After a year dormant, our Kuantan members also decided to revive back the Maid Cafe since there are some members willing to contribute some funding to kick-start the project and want it to go on annually. Thus, we finally revive back our Maid Cafe! Hopefully one day we can revive back our Kuantan Coswalk as well!! But let’s get back to our, A.S.K Maid Cafe : Coffee, Tea or Me.
Date : 4th August 2019 (Sunday)
Time : 10.00a.m – 6.00p.m
Venue : Pull A Shot , Kuantan.
Thanks to the owner of Pull A Shot for giving us an opportunity to work with them again. With more supports, we can do better! We continue with recruitment of Maid/Butler’s in Kuantan however since Kuantan doesn’t have any bigger scale event since 2017, most of the cosplayers have either graduated or studying aboard. Hence we got no choice but to seek assistance from friends whom are not from Kuantan.
After gathering all the needed Maid/Butlers, we proceed with the photoshoot planning, designs, documentations, printing and marketing.
Since we have 2 different photoshoot dates this time as well because half of our Maid Teams are in KL, therefore 1 photoshoot sessions will be done in Kuantan, while another will be in KL.
With the photo sessions done, next we arranged a booth at Cosmic Wave to create more awareness of our cafe ^^
and we also do a simple promo videoshoot about the cafe to highlight this upcoming Maid Cafe.
Most of our marketing will be done in facebook via facebook event page. Finishing all the marketing posting, printing and packing of photos, some decorations of the cafe, printing of documents and order chit, we are then finally arrived on the actual event day.
As below are the photos during the event day by our photographer, Tokwan TJ & Brader Shah.
and a maid cafe event video~
(somehow it cannot be embedded, please watch it at our facebook page here : https://www.facebook.com/askmaidcafe/videos/1072630079598283/ )
Oh and some group wefie photos from the Butler, Maids and photographers ^^
Date : 21 July 2019.
Time : 11.00a.m. – 7.00p.m.
Venue : Kuantan Parade, Kuantan.
Cosmic Wave is an joint event between Persatuan Hainan Kuantan (Kuantan Hainan Association), KOTASAS, Wawasan Intact Properties Sdn Bhd, A.S.K and Artwave. It all started when our new Kuantan’s A.S.K members wanted to organize a Cosplay Event in Kuantan, but with only a very limited funding. We then plan on securing how to secure the remaining fundings for it which lead us to finding partners to collaborate. Thanks to one of our member’s connection with Persatuan Hainan Kuantan, we approached them with an event proposal and details at hand.
After meeting and providing all the details to the Youth President of Persatuan Hainan for 2019, Mr. Pu Siang Yen, he agreed to work with us for this event. Since the majority funding and sponsorship will be coming from Persatuan Hainan Kuantan, we came to an agreement that this event will be presented by them. From there, Mr. Pu connect us to KOTASAS and Wawasan Intact Properties Sdn Bhd to increase our funding for our event so that we can do and perform better.
Mr. Pu also then continues to find sponsors and also coordinate their own members from the Youth Division of Persatuan Hainan Kuantan to work with us closely. With this, we have an increase of manpower for the work (since most of our active A.S.K members are not in Kuantan at that moment), though they have less experience on such events, Mr. Pu suggested that we have to guide them through. Mr. Pu also suggested us to have a media conference for a soft launch of this event to create more awareness about this event in Kuantan. As below are some photos and links :
Special thanks to all cosplayers and members for willing to come and support our media conference!
Sin Chew :
https://www.sinchew.com.my/content/content_2063034.html
China Press :
http://eastcoast.chinapress.com.my/20190601/%E5%8A%A8%E6%BC%AB%E8%BF%B7%E7%9C%8B%E8%BF%87%E6%9D%A5%EF%BC%81-%E8%A7%92%E8%89%B2%E5%8F%98%E8%A3%85%E4%B8%8B%E6%9C%88%E6%AF%94%E4%B8%80%E6%AF%94/
Moving on with our majority funding and sponsors are covered by Mr. Pu and team, we proceed with our invitation of judges, technical details, preparations of schedule & floor plan, coordination, marketing on the event. Our initial date is around early June however due to the unfortunate passing of the former Sultan of Pahang, Paduka Ayahanda Sultan Ahmad Shah Al-Musta’in Billah ibni Al Marhum Sultan Abu Bakar Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mu’adzam Shah, in respect for this unfortunate news, we decided to delay our event until 21 July 2019.
We then proceed on working with the promo material including posters and videos to promote this event. As below are our promotional video done by Otoko Studio.
With all the cosplay competitions, cosplay photo competitions, floor plans and booths documentations prepared, we continue to coordinate the trips of our members whom are not from Kuantan by arranging their meals, accommodations and guides when they arrived Kuantan so that they won’t be loss and felt abandoned.
We are finally then, ready to host the event on 21.07.2019!
Since our photographer unable to come due to a clash of event which he have promised to cover at Penang, we requested some photographer friends to help us take photos of our event and some photos are also taken from friends that visited our event :
Photo by GOHAN Photography
Photo by Shaoran Steven Photography
Photo by Andrew Sensai
Following up next are the Event and Cosplay video by our videographer, CH Tan.
After the event, we even have a group photo with all the working members & volunteers after the clean up of the event floor and also a group photo with all the other participating teams from Persatuan Hainan Kuantan, performers, judges and helpers ^^
Some of our members also choose to eat at other place to help us save cost because this appreciation dinner is also under our event budget to treat everyone a nice meal as a token of gratitude for giving their utmost best for our events.
Right after the dinner, our members whom are not from Kuantan also start traveling back and one of them manage to report safety to us when they resting at R&R. It’s truly a blessing to have such awesome and wonderful friends and comrades!
After the event, Sin Chew Newspaper, China Press and Nanyang also wrote about our event!
