i have had the longest day ever! well okay not longest, but certainly the most tiring day.
7.30am - woke up, made some last minute changes to the SOB (that's Scoop On Books you doof.) proposal
9.00am - went to the stationery shop to make copies of the proposal
9.50am - picked Nadia up
10.00am - met up with author Rebecca Duckett-Wilkinson at Dome, BSC and oh wow she is the coolest lady ever! that woman is my idol (she went to Parson's for one!), and our first meeting went extremely well. she even said our project was one of the best campaigns of the kind in Malaysia thus far *head starts to swell*
11.30am - dropped by Malaysian Association for the Blind (MAB) to collect endorsement letters and forms for Social Welfare Department.
12.00pm - lunched with Nadia
2.00pm - meeting with group members
5.00pm - stayed in Spectrum, adviced on invitation card designs and other stuff pertaining to publicity and promotion
8.00pm - visited Jason at Starbucks to discuss sponsorship for Sundae Party
10.00pm - reached home
11.00pm - sleep
1.15am - awake again.
it is now 2.08am and i'm still up eventho i'm frikkin tired, my mind can't seem to take a break! *grumble* oh well i'm hapy tho..had four meetings today over the span of 12 hours and they were all good ones! i suppose this is a pretty good litmus test - i think i'm pretty prepared to start working proper, not that i'm in a rush to do so. but yeah, i think i'll survive once i have to! and i'd like to think i've been doing a good job thus far, we've been getting reeeallly good feedback from all parties involved.
Rebecca was really psyched about being part of this event (see her artwork at http://rebeccaduckett.com/) and i just love how with every meeting with different people, we get new ideas as to how we can better improve the event. the great thing about Rebecca is that she was and is first and foremost an artist (she used to design the famous lizard t-shirts once upon a time) and is trying her hand at being a children's book author. so it works both ways - we promote her book (at basically no cost) and use her name in turn to promote our event. and since our tagline is Discovering the Art of Reading - it makes sense that we get her, coz we're trying to get the synergy right by associating the importance of illustrations in children's books (Izu the gallery owner was saying how we had to justify the reason for holding our event at an art gallery) with a reading campaign.
Jason's the current Store Manager at the newly opened Starbucks beside Taylors College. he was my former Asst Store Manager back in the day when i was working in Starbucks Sect 14. you see people, it PAYS to be nice to others coz you never know when u may need a favour! turns out, when i texted Jason, he was indeed looking for a way to give back to the community (it IS one of Starbucks' objectives) so my proposal could not have come at a better time! he reckons it's doable as we're only requesting for Starbucks to sponsor food & beverage, not monetary contributions. so if all goes well - there'll be iced coffee, iced tea and iced chocolate at my Sundae art gallery parrtayy..wooohooo! fingers crosssedddddddddd!
*yawn* okay now i'm reli starting to feel knackered. leave you guys with another choice piccie ;)
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come - James Whitcomb Riley
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