11 Dicember 09
Prom!
Reached Holiday Villa Subang at 12 noon to help out with the deco team with their photo booth backdrop. They'd already devoted 3 days to the backdrop but there's now the tricky part of assembling it and installing little christmas lights behind.
When the photo booth was finally in place outside, with blinking LED lights behind, the clouds decided to rain. Then we had to move the slightly soggy sad-looking backdrop to the registration area.
Since the theme of this year's SABD Prom is Suits, everything from photo booth and tickets, to booklets and lucky draws, revolved around playing cards. Before this I was given 30 tickets to sell, and I managed to sell nil. Frankly, I was pretty reluctant to go because it was expensive and few from my class were going, but because I'm a member of the student council, and that the council was in deep financial shit, I felt obliged to go.
It would've been an awesome night, if it wasn't for the lame emcees and disastrous bands, not to mention Holiday Villa who broke their promise. But I'm glad I got involved with the council in making such an event happen :)
12 December 09
Another upcoming event that the council is fretting over is PAM Camp, an annual architecture workshop. Although it'll only be held next year (April or June, I don't remember), many early preparations must be made. This day we were to meet up with the committees of UKM, who were the main host.
I'm in charge of transportation, and thought it was a piece of cake. But after one hour of dead-serious discussion with my UKM partner, I am now very very worried. Transporting 700 people from point A to B is no laughing matter. Point A would be UKM; and B, Taylors Lakeside Campus, which I have yet to survey.
There were arguements between Taylors and UKM in the early stages of planning. The theme for example. Taylors proposed themes like 'Tectonics', 'Epoch', or '-Isms', but UKM had a hard time grasping on to these ambiguous terms and we finally grudgingly settled with 'Archustic', a direct and limited theme. And when it came to workshop modules, more disputes. Taylors outlined activities that had to with translating sounds into spaces, but UKM had none of it. Now our module is making music instruments out of disposed materials (and coconut shells).
Later at night there was a launching ceremony. We helped out with the dinner preparations, and nothing beats carcinogenic barbecue chicken.
13 December 09
Again, we were at UKM for further discussions. Then we helped out with the painting of banners and flags, continuing yesterday's work. The process was time-consuming, patience-testing, and back-aching, and the results weren't exactly satisfying. Manually painting instead of printing were UKM's idea again. And I think it's a bad idea since PAM Camp is a 'highly regarded national event', as cited in Marie's letter to radio stations for publicity.
Prom!
Reached Holiday Villa Subang at 12 noon to help out with the deco team with their photo booth backdrop. They'd already devoted 3 days to the backdrop but there's now the tricky part of assembling it and installing little christmas lights behind.
When the photo booth was finally in place outside, with blinking LED lights behind, the clouds decided to rain. Then we had to move the slightly soggy sad-looking backdrop to the registration area.
Since the theme of this year's SABD Prom is Suits, everything from photo booth and tickets, to booklets and lucky draws, revolved around playing cards. Before this I was given 30 tickets to sell, and I managed to sell nil. Frankly, I was pretty reluctant to go because it was expensive and few from my class were going, but because I'm a member of the student council, and that the council was in deep financial shit, I felt obliged to go.
It would've been an awesome night, if it wasn't for the lame emcees and disastrous bands, not to mention Holiday Villa who broke their promise. But I'm glad I got involved with the council in making such an event happen :)12 December 09
Another upcoming event that the council is fretting over is PAM Camp, an annual architecture workshop. Although it'll only be held next year (April or June, I don't remember), many early preparations must be made. This day we were to meet up with the committees of UKM, who were the main host.
I'm in charge of transportation, and thought it was a piece of cake. But after one hour of dead-serious discussion with my UKM partner, I am now very very worried. Transporting 700 people from point A to B is no laughing matter. Point A would be UKM; and B, Taylors Lakeside Campus, which I have yet to survey.
There were arguements between Taylors and UKM in the early stages of planning. The theme for example. Taylors proposed themes like 'Tectonics', 'Epoch', or '-Isms', but UKM had a hard time grasping on to these ambiguous terms and we finally grudgingly settled with 'Archustic', a direct and limited theme. And when it came to workshop modules, more disputes. Taylors outlined activities that had to with translating sounds into spaces, but UKM had none of it. Now our module is making music instruments out of disposed materials (and coconut shells).
Later at night there was a launching ceremony. We helped out with the dinner preparations, and nothing beats carcinogenic barbecue chicken.
13 December 09
Again, we were at UKM for further discussions. Then we helped out with the painting of banners and flags, continuing yesterday's work. The process was time-consuming, patience-testing, and back-aching, and the results weren't exactly satisfying. Manually painting instead of printing were UKM's idea again. And I think it's a bad idea since PAM Camp is a 'highly regarded national event', as cited in Marie's letter to radio stations for publicity.
After my sixth flag, I called it a day. I have no talent in painting. Later, UKM told us to paint 200 flags, oh boy. After having dinner at home, I searched for white mural paint in Tesco and IOI Mall, and met this dumb clown who pointed at a giraffe puppet and told the kids it was a camel.
14 December 09
Overslept.
Rushed out to look for white mural paint as the hunt the day before was fruitless. I was beside myself with joy when I finally found it at Vision Art in Sunway, it was like finding the Holy Grail. Went to college to meet up with Shauwn, Joseph, Marie, and Chooi Si to begin the pain-staking task of cutting fabrics, tracing logos, and painting symbols. Thank god we were given a simpler design.
Syn Dee arrived then to help her friends submit application forms, and she was stranded on the front steps of the building, not knowing where to go. I guided her to the receptionist counter, 12 steps away from where she was standing.
After completing 70 flags or so , we went to Red Box in Sunway. My English lecturer, Mr. Woon, decided to join us. For what, I am not entirely sure. He didn't eat much, and he sure didn't sing much. Perhaps he wanted company? Got home at 12.30 am with a slightly sprained tongue (is that even possible??).
15 December 09
Finished another 70 flags in the morning, then Joseph and Shauwn departed for Penang/ Kedah, leaving me and Marie to finish off the remaining 60 flags.
At long last, 200 flags were done.
Before returning home, I had dinner at a nearby cafe. Went up to the deserted second floor as the floor below was packed. Was enjoying the solitude until somebody started switching off the lights.
Later at night, UKM requested 100 more flags. Will do them some other day.
16 December 09
Back to holi-daze mode.
