Last Day Internship

hello everyone!

My last day internship, its Friday. TGIF. I have a mixed feeling, happy, sad and excited too. But to be honest, I missed Pustaka and I wish to continue my internship there for few more days but unfortunately I have class staring next week and it is going to be busy week for me as a lot of assignments due soon. Like really soon!. By the way,  Lets recall back what I have done through my 1 month of internship at Pustaka Miri. On the first week I did a lot of media releases for event and media clipping as well. After that, I manage to follow some event, such as ShowTime event, and become emcee for Riang Ria Hari Raya event. On week 2, I follow Pustaka to do promotion at Curtin in conjunction with Curtin Open Day 2013. It was a great experience where I communicate with the public and explain to them what Pustaka do and recruit them to register as Pustaka member. I also join Saya Sayang Pustaka Campaign, a campaign to clean the Pustaka area and at the same time create awareness to the public to keep the place clean. On my last week at Pustaka, I managed to run my own event like I wished on my first day of internship. I handle, contact people, planned, did the media release all by me self and my partner Michelle Shak. We DID IT!. It was a sweet memory. We work really hard to make the event happen. I also join outreach program where I visit rural area school Sk Sungai Liam and did some activities there and educate them to love books. Pustaka also invited the Red Crescent group to give a talk on health and how to save people. The kids are really happy and I feel so happy when see their faces when we come visit them. The school principle also a really nice person and he hope that we will visit their school again in the future. So many things I learnt at Pustaka Miri. I’m really lucky and greatful did my internship at Pustaka. Maybe after I graduate. I might apply job there as a PR person.

 My certificate and some goodies from Pustaka Miri

That’s it about my internship at Pustaka. Thanks for reading my entries and I wish you good luck and all the best!

Go Green and 1 Malaysia photo exhibition

Hi again!

Day 14 of my placement I start to write media release for my own photo exhibition that going to be held on 12 September 2013. As usual I always refer to Ms Sofina after I done writing media release before she pass it to the journalist or post it on the Pustaka Sarawak Facebook page. Right after I wrote the media release I start to find people and photographer to contribute their pictures for my photo exhibition. We received a lot of feedback and email that would like to join the exhibition. I was so happy because I was scared at first that no one will see our media release and no one will contribute to the photo exhibition. The next day, which is day 15 of my internship, me and Michelle start creating the poster for the event and we agreed that Michelle poster to be use as the official poster for the event because last time on the ShowTime event mine poster was chosen. I also start planning what to do on that event and who to invite to join the event. The whole week Ms Sofina let me and Michelle to concentrate on that event only and didn’t give us any heavy job. A week after on day 21 of my placement, I finalize everything and double check the kiosk and make sure everything is there and the place is clean before the soft lunch on the next day. 3 days after the soft lunch which is on 15 September, celebrity from TV3 Faiz, was a reporter for Muzik- Muzik program on TV3 stop by on the photo exhibition and take few shot and told me and Ms Sofina that he is doing a program on TV9 called “Makan angin”. He said our footage will be air on 11 October 2013. I am so happy as well as my boss. I never thought that someone in the big company would come to my photo exhibition. It was a big achievement for me. My media release also on air in Era.Fm and published in few newspapers. It supposes to be 1-week exhibition. Because of the good respond from the public, Ms Sofina decided to continue the exhibition for a month.

Photo Exhibition

Thats it for now and don't forget to check out my last post soon!. cheers.

Pustaka @ Open Day

This year Curtin Open Day, Pustaka are invited to open their booth and organize few games at the kid’s corner. On that day, the staffs are doing registration and Ms Sofina and Lillian ask me to find people to join Pustaka membership because I’m a Curtin student. I’m so glad because few of my friends get to register to Pustaka as this is a very good opportunity to join as membership because first the fees is only RM 1 for WHOLE LIFE and secondly we might don’t get the chance to go Pustaka because we might don’t have time to register or we are too busy but now Pustaka is coming to us. I also given a chance to handle the registration booth and at the end around 5pm we managed to get 75 people to register and few more people renewed their membership. I am so happy on that day because I learnt how to communicate and presenting my self to the public.

Picture of my boss setting up our booth.

It was tiring day but it was fun and awesome. That is because I’m not working alone and the cool supervisor always there me for me. That makes me feel more confident and calm. Whenever the public ask regarding policies or question that I'm not sure, the other staff will take over. After this event, I’m going to work on my next event which is “Go Green and 1 Malaysia” photo exhibition. It’s happening soon.

Good luck to me. Stay tuned and check out my next post ya. Take care.

First day internship at Pustaka Miri

Hi everyone! 

I would like to share to you my first day of internship at Pustaka Miri. Pustaka Miri is a library in Miri. Before I apply at Pustaka, I also tried at few places to do my internship such as Marriott hotel, Meritz hotel, Local Agenda (LA21) but most them require at least 3 month of internship with them. I only manage to do 1 month because the semester break only one month. Finally I received email from Pustaka and they agreed to take me as their intern. I’m so happy and at the same time feeling nervous. The first day of internship my boss, Ms Sofina Tan bring me tour the building and explain to me one by one the function of each room and place. She also introduce me to all the staff in different department. After that she explain to me the scope of work that I will do and her expectation from me. On the first day also she gave me a task, to do a media release and which is good in my opinion because I don’t want just to sit there and do nothing. I rather busy my self doing something because I realize 1 month of internship is a really short time, so I really want to make this 1 month full with activities to help me write the report later.

Above is my first media release that I wrote and she giving it to the journalist to be posted. I’m so happy because my first media release was good and no amended have been made. The other staff also really helpful and give me a lot of advice. I’m looking forward to do more activity and I hope on the next task I will do something different that can test my other skills.

Till next post, stay tuned ya. Take care.