• Site Recee and understanding of Prolung Khmer Centre in detail (Process, causes)

Agenda:

• Logistics
• Location for various events (registration etc)
• Detailed pictures of products (processes)

Personal Reflection:

It was a long VERY LONG morning.. Was at the airport abt 3 plus in the morning and flight was quite alright just very tired. When i was at the airport, i was crying in my heart "Give me an emtpy row of seats on the plane for me to slp". When the sun shone into the cabin of the plane, it was beautiful and it was a bit shocking to see lots of slumps from the plane when it was rotating in preparation for landing.

"Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to Siem Reap Cambodia..." was my waking up alarm. I was still feeling very tired but the atmosphere there just woke me up. It was a pleasant feeling. For some weird reason, i just felt a little at home.

Arriving to Siem Reap kinda assured me that i had lots of work to do. This included things like approval of our team's proposal and well sourcing for materials etc was going to be a bit of a problem but we always seem to make do with what we have so i am confident that we will pull it off.

During breakfast, Diyanah (my other Cambodia Calling Director) and i met up with Musa, our ground handler to discuss our trip. This included things like meals, items we need, transportation. I was actually quite touched that they really tried their best to pull their resources to make it possible for us. It was also quite easy for us to get around because though we do not know Khmer, we just needed to speak malay to them.

After getting our sim cards (a long and tiring process) we headed to Prolung Khmer training centre. It was quite empty. We only saw the workers working but not the 2 japanese ladies whom we heard of. While we were there, we took lots of pictures of how kramas are made from scratch and also how they clay for the pots are made. I heard it was a long process thus these pictures could help us for our preparation of our event.

We also looked around to see where we can hold our event. There was visually no space aside from a shed which was used to store clay. These clay were put there to "ferment" or something like that. It was also a space that was cooling and since there was no fan, the open space would be alittle cooling rather than being in the shed where the weaving and pottery is taking place.

Most of our information search has to be done on the spot because i do not know when we will be back again. Perhaps the next would be on our event day itself thus though we are tired and sleepy just rough it out for a bit. :)

• Come out with a possible timeline of event

Agenda:

• What are the various types of fringe events that can be done in corporate open house
• Components to a corporate open house (logistics: Goodie bags, operations, manpower)
• Possible timeline

Personal Reflections:

We seem to be going steady and amidst all this planning that we have, i'm glad we too have a few drawer plans. However all this (drawer plans) will be confirmed once we have seen the location and the environment.

Having heard about Cambodia from friends, i am quite scaptical about our plans especially when it comes to resources. We might need to tap on our own resources and we might need to really depend on ourselves. I am a little scared but confident that we are able to sail through this because this team i have with me, i am happy to have them with me.

Indeed a blessing in disguise.

From the looks of it, it looks like Cambodia is "Confirmed" thus we are calling it "Cambodia's Calling". I am extremely excited especially with all this preparations and this mad rush that we are expecting. Though the rest of the teams are all slacking through but well lets just get this over and done and then we can relax.

Frankly i find this online blogging thingy extremely crappy.. Internet connection in Cambodia, though widely available but not stable at all. So difficult to have a stable connection especially if you have a group of 22 students including 2 faci's. Its better to just jot it down on our note books because we can just jot it dwn as we are doing out meeting. better than way.

• Setting up goals and key performance indicators (KPIs)

Agenda:

• What are various methods to measure success rate of event?
• What are the various components that constitutes to the success of the event?

• Introduce the project and gain understanding on what is an industry event

Item discussed were:

• Various roles and responsibilities of each team member
• What is an industry event
• reseach to be done to find out more industry events in terms of open house concept.