I Am Going To Manchester!

June 16th, 2008

remember this post where i had to collect 200 comments for that trip to London? i won my prize fair and square, so Martian and i were making plans to go to London next month, our last holiday before i leave for Columbia and all that… but due to unforeseen circumstances, the trip is no longer on. i am sad and pouty, but ultimately mature enough to understand. *takes deep breath*

London wouldn’t be the same without Martian anyway.

but it’s not London i will be going to :D

i’m going to …. MANCHESTER!!! or to be precise, i’m going to OLD TRAFFORD!!!

so here’s the story. i was recently asked to head a team of 5 bloggers for a contest-within-a-contest, in which the goal is to come up with a game plan that will win the bigger contest for sure. both contests are organized by Mister Potato, and the grand prize is an all-expenses paid trip for 30 winners to Manchester, England to visit Old Trafford.

to be one of the 30 winners of this contest and that free trip to Manchester, what you have to do is collect the seals or empty packets of the Mister Potato limited edition packs of potato chips, clip them all together and send them off to the headquarters. 3 points for each red canister seal, 2 points for the bigger packet and 1 point for the smaller packet. 30 winners with the highest points at the end of the contest duration will win the trip to Manchester and mucho bragging rights!

i was teamed up with 5 bloggers for this contest, and together we had to figure out the mother of all game plans (though not necessarily execute it), in order to theoretically collect as many Mister Potato seals/packs as possible and win free tickets to Manchester for the whole team!


bryan made this picture. hahaha isn’t it so cute. and i dont know who this player is, but he’s cute too!

my teammates are :
:: Justina, the creative and quick-thinking fashionista

:: Clare, the voice of reason in our team

:: Mr Badak, the intelligent Manchester United fan who whipped up an awesome forum for us to hold our project discussions

:: Bryan, the fun, cheeky and funny guy that every team needs

:: Pinky, a super cute girl whose bubbly personality glues the team together!

we totally lucked out because we got sorted into the best team ever :) everyone’s cool, punctual, hardworking and smart; there was absolutely no unnecessary team drama and bossy or lazy teammates in Team B.U.M.P! yes that’s us. (B)loggers (U)nited for (M)ister (P)otato! :D

and our gameplan to beat all gameplans? it’s called OPS Kentang. HAHAHA i’m getting excited just saying the name!

the basic idea is this: we’re going to lobby for Mister Potato to sponsor potato chips for our police force, just like how the cops in the United States are sponsored free donuts for life. yes now you know how that cops & donuts stereotype came about :P we are proposing that Mister Potato be known as THE snack food for our Polis Diraja Malaysia. that would in turn make our cops happy, because potato chips make ANYONE happy and if they come in endless supply that’s even better, cos yknow, it’s never possible to eat just ONE potato chip.

and when the estimated 54,405 cops all over our country finish off their packs of Mister Potato chips, guess which team is going to be collecting all the empty packets and canister seals to help them win a certain Mister Potato competition? :P our team did the math, and if every cop in the country is entitled to a sponsorship of 10 packets and 5 tubes of Mister Potato chips in a month, that’s 544,050 empty packets and 272,025 seals for Team B.U.M.P to collect every month. HAHAHA! IS THIS A MONSTER-SIZED PROJECT OR WHAT.

now the challenge for us as a team is first of all - convincing the Mister Potato brand that this sponsorship is a great idea, and secondly - the logistical nightmare of collecting all the empty packets and seals from the 837 police stations all over Malaysia.

Justina, our Chief Operations Officer, and I, our Chief Communications Officer (i do love our lofty titles!) will deal with the first challenge of pitching this sponsorship idea. when the proposal goes through, we are then to make sure our working relationship with the brand is smooth at all times. you can read Justina’s blog here for an abridged version of the proposal for Mister Potato and the reasons why they should fall in love with our idea ;)

our 4 Regional Managers are given the task of working out a system to collect the empty packets and seals throughout the entire country and executing it to well-oiled perfection. another reason why we are the dream team - all of our geographical locations just fit together perfectly. Pinky who hails from Penang is in charge of all Northern Peninsula collection points, Bryan from PJ will be overseeing the Southern Peninsula, Mr Badak from Kota Kinabalu in Sabah is responsible for Sabah’s collection points, and finally Clare from Sarawak has her work cut out for her because she’s in charge of the biggest state in our country!

but how are they as individuals going to cover the collection for such huge areas, and in the case of Pinky and Bryan, covering several states? each of them have come up with their own individualized plan of action. click on their blogs to find out what they are :) strokes of genius, i assure you.

at the start of my blog post, i said i would be going to Manchester. well that’s just me being silly :) we’re not REALLY going for sure because we haven’t even won the contest yet. but i really hope that we do, because our game plan is so awesome, and Bryan and Mr Badak who are Man Utd fans would absolutely love the Old Trafford experience… while the rest of us girls can do our shopping. hehe!


you can bribe this cop with potato chips any day :P

so what do you guys think? just from reading about our gameplan, do you think we have a chance of winning this? be honestttt!!! *shifty eyes*

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