M is for MORE discussion

We've decided a couple more things.

• Either Kean Loong or Vivian will be going to the MD Textiles factory to check out the tshirts. They weren't free due to the upcoming exams and other unavoidable circumstances.
• Our group will be staying back tomorrow for a short meeting to discuss the next stage, which involves inviting the speakers.
• Kah Wai and Kah Mun will be handling the speakers. Handling meaning talking to them, setting a date for them to come, etc, etc.

Moving on to tshirts.

With the help of Puan Lim, our advisor (as mentioned about a gazillion times), we called the tshirt people. Tshirt people meaning the people who sell tshirts. (As if that isn't obvious.) The name of the factory is MD Textiles.

One of our members, Vivian Fong is dropping by the factory to check out the prices, patterns and colours of the tshirts available. If all goes well, we will probably start designing, printing and selling the tshirts after PMR.

Oh, and while I'm here, Selamat Berpuasa to all Muslims!

The joy of sales...

The feeling was undescribable. As in, how can we ever explain it to all supportive blog readers and Maxis personnel? We just couldn't as we said the feeling could not be depicted.

Alas, we shall still indeed try our best to describe that very special moment...

Firstly,

Let us start by saying " Our food sale had finished in the most gracious manner".

Secondly,

Our profit throughout the three days of the exhausting yet fun filled food sale exceeded our estimations.

*jumps high in the air*

Thirdly,

We had manged to capture moments of our wonderful food sale for everyone to cherish these special moments.

* Picturific moments *

*Preparing sandwiches and cookies..*

Hmm..busy?busy?bee?

Our teacher advisor, Puan Lim came to support us.

Vivian and her JELLY world.....

What we have here? A shy customer, is it?

Satisfied customers....

Cake-mania strikes SBU !!!

...Business running good...

How yummy and tasty! One more please.?

One of our volunteers, Cheng Ken posing with a customer..

*Excited customers*

*Supportive customers*

*Cleaning up sessions*

*....THE END....*

Credits Time...

Credits

We really owe our success to some people. We had already thanked the volunteers for helping in our food sale in the post before this, but in our opinion, we should give MORE credit to MORE people, don't you think so too?

• Sandra Cheah and mum for selflessly sponsoring an ENTIRE chocolate cake for us to sell (which sold out in minutes)
  
• Alysha, Kar Man, Valerie, Cheng Ken, and Jasmine who helped us handle change and promote our food.
  
• The supportive people who came to ask us about our sales.
  
  
• Everyone who supported us by purchasing the food we sold.

Thank You.

Words of appreciation to everyone...

From,

Youth Advocates of AIDS and Volunteering Services to the Community

Well, basically today's the food sale. As planned, we started off by annoucing our beloved food sale to the members of our school and also promoting it with high hopes that this food sale would be a huge ( mega huge ) success. So, Kah Mun went up together with Alysha who actually volunteered to help out too. Together they went up before the assembly commences and began to say some words to promote the food sale according to the script that was done by Kar Man, yet another volunteer.

The script was something like this:

We, the representatives of the AIDS Awareness and Voluntary Services to the Community Project, are going to organize a food sale outside the Bintang Café from today until this Wednesday.

Before you groan 'Oh no, not another food sale!' let us tell you WHY our food sale is different. No, we will not be selling food from out of this world, or anything like that, but we are different because we are representing our beloved school in a national level competition organized by Maxis.
We seek your support because we want this project to succeed because of the combined effort of the whole school and not just our group's individual efforts. We will be selling various kinds of food such as cookies, sandwiches, shortbread, jellies and other delicious food. You can visit us during the junior and senior recess times.

We urge you to come with hungry stomachs and ready cash! Please help us make this a runaway success! Common all, join in and have fun. Thank you.

And that's the script. More details about the food sale later from Diane. And pictures from Kean Loong.

And also a big heartfelt thanks to Alysha, Kar Man, Cheng Ken, Valerie, Jasmine and also to all who had supported our food sale.

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Food sale tomorrow!

Our food sale begins tomorrow and boy, are we excited!

Just so no one forgets,

Vivian will be bringing her absolutely scrumptious jellies.

Kean Loong is in charge of bringing his homemade tuna sandwiches.

Gaik Xuang will bring her totally delicious cookies.

Kah Wai and her sister Kah Mun will be bringing some kuihs on Tuesday and Wednesday because they aren't available on Monday.

My brother Daniel and I will be bringing our shortbread biscuits and Von Houten chocolate covered grapes. Oh, and Vitagen on Tuesday and Wednesday because it isn't available on Monday.

Tomorrow, we are going to ask our teacher advisor, Puan Lim to promote our food sale on stage. That should attract more people! We also have a few people who want to help us with our food sale. Well, we aren't complaining...The more the merrier!

Final preparations

Using the computers and printers in the IT lab of our school, we printed out the information we found on HIV/AIDS. Oh, and before I forget...we got the approval for our food sale! Yay! Our school principal was not around, so we managed to obtain our approval from the PK 1, Puan Ros. We also got a permission slip to bring cameras to record our activities for the rest of the month.

One of our members, Kah Mun, contacted the Malaysian AIDS Council(MAC) to enquire about the speakers, etc. They told us that we needed an official letter or a sort of invitation. So naturally, we set to work on it.

We also sent emails to everyone we knew, encouraging them to come to our food sale and take part in the activities held. Maybe they'll decide to drop by and check out the sales and exhibitions!

Of t-shirts and talks...

Not much could be accomplished today, as there was an Anugerah Kokurikulum rehearsal today, and most of our group members were involved.

Nevertheless, we still managed to get SOME things done. We had gathered as much information humanely possible on HIV and AIDS we could use for our presentations and such. Also, we had called several suppliers and looked over types of t-shirts we could use to sell.

One of our senior members will contact the speakers we plan to invite to talk about AIDS in our school. She plans to inform us whether we are successful tomorrow. Fingers crossed!

We also intended to seek our principal's approval for the food sale today, but as she was not around, we will try tomorrow. Unfortunately, we also discovered that the Interact Club will be having a food sale on the exact same day! We will arrange things with the Interact Club members to make sure we don't sell the same foodstuffs on the same day. Suggestions, anyone?

Day 1: Discussion

We received the letter informing us that we had been selected to represent our school in the Maxis Cyberlinq Competition. Naturally, we were proud and happy tinged with a feeling of apprehension knowing that there is a long road ahead of us filled with hard work before we see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Immediately, we decided to get to work. Finally, we decided on a few things;

• We are making some amendments regarding the food sale, that is, we are selling more food stuffs in addition to root beer and vanilla ice cream floats, French fries, sausages, and marshmallow and banana fondues.
• There are some complications concerning the food sale as the fasting month for Muslims begins next week. Therefore, we plan to hold the food sale in our school before the fasting begins, and in public places, such as shopping malls, during the fasting period.
• Despite the fact that there are only eight registered members in the team, we gathered many supportive volunteers who were willing to help us out.
• We drafted the letter to our principal requesting permission to hold the food sale in the school compounds
• We started gathering information on HIV and AIDS to use for our presentations

Those were among the things that we discussed today. If all goes well, we are going to hold our food sale on the 10th of this month, which falls on a Monday.

If you happen to be passing by our school, which is SMK Seri Bintang Utara, do drop by for a bite to eat!