Charity Carnival Roundup

The Taylor's Charity Carnival jointly organized by "the office", Leo Club and 22 other clubs/socities was held at the main campus yesterday, and we were one of the participating clubs. We had not one but two stalls at the carnival: Futsal and Table Tennis Tripler. Nandha was in charge of futsal while I was in charge of Table Tennis.

Overall, I think our stalls were alright. I only took resposibility for the table-tennis booth last friday, when table-tennis club pulled out. Yet we managed to make around RM70. I know that its not much compared to what the other booths were making, but we only had so little time to prepare and we had like zero cost. Plus we could only charge our customers 1 coupon whereas the other could charge more. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jackson Teoh and Alvin Ching Jin Wei for helping out with the booth. If not for them the whole thing couldn't have been done. They selflessly gave their help (even though they're not members of our club) and didn't ask for anything in return. I was very impressed with their attitude and quite disappointed with the rest of our club members. With the exception of Hiu Jian and Cosilla (and Wei Guang and Michelle who helped out with the coupon sales the previous day), no one else came to help out on that day. I know the president said it was "voluntary", but this was an excellant opportunity to learn management stuff and do something for charity at the same time. Alas, all our members went MIA.. (including some committee members)

Since I'm on the subject of MIA, this brings me to my next gripe. Leo club was... sorry, I'm at a loss for words. The impression I was given was that they were supposed to be in charge and we were just supposed to be "helping out" in their sports department. Instead, it turned out the other way. As far as my booth was concerned, the only time Leo came around was to tell me not to accept coupons without stamps on them. Well done guys. I thought of all the clubs at Taylor's at least Leo would be "accountable". Unfortunately, I was wrong. I had my reservations at the begining and had informed Nandha about it. I warned him that we might end up doing all the work for them as I could gather from Nandha's feedback from the meetings that Leo hadn't planned everything properly. How right I was. Come on, only 3 games stalls for the entire carnival? And 2 of them were from us! Worse still, at the end, Nandha, Kavin and I had to carry back all the tables, even from other stalls!! We were already quite upset when other stalls were stealing the tables that we were bringing down from B-floor, but having to put them back after having them stolen from us was infuriating! We ended up leaving the college only at around 5pm, and we were exhausted. And we live in Klang mind you, and rely on public transport.

The IT Guy,
Dartha