有趣的会议

会议，可以很浪费时间和精力，也可以获益良多。但是，偏偏都是前者居多。去了北京2天2夜参加了一个会议，场面是挺大的，还要做一个presentation，用半桶水的中文，加半桶水的英文，还好ok。会议的进行，说实在，我还需要一点时间去适应。一个project的几个tasks负责人，轮流上前解释一些documents，而这一些documents，一，没有人看过（i.e.，当场所有人还是第一次看），二，不是presentation slides而是word document（i.e.，就是文字多多）和三，大部分在场的人和这一个负责人所负责的task没有任何关系。所以，整个会议就只有chairman，那一个负责人，和几个略懂的人在讨论。大部分时间就是awkward silence。有趣吧？其实，在这次会议之前我去过一个截然不同的会议。那一次是我跟人争吵！真的是争吵的会议。因为一些disagreement（来自不同的公司）所以，吵了起来。别误会，我不是开始吵的人，而是有一些人蛮不讲理，拼命的对我人身攻击而我反击罢了。有时一个很有趣的会议，但是那也是几个月前的事情了。

Meeting could be waste of time and energy, but also could be very beneficial and efficient. Unfortunately it is always the former case. I was in Beijing 2 days and 2 nights attending a huge meeting, and needed to give a presentation. The presentation was ok albeit a bit too short. Frankly, I still need some time to get used to this kind of meeting. It is about a huge project collaboration of a lot of organizations. So, during the meeting, several tasks responsible entity went to discuss their documents one by one. And, these documents (1) no one ever read before, (2) not presentation slides but words documents, and (3) only a few people in the meeting know what that is about. So, almost like 0.5% of the audience discussed, and almost 99% of the time was awkward silence. Interesting isn't it? Before this meeting, I actually attended one different meeting. We had a fight in the meeting. Well, verbal quarrel. It was not me who started the quarrel. Someone in the meeting from different companies just kept on attacking me, so I just fired back! Another interesting experience for sure!