Greeting my readers (If there's any... i hope?) anyways as ya'll observed, I constantly mention this MAB thing rite? well MAB stands for MONASH ANNUAL BALL. And in a way or two, i am both fortunate and unfortunate enough to be part of the organizing committee members this year. Don't ask me why is it both! I honestly can't answer that. Instead, i'm gonna tell you my experiences in co-organizing them with 14 other people.
We were divided into 6 different department,
1) MR and MS MONASH (MMM) (My department ^_^ And my Director, Chloe Siew )
2) STAGE AND PERFORMANCES (SnP) (Andrew Chu (AD) and Ivan Lim - Director)
3) SECURITY AND USHERING (SnU) (Azlil Adzif)
4) PUBLICITY (Tan Wei Ru, Serene and Jazel Tay)
5) SPONSORSHIP (Zoe Yap, Helena Erin and Pritha)
6) TICKETING AND ADMISSION (TnA) (Tan Wen Liang, Yen Yi, Kelly and Kaylee)
each with their very own task. (Captain Obvious : DUH!!)
Moving on, over 1 month and 1 week of planning before the event day, planning MAB is NOT easy. That I can tell you people. So if you people plan to join Monash University Sunway Campus's MUSA's Activity Advisory Committee next year July, do think twice. Because it is a whirl-wind of busyness to the point of not having a "me time" for yourself. Ok.. not wanting to scared you people or anything, this is what i basically faced. As I am a somewhat newbies in being an organizational team, since last time when I plan any kind of parties, or events, i do them solo. of course with few helping hands but point blunt, i dictate everything. I was the head. so having some one above me to tell me what to do and uses the intimidation button one too many time, obviously i became less then useful in the sub committee. NOT FUN! being in the MMM department, these are the few things we were asked to do but eventually, I deemed it as USELESS and POINTLESS as it doesn't serve the purpose at all.
a) Prepare 3 nomination, introductory and crowning plan for the MMM (like hello? isnt looking for photographer and make-up artist is more important at this time? also start looking for sponsors who are willing to give goodies for the finalist? and shouldnt we be purchasing Crowns and Tiaras for the winner? eventually how many different variety of crowning, finalist introductory and nomination are there? Miss World, Miss Universe all use the same old way.. why can't this be the same? =.=''') story of my life...
b) Prepare a list of questions and an in-prompt-2 task for the finalist. (eventually all the PROPER question and PROPER task I prepared and discussed with my director was overruled! seriously what is the point for US to divert our attentions from out readily piling assignment and crack our brains to think about concocting these task and questions when you yourself had already had "some" ideas of your own that you want to be utilize? Do you know what they called the contestant? Douche-Bags and Bitches! why? all because of your task and question that YOU want them to be asked!)
Yes people. I was forced to work under a Dictator who tried so so hard to make her mark on the largest and most look forward event of the year. And yes I did voluntarily involved myself into the committee. BUT who knew that the leader is a f*cking queen control. honestly i don't understand the function of the co-chairperson there when eventually she is the one who makes all the important decision! he sits there be a pretty accessories to her, nod here and there, ask few question here and there, give minor opinion here and there but other then that, he would just sit there, observe and stay silent... @_@ really? =.='''
so what really happen in between? well besides focusing on MMM, during the course of organizing, we were down to the final 5 days before event day, 2 of our MAB members were sacked due to somewhat lack of commitment to the event. where they do not come for meetings and ticketing duty. in Pritha's defense, every Tuesday and Friday, she will not be available as she do not have cars to drive. every time on that day, he mother will be using the car. and since she stays all the way in KL, she cant possibly travel to SUNWAY to just attend the meeting that is gonna start late (usually 15 to 30 mins late) and obviously end late and go back alone using the public transport too... and as for Ivan.. well i have got nothing.. he had it coming.. it was in the matter of time until Sherly would eventually sack him...
Moving on, after tirelessly dealing with MMM, we are also required to help out other department... this particular department i am talking about is Ticketing and Admission department. well first and foremost, i honestly had fun selling those tickets, sitting on the MM booth on my duty time, etc2. even with those nearly getting robbed experience you guys almost inflicted on me, folding boxes and lax of sleep due to packaging door gift, i forgive ya'll as i did enjoyed my self despite having head ache through out the process.
Fast forward to event day, after working tirelessly on the door gift, cracking my head thinking about what task are to be given to the MMM finalist since Thursday Night where we were expected to come at 7pm and there we were waiting for the HEAD to come since the things we need to do is with them. and they as usual are fashionably late came 1hr30mins later. how fun.. =.='' imagine if we came at 6? =.='' we would hv got ourselves rooted on the couch by then. so for 10 hours straight, we cut, poke, stack, pack, and twist 500++ door gift packages. we only manage to get a 30 mins nap at 5.30am then we were woken up to clean up and go back to sunway.. coming back to sunway, She asked me if I have any classes on that day as if i dont then she'd want me to be there at 9am again. but i say NO cz i have assignment due afternoon. Thus, averting the possibilities of NO sleep at all... i was done with my assignment amendment some times around 10 then i decided to take a nap which turned into a 5 hours sleep. tho i did came late, i did not regret the rest since i could have been in a terrible mood if i were to not sleep at all. also the reason i came late to the venue is because of that stupid taxi i took that not only got lost but also brought me to the ever more so super JAM jalan tun razak area.. imagine reaching KL at 2pm and reaching mandarin oriental hotel (MOH) 2hours later.. and it bloody cost me RM46... how nice.. i came after they (MMM FINALIST) had finish rehearsing their waltz routine.. there is nothing much to supervice them dressing up but back in the ball room, apparently there was some glitch in communication where Andrew had turned BLUR about the things we had discuss earlier that day about the wants and needs of the Finalist. half of it was NOT there. FUN! thanks to MMM's helper, Brother Lam, the catastrophe had been averted where i have personally made sure that all the needs and wants for the finalist are listed down and explained to him word by word the demands of the MMM Finalist. then Chloe came with the crown and tiara and the flowers and FOOD.. then one more problem arise.. the silver tray was no where to be seen.. so what did we do? we went to ask the waiter personally to provide us with 2.. thank god they have it.. problem averted!
so show time.. Hesmond started first with his MJ+BANGRA dance fusion then ended by Sherry's k-pop dance... and then comes to the most dreaded part to talk about.. the shame of our department.. QnA session. ok let me start this from the begining...
well since Andrew only started to prepare the MC's script the night before (which after the postmortem meeting I found out he only started preparing them AFTER he woke up on Friday afternoon) i took the liberty to prepare the QnA and TASK script for the MC to read out. (God damn it i even took the time to double check my grammar and put a perfect punctuation on it!) but apparently the MC went and change the whole script and "personalize it" with out any of our consent.. woah how fun.. not only he constantly bring up the sexuality issue to the finalist, but also keep commenting on our Miss Monash winner Miss Yin Xian's relationship status... then come the impromptu task... omfg... what hell was that? so here in my blog, i personally say sorry to all MMM Finalist again and hope ya'll can forgive us for the way things turned out...
after task, it's voting time. voting then collecting.. first of all, too much hastle/confusion that votes were not fully collected. for a reason, lucky draw was cut short.. there goes the time to properly count the votes.. after like 5 text and 1 SnP department rep came to ask for the result, only then that the verdict came out. by the time of the crowning, there were only a hand full of people due to the fact that the event started 2-bloody-hours late..
so to the people that complained to much, we want to apologize for the unforgivable tardyness but you have no idea how hard it is to even pull one up.
alright, i think i covered much about it.. so now, good night... the other 2 post i promised gonna come up by the end of next week right after i submit my gender studies assignment and my psychology's tutorial assignment 2.
Farcella L.
p/s: i'll put in more pictures when i'm not too sleepy to even hold open an eyelid...
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