Yearbook: 17th of Feb. '15

Today the head of the design team, the other secretary and I meet with Ibu Harumdah to talk about the down payment that we have to pay the Ants photo shoot company soon. Ibu Harumdah explained that we have to make the MOU first, meet with the person from the photo shoot company and then sign the contract together.

Although this will be my last meeting recorded for this CAS activity, there are still other things that I will do for this yearbook activity. I will have to check all parts of the contract before our side sign it, I will have to verify the sponsors and I will have to communicate with the photo shoot company too. So although this will be my last meeting recorded for this CAS activity, it does not end at this point.

Yearbook: 13th of Feb. '15

Andd the day has come. Today was the valentine's day event and the yearbook committee was so busy sending off chocolates, balloons and roses to the loved ones. It was very tiring because we had to run around and find where the students were, the classes that they had and which one they are. I kind of felt bad too that I kept on interrupting the classes today. But oh well I guess that is a part of my job description hahah We ran out of stock for our chocolates today though, which became quite a big problem. I am not sure why we did not count how many boxes of chocolates we need in the beginning. Maybe we did but we miscounted it? I am not sure. But overall, I think today's event went pretty well.

Yearbook: 12th of Feb. '15

Today I prepared for the Valentine's day cards. It was pretty fun. Kind of like a getaway from this week's stressful tasks. I was assigned to write a number of cards but the papers I got to write on was limited and turns out it was not enough to cover for the number of cards I am assigned to do. So I have to rush tomorrow morning to get some extra paper from this event's supervisor and finish up writing the cards as fast as possible, possibly before the bell rings for the first period.

Yearbook: 6th of Feb. '15

Today we prepared for the Valentine's day fundraising. We took all the forms where all students can order our products from. We got quite a lot of orders and there are still some more who wants to order on Monday, which is actually something that is good for us (financially) but can be something that burdens us because it will reduce our time in preparing for the products ordered.

Yearbook: 4th of Feb. '15

Today we had a meeting about Valentine's day fundraising again. I am actually quite excited about this event because I think there will be some crazy things happening on this day hahaha but I know it's going to be fun. So I'm hoping that there will be something interesting happening for our Valentine's day fundraising day. Maybe this may actually contribute to making our Valentine's even more memorable for other people.

Yearbook: 2nd of Feb. '15

Today I prepared for the final yearbook proposal and sponsorship proposal. Apparently that time Bu Harumdah still has not accepted our yearbook proposal so we had to make some revisions but today it is for sure that it will be the final yearbook proposal. So I edited and printed out the final yearbook proposal today. I also printed out one copy of the sponsorship proposal, as one of our potential sponsor requests for it. I tried to make sure that everything was neat, as the final yearbook proposal is going to be kept for documentation and the sponsorship proposal will be given to a potential sponsor :s :S yikes so much pressure.

Yearbook: 30th of Jan. '15

Today we had a meeting regarding the upcoming Valentine's day fundraising. We did not really talk much. We only decided that we would be selling balloons :/ such time wasted. I mean we spent 45 minutes just to decide that we are going to sell balloons. hmmm... well again I think we need to be more effective in our meetings.

Yearbook: 18th of Dec. '14

Today was the time in which the Christmas fundraising products are being delivered to our customers. It was ssoooo hectic and frustrating. I mean it is actually kind of our fault that we did not prepare all of the things first before today. This made us have to be so packed with having to prepare the products as well as having to deliver them today. But after all those hardships, of course we managed to get everything in control like we always did before. I'm just so proud of all of us who worked so hard to make everything worked out well today.

Yearbook: 17th of Dec. '14

Today my friends and I prepared for the Christmas cards. We wrote down the note cards of the message of our customers one by one. It was pretty fun and hilarious since the messages from our customers sometimes are just very funny. Writing these note cards has definitely made me realised that friendships are just so sweet (as cheesy as it may sound). But really. Hahahah.

Yearbook: 16th of Dec. '14

Today I edited the sponsorship proposal. I was asked to do this task in all of a sudden. I was given this task today afternoon and had to finish it by today midnight. So obviously I rushed making this proposal but finally I succeeded. Phew!

Yearbook: 12 of Dec. '14

Calvin, the president of the yearbook committee, asked me to print the final copy of the yearbook proposal today. So I edited the proposal again for the last time today and finally printed it off. This copy will be given to Bu Harumdah as the official copy of this year's yearbook proposal.
....hhavve... to... make it... neat....

Yearbook: 5th of Dec. '14

Today we had a meeting about the Christmas event. I am relieved to hear that the helium balloons now cost for 5 thousand. I have great confidence that they will sell well now.

During today's meeting, the topic of the cash that is in the yearbook committee came up again. Remember we decided to have the treasurer share the information of how much cash is in the committee? Well apparently everybody forgot about that. So Pak Todung reminded the treasurer again. She showed us through the projector but has not send the file to all of us. We're definitely looking forward for this information because it will greatly help a lot of divisions when making a decision.

Although right now our communication is better than the previous time we had, I think we still need better communication within the team. Right now I see Pak Todung to be the only one working the communication issue out. The leader of the yearbook committee has been reminded a lot of times to pay attention to communication within the team because it is crucial, but apparently as many times as the yearbook supervisor and team members including myself reminded him, he just would not listen. This is going to be hard.

Yearbook: 4th of Dec. '14

Today I was in charge of supervising the teachers' yearbook photo shoot. I was partnered up with Michelle T. We were in charge of supervising for two periods (i.e. around 2 hours). The photo shoot was held in the multifunction room and teachers just went there to get their pictures taken.

In the first 30 minutes, the photographers have not arrived yet. He said he was stuck in traffic. So we kind of had a problem. We had to really really apologise to the teachers that came to the multifunction room (which was quite a lot). Their schedules are obviously packed and of course we do not want to disrespect them, telling them to come at a later hour as if insinuating that their schedules are free. So it was pretty scary as Michelle T and I told the teachers about this problem. Some got mad. Well, oh well.

But we encountered this problem by coming up with the solution that we will email the teachers that have come when the photographer came already.

Besides the problem that we had to deal with in the beginning of our supervision time, everything went well. It was really fun to see different teachers posing differently. I got to see another side of them... :|

Yearbook: 21st of Nov. '14

Today we had a meeting about the upcoming Christmas event on December. Yeay! Christmas is finally here! The PIC of this event was really organised in my opinion. I think that she will lead this event successfully. During the meeting today, we discussed about what to sell for this event. So far we have helium balloons, candies and chocolates. I'm excited about the helium balloons but I don't know if the price is too high because we plan on selling them at Rp. 10, 000 each right now.

Yearbook: 14th of Nov. '14

We were called for an urgent meeting today. Pak Todung suddenly emailed all of us to come to his room during lunch. We were all quite scared because we didn't know what to expect but when we got there he told us that he was going to talk about how we need more effective communication in the team. Pak Todung and I were actually talking about it a couple days ago and I am glad that he actually called us into a meeting about it. I feel that our yearbook team this year is not so solid. One department doesn't tell the other departments about what they're doing. They don't update even to the admins. So I as the secretary of the group doesn't know much. Today's meeting enables me to voice my opinion on this issue. I suggested that especially the financial data be made transparent to all departments of the yearbook team. The others actually agreed on this so I was glad that we came to an agreement on solving this problem already. I am just expecting that the communication within the team will improve from now on.

Yearbook: 7th of Nov. '14

Phew! Today went well. Everything worked smoothly. I am proud of the team. Although there were a few problems, like running out of stocks and running out of papers for the bill payments, there was nothing big that we could not handle.

From our hard work today, we have gained a lot of profit. We gained more profit than expected. Thank goodness! In overall, I think that today was a great success. I am thankful to the PIC of this event especially because she worked really hard for it and she organised everything well today. She made sure that all of the cashiers knew what they should do in the beginning of the day.

Yearbook: 6th of Nov. '14

We had a meeting today regarding the Indonesian day that will be held tomorrow. I am actually pretty nervous, since I don't really know much about it and the PIC just explained about it briefly today. The PIC only made sure we remember what our responsibilities are and, especially for the cashiers, to remember which vendor we are in charge of. I realised that the people in charge of being the cashiers also do not really understand what to expect tomorrow so I'm just really hoping that tomorrow will go well.

Yearbook: 31st of Oct. '14

We had a meeting today. We talked about the upcoming Cinta Indonesia day. I was decided to be a cashier for the bakso vendor. I am pretty excited for this event because there will be a lot of Indonesian food available at school. I'm particularly excited about the kerak telor food because people say it tastes good.

For this event, I was asked to proofread the proposal that will be made by the fundraising leader. In overall it was okay.

Yearbook: 24th of Oct. '14

Today I revised the long postponed yearbook proposal. I edited some parts of it, like the description of this year's yearbook theme which is Sigma XV and the sponsorship lists. I didn't really do much because it was halfway done. We used last year's structure of the proposal so what we did was only to revise some parts of the proposal. Also, Calvin had helped me work on the proposal. So yea my workload is not so heavy for this.

HFH Project: 18th of Oct. '14

The 28uild event was held today. It was held in Sentul so it wasn't really far from my friends' and my houses. My friends and I had the privilege of waking up late, unlike many other youths joining the event. (Yeay!). In overall, the event was really fun. We got to socialize with a lot of youths. We got to see how enthusiastic other youths are about community service. It was great! We got to talk to the locals there too. I got to speak to the family that I'm building the house for. I realized that they are not so different to us. They have a great sense of humor and they don't treat me differently like how some other villagers treated me before.

Today was a fun day. It was also a day full of surprises, as my friends and I unexpectedly met our teacher there! It was kind of weird but I am actually thankful that he was there because he became kind of like our supervisor. When we were talking about this event, he said that he used to join this activity when he was in college. I was relieved and happy at the moment he said that because I was also thinking of joining this kind of activity again in the future but I don't think I have time this year to join again because I'm getting busy as a 12th grader. So I'm looking forward to joining this kind of event again in college.