(I was thinking of writing it all in one go but that would definitely be a very long entry so I discarded the idea...)
1. Cyberjaya "Mesti Ambil Tahu" Carnival
Date: April 5th, SaturdayVenue: Community Club, CyberjayaMain activity organized:Jogathon: Anuar & Eda (Person-in-charged)
Medical Check-Up: Nabil (Person-in-charged)
This was a side-project for us the Young Mercy Group 2 (YM2) apart from Minor Project (in college) to add income before our Major Project, the Shah Alam Health Carnival. Marshals and people for registration, traffic control and volunteers for Medical Check-Up were needed and we got some help from the first years and some YM1 members who voluntarily came to make this event a success. The whole carnival was organized by Cyberview but we were asked to handle the jogathon (yours truly was one of the traffic officer that morning) and in exchanged, we were given a room specifically for our free-service medical check-up. All budgets were sponsored by Cyberview.
I’d say the number of people participated (adults, teenagers and school children) were not too bad considering MMU was having a jogathon and event of their own and we were only given a week to promote the event and get as many people as possible.
Towards the end of the day, I got the first chance to do a corporate presentation about Young Mercy as a whole to Pharmaniaga- a nerve-wrecking experience initially but was one way for me to step forward another step in communication skills, I guess. But one thing for sure, we’ve cleared up any misconception about Young Mercy and in the end, that’s the most important thing.
Cyberview were quite happy with the event and our slot- that was good in spite the tiredness felt at the end of the day.
2. Young Mercy 1: Cyber-XDate: April 6th, SundayVenue: Centaury Square, Cyberjaya Main activities: - Booths selling food, clothing, jewelries etc.
- Aman Palestine & Agensi Dadah Kebangsaan Booths & Presentation
- Blood Donation
- Futsal & Basketball Matches
- K-9 Police demonstration
- Paintball Shooting Range
- Face-painting
- Mini-concert by Altimet, Sky Juice Coffee etc.
Project Manager: FizyMy sister was in YM1, so I came to help on the day. One would argue that this event wasn’t a real success. I wouldn’t agree to that I guess seeing at how most members were trying hard to make it a success- blood donation was a success, , the performance was awesome (Altimet was very cool & sporting!), the demo was educational and futsal competition was one of the main attractions despite the scorching hot day.
However, there were areas of improvement i.e. on the promotional side, the date and the chosen site. For someone whose first time to manage an event this big, Fizy and his ever-hardworking crew did a good job.
I enjoyed trying my best at the paintball shooting range (though my sister was obviously better than me), had fun letting Hannan’s sister, Bashirah painted my cheek, endlessly ate the ABC done by K.I and his crew, didn’t mind standing under the sun with my cousin to watch Altimet & the rest’s live performance and a little bit disappointed that I couldn’t donate my blood on that particular day.
YM1 borrowed most their tents for free from two places in Seputeh & Salak Selatan (I think); for that they had to load and return the equipments themselves. MPS had kindly lent their lorry so at the end of the day, all of us that were still there during the cleaning up dissembled the tents and later, some who were still there to help around sent them back to Seputeh.
Take note that YM1 borrowed 4 tents and to unload the metal bars and whatnot and kept them away in the storage place it took us (roughly around 12 people) till midnight to finish up the job. Even then, 2 cars went back after the first place which meant only 2 cars left to do the rest of the job. Regretfully our car took the wrong turn on the way to the second storage place, so we headed back to Cyberjaya afterwards.
//Blood donation
//Officiation by Tan Sri Johari Mat, CUCMS president, accompanied by Prof. Ikram, YM Coordinator
//Futsal Match
//Face-Painting
//Performance- Altimet's Cantik
//Aman Palestine Booth
//Cleaning up- dissembling the tents
//Group picture time!
//And off to work again- the beginning of human-chain-tents-dissembling series
It was a good thing that the next day was the starting of our one-week mid-semester break.
... Though it wasn’t a break for some of us in YM2 as we were back and forth from Cyberjaya/KL/PJ to Shah Alam and vice versa to do promotional and misc jobs for our own YM Volunteer Awareness & Fund-Raising Programme. Again I got the chance to do corporate presentation & introduce Young Mercy to Yayasan Kasih Sayang Malaysia.
