When Meeting 13: Thursday 21st August 2008
Time: 11.30am
Attendance: All
Venue: Guesthouse and Prolung Khmer
Objectives Objectives: Confirming the collaterals, as well as site-recee, together with the guest list.
Items discussed/done: Collaterals are printed, both brochures as well as invitation cards, guest list is confirmed.
Reflections Counting down: 1 day before event!
It is just one day before the event, and it seems like there is a million things that we have not done!
As we have to confirm the collaterals with centre's manager Yuko-san, we could not send out those invitations nor print them in bulks.
Ash and I were given the task to confirm design with manager Yuko-san and print them out, while the rest were given tasks, like logistic shopping and going through fringe events with the manpower.
Cambodia is totally different from Singapore. One of the worst thing is that, I cannot speak in the Malay language, and the ground handler can only speak Malay and Cambodian's Khmer. I thought I might become crazy. Thank god that I have Ash with me. I could not really communicate with the ground handler that I wanted to print my collaterals and for him to find me a printing shop. The fact that Cambodia isn't that technologically advanced, it took us quite sometime to find a correct shop. We went to about 3 wrong shops and places before we found one. However, Believe it or not, it took us around 4 hours just to print all of our 15 invitation cards and collaterals.
With that, Ash and I took a risk. By right, we have to meet Yuko-san before printing it in bulks, because if she is unhappy, we have to change our designs. Plus, she could only meet us as 6pm at night! It will be too late! With that in mind, we have decided to save time and printed everything. then we went to Yuko-san's hotel to show her the collaterals. Luckily for us, it was given the thumbs up.
then we gave out the invitation cards to everyone to invite the industry players down.