Ishmael Obregon wasn't what anyone expected, I think. He spoke about his company, Oiishi Creative, and showed us a brief video of the work his company did. He also showed us the video "WORDS". At the beginning, he asked us if any of us were bilingual. I can speak English fluently and pretty basic Cantonese (enough to get by). My mandarin is like.. dead, and any other classes I took are pretty much the same. If you don't use it, you're definitely going to lose it.
But, that's not the reason why his presentation was unexpected. At some parts, it was intriguing-- his work and the video. It just seemed entirely ... lacking. It was short and he focused on motivating us, but like classmates have said-- it seemed like luck. Jimmy said that it was interesting, and he filled it with ideas that he put off rather casually.
But what I found about his presentation... was yes, I was expecting something else. Not a really a lecture, but something that captivated me and urged me to write this. The presentation kind of left me at .... "What, it's over?" because there was no highlight. The thing is, the only thing I felt he left me to think over was the video "WORDS", which I don't believe is his to begin with.
He talks a lot about how his company came to be-- that it's easy to name it after yourself, but he named it Oiishi for Delicious in Japanese. Interesting! The thing I don't hear much about was himself, which was something I wanted to ask but... maybe it's that he wants us to focus on his company. That's great, except we're all students here. As much as we'd like to hear about his company, I think, to connect ourselves in a human standpoint, we'd like to hear how his success as an individual came to be.
After all, it was Ishmael Obregon, the founder of Oiishi Creative, speaking to us, not the Origin of Oishii Creative and how it came to be.
I agree with you. I was expecting Obregon to talk more about what he DOES and tell us detail stories and such about how he and his company came to be. I thought it was short and lacking too, not what I expected. I can understand when Jimmy mentioned that Obregon put off the main points/highlights casually, which I might mistaken as "lacking." Although everyone said what they thought about the speaker event, I still have the same reaction as before, disappointing but I still look forward to the next speaker.
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