Festival Of Nations

Just a rough update.

Festival Of Nations (FoN) was held on last Saturday, 17 October 2009, at Minden Field B, USM. It was organized by Institut Pengajian Siswazah (IPS) with collaboration from AIESEC in USM. I was part of the organizing committee from AIESEC in running the event.

A simple summary on what is FoN is about. FoN is a festival where students from all around the globe opened booths to showcase their home countries' specialties and delicacies and stuffs. There's also cultural performances by both students and the professionals such as Chinese intrumental performances, salsa dancing, and so on. It's like traveling around the world in just one afternoon.

It was a rather successful event, to say the least. Everyone presented had fun and their stomachs filled with free food 'cause there's an open house of sort at the festival in conjunction with the Deepavali celebration. Would love to take part again next time, be it as an organizing committee or not. Hopefully, there'll be another FoN next year.

Bangladesh's rice (dunno what is it though...)
A popular drink from Jordan
Some handicrafts from Somalia
Kung Fu performances by USM Kung Fu Club...Choy Fong so ying...

For more photos of the event, click here and here.

Shit Hole I'm Out...

Haha, just as I hoped, the DT coordinator position has been given to the other applicant. I am so happy right now.

Haha.I just got a call from them saying that they will go for her as the new DT coordinator as she was more experienced. They asked me whether I'm OK with the new. I feel like saying, HELL YEA!!! Besides that, they think I should be giving my 100% as the Director of Marketing for the Festival of Nation.

Now that the nightmare is over, I can have some good night sleep. Not that I can't sleep or anything.

Shit Hole I'm In...

OK, just came back from an interview for the DT coordinator position on AIESEC. And I'm praying freaking hard that I won't get the position. Lady Luck, please bless me on this one!

If you are wondering why I would apply for it in the first place when I don't even want it, well, I have no freaking idea. Honestly, the reason I sent my application was just to tryout the interview, AIESEC-style. I have no intention of landing the job seeing that I basically have no whatsoever experience needed for it. The way I see it is that this could be my opportunity to train my leadership skill that is much needed in the working world if I got it. Even if I don't get it, I won't miss a thing since I already accepted another AIESEC position, the Director of Marketing for the Festival of Nation. The funny thing is, again, I got zero experience in marketing and I'm appointed as the director for the project.

The day before the interview, I was told that the post I'm applying, that DT stuff, there's only another applicant besides me and she is has a lot of experience in it. So, I thought, hmm, less than 50%, much better! I just go for fun then.

So, what set off my determination of not getting the post? When they ask me how I would delegate my time to handle all the stuffs I have and how much time I would allocate for the DT and the Festival of Nation and what's my plan to make the program that I will be handling should I elected the DT coordinator, SAVE, a success...all these technical stuffs they bombarded me with make me realise, heck, I don't want it anymore. I really do enjoys the amount of free time I had and they had made it clear that this post will be stressful and demanding. But I can't really say it during the interview and when I was told that should I elected, I can't really quit halfway, I was in deep shit!

During my interview, from the words that came out from my mouth, it was so obvious that I was unprepared. I basically just uttered whatever logical stuffs that I can think of. Even I have limited knowledge on SAVE. Surely they won't depend the success of the program on such a reckless and inexperienced person. Right? Even that less than 50% statement sounds intimidating to me. Only 0% would be comforting.

The result for the post will be emailed it to us this Thursday. I really freaking hope that the name attached on that email will not be me.........

I'm A HIV/AIDS Champion!

This morning, I went for the HIV/AIDS Train the Trainer (ttt) workshop conducted by the AIESEC team in USM. Since joining AIESEC early this semester, I feel like I learned a lot, especially the world issues which AIESEC cared about, and one of them is HIV/AIDS.

Actually, this morning I'm not really motivated to attend it since it's on 9am in the morning, a time where I'm still vacationing in dreamland. Anyhow, being Un-Malaysian, I did managed to reach on time, only to find that just few AIESECers were there. I hang around, waiting patiently for the workshop to begin. Luckily, I got bring my laptop (more like my roommate's laptop...) so I MSN around first to waste time.

While I'm being Un-Malaysian, AIESEC USM really embraced the whole Malaysian-ness. The event only began at 9.45am, exactly 45minutes late! And just for an additional AIESECer. Haiz...

Nevertheless, the process were a lot of fun and thought-provoking. Nadia, the facillitator of the workshop, really did her job in teaching us how to be a HIV/AIDS champion well even though she claimed that she was not well-prepared. Maybe because it's among us youths (and extremely small crowd), the environment was very relaxing, nothing formal.

During the world cafe session where we all sit around and discuss certain the topic in a deeper range, it's was, enlightening, to say the least. Some of the questions asked:

• HIV infected children should be seperated into different classrooms
• HIV testing should be made mandatory to all couples planning to wed
• People living with HIV (PLwH) should be required (by law) to announce their status

What are your views? Share with me la...

Then, there's the condom wearing demo, performed by Wai Soon. And each of us were given 1 for free. Hmm, I think I'm gonna give it to a friend of mine for his safety...hehe...Dude, watch this video and wear it properly ok?




Oh yea, was recommended by friend to go to this website:
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Malaysia
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Proton_(cars)

Must click...super funny...