Report By Bassem Abdul Rasheed, Trainer MCEP
The MCEP students under GHSS Kottila SDC conducted a food
festival at GHSS Kottila campus on May 11, 2017 (Thursday). It was named as Hot
Sulaimani, inspired from the movie Ustad Hotel. The fest was inaugurated by Mr.
Prakasan (Higher Secondary Teacher) of GHSS Kottila in the esteemed presence of
Mr. Sankaran K (Programme Manager, GHSS Kottila SDC) and Mr. Damodaran (well-known
chef).
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| Inaugural Speech By Mr. Prakasan K, Faculty Coordinator, ASAP Kottila |
The fest included sale of food items, a gaming centre and
free black tea for all the fest visitors. The fest show cased varieties of food
items catering both to vegetarian and non-vegetarian taste buds. The items
ranged from different cuisines comprising of traditional to modern culinary
arts from Arabian to Malabar to European. The menu of the fest included 11
items.
The main attraction of the fest was ‘Ustad Hotel Special’
which was a combination of chappathi covered with tomato omelette. The other
items included shawarma, white forest cake, vegetable cutlet, jack fruit fry,
homemade egg puffs, barfi, rice-oyster fry, kayada (a Malabar special item made
of banana), milk peda, fruit salad and egg cut cake.
The MCEP team was led by the Event Coordinator Mr. Muhammad
Ashafaque who was assisted by Ms. Suhanath. The team was divided into various
committees namely Fundraising, Marketing, Finance, Guest Relations, Venue
Management, Crowd Management, Anchoring, Games, Media and Entertainment.
The fundraising team comprised of Ms. Laya and Ms. Sneha, who
delivered a stupendous performance which led to collecting of a sizable amount
towards food festival fund. They collected the fund in a very professional
manner from the different skill trainers at GHSS Kottila.
The marketing team included Mr. Adarsh, Ms. Marjaana, Ms.
Farzana and Ms. Priyanka. They had to design the festival brochures, banners
and posters. The festival poster was launched on 9th May 2017
(Tuesday) by Ms. Diana Thankachan at SMILE Camp held at GHSS Kottila. They had
to market the fest in different classes.
The most difficult task in the fest was money management
which was professionally dealt by the finance team which included Ms.
Mubasheera and Ms. Arya. They introduced food coupons and the visitors had to
buy food coupons before they can get food items. They were in charge of the
cash counter and of properly dividing the income among the stakeholders.
The venue team did a wonderful job of setting and decorating
the fest hall in a modern way with balloons and paper cups. The venue team led
by Ms. Siji Magin and Mr. Aswin K had Mr. Akshay Soman, Ms. Sreesha, Ms. Rahna
and Ms. Shilpa as its dynamic members. The main attraction in the venue was the
tyre with Hot Sulaimani written on it. There was a feedback bell at the
festival hall which could be rung by the food lovers if they were satisfied
with the food at the fest.
The guest relation was dealt by Ms. Drishya and the event
coordinator himself.
The crowd management done by Mr. Akshay T.V. was able to
equally divide the crowd among the different stalls.
The anchoring done by Ms. Adhila and Ms. Prajitha won
accolades from the students as well as the trainers.
The games section was made eye catching by Ms. Amritha and
team with different games as cup pyramid and catch the ball with cup. The
winners of the game were awarded with two food coupons.
The media and publicity wing was handled by Mr. Muhammad
Ajmal and he took awesome snaps of the fest.
The
entertainment wing by Mr. Dileep and Mr. Ajmal unveiled a music video
exclusively for the fest. The fest was accompanied by the tunes of ghazal and
qawwalis.
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