general meeting

phew, streamyx is back on. my internet's been abit choppy these past few days. anyhow, here's the long awaited general meeting post!

monash business club's general meeting of semester 1 2006 started with true malaysian fashion - it began about twenty minutes after the allotted time. but i'm sure your tutorials / lectures / graduation ceremonies have not begun on time as well due to the universal truth - speakers are deep sleepers.

that's right. so far i've not encountered any speakers that could leap out of their dusty rest and immediately sound proper. they usually need to be coaxed by the sound system guys and after emitting a few groans and high pitch squeaks, they bashfully address the crowd with too much bass. or treble. or echo. or the billion other reasons sound system guys use.

not that i have anything against sunway's grey-blue adorned maintenance guys. they did everything in their power to help us start on time, short of buying a newer better sound system lah. still, we managed to end the meeting on time at 1.

but i'm getting ahead of myself. the turnout that day was incredible. the ones and twos who came to the booth to register all added up to form the packed lecture theater 2 that tuesday afternoon. some powerpoint presentations ensued featuring our recent 'best booth' award and the upcoming trip to redang.

next up were the various department spokesperson(s) - laura and meiyin representing public relations (selling tickets, getting new members, face of mbc), andrew representing mmshop (mmshop map available in previous post, sells merchandise like reload cards, shirts, stationery, etc), jakson and jorene and the reluctant zz representing activities (organize and run events, book sales, networking party, trip), chin yen and stephen representing the editorial (publish newsletters and magazines), and of course

your friendly neighbourhood blogger (complains why mbc is so inefficient and why can't other clubs catch up). i'm still looking for people who are able to use (and already have) microsoft frontpage and/or java. or also if you're interested in doing what i'm doing (the blog la duh) drop a line here and we'll be in touch. =)

so for all the new members who joined and got a bad impression of the club because we started our general meeting late, fret not. this is the best mistake you've ever made. for now lah. you still gonna get married right. ha see..

altogether now.. mbcccc!

for the uninformed, or for those who didn't walk into the foyer at all for the past week, monash's club and societies week was held on tuesday and wednesday. i think. the monash business club was there all the while lah.

we've been there for the past two weeks receiving and selling second hand books (includes a small fee of rm5 for book handling), offering book wrapping services (rm1.50 per book), taking in new members at rm9.90 a year (rm0.10 processing fee), and selling tickets to the networking party (rm 8 non-member rm 6 member)! we're still gonna be there this week to sell said tickets, and maybe extend the recruitment drive. but that's up to laura i guess.

come one and all! party tickets purchased so far: 50!

get your party tickets from the booth in the foyer (or near the financial counter)! also, come for the general meeting on tuesday to find out more about the departments you've joined and meet your department heads!


oh and if you've sold second hand books through the booth, come by the mmshop anytime these two weeks (13th - 24th march) to collect your money! or if your book hasn't been sold, collect your old books lah! and notes. heaps of them are clogging up the mmshop and getting in the way of the spring cleaners.

find your way to the monash merchandise (mm) shop with this handy guide!

so during the clubs and societies week, they had this competition going on see? best booth and what not. and i must admit there were some tough competition. costa (movie making communications faculty club thing) had a projector and were showing off their advertisements and short clips they filmed. the biotech club taped squiggly white things on the floor throughout the foyer. a publicity gimmick i guess. hah! a member of theirs must have taken marketing as an elective.


but i guess the clubs weren't just judged based on how big their booths were. or how busy it looked. or how many new members they had registered. because we would have won outright. no, they were also judged on.. i dunno, having a club t-shirt?

or was it how much profit we made?

it was the day of the storm. the winds swept in rainwater and leaves, wetting the whole foyer. the trees around sunway and subang, and a couple of booths, fell against the torrential downpour. it was then that the results announced the culmination of two weeks of hard work. the setting up and pulling down of the booth, the heaps and heaps of books that had to be carried to and from the mmshop, the promoting, the sales, the haranguing. to use the words of president wee, "WE WOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN"

bill them all

come visit us at the foyer!

have you ever noticed how, as residents in a nation whose piracy rate is among the highest in the world, we react to original cd and book prices? having worked part-time at a musicbookstore during last summer break, the reaction is nothing short of amusing. for the first two customers lah. after that i begged them to "purchase! don't time waste!"

you quote the price, then we add rm5 for "handling fees"

haha! just a little catchphrase there. our little innovation from the line "kill them all" to of course, "bill them all", is drawing some attention. for the wrong reasons. let's just say here that it is not a good time to be wearing the shirt and being a member of the female gender. you'd be trying to explain the benefits of joining the club while admitting that yes, upon closer inspection, the words are not dead center.

why don't we add another buck for "entertainment fees"?

yes, i painted my shirt. it took me around an hour or so. what you have to do is spread a generous layer of white in a front and back motion so as to make it creamy (but not too much until it froths) and bake it under the toilet hand dryer set at a temperature of 120 degrees for about 5 - 10 minutes. depends on the humidity of the restroom you chose. serves 1 shirt wearer who's not too particular about having cracks in the words.

no danny, use the black pen. the black pen!

working at the booth, we all have to be a little less particular about things. because after two to three days of being pulled down and put up again, the board and all the things on it turn into flimsy pulp. the styrofoam words, pictures, and text bearing mahjong papers lose their ability to stay up. but with a little touch up from meiyin and her people, the board should stay up fine throughout the whole of next week.

laura don't just promote your own department lah!

next week is when the 'clubs and societies' week begins. hopefully people would be more used to the book prices by then. hopefully there'd be no more "WOW! it's that much?!" and "is this the lowest price? can i get it cheaper?". it's a second hand book honey, it's already cheaper than the original. and we're running a business here, not a charity. MBC.. not MCC.

hmm.. which dept has the least work?

anyway, please excuse the casualness of this entry. next week will be covered with more depth. promise!