My Contributions

Everyone of us played a pivotal role in the team to come up with this report. Here are just some of my contributions:

• Marketing research Literature Review

I was tasked to do the marketing research portion of our literature review. I initially did it in graphs as i thought it would be easier to see in graph form. But i was later advised by Qifen to put it in words which sucked. I did it, but i left the graph specific to our topic as it would be easier to understand.

• Crafting the questionnaire and survey questions
  

I started the first ever questionnaire and survey questions which were improved on by Hafiz and Shikin. It was tough at first, but my knowledge in the music industry helped me in crafting the questions. I put myself in the shoes of who we were interviewing and crafted questions based on that.

And god knows how difficult it was explaining to Shikin the different purpose of a 'survey' and an 'interview' hahaha...

• Analysis

Together with Shikin, i came up with certain links in our survey questions. From there, once the surveys came back to us, i helped Shikin with the analysis when she was stuck(which was not very often) and after proof reading some of the analysis by the other girls, i added some more details which they might have missed out, but quite important.

• SPSS

I was the main person in charge of SPSS since i was the only one then who knew how to use it. I thought it would be essential for me to get a refresher course on how to use it. So i sought after the help of my previous FYP advisor, Ms Carol Danker for her help. I sincerely thank her for all her help and time.

I then taught SPSS to my team mates the basics of SPSS and its functions so that they at least know what it is for and how to roughly use it. I am quite confident to say that Shikin has become a competent user of SPSS. Good job to her.

I also had to teach Jarell's team SPSS! Because he forgot how to use it and his team didn't know how to use it. But Jarell picked it up fast from me. Good job on his team.

Also, i was the main data inputer and analyzer for the results as Shikin was quite new to it at first Later on, she was able to do it herself.

• Compiling

I had to job of compiling the report. Although tiring, it was necessary. Many hours was spent getting the report up to date, correcting grammatical errors, deleting unnecessary parts of the report, changing the graphs and structure of the whole report.

• Assisted the team in any help

I never refuted anyone who asked for help. If they needed help with whatever they were doing, i would if i could. Its all part of team work. My team mates did the same for me as well. Be it to help them if they were stuck somewhere or even to read through what they have done and offer opinions if needed.

• Assisted Shikin

A lot of weight was on her shoulders being the leader. I tried to lessen her load as much as i can and assisted her in whatever she was doing if she ever got stuck. I worked most closely with her as we were doing the most important part of our report, the results and conclusion.

There are many other things which all of us did to help the team out in one way or another. It was a team effort.

I would like to take the opportunity to thank the following people.

Ms Wang Qifen: Our advisor. Never late to lend her opinions to make the report a better one. Constant encouragement from her got us going at times. I thank you for that.

Abdul Hafiz: Dude, you put in effort like I've never seen before into this report. Your work interviewing Mr Hosking was great. Thanks man.

Ayn: Your diligence and hard work ethics got the team going at times. You are the spark of the team. Plus, you give us something to laugh at. haha. Thank you.

Eeqa: The quiet thinker. I thought you did excellent despite all the problems you are facing. You did your parts well. I know you didn't speak up as much as you should, but did so when you thought necessary to get us back on track. Thanks botak.

Shikin: My leader. Its never easy being a leader. You did so with such grace and aplomb. I applaud you. You gave the team directions and always the one holding us together. You learn things quickly and always never too busy to help when you can. I believe i owe you many thanks for your help. Saper namer ni girl?

For anyone i missed out, know that i will be grateful for your help.

It's been one helluva ride.

Now, please exit stage, right.

cheers....

One Last Burst

Team met up with Qifen on Friday during lunch so she could go through the report one final time before submission.

The content was fine, just some of the phrasing and grammar needed to be touched up. Other than that, everything was fine.

Qifen also suggested that someone else do the proof reading this time since i have been compiling and proof-reading everything so far, i might have missed out on the mistakes. I agree. :D

Eeqa was assigned to do the touch ups.

Good luck to us. Here goes nothing.

Meeting 16

Venue: Republic Polytechnic Classroom

Shikin and i met up in class to compile the report and finish up the results. We didn't call the others along as they have done their parts and deserved their rest. But we told them if they wanted to, they could. Also, having multiple people involved in report compiling will make the report messy and unorganized as all of us have different styles of compiling. I thought it was best for the team to have only one compiler.

We tied up all the loose ends of the report and finished up all the parts that were supposed to be in the report.

Shikin finished the results and analysis while i tested our hypothesis with our links we matched in our survey earlier. We then did the conclusion and final touch ups.

After we left, i went home and did one final run through the whole report to update the content page, check the structure of the whole report and grammatical errors. I am sure many slipped past me again as i was dead tired by then.

But alas, i was finally happy with the report and its entirety. All the months work was finally done complete in front of me.

I then sent it out to the team and our advisor. I knew there were other minor changes we had to make before submission at the end of the week.

Meeting 15

Venue: Republic Polytechnic Library

Shikin and me skipped class to continue our report. Since the date line was so near and quite an amount still left to do, it was necessary.

Realized that i had to re do alot of the graphs in the report and put them into words. However, i feel that some graphs are essential in the report as it allows the reader a clearer picture on what we are trying to say and saves them the trouble or reading it numerous times to understand.

Also, i had to manually do some of the graphs as they were pictures taken by a phone camera and some of them were slanted or blur. I had to manually use Microsoft Powerpoint and do a graph from scratch which sucked.

Shikin then continued with her results and analysis which were constantly being updated.

In the end, we went home to complete all that we had to as we had had enough for the day and could not see us being productive anymore as we were starting to do nonsense.

Observations: I now know that little things that we tend to put off till later on is a bad idea. At first, all these minor mistakes i left for later on to do as i thought they were simple. But they kept piling on and on and some of them are NOT easy to do. From now on, all the littlest things that need to be changed will be changed immediately by me.

Also, if parts of the report come to me one at a time, it's quite frustrating to compile as alot of changes have to be done. Next time, i will ensure that i know what documents i am supposed to get and by when so that i do not have to do double work. Work smart, not work hard...

Homework

After having collected all pieces of work from everyone, i got done to finally compiling the report. Compiling sucks....

I compiled everything that the team did from the introduction to the report, to the references they had passed me and also, structured the whole report. I also added new stuff to the report over the weekend such as the acknowledgments and appendix page. That sucked as well....

I checked for grammatical errors in the report and changed them. I'm sure a few of them managed to escape though. I even restructured sentences which didn't make sense or sounded wrong.

I did up the content page and made sure the pages corresponded with the titles. That one sucked most...

Compiling reports sure drains the juice in your brains.....

But after all that, i was happy to see the report looking structured and neat. It was worth it.

I think the fact that i finally completed my CE points kept me going.

Meeting 14

Venue: Republic Polytechnic Library

Shikin and i skipped class to continue our final report. It was all in bits and pieces to date and more things needed to be done. The rest were either not in school or didn't have school.

I felt it was necessary to skip class to finish our report.

We met up with Qifen to update her on our progress and made some amendments to our current uncompiled report. She pointed out some structuring mistakes and grammatical errors that need adjustment and gave us links to help us with structuring.

We then carried on finishing up other parts of the report like the results and analysis before we could compile the whole report.

Observations: I think the smaller the group, the easier it is to work. That's the strategy we have adopted so far anyway. We always delegate work in pairs or triplets. I think this work style suits me well. I think too big a group can cause distractions among ourselves as well.