Part 2 - I Have a New Boss?

The committee group arranged for a site-supervision for the next day, of which I took extra care to be punctual and organized, as yesterday's meeting felt like an indicator that I wasn't doing a good job and was about to be replaced by someone else.

As Cool New Asia was an event, we needed to familiarize with the venue, as such we headed over to Oakridge House and had a look around.

Jonathan (the unknown guy, who apparently was Elena's postgrad student), walked about the venue and made matter-of-fact statements about what to do in the upcoming event and I just quietly followed suit while taking down notes in my head.

Yes, I learnt about assertive speaking and active listening and such in communication class, but I was never born confrontational. It's always so easy to read up textbooks, soak it all up and spill it on exams and that's it. But when you are dealing with real people, it's raw emotions and complex webs of relationships at work - textbook teachings can only go so far.

But anyway, deep down in my heart, I was quite pleased to know someone who seems like they know what they are doing are taking things into their own hands. That would mean our event would be one to look forward to. Bad news for me though - that would reflect so badly on myself, because it would seem like I am not competent enough to do what was expected of me.

But wait, I have done all that was requested, maybe even a bit too much, given that our event is so small and I was working on a misinformed mindset, as stated in an earlier journal entry.

So what was wrong? I really didn't know at this stage...

But...

(see Part 3)