Over The Rainbow

The End Of The Road

2011-12-31T04:21:00.000-08:00

Space U8 : RM 150
Plaza Mont Kiara : RM 227
Amcorp Mall : RM 410
Solaris Dutamas : RM 310
Deliveries - 2 cakes : RM 110
-100 creampuffs : RM 153

Outcome : RM 1360

Outcome (RM 1360) - Seed funding (RM 250) - 9% collection (RM150) = Profit

PROFIT : RM 960

*The money collected will be given to the Cervival Cancer Fund for unprivileged teenage girls.

Wrapping It Up

2011-12-31T04:08:00.000-08:00

Vas happenin’! This would be a look through of what had happened during the last few days of our business venture – Plaza Mont Kiara, Amcorp Mall and Solaris Dutamas.

Plaza Mont Kiara (Outcome – RM 227)

06/12/2011

There’s a flea market every Thursday. There were lots of offices there. We were targeting on working people. Well.. or adults, you may call it. We changed our “menu” that day. Instead of selling cake pops, we baked cookies and cream puffs (its less complicated). Of course, our rainbow cake too. There were 3 different varieties that day – cookies, cream puffs and rainbow cake. Wow.. Plaza Mont Kiara would have to be the hardest one ever! We faced so many rejections. To be honest, we thought everyone was going to donate. So, we went with A VERY CONFIDENT FEELING that everything will go on well but it didn’t. We weren’t expecting someone would say “no” when we asked whether they would donate money for cancer. Its ridiculous really! We were on the verge of giving up because we have NEVER faced THAT MANY rejections within a day. It was certainly unexpected. Luckily, one vendor was nice enough to allow us to share her both at the flea market. We call her “Aunty Queenie”. She sells all sorts of kuih-muih. She’s the nicest person we met during our whole “business venture”. If it wasn’t because of her, we wouldn’t have known what else to do. We still had a couple more cream puffs and cookies. Our goal was to finish it all. So, towards the end we walked around the flea market and it actually worked! All our cream puffs and cookies were eventually sold that day. Surprisingly, we only managed to sell a few pieces of rainbow cake. We were expecting the rainbow cake to be a bestseller. I guess old/working people don’t like rainbow cakes.

Amcorp Mall (Outcome RM410)

10/12/2011

The flea market started from 9am to 6pm. Amcorp Mall would have to be our favorite location. Everyone was supportive. Everything was easy. It was a breeze for us. Alhamdulillah. During this day, we only sold two things - creampuffs and rainbow cake. we decided we keep it simple. There were about 200 creampuffs and 1 rainbow cake (to be on the safe side, we only baked one). We managed to sell EVERYTHING! We were so grateful, glad and happy all at the same time. It was nice knowing that there are actually a number of people that are willing to help.

Solaris Dutamas (Outcome - RM 310)

13/12/2011

This was our last flea market that we went to. It's under the same organisation as Amcorp Mall's and it was free (YAY!). The location wasn't ideal. It was pretty dead. It was also raining cats and dogs, but we had to make a good use of it. It was our final day of selling. We were selling the same thing like what we sold at Amcorp Mall. We had 100 creampuffs and 1 rainbow cake. It wasn't selling well. So, towards the end we decided to split up and walk around the mall and sell everything. Alhamdulillah, we managed. We were satisfied that things went our way although it looked like it wouldn't that day.

So, that was that. Afterwards, some called us and ordered our rainbow cakes and creampuffs. We delivered it to them and managed to collect RM263. We've completed our business venture! Sorry it took us forever to update this blog. I (Sarah) have been away on a holiday with the family since the 16th of December. So, it was hard to get on the computer. But nevertheless, we managed to communicate. Fitrah and Shafiqah updated me about what was happening through text and facebook. It was my job to update this blog and theirs to plan everything while I was away.

Almost There

2011-12-29T17:08:00.000-08:00

Hello. Its been long since we've updated. Yes, we know and its the end of December already. Yes, we know. I've been away on a holiday with the family since the 16th of December. Which means, Shafiqah and Fitrah have been taking over and planning and organizing our venture. Alhamdulillah, we have completed our task. Will post up pictures and blog about what has happened tomorrow. Hang in there! xx

Getting Up On Our Feet

2011-12-05T08:31:00.000-08:00

Today is Monday a.k.a our day off. So, there's nothing much going on today. Anyway.. As you may know, we found on Thursday that our request for a spot at Subang Parade has been rejected. Because of that, we had to make some changes. Let's go through what has happened the past 3 days :

Thursday

called a couple of malls and flea markets
did our tie-dye t shirts

Friday

went out to buy the ingredients and decorations (we shopped within our budget)
did our board and other decorations
baked 60 cake pops and 2 rainbow cakes (to test/see how it will turn out)

Saturday

Shafiqah's dad said that his company is organizing an indoor sports event at Space U8 Mall, so he said he could help us out to find a spot to sell our baked goodies. AND HE DID! It was last minute, but we still had the cake pops and rainbow cakes we baked the other night and decided to sell those on Sunday. Space U8 Mall was just a one day thing. We would have to find another place to sell the coming weeks.That was fine with us.

Sunday

Sunday's sells went well. Our rainbow cake was a best seller. People said the liked it. Our cake pops weren't bad either, but we didn't manage to sell out our cake pops. There were about 20 left (out of 60). Our outcome that day was about RM200. We were happy and satisfied with how good things worked out on Sunday. It was last minute and we had a few bumps along the way, but we still could manage it. Alhamdulillah.

First Day Of Selling

2011-12-03T14:58:00.000-08:00

Sorry we didn't update yesterday. We had to get ready and bake for today's flea market. Yes, we got a spot! We got one at Space U8 Mall, Bukit Jelutong. Its only for today though. But still, better that than nothing. Click the link below to know more about the mall. This is just a short and simple post. Will update more about our progress today after we get back.

http://www.propwall.my/bukit_jelutong/space_u8

BREAKING NEWS!

2011-12-02T09:34:00.000-08:00

The headline for tomorrow's newspaper.. "TEAM FOURIAN'S OVEN AND ELECTRONIC MIXER BROKE DOWN!"

We were having fun - goofing around while baking. Then.. BAM! Our electronic mixer broke down on us. Yes, we freaked out a bit but we still had an alternative plan - which was to whisk and beat by hand. It was hard and tiring but it was our only option. Then all of a sudden.. BAM! BAM! Our oven broke down on us afterwards. This time we freaked out like crazy! LOL no, we didn't freak out like crazy (we were just a bit pissed off).We still had another oven but 2 seemed easier because it would save us so much time. Although we had to go through some difficulties, we still figured things out and found a solution. Today, we managed to bake around 60 cake pops and 2 rainbow cakes. We also did our tie dye t shirts and we love how it turned out! Pictures will be posted tomorrow.

Back On Track

2011-12-02T02:41:00.000-08:00

Hello! Guess who's back? TEAM FOURIAN! Sorry about not updating for quite some time. We were away on a holiday with our family. After fun fun fun, now its business time. So.. Yesterday, we got a call from Subang Parade saying that our request on a spot at their flea market has been rejected, due to reasons. Now, we're searching for other locations. We found 4 so far and we will be calling them today. We're finding the positive things in the negative things. One thing may have not gone our way, but it doesn't mean we have failed. In every business venture, there will be challenges and we just faced one of ours. (but that's alright). Our goal for today is to finish baking our rainbow cake, cake pops and tie dye t shirts. Oh, and did I tell you that we'll be wearing a tie dye t shirt we made ourselves? Yes, we are! We'll be wearing them while we're selling our baking goodies. Well, that's all for now. Off to bake!

Baby Steps

2011-11-18T07:51:00.000-08:00

We made our facebook group and twitter account today. We're not sure if twitter is compulsory, but we still created an account anyway. Sorry today's post isn't much. It took us the whole day to figure out how to make a facebook group. Who knew it could be that hard?

Facebook group - http://www.facebook.com/groups/297792626908216/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/#!/Fourian

You can check out both facebook and twitter for updates. Our team is still in the midst of planning, but we're trying our best to finish all the planning by this week. Once everything has been confirmed, it will be posted on our blog, twitter and facebook.

Our Idea Is...

2011-11-17T07:31:00.000-08:00

What is the problem?

Cervical cancer

the second most common cause of cancer deaths amongst Malaysian women and in the Asia Pacific region.
worldwide, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women over 15 years of age.
raising money for HPV vaccination for the less fortunate

"prevention is better than cure"

What is your solution?

By selling rainbow cakes and cake pops baked by us with lots of love ("WOW" factor)

rainbow cake

cake pops

Location?

Subang Parade, Subang jaya

Desired Outcome?

RM 2,400

How much capital needed?

RM 250

How/Where to get capital?

seed funding
sponsor for location

Organization Structure?

Leader/Coordinator - Sarah Shazwani
Finance Manager - Nurshafiqah
Marketing Manager - Fitrah Hanim

Team Fourian with mentor, Hanan Khairil Anwar