Announcements

Blog Hiatus
With the official step-down of the 2007/2008 committee, all administrative rights will be handed over to the 2008/2009 committee. It will be up to the new committee to decide on the fate of this blog. Till a decision is made, this blog will remain in hiatus.

On behalf of Malam 2008 and CMSA 2008, thank you for visiting this site and i hope that you had a good year with us! All the best to the newly elected committee too! We look forward to a great year ahead!


CMSA Website

It is up and running again! yay! Check out http://www.cmsa.org.nz.

Post-Malam Survey

Thank you for attending Malam Malaysia 2008. We would appreciate if you could take some time out to fill in our post-malam survey. It will help us a lot during our post-mortem. Thank you!

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Post-Mortem: Money Matters

For grants and sponsorships, the people whom you might wanna have a chat with would be Ka-Mun, Ing Chia, Firdaus or me. We will be able to give you some tips on letter-writing, how to approach the shops etc. Not that we are very hebat - but we have learnt from experiences ;)

Some thoughts:

Start Early!

Seng Cheong told me this when i met him:

"Start applying for grants early!"

actually he told me that a lot a lot of times.

Ing Chia reitarated that too.

So ya, start EARLY!!! this is wisdom!

if i have something to tell you about grants and money matters too, it would also be "START EARLY!"

coz i totally felt the pain during 2-3 weeks prior to Malam when we received more rejections than offers.


Vouchers
Aim for lots and lots of vouchers and lucky draw prizes :p i think one of the reasons why we managed to ease the crowd a bit was that we had heaps of vouchers to spare. WHEW! we actually wanted to use those vouchers in case of technical glitches and stuff. Turned out we could use it for the food delay. Whew. Hope you guys made use of the vouchers and lucky draw prizes.


Sponsorship Team
our team was actually doing double-time. i played the cards wrongly. each committee had their own job to do, yet they also have to look for sponsors. in a way, yes, it's good to learn some new stuff. But overworking them amidst the busy study schedule etc? eee. i felt real bad.

anyway, chat with us and we can share our ideas on how we can improve on this. i think there's no perfect method, but there are definitely efficient methods.



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