Week 10: Not Over You

21 October 2019 – 27 October 2019

• Presentation & Reflection

This week, I will be doing a round-up of all that I have done thus far for Assignment 2. 

As I was preparing for the individual presentation on 4 November, I went on a trip down memory lane as I was doing up the slides, reminiscing on my project journey for the past semester. All in all, this project has been a meaningful one for me because I got to overcome new challenges. I managed to do things that I otherwise would not have done if I was not doing them for the project. I could also step out of my comfort zone and most importantly I had a lot of fun trying to think of interesting tasks I could do. Furthermore, I am happy that I could share a glimpse into my life as a Hallyu fan, especially for people who are not really familiar with K-pop or K-dramas. 

On 4 November, D-day for the presentations, I was really excited so I made sure to come on time at 9am (our professor had wanted to start earlier as everyone was presenting on the same day). To my surprise, when I entered the seminar room, no one else had arrived yet and the room was pitch back. Suspecting that the class might have been pushed back to its usual timing of 10am, I checked my NTUlearn and true enough I had apparently missed out on a message informing the class that presentations will begin at 10am instead. Disappointed, I brushed it off, blaming myself for not having checked the message which had been sent out the previous day. However, little did I know that this actually signalled a bad start to the day and my presentation that was to come.

Since I had arrived early, I had planned to be one of the first few to present but things did not go as I had wished because as I was still hesitating over whether to present, many others were quicker than me and started volunteering to present before I could. Before I know it, it was already lunchtime. 

During lunchtime, I plucked up the courage and approached Professor Liew to ask if I could be the first to present after lunch. He readily agreed. Yet, just when I thought things were finally going smoothly, some of my classmates brought it to his attention that there was going to be a final year project (fyp) seminar in that same room at 3pm and it was already 2pm with half the class who have not yet presented. 

Therefore, I ended up having to rush through my presentation with a distracted audience who were still munching on their food and a tired-looking Professor who has already sat for numerous presentations prior to my own. At 3pm, the class shifted locations but only a handful of students were left as most of the class had left due to the fyp seminar. Finally, at around 4.30pm, the last presenter presented and we completed the marathon of presentations. At this point, I had been in a classroom for more than seven hours, the longest I have ever been in one since my university days started.

Despite some hiccups along the way, there was still a silver lining in the cloud because our professor actually treated us to pizza for lunch which made the experience so much more pleasant and bearable. In fact, the overall presentation experience was generally very memorable. With the conclusion of the presentations, my individual project thus ended.

Even though the individual project has come to an end, the feeling is immensely bittersweet because I enjoyed the process, hence the title of this blog update, “Not Over You” which is based on a NU’EST song title of the same name. While my project journey has concluded, my journey as a Hallyu fan has not and I greatly look forward to what else K-dramas, variety shows and K-pop has to offer.