MCA 9-Point Party Platform Exhibition
Attended the exhibition last weekend, with the intention of learning new stuff on business and employment. It was held at the Putra World Trade Centre in conjunction with the iYouth ‘08 exhibition hosted by the Ministry of Youth and Sports. Being a 3 day thing, I attended quite a few seminars, selecting those of which I feel were of use to me.
Friday (18/01/08):
Business Funding 5c’s Strategy – useful, highlighting on the criteria as seen by banks and financial institutions on loan approval
Debt Management – not bad, highlights the need for financial management, but is targetting the people in debt and promoting the government institution AKPK
Memory Power: Forget No More – good course, trying to apply what I’ve learnt
Saturday (19/01/08):
Making Money and Adding Value Via The Internet – not bad, quite good advice, won a shirt (speaker was from google)
Money Works@Wealth Management – =/ Not as good as I hoped, nevertheless, there’s always something to be learnt, this guy was promoting himself and his company a lot more than teaching
Painting with your Brain: Mind Mapping & Creativity – not bad, but like the earlier one, is promoting himself and his business more than teaching the methods
Knowing What you Want and Getting What you Want – urgh. if i’m not motivated, then it might do me some good. but since i am motivated, bleh.
Legal Talk: Intellectual Property – Devolved into a mostly Q&A session, but I managed to learn a LOT from this session.
Sunday (20/01/08):
Entrepreneur Group Coaching: Turning Dreams into Deals – a change of speaker, and like some sessions, more of promoting company services
Striving towards Job Excellence – great talk, something that every EMPLOYEE should learn, with conflicting ideas with what I’m taught as my dad is grooming me to have more of an employer mindset
Managing Difficult People – good talk by the same guy as the job excellence one. good impression with great ideas on how to manage people, regardless of in the office or with customers.
Took notes on the seminars I attended, close friends who want to know what was said, I can send a copy of my notes (please pardon the messiness, it’s hopefully legible :P ) to you. In the course of the seminar, I met some people and of course, networked as much as I can.
A particular thing to note, while the MCA 9-Point Party Platform Exhibition was something that was of immense use to youths (things that everyone who faces real life has to learn), it was massively overshadowed by the Youth ‘08 convention that was going on. I noted that most of the youths around preferred to hang out at the ‘cool places’ there like the stage that took up most of the middle area on that floor, with people yelling, singing, and doing youth stuff. The whole of the lower floor was also reserved for youths, with things like shuffling competition and graffiti art going on down there. Kinda makes me sad to see the lack of enthusiasm from youths on what could be a great boon to their future being neglected. Heh me speaking like an old man? The sad thing is, I see most of the attendees to the seminars being held were old people (mid 30s++?) and of course, parents bringing their reluctant kids (less than 14 yo by my estimate). Where are the youths? Where are the people whom this exhibition was aimed at? Financial management, debt management, entrepreneurship… these are the topics that shape a youth’s future, and yet it’s something that they neglect?
Well, if partying and enjoying oneself is something that defines being a youth, then me, being a 24 yo guy (year 2008) would like to find the ‘youth counter’ so I can return my membership on a category that I find ‘not progressive’ to my future. Does anyone of you know where the ‘challenging young people’ counter are? I would really like to sign up.
A step further.
KW
