Proposal Draft 3 - Current Implementation

1.2 Current Implementations
Efforts have been invested by both the authorities and respective bike-sharing operators,
including Mobike, to minimize indiscriminate parking.

1.2.1 Penalty Fee by Land Transport Authority (LTA) to Bike-Sharing Firms
For any indiscriminately parked Mobikes found by The Land Transport Authority (LTA),
Mobike will have to pay a total of S$100 and a fine to retrieve the impounded bike.

1.2.2 Yellow Boxes Used as Designated Parking Areas
Yellow boxes have been marked out islandwide to encourage riders to orderly park the
bikes at designated locations in public spaces. However, there are still many public-sharing
bike users that irresponsibly park the bikes.
1.2.3 Credit System
Every Mobike user is entitled to 100 credits. Poor parking practices or irresponsible usage
of the bikes will result in the loss of credits thus imposing higher charges for the usage of a
Mobike. However, this credit system is ineffective as inconsiderate users can easily switch
to another public-sharing bike operator when he or she has to pay a higher fare.

1.2.4 Geostations
Geostations is the most recent solution agreed to be implemented by Mobike and four
other public bike-sharing operators to control indiscriminate parking. Although
Geostations is an effective solution to the indiscriminate parking of Mobikes, the problem
of overcrowding and high cost of implementing Geostations is of concern. Furthermore,
reaching a consensus among all public bike-sharing operators on a common geofencing
system to be installed on all the bikes and designated parking areas will be a challenge.

Analytical Reflection

It is always better to prepare ahead for any presentation, but I was not prepared for the mock oral presentation. Our slides were incomplete as we spent a lot of time amending our proposal draft and I was too unprepared for it. I did not manage to rehearse my slides and straight went into the mock presentation in which right in the beginning of my part, I blanked out for quite a long time because I could not recall what RFID stood for. And because I was unprepared, I became too nervous and ended up pacing too fast. This is the first time and will be the last time that this will happen as I hope to be able to step up confidently and speak even more fluently to catch the attention of the audience. I will make sure that I prepare ahead of time and rehearse more to familiarise myself with the content I will be presenting on.

During the presentation, I also realised that I need to have more eye contact with my audience as I noticed my eye contact drifted off in the midst of the presentation. Moreover, I feel that I can do even better in articulating my words and points, portray more enthusiasm and passion by varying my tone, control facial expressions and gestures. For me, it is a very natural thing to vary my tone to emphasize on certain points but I believe that I can do even better. I also think that when something goes wrong during my presentation, my facial expression shows it all, which is definitely not a good thing. I want to be able to appear calm no matter what questions or issues are thrown at me. I also think that I can be more conscious about the gestures I make as well, because all of my gestures were made naturally, but I think that I should be more conscious of my actions and know when to exaggerate them.

I think that thinking in the shoes of the audience will help me learn to be more audience-centred when I am presenting. I feel that, despite the rushed work and shortcomings, I am really glad to have learnt more about myself and even more from my peers as we stand against obstacles together.