Day 1 - 13 Sept 2006
Met everyone at City Hall's Long John Silvers at 11am. Finally got our passes!! Access to all restricted areas in Suntec and around the whole area. But VERY VERY sadly, my name was mis-spelt, it was spelt as YIP KA MUN. and aileen said that it'll take another long while to clear if i report that mistake (T_T). really kinda sad, since it's such a memorable item that i'll be keeping.
Anyways, walked to suntec with all the others. my feet was killing me. i was in the green flowery pumps that day and it really tortured my feet. First thing we had a tour of the place and went to the plenary hall at level 6. Since that was the BIGGEST event that we will be shooting at, we tested out the lighting and positioning etc. the floors were all covered with huge plastic sheets still!! then had our group photo taken against the stage. which is now printed into name card size for us by willy. Zaobao came to take photos of us and interviewed marian, jisheng and john.

Day 2 - 14 Sept 2006

Our photo was published on the FRONT PAGE of Zaobao today!! Got 2 copies of it for keepsake and portfolio. LOL
And our 'schedule' was 'confirmed'. i was supposed to be down for duty on 16 and 19 sept. Although it turned out to be a totally different case in the end and i went for 5 days straight. Since did not have events today, went to get the bouce card stuff with huimin. that's the story about the superman bounce card and my 30cents.

Day 3 - 15 Sept 2006

Wasnt on duty but had to go for a meeting at 6pm. met jisheng and qamar [group members] for the first time.
this was the faithful day that he called. and at that time i had simply NO idea who he was (>_<) stupid me.

Day 4 - 16 Sept 2006

First event!! was supposed to shoot with a guy named PJ [i still havent figured out his name...] but!!! constantine grabbed our job!! and he took UGLY photos! (>_<) second event was with the group shooting a press conference. very few people were present. my photos formed the majority of that event at the photo booth (^-^)v

Day 5 - 17 Sept 2006

Second official day of shooting.
Went around with jisheng to take random people near the entrance but failed tremendously. Then after lunch was with yuxin at ocean 4 at pan pacific hotel shooting a climate seminar. which the photos are not uploaded till this day!!! o(>_<)o" I cant recall if there were any other events for today.

Day 6 - 18 Sept 2006

Finally a shoot with huimin. at ocean 4 again shooting a mainly singapore seminar. saw 3 ministers but had no idea of the names. Then it was the pleanary practice at 3pm. After that was an african meeting which got cancelled but no one was informed. even the african delegates themselves didnt know! tsk.
Then got a chance to witness a protest. but it was disappointing. only one lone argentine man playing dead. right.

Day 7 - 19 Sept 2006

Basically it was only the pleanary. Which turned out to be utter disapointment as very few countries' delegates appeared.
both of us then had to shoot a lecture in the evening. we were actually free after this event. but aloysius called saying that he needed/wanted the fisheye lens from huimin for the fireworks. so that'll be around 9pm. so both of us went to shop around and waited till then to go down to esplanade. it was a blast!!! had tons of fun!! since that event was a fancy social event showcasing the ethnic groups' food and culture. free food, free drinks and beer. and not forgetting the fireworks!!! darryl d was the host (-_-)" although we never got the chance to say hi. had our fisheye group photo after the whole thing.
i was dead beat after it ended at around 11pm. took a shuttle with huimin and liji to city hall and cabbed back. the cab uncle was very friendly and talked about his travels and what nots. (^-^)

Day 8 - 20 Sept 2006

Last day!! only had a brief plenary shoot in the morning.
then celebrated marian's birthday and had fun the whole day basically. had another group photo taken at the lobby of suntec convention hall with willy's camera from the third floor. and also one at the one and only press room undismantled yet.
dinner at marche and went to labyrinth after that for pool. the session when i wanted to stay longer because of.... but well...

This basically should sum up the whole of the hectic one week of IMF/Worldbank meetings 2006!!!
Should really jot all this down before my memory fails me. which i suspect will be very very soon. so even though this is kinda late... who cares?