for next year right? So, cheer up kae?

Anyway, Tse Siong, if you can't believe we won you all, we cant too. It was quite a miracle, considering how we screwed up the presentation yesterday. Moreover, our script wasnt even finalised until yesterday. To be exact, yesterday night, 10.30pm.

Oh yes, everyone was saying leefy's laptop was damn lagg. It really was. Ended up screwing the video of the race. Can't really blame him. The file size of all 10 Grand Finalists should have been around 5GB big. Ours was already 600MB. That was an area to be improved on.

Moreover, I think they should change the way of announcing the results of the Grand Finalists. They really shouldnt announce in order of the presentation while making known the consolation prizes. It's like Group 2,3 and 5 top 3. Then the excitement not there le. The rest of the 5 groups can just prepare and go get the consolation prizes. Moreover, it didnt make the Bronze team really happy that they got third, like Mrs. Jane Ittogi Shanmuragatnam's example in her speech today. The excitement really wasnt there. Maybe the tension was quite high when guessing for the champion and the runner up. I'm saying this coz we got third. HAHAHAHAHA. But seriously, they should just randomly give out consolation prizes instead of according to order of presentation. Then they can start building the tension when giving out the last consolation prize. If it was done this way, I'm sure we would be really really happy today, although we're really glad we made it into the top 3.

I've got a few people to thank for making our project such a success.

Mentor, Ms. Gwee Hana
Thanks for all of your invaluable advice and guidance. Thanks for guiding us through the entire process of the competition. Taking out time to hear us rehearse especially before shortlisting and the actual Grand Finals. I'll always remember the times the four of us had together. Leon with his extremely comedian-like actions and looks. Kai Ming and his spastic comments and jokes. You and your brilliant ideas. I thought the final script that we used today was of really good substance. If we had more time to rehearse and memorise our script, we wouldn't look so stiff today. Like I said, it was only finalised 10.30pm last night. Imagine that.

Long Yi
Thanks for shouting out 15! If not we sure die one. Those sec 1s HUM JI dun dare shout. Thanks Long Yi! One fish burger for u! Thanks for taking part in the production of our video too. You should also thank us for putting your spastic actions onto the big screen when talking about perserverance. LOL.

Mediatech
Thanks for coordinating the lightings and stuff. I'm sure it worked off really well for us. Without that, i'm sure the effect wouldn't be there anymore. Thanks, especially Wei Cheng and that cute sec1 boy. Chun Meng, is it possible we get a copy of the video of the entire Grand Finals? Thanks.

Mr. Ram and Mr. Dee
Thanks for all the invaluable advice given to us on Wednesday on how to improve on our presentation skills. Without them, I don't think we could have done so well. Anyway Mr. Dee, we decided to get the message across, thus slowed down on our speed of talking. :)

Ying Jie
Thanks for helping out in the re-making of our forum! Hope you don't mind if we use it permanently.

Class 3K
Thanks for all the words of encouragements, especially during shortlisting and before the Grand Finals today.

HCI Cross Country
Thanks for helping us in making the video for our presentation today. Especially Jeffrey for staying with us for about 2 hours to just shoot a video of about 1min. LOL.

Nicholas
Thanks for spamming for forum! =D

Yan Zhe
Thanks for helping out throughout the process of the entire project, especially during the video interview with Mr. Elangovan.

Kai Ming's mum
Thanks for assisting in making the big GOLD MEDAL until 3am in the morning. The medal had really played a big role in the presentation. Once Kai Ming brought it on stage, everyone started laughing. LOL.

Yi Kai and Woon Yang
Thanks for lending us the track suits today. They were really good costumes for the presentation.

Interviewees
Mr. Loh Cham Piew. Mr. Khoo Chin Poo. Mr. Steven Quek. Mr. Elangovan. Mr. Rameshon. Mr. Shon. The primary information provided were indeed invaluable.

Did I miss anyone out? I hope I didn't. Anyway, thank you everyone for making this a success. We really benefited a lot from this Projects Competition experience. With the implementation of the new Integrated Program, we are allowed more time to pursue our passion and interest in a less structured environment, and in this case, running. HAHAHAHA! I could memorise my script so well! Well, that's because it came from the bottom of my heart. :)

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