Meeting 9,10,11: Tuesday 19th August 2008
Time: 10am-7pm
Venue: Cyber Café, Guesthouse


Another day of endless preparation for our event. With the event date nearing, we sat at WOW Internet cafe designing the invitations for the attendees and also coming up with posters presentation on the process of weaving and pottery making. This is so we could enhance our presentation to the attendees and also to make it a point of reference for the attendees. We also took the opportunities to fine-tune our plan; targetted audience and where to fine them. Looking at the map of Siem Reap, we circle those 3-5star hotels, also the various travel&tour agents around the town in the hope we could reach them and get them to our event. Also, since we are there, we settled on various logistical issues that we need to look into, such as the deco needed, equipments, refreshments and transportation etc.

After which, our team split ourselves as we have different issues to look into. Jas and Sherwin went over to PKTC for further observation and documentation. As for myself, Ju and Ash, we went back home to continue to discuss on the various logistics needed, completing the invitation designs, program lineups etc.

Jas and Sherwin came back with an unhealthy news, mentioning that there was miscommunication between us and PKTC and that our event was rejected by the management due to certain circumstances. With that in hand, we sat together as a team and immediately plan for contingency, for letsay the matter couldnt be resolve, at least we have plans to keep it going. As such we came up with 2 possible contingency plans; ONE: to hold the event at the guesthouse, TWO: to hold it together with the roadshow team at Angkor Night Market.

With such problem in hand, we had no choice but to look at a smaller target group; 15 attendees to attend our event, also to make use of the groundhandler's contacts for tour operators to support our event. Indeed the groundhandler were very kind and supportive to our project. We werent let down by them, they kept us going.

With such a problem, im glad that the team stood strong together and was not demoralized by it. Instead, we challenged ourselves and told ourselves that we could still make it happen. Feeling all stressed up, it was nice that the team end the day by fooling around, joking and bitching about whatever that happened there. (=

Rollercoaster. goodbye.

Labels: Meet 10, Meet 11, Meet 9