Delayed post and Bittersweet Feelings about Internship

Hello readers, it's been a long time since my post is created. It is delayed due to my Internet connection at home, it was broken down on the weekends when I planned to post it on Friday and it was just working last night. So not to stretch time, let's just back to my blog post.

This few days will be the last days of remaining Internship that I will complete and also focusing my progress on the Internship report that due on this Friday. I will finish the internship on Wednesday, that is when I will send my gratitude to my supervisor and colleagues who have been helping me with my PR Internship Program.

In this post, I will talk about the service system that runs in the company. It is a software that specialise for requesting the songs by entering the songs on keyboard provided in the rooms and the song will automatically played in the screen TVs. Inside the karaoke room, it has 2 TVs for easier reading the lyrics to the songs, 1 wireless keyboard, 2 wireless microphones and 1 or 2 additional microphones with cable on it which will be plugged to the CPU.

The devices are as illustrated by images below (Inul Vizta 2015):

The songs that are available on the system is requested by our customers, we add the new songs from the radio charts, special request and also adding songs that are quite important for our business (local bands or hit singles).

The genre of the songs ranging from pop songs, R &B, EDM, rock songs, etc. The songs are not only from Indonesia, we also add songs from Western musician, Asian songs like Mandarin, Japanese, Korean and also some important songs (this is like national anthem from Indonesia).

The colour of list illustrated in the computer has changed for the past few years. At first, it was mostly blue and yellow when the company starts operating (2007). Now, it is mostly orange, red and yellow for just a change in display to our customers.

The keyboard also get improved and more simple for our customers to use it. The customers also can record the songs for karaoke purposes in their own personal use. Extra surcharge will be paid by customers to the company. I have used this service last time I visit there and it was really good to know that we can record our voices when we sing and maybe use it for entertainment purposes or just for personal collection.

That is all for today folks, I will write the new and last blog post on this Wednesday. Until then, happy reading and commenting!! :)

The Beginning, middle...what's the end?

The beginning: Working for a NFP can be increasingly difficult when you do not accept government funding but rather rely on donations and sponsorship from the community. When myself and one of the other interns at ODATWA, Hope, were told we were about to lose our space if we were unable to raise money, we immediately jumped into action! It began with planning low cost fundraising ideas, brainstorming and researching what would be most effective and could be put together quickly...well we chose an event that although did not require too much effort, was a little difficult to organise over the course of a month! We knew if we were going to pull this off that we would need to put in a lot of hard work!

Although I have organised a few events before, Hope was a biomed student who was looking to get into medicine in the next few years, and works part time. Where as I myself have full time uni, work part time, run a small business and volunteer #timepoor. We knew the next month would be a push and that it would be done on a minimal budget.

So what event did we choose? Well  being Gen Y students that watch a lot of Netflix, of course we couldn't resist hosting our very own dodge ball tournament - Dodge For A Cause! We were excited, enthusiastic and it made the hectic month a whole lot more fun throwing doge ball movie puns at one another. For anyone who isn't aware; Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story is what we were relating to. 

The middle: We managed to secure Curtin University Stadium for our event #winning, we set up a Facebook event and October 16th was out event date. We had so much interest in the event, however of course do to limited notice, were unable to secure as many teams as we would have liked but lets save that for the next blog post.

We thought about food to put on and decided putting on our own sausage sizzle would be the most effective way as we had a butcher kind enough to donate sausages for this. The event was all over Facebook and even the Curtin Library toilets thanks to Hope! I targeted Murdoch University and we had a lot of response! Our supervisors barely weighed in on the event as they were so impressed with the approaches we had taken to the event!

We had to submit license applications to the town of Vic Park, create a risk assessment for the event, running sheet and logistics along with tournament details and of course advertise and accept registrations for the event...how did we do it?