What I learned about becoming an Emcee

I was told by my supervisor to be an Emcee for an event at Pustaka Negeri Sarawak, Miri on the 1st of October on the topic 'Eczema'. This talk is by a doctor name Dr. Wong Tiong Hien from the Department of Prediatrics, Hospital Miri.

At first I was very nervous and scared because I never emcee before and this is going to be my first time. Honestly speaking, I have fear in facing a lot of people while on the stage or doing presentation. However, in preparing myself my supervisor told me to prepare a script and she gave me examples of script for me to follow. I did my script and asked my supervisor to check if there is anything that I should change on the script. My supervisor asked me to read out loud as it is a way for me to practice and calm myself down a day before my day of emcee.

On the day itself, I did a great job as told by my supervisor and the other officers. I was shocked and amazed by how many people showed up because my supervisor told me that I was her first intern in getting the auditorium full house approximately 200 people inside. I had a great time in experiencing myself on how to emcee an event.

This is me during the Emcee

This is the crowd in the auditorium

Right: The Speaker Left: One of the officer in Pustaka handing the gift to the speaker

Besides that, what I learned in class before on writing media release is different than in the ones that I do during my internship. I learned a lot from my supervisor in doing media release both in English and Bahasa Malaysia. My Bahasa Malaysia is not so good and I mostly ask my supervisor and the other staff to help me in translating. But most of all I did my best and experience a lot of things during this placement of internship. 

 This is the English version on the Breast Cancer media release I did

(There are changes my supervisor did)

This is the Bahasa Malaysia version of the media release

Finally, I learned a lot and experience all sort of Public Relations work during my internship placement. Till the next post!

Karen Nadia Kapong

7E1B9094 / 15410160

Miri Campus