I had a chance to attend one of the function involving VIPs and VVIPs recently. Not that I really wanted to go, but I was kind of stupid when I made the decision offering myself to attend on behalf of the company.
Part 1 – The Timing
Let’s just check the typical “atucara majlis” involving VIPs:
3.30 ptg - Ketibaan Tetamu Jemputan (this would be me)
4.00 ptg - Ketibaan Dif-Dif Kehormat
4.45 ptg - Ketibaan YAB bla bla bla (normally, this is the VVIP who will initiate the launching ceremony etc)
- Bacaan Doa
- Ucapan oleh YB “not so important” (the head of the ministry ke, department ke etc)
- Ucapan Pelancaran oleh VVIP
- Majlis Pelancaran
- Majlis Menandatangani Perjanjian
6.00 ptg - Jamuan Ringan
So this was what happened to me the other day:-
Untuk tidak dilabel sebagai seorang yang tidak menepati masa, Pipi sampai 15 minit lebih awal (I really regret doing this). So bila masuk je kat dalam dewan tu, I saw there are a lot of other people who arrived earlier than me. (I guess they might have also regretted their action as well). I should have noticed that I was given an allowance of 30 minutes (3.30 pm to 4.00 pm) to be late.
From there onward, I had to wait for the VIPs to arrive, and being a VIPs, they were given a 45 minutes lead time before the arrival of the VVIP and for me, I had been waiting for 1 hour and 30 minutes before the arrival of the VVIP ( I came 15 minutes earlier).
End of Part 1
Conclusion No 1
You have to wait longer if you are an ordinary people.
Conclusion No 2
If you are a very important person, you can come a little bit later and let the ordinary people wait for you.
Conclusion No 3
The ordinary people have nothing else to do. They are not important. They can always waste their time waiting for the VIPs.
Part 2 – The Speech
Any ceremony will not be complete without a speech and any speech will not be complete without the greeting. First, the not so important VIP gave the speech. He was reading from the text “prepared” earlier. Sadly, the person giving the speech (read : reading the text) was not prepared at all. Ucapan beliau adalah seperti seorang kanak kanak yang baru belajar membaca. Plus, at the beginning of the speech, this individual or anybody giving a speech will have to greet everybody from the Minister, to the Chief Minister including Tan Sri and Datuks dan Tuan Tuan dan Puan Puan ( this would be the ordinary people) in hierarchical order.
When it was the turn for the VVIP to give the speech, he repeated the same greeting process all over again but his speech would be longer then the-not-so-important-VIP. Part of the speech must include the “nasihat” to the ordinary people like me.
End of Part 2
Conclusion No 1
You can save time if you greet everybody at once without having to mention the title.
Conclusion No 2
You will make a complete idiot of yourself if you don’t really prepare yourself for the speech.
Conclusion No 3
Advice is good and must be made mandatory in any speech even though only a few will listen to the advice. (Hey! We had been waiting for almost 2 hours now!)
The Last Part.
In total, the actual timing for the ceremony is only 1 hour and it could be shorter if the greeting and nasihat part was excluded and everybody arrives at the same time. I don’t want to say anything about the “jamuan ringan” part but it was not really ringan, kalau betul betul makan, memang takyah dinner lagi dah malam tu.
The BIG conclusion.
Next time, Pipi tak mau lagi attend benda benda macam ni. Sebenarnya, Pipi dah kekeringan idea for the blog. Arrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhh............
Part 1 – The Timing
Let’s just check the typical “atucara majlis” involving VIPs:
3.30 ptg - Ketibaan Tetamu Jemputan (this would be me)
4.00 ptg - Ketibaan Dif-Dif Kehormat
4.45 ptg - Ketibaan YAB bla bla bla (normally, this is the VVIP who will initiate the launching ceremony etc)
- Bacaan Doa
- Ucapan oleh YB “not so important” (the head of the ministry ke, department ke etc)
- Ucapan Pelancaran oleh VVIP
- Majlis Pelancaran
- Majlis Menandatangani Perjanjian
6.00 ptg - Jamuan Ringan
So this was what happened to me the other day:-
Untuk tidak dilabel sebagai seorang yang tidak menepati masa, Pipi sampai 15 minit lebih awal (I really regret doing this). So bila masuk je kat dalam dewan tu, I saw there are a lot of other people who arrived earlier than me. (I guess they might have also regretted their action as well). I should have noticed that I was given an allowance of 30 minutes (3.30 pm to 4.00 pm) to be late.
From there onward, I had to wait for the VIPs to arrive, and being a VIPs, they were given a 45 minutes lead time before the arrival of the VVIP and for me, I had been waiting for 1 hour and 30 minutes before the arrival of the VVIP ( I came 15 minutes earlier).
End of Part 1
Conclusion No 1
You have to wait longer if you are an ordinary people.
Conclusion No 2
If you are a very important person, you can come a little bit later and let the ordinary people wait for you.
Conclusion No 3
The ordinary people have nothing else to do. They are not important. They can always waste their time waiting for the VIPs.
Part 2 – The Speech
Any ceremony will not be complete without a speech and any speech will not be complete without the greeting. First, the not so important VIP gave the speech. He was reading from the text “prepared” earlier. Sadly, the person giving the speech (read : reading the text) was not prepared at all. Ucapan beliau adalah seperti seorang kanak kanak yang baru belajar membaca. Plus, at the beginning of the speech, this individual or anybody giving a speech will have to greet everybody from the Minister, to the Chief Minister including Tan Sri and Datuks dan Tuan Tuan dan Puan Puan ( this would be the ordinary people) in hierarchical order.
When it was the turn for the VVIP to give the speech, he repeated the same greeting process all over again but his speech would be longer then the-not-so-important-VIP. Part of the speech must include the “nasihat” to the ordinary people like me.
End of Part 2
Conclusion No 1
You can save time if you greet everybody at once without having to mention the title.
Conclusion No 2
You will make a complete idiot of yourself if you don’t really prepare yourself for the speech.
Conclusion No 3
Advice is good and must be made mandatory in any speech even though only a few will listen to the advice. (Hey! We had been waiting for almost 2 hours now!)
The Last Part.
In total, the actual timing for the ceremony is only 1 hour and it could be shorter if the greeting and nasihat part was excluded and everybody arrives at the same time. I don’t want to say anything about the “jamuan ringan” part but it was not really ringan, kalau betul betul makan, memang takyah dinner lagi dah malam tu.
The BIG conclusion.
Next time, Pipi tak mau lagi attend benda benda macam ni. Sebenarnya, Pipi dah kekeringan idea for the blog. Arrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhh............
3 comments:
Pipi dah takde idea??how come?come on Pipi, we need u to share yr ideas regarding any issues since yr point of view is totally diff, loud n cynical but i like it!go and bang yr head till the ideas come out,then start ramblings bout it ok!
Menghentak kepala untuk mendapatkan idea adalah satu perbuatan yang sia sia belaka dan boleh diklasifikasikan sebagai percubaan membunuh diri. Janganlah macam tu. Pipi takde sebab nak bunuh diri. Result SPM pipi dah lama dah keluar. tak pakai dah pun
biasala..bukan boleh tegur diorang ni kang kata kita penyokong pembangkang pulak. kita tegur utk kebaikan bersama tp d salah tafsir pulak
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