Go Go Day.

Dear Blog,

I know that I have been neglecting you for the past couple of weeks and that it isn't really a good excuse but assignments in Schools are killing me. Fear not, I am here to right my wrongs and fill you up with my very first blog entry.
For PR 393, we have to do a placement unit. The idea of the unit I guess is to 'learn as you work'. Thanks to a recommendation from my friend Wee Yee to my current boss Peter Hesketh, he has invited me to work in his up and coming event - Gogo Retro Vintage and Vinyl Road Show. It is basically a Road Show that showcases Retro, Vintage items.
Peters' first task for me was do research on all the Vintage and Vinyl shops in Perth. He explained that although research was a long, tedious and boring job, it is absolutely essential for our road show because some of these shops are going to be our the show.
I have always considered myself as a person who knows his way around the Internet so I was thinking "How is research going to be hard with the Internet?" Boy, was I wrong. True to the their Retro, Vintage and Vinyl business model, a lot of these shops do not have websites and I had to go on forums to do my research. I shouldn't go into specifics but my researched involved a lot of starting of threads and a lot of getting ignored on them. As Peter said, long, tedious and boring... I should have believed him.
I have chaired and held important roles in sports clubs and charity fund-raisers before. What I haven't done is to play support in events planning. I realized that I have been taking my support colleagues for granted because it is tough ass hell. To my support colleagues working with me in 'Singapore LAH' and 'Blacks Fun Touch' 'mad respect'.