ohh yeah!

if you read my previous post, i was all hype about my malaysian society's achievement for that day. we have submitted three nominations for our club for the category of best club under 100 members, best major event and best joint major event. turned out that we are invited to join the awards night because we are finalist for some of the categories. i have this nervous and excited feeling for the first time for my club because this c&s awards night is important to us similar to grammy awards for musicians and emmy awards for actors and actress.   hence, being listed as finalist really puts our malaysian society club out there for people to know us. let me tell you that c&s is run by USU (University of Sydney Union) and overall, USU oversees 200 clubs for the whole university. so it is huge and very competitive.

with our predecessors having won the best club for under 100 members and best performing arts event for mamak night, the pressure is on us to continue their legacy. tension is running high. excitement level spikes up to the roof for 14 of us. when they announced they we actually won highly commended event for "mamak night'. i almost shouted. but we did not win but we appear as the top two event for major event. the winner goes to chinese cultural event by another club. the thing is they have so much support that i think being independent on our own, mamak night is very successful as well. their selling point was lion dance, games, food, chinese culture and famous officials attending the event. we, on the other hand has musical performers, malaysian trivia quiz, mamak night culture and malaysian consulate. so, i should say we are very closely tied.

i co-chair the event with my partner, alya. i was happy that although we din win, at least we put up a good fight for it. we spent a lot of time,energy and effort to make it a success. i am in charge more on entertainment and food preparation besides being the emcee for the event. looking back, i think winning this doesn't really matter but the highly commended title did put sugar icing on top of the sweet memories i will always have for the event.

another new event that our club held is mooncake festival. this event is a collaboration with other four clubs from other uni. and it won highly commended event for major joint event. i was like wow. we are really good eh? this came as a surprise as i had no expectation for this event. again, being the cultural director, i was the co-chair and emcee for the event as well. although we did not win the overall category, we came in second. still, it is a new achievement that has brought us to greater heights. 

and i think i can be proud to say that i have achieved something in my university. event management is definitely one of my key skill now. and even my job interviewer agrees that organising an event will sharpen one's time management. i will say, "yes, it really does." not only does it pushes you to the limit, you must think during at the limits. hmmm. a great experience i would say. besides, our club is the finalist for best club under 100 members but we did not win. ohhh well. winning and losing is part and parcel in life. my president was apologizing to us committee members for letting us down. but i said, you did not let us down. all the memories, friendship and dedication are not wasted. we have definitely grown. winning is sweet but learning is the best thing one could get out of this. 

blogger feels that the reason for both the events winning the "highly commended' title is because he was the emcee for both the events. he joked with his current president that next time, they should consider hiring him for 100 dollars per hour for emceeing the event. and his president brushed it off by saying the payment would be higher than selling backside on the street of sydney. thats the highlight that made his day. he made the blogger laughed non stop for a while there.