We have received a helping hand from the HR department to assist us in making this event possible. They helped us with the hall and seating arrangements, audio visual aspects as well as event photography (I have yet to get the pics from them, will upload a few here later). One colleague at work helped us in the food section (which I'm glad he did, as everyone praised the food that day). It was especially important to have everything perfect as we are expecting the CEO of the refinery, as well as the CEO of the marketing arm for the base oil. Now what is left is just...flyers, backdrops, banners, email invitations, montage, emcee text preparations, goodie bags, cake, hampers....did I miss anything else?
I have put my creative cap on to design the flyers, banners, backdrops. I was thinking something complicated when suddenly it hit me. We're celebrating 1 year old, why don't we just do something simple? Something very 1 year old? So, I thought why not put a 1 candle and a cupcake beside it. It will look cute, simple, appropriate. So the result is:
We also thought that since it is a 1 year anniversary, let's do something a 1 year old would do; cut a cake! So we went to the bakery and ordered a 4kg cake (huge!) shaped in a number 1..How cute. Then we went to Mydin, buying out stuffs for the goodie bags & hampers. I also had to prepare and emcee text as I will be the emcee of the event. Sunday at about 5-ish, we returned to the office, having all stuffs ready, we got our young operators helped us out in packaging the goodie bags.
We're supposed to be giving out the goodies at 7:15am but guess what, at 6:30a, it started to rain! At home I was like, crap, are we supposed to bring along an umbrella now? But luckily, as we reached the office, the rain stops. My boss was there, early and so bersemangat to give away the goodies. We got all dressed up in our new corporate shirts (ordered especially for this anniversary). Heck, I even bought a new pair of Dockers for this, haha.
After everything was given out, I went straight to the main hall for audio and visual check, as well as last minute preps. We tested the backdrops, montage, background music, I even practised reading my text for the big event! I was pacing here and there (my routine habit when I'm nervous, huhu).
11am, guests now slowly arrived and entered the hall. There's no turning back now. I prayed that everything will turn out well. I played my cool being the emcee, and everything else just flows along. In the end, it turned out well, and I'm happy. The wife of the marketing CEO gives a thumbs up to me and said 'Good job'. I smiled, thinking I had the job done, that's all that matters:)
Will share some of the pictures when I got it. Till the next post...
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