bye bye brainstore

the GK3 conference officially closed yesterday and thus my freelancing job was over. aaaa....how much fun i had at this job and the money that comes with it is good too. definitely the highlight of this holiday!

moving some of the furniture needed from exhibition hall to plenary theatre on a different level.

the finale of the ideafactory was the idea selection process which was held in conjunction with the closing ceremony of this whole conference. so we had all the delegates and participants of the conference streaming into the plenary theatre. we ran out of seats and some even sat on the stairs. these ppl are the movers and shakers in their fields and some came here for awards. so imagine my fear when i was in charge of collecting ballot sheets from those sitting on the steps of the hall. i was like 'please dun let me trip on them or make a fool of myself.' i would be the laughing stock in that hall. i ran up and down 20 times (40 if you count up and down) to collect the sheets for the 20 ideas they were to rank. it was vigorous exercise and i was bathed in sweat by the end of it. the aircond vent was just not directed to us on the sides of the hall.
inside the plenary theatre. those boards had the sheets where participants tore out after every question. each question took less than 2 mins. so imagine the frenzy and rush!

everything turned out well by the end. phew! and the participants enjoyed the activitiy prepared by brainstore.

i stayed in the hall too for the closing ceremony speech...hmmm....grabbed the opportunity lah what else. it was interesting to note that many of those who came managed to gain new co-operations and met new people. almost all hands in the hall were raised when they were asked these questions. it is good to know that partnerships were established amongst the countries in global knowledge partnership. i hope whatever they have discussed and planned will benefit developing countries and bring changes to them as in the motto of the conference.

and we all brainstore freelancers were feted to a dinner at california pizza kitchen in klcc! woohooo!!! made everyone so happy. we ordered like about 20 pizzas and everyone ate to their hearts' content.

oh....we got our own caricatures. haha....we have illustrators working in the workshop as well, freelancer. he studies at the one academy and we pestered him for one.
me, according to ah seng, the more beautiful version! he needs a punch!
zhong...er..slightly old and square. but zhong really put on some weight.
wong playing his computer game in the brainstore shirt. this is so totally un-wong.
ah seng holding the mic doing his fav activity. he lost some pounds in this pic. hmmmm....the face and body should be rounder. haha.



my precious souvenir from the conference. one of the facilitators gave it to me and ah seng also got one because we helped out at the headquarter. a mug and commemorative stamps were in the paper bag as well.

the lamp was so nice that ah seng and wong fought over and hour for that. bargaining and negotiating. i was laughing till all tears came out looking at their antics. in the end, ah seng still refused to hand it over but wong got the mug and stamps from us.