Imagine a mocking bird in the snowy woods mocking at a wolf that led a dying pack, and the wolf heeds it and drives itself without rest till it collapses.

I just realised that this situation could very-well happen in my newly-formed group.

We have a really fun assignment lined up for us - we're going to make our own MTV. An original song from our previous assignment will be used as the MTV's main idea, and then the video is slapped on top of it. Duh.

Our group was planned as it was, with the creative talents of the class joining together. We really need wacky and inventive input, and I think the guys in my group are fully capable of doing that.

That is - once they break out of their lala-land mood.

The unfortunate thing is that my group of six is made of two pairs and a pair of individuals (2+2+1+1=6, right?), and those pairs are drifting apart to their own things and their own chatter. The other individual, other than me, knew what this meant: We would be going at a snail's pace, and we would get nowhere.

He looked up at me, then just joined one of the pairs in chatter.

I tried getting them back to listening to me, but I was getting nowhere. One moment, I had their attention and asked them for what to do, and the next minute they were back in their own worlds.

In the end, I had to drag the other individual and get him to persuade the first pair to make some decisions, while I attended to the other. We finally came up with some ideas - but poor ones - and the other suggested that a meeting should be held after a while, to let them get ideas.

I agreed. We were nowhere on our first day of a possibly difficult assignment (Making a MTV is not as easy as others think. It's very time-consuming, taking from experience of our first video-related assignment. It was also tedious, and a real death-blow to my creative juices.)

I haven't seen any action yet. But, I do know that if the situation worsens or remains the same, I may just behead myself from the stress of a sparsely-scattered group.

On a good note, I have ideas in my head for the assignment. The guys had better be worth their creative and hardworking reputation - or else it won't be just one head on the ground.