WORST EVENT (NURUL SYAZWANA 018878)

Back when I was still a student in Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP), there used to be so many different events conducted by the students. And I used to join so many of them too. I started joining these event scenes since I was still in my first year. It's really a great way to expand your circle and build your networks. This is also your chance to meet new people from different batches and backgrounds and also build a name for yourself. It's too bad that ALAM doesn't do this kind of things among their students. 

There were many great and memorable events that I joined, but there is also one event that just leaves a bad taste on the mouth, the one you wish you could forget entirely and erase it from your mind. For me, it was this one charity event. The name of the event was Children Provision (ChildPro) in 2018. Don't get me wrong, the objective and the cause was nice and I really admired the effort. We still helped a lot of people through this event. However, I had the bad luck of working with a team that did not go well together. We didn't have the best chemistry among each other.

I was one of the heads of department and I handled the Games & Activities department. Getting everyone to do their job and submit them before the deadlines were the most stressful thing ever. And I remember during one of the activities that we ended up doing, it was the famine camp, the participation were not great at all. Very little people joined it and it was really really boring too. The energy among the committees were the worst I have ever seen as well. I remember thinking that I want the day to be over as quickly as it can because I really could not stand it anymore.

Another activity that we conducted was to engage with the kids from the foster homes. The kids were really fun and nice, but the problem was me. I am not great with kids. I am the most awkward I could ever be around kids, simply because they are one unpredictable creature. With that being said, being around them for a full day was mentally and physically draining for me. You might ask, why did you join an event associated with kids in the first place if you hate kids that much? Well, it was to push my own boundary and step out of my comfort zone. But honestly, it did seem like I failed on that part. 

The big thing that we conducted under this event was the charity concert. The ticketing was not great at all. Not a lot of people bought the tickets and to their defense, the price was really expensive though, so I could not blame the students. But in order to defense my own event and people, I have to say that the price was like that because we had to pay the performers and also to give some of the profit to the charity cause. Back to the concert, it was not the best concert I have been to. Probably the worst. One performer messed up their performance on stage and it was embarrassing to us, the organizer.

So this is the story of the worst event I have ever conducted. Did I have fun along the way? Not really. Did I gain something out of it? Honestly, I learned a lot and some of the lessons I still carry with me to this day. Do I wanna do it all over again and make things right if I could? Definitely no. Once is enough. I have so many other interesting and fun events that I wish I could redo just to feel the same excitement again, so I wont be wasting time trying to redo this one.