On the Monday, the stationary team needed help to sharpen all the donated colour pencils and pencils so some of us helped them to sharpen all the pencils and put it back into the coloured categories. At first when we looked at the how much colour pencils there were, we thought that it would take quite long but because a lot of us helped the stationary team, we accomplished the task quite fast.
The furniture team and as project manager, we were quite confused on what was the status for the furniture, who is purchasing it, where we have to purchase it, how many quantities, because our juniors were suppose to do it but they haven't gotten back to us. When our juniors got back to us, we were a bit confused since they told they needed dimensions of the shelves that were donated by Bryan's church but we thought we weren't using it anymore. To fix all the miscommunication and whatnot, the furniture team decided to go meet Ms Norji and Mr Edwin together and discuss together about what is the next step and what our plan is.
During the actual CSI class, there wasn't really much new updated progress from last week. Paint team was done already, all settled which was good. Stationary team were needed to purchase pin board, a container to put the colour pencils in and a ring of A4 paper. Books team have asked our juniors for one person to donate a book, where some have donated already but some books are not in good condition so they are to filter the books later.
From the meeting with Mr Edwin and Ms Norji, the furniture team had a lot to do still. Our juniors were supposed to be purchasing the shelves but somehow they weren't able to do it so we decided to just purchase all the furniture in IKEA to save some time, and because Mr Edwin has a member card so able to get discount.
Thursday night I went with the boys, Darren, Patrick and Bryan, and met Mr Edwin at IKEA to purchase all the furniture that we needed. Luckily, the furntiure team had already gone to IKEA few weeks back so already knew what furniture we needed to buy and therefore was not needed to go through all the furniture in IKEA and picking one by one again. Our budget that the finance team has given us was 3700rm, to purchase shelves, tables, kids stool, and rug.
One problem that we found while finding the furniture was that the kids stool that we wanted, there were only one colour and all the other colours that we wanted was out of stock and that it was only available at IKEA Cheras branch so Mr Edwin decided that he will help purchase for us on the next day and bring to site for us.
We were quite close to finding all the furniture and were only left 4 tables but when we looked at the how much furniture we have already, we were afraid that we wouldn't be able to fit into the 3 cars we have. So we decided to purchase these first, then try to put it into the car. Ms Norji met us afte we were done since she was taking most of the big furniture in her car and transporting it into site on the Saturday. After putting the furniture in the cars, we looked at the amount of space left and we decide that we were able to fit in the tables so we went back up to IKEA , purchase the leftover tables and packed it in the car. Thankfully we bought IKEA furniture as it is flat-packed and easier for transport or else would've needed to rent a lorry which would have been more costly.
It was a very tiring trip, but a very successful trip, finally had all the furniture purchased and now all we needed to do was to build it on the site. As project manager, we would like to thank Patrick for the help because he wasn't part of furniture team but was willing to help out.
On the Saturday itself, it was execution day so we drove up together and met in site. It was my first time to see the library and to go to the site so I was quite excited to see how we would change the lives of these orang asli children. I saw the condition the library was in before and it wasn't good, so I was very glad that we were able to give these kids a new library to learn in.
It was quite a hectic day. The semester 6 students, which were 7 of us who were willing to help us assemble the furniture, we were assembling the furniture as a team. We automatically new what we had to do and whilst we were assembling the furniture, we ended up working into teams here and there, helping each other when we needed a hand. We assembled the chairs first because it was the easiest and also because we can use these chairs after we assembled it. We then assembled the small shelves, tall shelves, the tall and small tables, and the kids stool. The whole process took from 11am to 4pm so it was quite a long process, with a lunch break in between, but we had it all done. The only thing we had to wait for was the lorry to come with the donated furniture from Bryan's church and the 5 bean bags that were donated.
Whilst waiting for the lorry to come, some of the semester 6 decided to help our juniors with the painting. There were too many people painting and not enough brushes already so I decide that I would just help take photos for my classmates to put into their blog.
Overall, it was a very successful day. We got all the furniture built, moved all the furniture into the library already and now all we had to do was wait for next week to handover the libary. As project manager, I would like to thank the paint team, Aisyah, Patrick and Janson, and Jordan from finance team, for helping me, Darren, and Bryan with assembling the furniture. Without their help, the whole process would've taken much longer so we were thankful for their help.
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