THE SECRECT ADMIRER: 11 May 2013 my grandmother birthday

11 may is my grandmother birthday and being a filial grandson I always think that its a must to attend her birthday party , But thoughts on this changed this year.
15may was the deadline for my group DBE project and when its 10 may , our group has not really finish anything yet , so we actually planned to meet up on the Saturday (11 may) to finish our group project. As a group leader , I feel that i have a responsibility to meet up with them so that I could guide them on their research to ensure that they are going on the right track , and also to collaborate everything. But my grandma birthday party (Held in Malaysia) was on 11 may as well...
at that time I was very worried for my group because our group have not really started everything yet so I have actually thought of not to attend my grandmother's birthday party and help my group with their project work.
So what I did was I applied "The Opportunity cost theory" I learnt from micro eonomic lesson in my polytechnic, definations? opportunity cost is the value of the best alternative sacrifise for a chosen alternative .

yup, so basically the opportunity cost incurred to me if I went for the group project meeting was not being able to attend my grandmother's once a year birthday party (since she lived in Malaysia I only see her twice a year , which is during new year and her birthday ) not being able to talk to her and also the "family" feeling when everyone is together at the birthday party .
And the opportunity cost if I attended my grandma birthday party was that I may not be able to join my group in the group discussion .
and I realize the the opportunity cost for attending the group meeting was acutally much greater than attending my grandmother's birthday party. so yeah , I made up my mind to attend my grandmother's birthday party.

another reason why I wanted to attend my grandmothers birthday is that she is 79 years old already , and she might not have a lot of birthdays left , so yeah , must treasure every possible moment with her <3 p="">
Also I realize that we can actually guide them in the project research without being physically present on the day , so basically what I did was I gave them instructions on what they could do during their meet up on 11may .

eventually my project group did very well in our presentation on 15 may .
enjoy our pictures :)