Actual Day of Field Survey Day 1 to 3

Day 1
Objective:

· Start with the public survey
· Show Matt Bennett (organizer) our public survey to let him approve it

Field Survey experience:
There seemed to be a little communication breakdown between the organizers themselves as one of the organizer do not want us to go into the event and conduct our survey as they were afraid that we might be a nuisance since there is another group of people there conducting their own survey too. Fortunately we managed to resolved it later and able to enter the event and conduct our own survey. I was a little nervous but excited as I love talking to people knowing that we had to begin to do our survey. Doing the survey at Singapore Beer Festival was amazing quite an easy task for me (nevertheless very tiring since I came down from school) as the people were very friendly and very willing to share. It may be due to the fact that most people there which I have interviewed are Caucasians and I must say that they are more willing to share and will not shun away like majority of the Singaporeans will do upon hearing the word ‘survey’. I am really grateful for that!

There are mainly 3 things which I have learnt from doing this field survey:

· Smile – it immediately makes people feel better and will be more open to you and I must say smiling always make people feel better and it always work and it makes yourself feel better too.
· Be interested and chat with people – everyone enjoys talking to people who listens, if I had just shown people that I am just talking to them just for the sake of completing this survey, no one will really be interested to share with me. I tried asking them casually about how was their day and have a small chat with them. I am surprised with how much more feedback they give me after chatting for awhile and also knowing that I am interested to get their feedback and opinion on how the next Singapore Beer Festival could be better. This is not the time to be shy and it just gets better one after another!
· Perseverance – after about 2 hours of running around and talking to people non-stop, I have to say that we were really exhausted but since I know we haven’t got enough surveys, I told myself that I cannot give up yet and other members were trying their best.





Day 2
Objective:
· Complete the sponsors interview

Field survey details:
· Dennis, Ally and I joined Kenneth and Rayson after our UTs and when we reached there they have already done interview with 3 sponsors and we were impressed. They were fats and efficient! We had a really hard time looking for Mr. David Lim from FHM and in the end we still did not get to talk to him. We stayed till really late and I was really exhausted and took cab home after that.

Day 3
Objective:
· Came back to do interview with AMEX

Field survey details:
· We were really relieved that the representative form AMEX was friendly and was easy to find. It is a milestone marked as all the sponsors interview are completed!