Empowering Loving Parents Seminar

Months of promoting, tiredness, happiness, conflicts. The ELPS on 26th May is finally here. After all the hardwork and tolerance, we have come to this day, a day we are looking forward to.

First of all, i'm glad that Albert ask me to join his project as one of the committee member. We have gone through many things, from good to bad and we've lost a few committee members in the process, due to assignments, unable to cope but still we have many that stood firm and remain. What i learn? well, till end..

Kw and I was in charge of the food on the seminar, due to lack of budget, we have to cook for the participants. That's not just it, this is our seminar, but we have to pull in other non-committees to help cooking. Yiing and nic was able to help us to cook and i think, without them, we'll never be able to cook in time. It was really tough, as we have wake up really early to cook and not having enough time to cook (rushing all the way). Kw even have to cook 5 pots of rice the night before. Another 2 person we really have to thank is sin nee and ze ru which provide us transportation.

(the cats sitting outside Kw's house giving those innocent look when they smell we cook good foods).

Missed the morning session's photo when i'm busy 'cooking'. We sent the food to campus and went back home to shower. When we went to campus later on, hoping to taste our own cooking but couldn't. Unexpectedly, we thought that our food will have many leftovers, turn out that the foods were all gone!

Is that a good news or bad? Good - food is great! everyone grab everything. Bad - Not enough portion for everyone....hmmm?

This may seem to be unbelievable, rub your eyes again and look. This guy actually wears pink? After all these years, this is the first pink shirt i own. I regretted that i didn't buy the pink shirt with a DSLR picture in Padini last year. Sad sia..

 The last speaker giving the talk, while committees are required to enter the hall.

It was kinda disappointing that during the forum session, most of the parents are already gone and there are only remaining of around 5 mothers participating.

 Our team and the speakers.

Finally, the day have ended and everyone was dead tired. I even have to rush home and prepare for another camp later on at night. Which is really tiring (though i'm writing this blog post now, as my duty is night shift).

I have learn things from this event. I learn that we took for granted of a lot of things, being over confident, everything gone from peace to chaos when we couldn't find enough participants or sponsors. Our most important symbol for this event did not appear, T-shirt due to not enough budget? (asking committee to pay the amount will settle isn't it?). In short, i have more dissatisfaction in this project.

I learn to communicate with people from different ranks. Learning to pursue people to come from our seminar, sitting down with them slowly explaining about the event. Getting rejected by people when we approach them, but we still have to? SMILE... my god that was hard.