Off to Penang for Work – Day 2

So, I was up at 8.30am and got ready for the day – a long day. As you know, I didn’t get to sleep at all the night before, but I was still feeling a-okay.

We started the day with good breakie at the hawker stalls with the local Penang specialties. It was great to feed myself with good, yummy Penang food and a cool ice coffee that morning. We headed to the venue, QEII, at 10am and started our preparation. The venue is damn nice. It is one of the nightspots in Penang, and this one is by the sea!

The Education team arrived later to prep up the models, while we, the marketing team, were there to set up the venue with the necessities. The production house was also there with their technical expertise.

Yup, the newly launched Clairol Professional is one of P&G’s brand under the professional business. I am sure you know the retail brand, Clairol Herbal Essence. Well, this professional line is different as the range has colorants which to be only used in hair salons and the care range are sold in salons only.

Guests started to arrive at 6.30pm. We handled the registration and later I had to 'kau-tim' the press conference. A special one with our invited guest artist, Ken Zhou and team, all the way from Guangzhou, to present their collection for the year, incorporating with our new brand, Clairol Professional.

There were dancers who performed on stage to entertain the guests and later a live band. The night was just filled with people, chatting, looking, admiring, drinking and of course us, busy running around.

Here are some photos to tell the story of the day:

Prep of the models' hair

Production house working on the set up

Press conference

Some inspirations for you

Me with the Area Manager. [ The flowers were not for me but for the guest artist]

Me and my colleague, KW. Behind at the background was the Star Cruise ship.

How about this hairstyle?

And this?

...or this?

Hard work by my Education team

The Guangzhou team & my MD

The food served

Finale

The incomplete team

By the time we got back to the hotel after stuffing ourselves with supper, we were all dead tired. I know I was. I called the house keeping technician to fix our hairdryer (yup, it was burnt somehow!!) and later another one to remove the extra bed from our room. I plopped myself on the 2 joined single bed (1/3 of the bed) and got totally knocked out.

I slept through till the next morning. That was all I wanted that night.