What a Merdeka eve

30th August 2008; Merdeka eve

*no photos for this post due to terms and conditions*

Was already in campus at 8am, setting up for both Project Care and AppleBox Pictures booth. Brought the stove and gas from home and set up in AppleBox booth for garlic bread sales. Later was over at Project Care setting up the exhibition board with photos and captions, the banners and the television set for the video screening.

9am; went out of campus to pick Amy and all the ingredients up for the garlic bread. We had 40 loaves of french bread, an ice-cream box of butter and garlic mixture, frying pan and paper bags. Helped Amy to bring over the things and she started the setups.

10am; Project Care booth was ready to go. Fortissimo's as well. It all went well.

11am; food sale starts! By then, the VIPs arrived and there goes the opening ceremony. I wasn't paying any attention towards the opening because I was busy helping Suhas on the press release to the interested press on our project. Not bad. RTM asked for extra press kit! Before this, I have spoken to Dr. Joan (Dean of Curtin) and she was impressed with our work; photos and video alike. Many have given compliment to our project.

12pm; gotten ready for JCLA's performances and at 12.25pm, we were up! The performance went extremely well. 14 out of 16 put our best into the performance and we were glad after having more compliments from people.

1pm; everyone was getting pretty tired. Two mobile booths were closed. That leaves Project Care with the main exhibition booth and the game booth with one mobile booth at AL building. The game booth wasn't doing well. The worst part of the day was when it rained, our booth had to be moved away!!! Damn! we changed our booth a couple of times and it just ruined everything! 

2pm; Went off for a quick lunch. Had pizza from CSS and oh ya! James told me that CSS won the LEO Environmental Project and it was thanks to me coz I told them where they were able to get tons of newspaper! So I was given to pieces of apple pie for FREE! Thanks! There was practically nothing to eat! sigh~~ 

3pm; people were dispersing. There were not many people around the stage area coz there weren't any activities going on. What la~! It was soooooooo boring~ Donations were almost to a halt. Even the games were slowly quieting down. 

4pm; we finally decided not to continue with our second performance coz there were no crowds, no one around to watch, no one around to even notice Project Care and Fortissimo. We had a short meeting and finally called off the performances.

5pm; CLOSE SHOP! Took the donation boxes to have the money counted. From Project Care, we collected RM203 from our exhibition booths. That was a big amount for just showing photos and videos. Fortissimo closed their booth as well. We started cleaning up our booth and shifted everything into the car.

6pm; met with Fortissimo and added the money and splitted 50/50, so each team had a collection of RM134 for the day. AppleBox closed shop as well. There were like 13 loaves of french bread still uncut and 3 packets cut. Great~ Garlic bread for the next 3 days...... Headed out for the closing ceremony to help Yuki with the photoshoot. It was such a boring closing too!!! OMG! The last 3 lucky draw prizes were given out and there was a short display of fireworks and that's it~!

7pm; people dispersed and Student Council members started cleaning up. The rained came down heavily and I was all wet trying to get to the car. Catherine told me we have another 2 fishes so I was holding on the cup the whole time through.

8pm; all the cleaning up done, everyone left and so do I. Drove the car home and unloaded all the things in the car. Johan came by to show us the way to his friend's house to return the TV. By the time we got home, we were dead tired and hungry. Took a quick, hot shower and had garlic bread with cold milk and milo and a piece of Apple Pie from CSS before headed off to sleep~~~

GOSH! It was so tiring!!!

If it's worth the fun, it's alright. But, it was such a big disappointment to everyone. Clubs weren't getting profits, even our fundraising were quite low in collection and it was B.O.R.I.N.G.!!!

Hope it will be better next year~!

It was one hell of Merdeka eve!