Success!

Ariff and Soraya SMS'ed me last night describing the exhibit's reception, and it appears it all went forward without a hitch! (The exhibition of course. The installation of the exhibition was a completely different matter. I spoke with Ariff the night before and he seemed somewhat stressed out at the fact that things were not going quite as smoothly as we had planned out. At that moment, they were just painting the walls - and that was the morning of the exhibition! Apparently the wall had just been put up the day before!)

According to Prof Sharifah, the PM had looked at every single image we had hung up, and according to Ariff, the PM had spent more time looking at the art exhibition than anything else! I am so happy to hear all this, and it is too bad that Shahril and myself are not there to share this happiness!

I also wanted to say CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU to everybody that helped us out with this exhibit. I realize that everybody put in so much time to get it done.. Raziff, Man and Dang - our helpful volunteers, who came together. Yunus for helping us here and there. Prof Kamaruddin, and Prof Sharifah. Othman and Hamdan at EOC. Shahril, Soraya and Ariff, for spreading the vision and keeping all this on its toes!

Now to the more administrative bits...

To do:
1. Collect receipts, do billing (at least this is now somewhat guarenteed!)
2. Flora and Fauna book
3. Followup exhibition
4. Any further hookups with UEM now that we're riding this wave?
5. UNESCO Young Scientist grant?
6. Tuesday - Ariff is taking everybody out to dinner
7. Next exhibition at Pelita Hati
8. Get pictures from Razif to put up online

Not so good, but not so bad!

Being in Canada has its charms, but its a bit difficult to see what's going on in Malaysia with the 13h time difference! In any case, talked to Ariff today about the progress of the installation. Said "not so good, not so bad" - so I suppose as with many installations, its going OK! They arrived to the site, with nothing much that had been done, but things quickly got moving after Ariff made a couple of calls. I was nervous all night thinking how things were going, but after talking to Ariff, my fears were allayed!

They're going off to dinner now.
1. The wall still has to go up, but Ariff is not worried bc the main part is to get the pictures all up.
2. The pictures hopefully will be all hung up today.
3. Ask about the sound system - ask yunus about it.
4. Zamry was impressed (according to Ariff) when he saw the installation, so I'm happy!
5. Lighting still has to be installed tomorrow.
6. Cheshire Home is good. Mr. Chin (who works there) was really nice - drove to pick up the team.
7. Weather is rainy. Ariff, Man, Dang, and Razif are huge troopers for going thru with all this!

Asked Razif to take pictures of the process, so hopefully when they get back to KL they'll be able to post things up. And of course, I'm posting up a picture here to jazz things up!

Picture taken by Shahril Ibrahim.