do you think it's fair...but the again life isn't fair...

i don't know if this has anything with how things work in japan...or whether it's the way things are done in the real world...

we do research with a japanese company here..it's a common procedure...the company comes and supplies us with the things we need for the experiment and we do the experiments for them...they get the data they want for the purpose of their research and development and we get to use some of it in our thesis...

anyway this particular research is only a small part of my thesis only one chapter of it...but it took up most of the time...anyway...since i am officially doing my research under a first year masters student...he gets all the limelight...i was prepared for that...

the first time we had a meeting with the other company i felt like a chair in the room...another piece of furniture..they don't acknowledge you're there...is this how it goes in the real world...please tell me...or is it just in japan....but hey i was fine with that...

then came the actual experiments...even though it's only one chapter in my thesis.. the experiment for this research took up most of my time...and what pisses me of is i get to do all te dirty work...all the little stuff like taking the measurements...organizaing the data...making the graphs...taking all the notes...taking and labeling the pictures of all the products tedious tedious...

and then when the actual day came  for when we had to present the findings to the respective companies all he does is copy paste the data and puts his name at the top....ONLY his name...okay lah ...i figured this must be how it goes...fine...

then he tops it of with another big whammy to my stomach...they found out yesterday that the meeting will commence at 10.30 today and he has a class....okay so it isn't his fault...so at the last minute i'm supposed to present...me who they have treated as the furniture...okay so i made the graphs and everything...but i can't present something you gave to me 15minutes before the meeting...i'm not that good....hahaha

good thing the lecturers were there ...so i got a buffer... but still i was the one who got the dirty looks was when his written report was not complete... i felt like screaming to them...look at the name written there..i just supply the data...but you don't ..you sit quietly and smile...that's how things are done..

so now..after it has all endded and the lecturers gave him the list of things to do for his incomplete report he just nods and says to me...okay i'll do this part ( as if telling me he's doing ME a favour) and you take the measurements for ribs...(which the company didn't ask for and is the most tedious,  173 X 8 = 1384 times + graphs) ....

so on top of my thesis due next friday, and  our practice presentation session also next friday i have 1384 'enjoyable' moments of measuring my 'lovable' pieces of 'art' to look forward to...

and yes people i'm not going to deny it...I AM COMPLAINING