IOC/WESTPAC 7th International Scientific Symposium

Setting up the booth

KK Reef Watch had a booth at the exhibition hall during the IOC/WESTPAC 7th International Scientific Symposium 21st - 23rd May 2008 at Magellan Sutera, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. In my humble opinion, w e had the best booth (I'm noy bias!!) We all had fun & all our volunteers were great. We also met a lot of people who gave us motivation & advice since we are a new NGO here. Lots of government agencies had booths and we maximize that opportunity by getting to know the officers for possible future collaborations.

Datuk Kamarulzaman Ampon, Deputy Vice Chancellor

We didnt expect the booth to be so big so in the future we need to produce more posters. However, we compensate by putting up a big canvas for people to sign. Now we have a very nice memento of our first Exhibition in Malaysia. We will frame it and put it up in the office (we have a small room in Sofia's house that serves as our temp office :) and it will serve as motivation for us to keep us going when the going gets tough.

Bing, our artist volunteer to do caricature drawings. it was a great hit. Many people came to our booth to do the caricature and give some donation to KK Reef Watch. Thanks :)

Here are some of the many money shots :) (hehehe)

Our legal advisor interviewed by the press

Mr Adrian (Special officer - MOSTI)

VIPs at the booth during launching ceremony

Cute photos of me, Zar & Sof

Many thanks to our volunteers:
Paya, CT, Adie, Zar, Faz (our new legal adviser), Min Hui, Bobita

Thank you so much for your support :) We also would like to thank Prof Ridzwan & Prof Saleem for giving us the opportunity to do the exhibit. UMS actually gave us the booth for free :)


Cheers,
Salha