Some notes about my Log

Here are just some notes about my Log book.

1. I don't believe in noting down the minor details like Time of meeting, Location & Meeting minutes. I mean, do you want my insights or a punch-card to track my hourly wage job? I've contributed significantly to my FYP, as have my team mates, proof is in the pudding or the final product, i prefer pudding.
2. The pictures are all in good fun. They're there to illustrate a point and add a little humor to this log. I like them. Makes the whole thing a little more lively, aye?
3. Yes, there is some amount of Scarcasm and Jokes within. There's content in there too and times when I'm serious, I hope you have a good read.
4. If anything offends you, don't take it to heart. Its all in good taste, I hope. I just find being a little less than serious helps motivate me to blog.
5. NOTE Because Blogs are set in reverse chronological order, I recommend that you scroll to the bottom of each page and click "older posts" till you reach the first entry. Then read up from there, it'll make a little more sense and not spoil any surprises I have ^_^

Have fun reading. I've tried to make this blog as entertaining and insightful read as possible.

MY BUCKET!

Good Bye

Well this is the probably the last post that should be counted as part of my FYP log book. Its been fun. A little challenging coming up with the ideas, puting it down into excel and finally structuring it into a wiki that is easy to read and navigate. But yea, its all good.


Most of the wiki isn't finished yet... It won't be for a long time but thats the great thing about a wiki. Its a never ending work in progress. That doesn't mean that nothing of quality can be gained from it. Not ending is not a flaw, its what keeps the catalog up-to-date and what keeps it growing. Hopefully one day our concept will grow and gain users and visitors. Maybe one day our very own DIEM graduates will put it to use when they go out to organize events. But from here on, it rests on the future teams to continue our work. Maybe one day their project will no longer be about filling up the catalog. One day they'll be marketing it, evaluating its success and merits and getting people's opinions on it.


That also means letting it go, relinquishing the wiki to wee leong and future teams. Take it far guys... Its not much now, but I see a future for it...

Feeling like the Walrus in this picutre:

This One's for the Team

Its been an honour working with you all. I had fun.
I still remember the start... I was so at odds with you guys over the topic that i ended up chasing Aileen out... sorry Aileen. It was just me, I'd like to think I have a strong passion for protecting the only home we've ever known for the past few billion years. I thought it'd be cool to take a look at the green practices in Singapore. I was planning to see if we really are as ignorant about Green issues as people think we are. I was putting my money on NO. Thinking that we are actually conscious about green issues and that it was the majority not the minority that cared.
But we'll never find that out now. 2nd time they've stopped me from doing an FYP about green issues... Maybe if they actually had a team that cared, they'd see some real insights.

Anyways back to my team. You guys have been great to work with. I'd like to think that we worked quite cohesively. We never stressed each other out too much, we were always understanding of each other's appointments. We put in our strengths as individuals and as a team and we helped each other at their weakpoints. I hope that, we pulled through happier and closer as friends. Its worrying when you see people fight and B**** over FYP, especially when some of these people are supposed to be really close. I'd like to think not us.

Actually I like to think about many things but there's one thing i know for a fact, its that you guys make a great team. The pleasure's been mine.

3 Cheers (for sweet revenge, actually no for a great team)

Are we done yet?

No. haha.

After sending our first draft in, it came back. I wonder whats wrong...

Minor corrections to work on. Thankfully. Which brings me to another point... A little worrying... If it was major, then we wouldn't have had time to correct it properly... If it was minor, its not going to affect our report too much, which means its not going to affect us too much which means why bother?

I like the wisdom in the poster... So we're off to do more correcting and formatting.

Till next time...

Finally Report

REPORT TIME!

Its time to get down to writing. Actually to complete the writing... We're basically following the format that Kun rong used in his previous FYP. It seems to fit our needs. We just have to change things here and there but its mostly there.

We're splitting to work up and then later compiling it all so. I think our advisor was not so subtly hinting that someone should be doing the proof reading, something about icing and cakes and reports... Don't remember exactly what, but here's a picture of what i think he was talking about...

So anyways it looks like more sleepless nights working on the report like i did last time. Not that any of us will have much sleep to begin with...

ZZZzzzzz.....

Cat-a-log

The catalog seems mostly done now.

Minor changes required at most.

I'm pretty happy about how this has all turned out.

The quality of the information that one can provide on the wiki is limited only by the information you can obtain.

It has a basic sorting function, we can create as many sorting criteria as we need and as long as the pages are properly formatted, the sorting works like a charm. As of now, the only real sorting function that's working is the SIRD grades. Mostly because we don't have much information on the other companies to properly sort them.

For the one company that we have managed to complete, I have to say I rather like the way it turned out. From my point at least, the information seems to flow well and the formatting of page looks good. Hopefully one day all the pages will be filled like that or better. Its going to be up to the future teams to do this. Which makes me quite proud to have a project that will potentially continue on for a number of years as well as one day be put to use.

Not sure if I've come to like it because i had to do it. But I really see this taking off. Information on security companies is oh so limited... I can see this at the very least helping future FYP teams who are tasked with security based FYP topics like we were.

I just hope others are as enthusiastic about this as I am.

7-Eleven! (Because Cheers stopped sponsoring this blog. Nah, just kidding.)

Interview with a Vampire (oknonotreallyavampiresuemealready)

Headed over to the HQ of Event Security Specialists Pte Ltd. I was somewhat apprehensive about the quality of the information that we would get this time around, considering the fact that my previous interview(during my previous FYP) with one of their staff was less than satisfactory...

But it seemed to have turned out better this time. We got a lot more useful information, part of the reason i believe is that this time round we had a clearer idea of what we wanted to do and what we required from them as well as what would go into the catalog.

We managed to get a better understanding of the services provided and more detailed information. Such as how they provided security for regional events. Their strengths and expertise in the various areas of event security.

I think one of the more useful insights that we gain was to do with the costing of security. The cost per man-hour is just one part of the entire equation. Some security companies may actually have a number of hidden costs that are only made known after the event. Some companies may charge for things like a customized SOP for each event and apparently those things can cost $50k?
Which means... If we were to follow our original plan of including the pricing of the various agencies, we end up not only being ethically questionable but also potentially way off the mark? Way to go... glad we had this little meeting... thanks ESS...

Phoo!(ph=f, so its supposed to sound more like foooo! for fooo! thats a lot of money!)