Before I began my post, as a polite gesture allow me to wish all Muslims again "Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri" because it happens to be HARI Raya today.... Yay!
Forgive me for not being able to post yesterday due to some unforseen circumstances that I had been facing with my Internet connection. But rest assured that my Internet had been fixed and problems like that would not happen again. As the saying goes "once bitten, twice shy".
Okay, let's begin from the very beginning. Early in the morning on Raya eve, at around 11.30 a.m., someone rang my house doorbell. I greeted these visitors politely and they told me that they were from the Malaysian AIDS Foundation to deliver the merchandise that I had ordered about a week ago. I was ecstatic that the merchandise had arrived earlier that what I had expected because Puan Tamayanty (Executive 0f the Fund Raising Division of MAC) had intially promised to send these merchandise to our school at Taman Shamelin Perkasa on Wednesday but she could not make it on that day. So, instead she decided to send it to my house.
I thanked Puan Tamayanty and Mr. M. Suntaram for actually delivering the merchandises to me at my house. Puan Tamayanty mentioned that she wanted to see me in person which happens to the reason why she wanted to deliver these merchandise to me personally. We had a small chat and then she had to leave because there were other merchandise that she had to sent to.
After that, together with my sister which happens to be a member of this project, we checked the merchandises to make sure that the amount that we had ordered earlier was the same with the amount that was delivered. There were nine types of merchandise all together which consists of fridge magnets, badges, caps, T-shirts, books and also greeting cards.
After that, I checked my mail and found a mail from En. Roslan that says MAC could provide us with pamphlets and posters but not the sandwich boards. It is because they only have a set of snadwich boards to be used by MAC themselves. But I was told that we could actually collect the posters and pamphlets on the 19th of October, after the Raya break at the MAC office in Jalan Sentul.
The next mail I received was the mail sent by Creative Junction regarding the exhibition panels that I had requested earlier. In the mail, there was a short explaination about the panels and also the price of the panels. The price but a little bit over the budget considering the fact that we only need three panels that is 3 feet X 6 feet per panel. It actually cost RM 550 for all three panels. After that, I called the Creative Junction and managed to speak to Miss Amy. I enquired about the pricing of the panels and why was it so expansive. She said that we were only renting three panels which is a small amount and also the type of panels that we were renting was the expansive type, the velvet based one. I asked if they had a sponge board and they said they didn't have. Anyway, I thanked her for helping us out eventhough we did not rent her panels.
After calling Creative Junction, I told all the other members to help to source for cheaper exhibition panels. Some of them asked their dads while some searched the Yellow Pages for companies that rent their panels. Most of them said that the companies they had called to enquire about the price of the panels were much more pricer compared to the one with Creative Junction. So, all of us decided that we should not rent any panels at all.
Since that now we do not have any exhibition panels, we had decided to have a discussion together with all the group members online. We discussed online using the messenger that we all have in our computers. Some members suggested that we should just paste it up on the wall of the schools. But that does not seems like an exhibition. Meanwhile, some suggested that we should stick the posters on a piece of long cloth that looks like a banner. I thought that idea was a pretty good idea. In fact, all of us thought the same and so we all agreed to use that idea.
I also managed to tell all group members that MAC could not provide us with the sandwich boards. The group members thought why don't we make on e ourselves. So, again we agreed together about this idea. Now that we had to do sandwich boards and the banner, I had suggested that they come to my house and we do everything in my house. They all agreed and we set the date to this coming Tuesday, 16th October.
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