Back from the Gourami Business Challenge!

From my last post, it was a busy day before i flew off to Penang, Malaysia, with not much preparation and also had no idea of what to expect there. Met up with 5 other from team singapore at the changi airport as the 7th member flew to Penang from Hong Kong.

In short, it was a fun-filled, action-packed, with tons of knowledge and stress compressed into 5 full days. I was assigned to a team of 10 (including me) to develop a business plan for the oil (Swordtail n Minnow)and gas fields (Guppy, tetra and Marlin)located in the South of the imaginary state of Gourami (see below).



We are known as EPSouth, multi-national team with wonderful people (#1)from Malaysia, China, India and of course, Singapore. Within 3 days, we came up with business plans, with calculations of Capex, no. of barrels/day, NPV, payback, VIR etc etc for the development of EPSouth. Most importantly, I made many wonderful new friends from different countries(#2). =D

With the enthusiasm of Queen Zee, the team won the Tidy room of the Week Award and everyone was presented with a card as shown. I placed it in the hands of my cute companions beside my com.



After the final presentation, it was fun and laughter at the party on the last night at Gourami (#3) before the interview on the last day and subsequently the super short flight back to Singapore. I already miss the people at Gourami liao. =P

As i sit here and ponder back, it was a surreal experience where 40 over total strangers had teamed up, faced challenges together, had fun together, ate together and came up with a 'viable' (we never did get to know the results) business plan in such a short time. Definitely wish that i had more time to know more about everybody. Nonetheless, if the people in Shell are of this range of personality and character where everyone worked hard and played hard plus most importantly, with a fun but serious work culture, i want in! =D I guess it will be up to the assessors, coaches and HR people to decide on that liao.

Will add in more details of my days in Gourami later on. Slept till 11 today.. wanted to go school for the solar car, but getting tired out liao. Need to recover some sleep as i had slept only 5~6 hours every night at Penang. =/