Stefanie sun yan zi

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
retail carnival @ SP

as mentioned in the title above, this posting is a short summary abt the retail carnival at my tertiary education SP. It is being held from yesterday 11th july to tmr 13th july at the SP sch of business...

we started our preparation as early as last week where we spent alot of time sprucing up the display of our retail place where we learnt the practicals of retail management. with a small group of manpower, we had to dig deep and squeeze every ounce of our creative juice in order to make our display stand out. Luckily, i have a bunch of very helpful classmates who volunteered their time and effort without which some of the tasks would not be manageable.

Then on monday, we had to mobilise the whole class to help out in first, carrying cartons of sponsored items from the store to the classroom and secondly, packing them into individual goodie bags. After that we had to transfer the packed bags into another 2 storage rooms. when we finally finished packing, we were treated to delightful belgian chocolates from guylian.

Yesterday, on the first day of the carnival, we had a fashion show performed by some of our friends, modelling clothes from bugis street, who is also the organizer of this retail carnival.
We also saw some band performances as well as beat-boxing from our own SP students... Though it added much fun and liveliness to the whole event, I would prefer not to have it as my personality is more introvert and have less preference for this genre of music.

Today, the second day of the carnival, we had a retail seminar with teh ceo of bugis street development giving a short introductory talk on the retail outlook in singapore. After that, each participant was given a goodie bag to thank them for their attendence. As expected, alot of people threw away the big and bulky bags sponsored by bugis street development as they had another smaller aussino bag inside the larger one.

Lastly, i'm so looking forward to tmr which is the last day of the event. Firstly, i do not need to help out my lecturer anymore, who treats me and the rest of my classmates like slaves. Next, i can finally devote my free time to do my projects instead of guarding the stalls which is seldom patronised by people, which sums up to waste of time! finally, i hope this whole carnival can end on a high note, so that my classmates and my effort will not go down the drain. It is this sense of satisfaction that i am looking forward to... that continues to motivate me to do well...

___* hummed a yanzi tune + 3:22 AM

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