it's been quite an eventful period from my last post, but as usual, i don't really have the mood to post anything now... perhaps it'll come when i get the ball rolling...
err... i guess not... started this post on the 11th and till now (later in feb), i'm still not done... hahaha... sometimes i feel i have to guard what i write here... coz you never know who might stumble across it and feelings might be hurt etc.
well, let me think... last week i was busy with the AIESEC branding campaign in UM... we were supposed to be tagging along with the WTTW people... and we were supposed to take turns (or better, be there) for the 4 days of the roadshow... but somehow, some people did not even come for a single session and others (especially my group) were kind of pressured and black-mailed to come... it really isn't fair!!! seems like the less you show face, the less work you'll be given and nobody would notice that you didn't do jack shit!!! but i can't do that... my principles just wouldn't allow it... feeling guilty of irresponsibility would do me more harm than good...
it's the 10th of march today... and i hope i can finish this post today... so i've been quite busy all this while and alot, and i really mean ALOT of things have happened in the past month... let me just start with the aiesec branding campaign in UM... i feel quite bad because my department (merchandising) didn't really have anything substantial to show... we didn't have any merchandise to sell!!! we had some sponsored coloured flyers from dominoes and printed mini organizer booklets (which was quite pathetic because it costed too much and had typo errors) and supposedly, stickers (which i only saw during our meeting but never saw during the campaign). well, perhaps it was my fault? couldn't get the companies to sponsor... not to mention our department had to do marketing calls on the week right before our campaign started... we were totally unprepared...
overall, i would say it was passable... not really what i expected... thinking back, i really don't know why i joined branding... and of all departments, merchandising... anyway, we went to linguistic fac, fpp, kps, 7th college, 9th college and 12th college... our main problem for the roadshows was that nobody (OCs) wanted to be at the booth... i commited myself to about 8 hours spread out among the 3 days... and i have a feeling some people weren't too happy about that... what about the other people who didn't come for the roadshows let alone our meetings??? and why the double standard treatment during the roadshows where only mei lin and i were kept being pressured to go around talking to people about aiesec while giving out the flyers? while the others (cronies i guess) could just hang around the booth and chat amongst themselves and just pass out flyers whithout uttering a single word?... lesson learnt is that you can get away with anything if ur a sweet talker and of course looks helps a great deal too...
well at least that's over... i don't need to hide from the cat anymore... it was getting really annoying... anyway, i went to career path 2006 in dtc, um last week and it was ok... probably would've been more interesting if we were looking for a job... there were booths by motorola, nestle, kassim chan delloite, lots of jobstreet-like booths and insurance agents etc... btw, career path (cp) was originally an aiesec project but when it got quite successful in previous years, UM decided to take over the project... so this years' cp was organised by UM...
i went for the window to the world fair today in dtc... and it was great!!! they had food stalls selling outback steakhouse burgers, kyrgiistan food, brazillian food, vietnamese food, thai food etc... and they had booths from many countries like turkey, bosnia-herzegovina (where we tried the extremely sweet baklava), germany, japan, korea, nepal, france (alliance francais), spain... and we practically saw the whole aiesec lcum there! and there was the aiesec mc there too... i just wonder how these people don't have classes back in their uni? some more engineering!!! anyway i liked wttw better than cp06... it was so funny, when we walked in, we knew all the people at the registration counter (from nlds) and we started hearing familiar voices ass the mc... it was rene (the dj) and mawar (the mc for the opening ceremony)!!!
ok it's 3a.m. i think i better go to sleep... have an appointment with the orphanage tomorrow morning for Young Visionaries stuff... i noticed this whole post is about aiesec stuff... weird!!!
