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Thursday, October 30, 2008
8:04 PM The first cornflakes-making session was at Joanne's house, where not many people went at first. They joined us a while after that later that evening. On the way to Joanne's house in Ms Tan's car, we talked about many useless things and Ms Tan told me to shut up, if not she would drop me at the roadside. =( I realised that I talk too much crap and should talk only at the necessary times. I have learnt my lesson and will talk less in future. In Joanne's house, we just started without instructions from anybody. If not for Yvonne and her decision-making, it would have been a complete chaos. So, we delegated tasks and everybody had a role to play. At first, if things were to carry on initially, the production would be very slow as there would be people idling around. After some adjustments, everybody would specialise in their specific roles and thus increase the efficiency of making cornflakes. The production went on very smoothly thereafter, as everybody put their hearts and souls in making them. It got a little dry after that as we kind of lost some enthusiasm. After that, more people came and crap, it was total chaos! I, who was in charge of sprinkling coloured rice onto the cornflakes, was pushed out of the kitchen into the packing 'industry'. This is where we packed the cornflakes into boxes of 12 and 27. I forgot to mention, actually the whole process of manufacturing the cornflakes went well, because we took a good risk. We desperately needed the chocolate on the cornflakes to dry up asap as we there was a HUGE demand for the trays because the chocolate was melting way too quickly. Hence we utilised Joanne's refrigerator but did not know how the end result would be like. But poof, it went well. So, well done! Thus, the learning of point of this is that if we take a good risk, things would work out faster than you could ever imagine. In the process of packing along with occasional swapping of people (coz they were too bored doing the same things), things went well I would say. It was quite efficient in my point of view, but some people tried to snatch and pack into their various containers whenever the fresh cornflakes came out. Maybe they were too enthu, lol. At the end of it all, we wrote a card to thank Joanne's mother for using her place for the cornflakes-making session. I learnt to thank people for their contributions and acknowledge them all. Overall, there has been much learning points. Firstly, think first before you speak. Secondly, efficiency comes from enthusiasm and specialisation of tasks. Thirdly, by taking a good risk the results might turn out better than what you think. Lastly, I learnt to acknowledge people for their help and contributions. I hope this entry was not crappy, though. Leonard 30/10/08 Labels: leonard's reflections on 1st cornflakes-making session |
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