Friday, January 21, 2005

A Wasted Trip?

A trip that cost me a whole 2.5 hours; all for 10 minutes of waiting, 3 minutes of negotiation and 20 minutes of searching.

20 minutes of searching:
Tried to find a department listed under the faculty of science... The department of computational science.

10 minutes of waiting:
Waited for 10 whole minutes before the person in question turned up at the office... time: 1420 Hrs, Lunch? No way... Tuang? High chance!

3 minutes of negotiations:
Talked to the person for a while; actually prepared myself before hand for an unfavourable reply... turned out otherwise.

Time wasted... almost 3 hours. Acheived: Got my tutorial time slot in a class thats already full.

The worst part is the person never replied to a mail that I sent out at 10.40am in the morning all the way till the time I met him/her in the department office. Well, if the person can so readily agree to my request for a tutorial time slot change, why can't the person do so online, without me having to personally come down to the office to "tell" him/her in person?

Well, all is not lost; at least Lyon waited for me and accompanied me home... had some fun with the keyboard before Mr Tan came over for a singing practise session.

That just about sums up my day, a wasted day? Maybe, maybe not... I enjoyed the company! The things that happened seemed so much like those that would happen in the army days? Talk about responsibility...

[Summary of 20/01/05, Thurs]

3 Comments:

At 7:46 PM, Blogger Jeffire said...

the situation reminds me of my biz law class
- is email subjected to the postal rule or the receipt rule?

the layman's question will be: is email instaneous or not?

this leads to: do we have a responsibility to reply email within a certain timeframe?

 
At 11:54 PM, Blogger Jeffire said...

hey dude, one of ur frens who posts comments on this blog met me in sch and spoke to me! i'm so sorry that i couldn't really speak much to you (cos we were in the library and I was rushing for class) so if you happen to see this message, add me on MSN eriffej@hotmail.com!

thankssssssss

 
At 8:14 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

woots.

that sounds like I.

~paul

 

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