Academic Activities in Taylor's University

Food Promo- A Night in Tropical Paradise (Semester 5) Diploma in Hotel Management

During my term 5 while studying Diploma in Hotel Management, we have do one project - to hold an event. We have to discuss our theme of the event and then divide into several groups used to hold the event. After our discussion, we decided to have tropical theme and our dinner event name is A Night in Tropical Paradise. We have 2 different group which are service team and kitchen team. Thus, the people who in the service team have to do the decoration of the restaurant while the people in the kitchen team will have to find what type of food they want to serve. So under the service team,we have marketing group which will responsible to do the marketing and attract the student to join our dinner event. I am inside the group of Decoration group which our group leader is Ivy Yow. I responsible to find the empty coconut shell used to decorate on the table and the empty coconut shell will be filled with candles. Before the day of the dinner event, I responsible to find different kind of leaves used to decorate the restaurant. During the day of the dinner event, I responsible to stick the leaves on the wall and window. It is so hard because the leaves keep falling down. After that, I help to decorate the table and cutleries of the restaurant. Besides that, I also help to decorate the light as well as flower and put along our restaurant's bar to intersperse the restaurant. Lastly, we check one more round of the restaurant to make sure we we done our job perfectly. After that, our dinner event start and we do our best to serve the customer to make sure they enjoy this moment. We done a great job on that day and thanks to each of us we have a great effort.

Food Promo- Dia De Los Muertos (Semester 3) Bachelor in International Hospitality Management

During i start my degree program in Taylor's University, we were assigned to hold an event which similar like the event that we did before in diploma program. However, this time we decided our theme of the event will be Dia De Los Muertos which is the Day of the dead. I been assigned to Logistics team which I am in charge of decoration in the restaurant. My friends and i were assigned to decorate the stage, coffin that will be decorated outside the restaurant to create a frightful atmosphere as well as the table setting. One month before the event start, my friend and i went to buy the ingredients for example paper flowers, skull and more as well as start to carve the skull and colour it as well as decorated it with paper flowers. This skull will be decorate as table setting during the event that day. We try our best to use recycle materials due to environmental awareness. We spend our time and did a lot of preparation to ensure that our restaurant is attractive enough. During the event that day, we came early in the morning to decorate the restaurant and we fold quite a lot of paper flowers used to stick and place around the restaurant. I responsible for the table setting and stick the skull picture, paper flowers on the restaurant wall as well as decorate for the outside restaurant which will make a stunning first impression to the guest. I also helped for preparing the equipment that needed for Food Promotion Activity. I prepared cutleries, as well as crockery along with linen before start my Food Promotion Activity. Each of us was assigned to different job task and after I done my job I helped other people as well. I helped my friend to makeup before the event start. This is because every server must have skeleton make up used to match our theme. During the event start, i was assigned to serve the beverage to the guest at the cocktail table and others were assigned to different job task for example registration as well as bartender and more. After that, we served our guest accordingly and our event do have performance on that day for example 24 Festival Drum Team, Live band as well as singer and guitarist. There was also lucky draw session. Everyone of us did an excellent job and guest is very satisfied with our service.

Simply Cookies (Semester 3) Bachelor in International Hospitality Management

Simply Cookies is a social enterprise founded in 2014. The aim is to empower single mothers to be mothers and career women at the same time. They provide single mothers the economic opportunities to balance financial independence and motherhood. The single mothers are trained to bake and employed at the child-friendly kitchen where they can work alongside with their children. Simply Cookies hosted its first ever Christmas Fund Bake together with Taylor's University and Gras Events Planner on the 18th Of December 2015. This event is to help promote job employment opportunity for Single Mothers to purchase basic school necessities. Simply Cookies back to Taylor's University hosted back the Christmas Fund Bake.

Before the event start, we divided into few category which included marketing team, usher team, media team and more. For me, i am main in usher team as well as assist marketing team . This is because usher team have their duty only on that day itself. For marketing team, i been assigned to find information about the event as well as design for flyers. We put a lot of effort on it and the designer appreciate our help. Besides that, we also set up booth used to promote the event and sell cookies. Each of us have to fill in the name at the available time slot. The cookies that we sell included Double Chocolate Cookies, Pineapple Cheese Tart, Durian Fingers, Peanut Cookies,Lychee Cookies and Ginger Crisp. We go all around the campus to sell the cookies and ask them to join our event if they have free time.

On the event that day itself, it is at LT12. The itinerary is listed down as below.

8.55am - Tell people to sit down, switch phone off

9.00 - Welcoming honourable guests

9.05 - Taylor's Uni Symphony Orchestra

9.10 - Prof. Dr. Pradeep Nair's speech introductory speech

9.25 - Ms. Sue Seau Yeen's speech

9.35 - Yang Berbhg. Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun's speech

9.45 - Mock Cheque

10.50- Token of appreciation

10.00 - Oliver's word of Thanks(Manager of the event)

10.05- Conclusion, welcome guests & VIP's to Thyme & Tarragon for Cookie Decoration

We been assigned to several job task which some of us will responsible escorting the VIP, someone responsible to manage LT12 which take care of the location where the event will be held by the way the person in charge is me. So i have to take care of the entire people who stay in side the Lecture Theater. Some of us been assigned to usher the guest to the event hall from different location for example parking area, commercial block, Block B,C,D,E. After that, event started. So we follow the itinerary and the event went well. After manager of the event gave his speech, we escort the guests and VIP to Thyme and Tarragon so that they can decorate their cookies and enjoy the rest of the day with joy. Lecturer praised us for organizing such a nice event and this is team effort. We learn how to work in a team and solve problem that we encounter. Without any one of us we cannot organize this event well so thank you everyone for doing such a great job as I believe in the saying that two heads are better than one.