today should have been a happy day... i have my official grand opening of my 1st outlet... big deal to my bosses as my brand owner / founder was here to grace the event, the korean ambassador was one of the invited guest among a lot of the korean community...
i was "arrowed" to be the emcee for the event together with my regional ceo's son (he was to take care of the korean part of course!). and the amazing thing was, my bosses just told me that there will be about 10 VIPs for the ribbon cutting ceremony but he keeps saying that he has the list but non of us knew who was coming until yesterday night. so how was i to come up with a script not knowing who to introduce, who is giving a speech etc...
anyway, it didn't matter coz i realised they like to make changes every second!!! first the host (as in my bosses) were late because they had a meeting with EDB and it over-run. then when they reach, they told me the ambassador will be late so i need to cancel his speech and re-arrange the sequence of introduction for ribbon cutting. then seconds before i start (imagine me holding the mic, standing in front of the row of ribbons), my chairman came to me to add 1 more person to the ribbon cutting - his wife. imagine us frantically adding 1 more of the ribbon ball to the row of ribbons and me changing my script once again.
the above was just the start of imperfection... then the moment i opened my mouth, the worst thing that can happen happened! the stupid sound system basically ruined my show... the feedback was HORRIBLE, mics were not working almost all the time... basically my nightmare. everytime the sound system screwed up, i noticed my boss frowning! my boss came to me at the end of the event and shake my hand to say these exact words: "good job today but we are not paying for the sound system!"... in my mind i was thinking, shit... he is so going to talk about that when he gets back to the office...
oh well, let's see what other boos boos were there... there was a short black-out (some paranoid colleagues insisted it was the sound system caused it due to the over-capacity), there was this vip (one of my boss' friend) who started acting like he was the owner and started inviting people that we didn't know to cut the ribbons! then i had to wear my heels, so after 2 days of wearing heels and cover toes shoes... my feet was hurting like mad!!!
so that is the first event at my new company and it definitely wasn't perfect...
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