now from just now 10+ till not almost 1230am, im still online doing the final final touch up of the report. waiting for everything to be in to me and i shall do the final formatting and tml shall be our report submission day!!!! yeah!!! i think the problem that we faced is true that our report is very straight forward to the extent that we have to make sure that our report is free from grammer error and formatting error in order to make our report looks complete.

problems faced when im doing the formatting of the report is that there are some areas that can be done easily by the formatting but i do not know how to do it so in the end i manage to done it in the long way,although it takes more time but nevertheless, i manage to get it done!!!

Date: 10th december 2008

time: 1.30

attendence: sok hong and kun rong

the final meeting that we will have before the submission of the FYP report. meet out with kun rong to discuss about final amendments to the report before submitting up.  the problems that we faced is that the formatting as i am not very good in formating, i may use more time as compare to others who knows how to use the format so that everything can be done easily. actually there is only minor touch up here and there.

Date: 3^rd December 2008

Time: 1.30pm — 5pm

Venue: library

Attendance: all

Purpose:

Compilation of report

Refine and editing of excel database

refining of database

today can be consider the last lap of the race and we are chionging for the final report, refine and touch up on the database. meet out with advisor to discuss about some of the issues over the presentation. learning how to use the edit the online database. we discuss about the writtings in the report. final touch up on the excel catalogue. basically touch everything. everything is finally ending soon especially with the database!!! all our hardwork in calling, database and everything!!

Date: 26^th November 2008

Time: 12.30pm

Venue: school library

Attendance: sokhong, choon hua, sean

Purpose: continue on report and revise on the interview

What we have done for the day:

Compile report

Continue on wiki.com

Formatting of report

another day in the school library doing our FYP, we went on to edit on the content page of our report and discuss about what are the things that can be added into the report. 

Date: 21^st nov 2008

Time: 130pm

Venue: library

Attendance: kun rong, sok hong

Purpose: meeting with advisor

1.       Add a link to the list of the agencies (if they wan to add in to the list, please contact blah blah blah)

2.       Do an swot analysis on ESS

3.       Ask questions related to gatecrasher rather then SOP of Christmas auntie

4.       What is the most practical risk does the security concern about

5.       Any sop for access control

6.       Do they do any risk matrix? Do they do site inspection prior the event?

7.       What is their approach?

8.       We have to know who is our wiki for? (event organizer)

9.       Have a sorting for the wiki (i.e sort by grade As etc)

10.   Questionnaire to be added in the appendix

11.   What is the value of the wiki to the target audience

12.   Things to be included in the report

a.       Objective of the report – evaluate the security agency

b.      The process how we go about doing

                                                               i.      Evaluate

                                                             ii.      Catalogue

                                                            iii.      Profiling

13.   Screen shot the wiki in our report

14.   Commendations in the report

a.       What are the things that we want to do but could not do

                                                               i.      Access to the agency

b.      What are the fields that can be further added

c.       No need to give a conclusion

15.   Things to be included in report

a.       Profiling of ESS (value added to the report)

b.      Things that we have done to value add to the events organizer

Date: 12 November 2008

Time: 1pm – 4.30pm

Venue: school library

Attendance: all

Purpose: meet out with wee leong

Start doing analysis

-          The field that we have

-          The size of agency

-          The experience of agency

-          The grading of agency

-          Why they never graded A, is it because of the SIRD grading

-          What is the criteria to get a A

-          How efficiency is the agency (can I get the 24 hours hotline so that I can call) à to get a A grading

-          Coming out with a template

-          One of the analysis, customer service (we can grade)

o   How do we come out with the grading

-          Branch out to do a profiling of the event security specialist

-          Registry of business in Singapore to find out more information about each company

-          Catalogue can be done in Microsoft access

meet up with advisor for advise on what are the areas that we can continue and improve on. decided have to an interview with event security specialist so we had distributed the roles accordingly. as for me and choon hua will take care of the formation of the report and also coming out with the interview questions while kun rong and sean will take charge of the formation of the cataloging.

Date: 5^th November 2008

Time: 1pm – 430

Attendance: All

Venue: RPC level 2

Purpose: finish up the calling of agency, find out the SIRD grading

Things that we have done for the day:

Continue with the calling to the various security companies

Find out information about the SIRD (Security Industry Regulatory Department)

Compiling of all the catalogue

Finish up with the updating the grading

As last week kun rong and i have already called half of the list of the security agencies, this week, it’s choon hua and sean’s turn to make the CALLS!!! then kun rong and i went to search for the SIRD gradings and fill in into one of the fields in the catalogue. we managed to finish calling all the companies after all the funny calls and getting all kinds of respone from the company. after that i went on to compile the all the catalogue and send it out to everyone.

Date: 22 october 2009

Time: 1pm – 5.20pm

Venue: school library

Attendance: sokhong , kun rong

Purpose: cold calling to all the security agencies

met kun rong in  school at 1 while choon hua was overseas and sean is not free. went to look for wee leong and went to borrow the mediatalk. waited for a while, loaned the laptop but the software cannot work. tried and tried but to no avail. after asking for some help, we went to the RPC to look for some guy who knows how to settle for help. after that we went to W6 to wee leong office to take the speaker. after all the waiting and solving and walking, we finally can start our calling at 2.30 which by then we have already lost all the enthu to call=x

it is really like telemarketing!!! luckily me and kun rong have some experience with telemarketing so it wasnt too different. i think the most difficult part is for us to lie!! wahahha. we have to come out with our own event company which we call it the drex events then we starting calling. most of them were rather helpful and explain what they are doing and i realised some of the security company has no longer work in the event security anymore but do not really have the chance to ask them why=(  we ended our meeting at 5 as we have to return the laptop before 5=)

Date: 15^th October 2008

Venue: school library

Time: 1pm – 4pm

Objective: meet up with advisor

Attendance: sok hong, choon hua, sean, kun rong

Security: questions to ask them

Why do they want to come into event security?

Case study on events that they have done

·         Any incident that happened and how hey handle

·         Any policy do they have

·         Any training needed to be a security

·         Problems in security à too many part-timers (do they really have the skills and qualification?)

·         WSQ (WDA)

·         Do they have regional partner

·         SRID (police)

Request for security agency grading

·         Other fields to add to the catalogue

·         Literature review, newslink, news articles, police ‘live’ magazine, association of security

today we got a free treat from our advisor, Wee Leong!!! wahahha… thank you!! we talked about what are the other areas that we can improve on our catalogue. discussed about our experience in the GOV WARE 2008 as there will be of help to us as you can do a case study on the security that the organisor has used. one of the problem now is that we need to find ways to call the list of security angency because there are hundreds of them and we can finding for ways to make free calls!! so we ask wee leong for help and he helped us by loaning the some software for us=)

after the lunch, went to the library to look for magazines regarding the police to find out about the SRID to get the security gradings.

time: 6pm – 8pm

venue: at home

i am now trying to finish up on updating my blog and also transferring the meeting minutes to the my laptop because all the while we are writting it down… as i do not have the time for the whole of next week, so it is better for me to finish everything by today so that next week i have time for my other things.

yea!!! finally DONE!!!