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Industrial Training at Fororo Trading (UMKEI)

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Represented by: Ang Chiet Sze (A13A 1411) Faculty: UMK Faculty Hospitality, Tourism and Wellness

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Borang C (Penilaian prestasi pelajar oleh penyelia LI)

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Borang C (Penilaian prestasi pelajar oleh penyelia LI)

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Borang Semakan Penyelia Latihan Industri

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Borang Semakan Penyelia Latihan Industri

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Today we ask our worker no need to come for work because we had rent car for delivery onigiri to Natural Vegetarian Food Shop and Kebun Sultan Food Court. Besides that, we rent car to SSM and LHDN.

After done making onigiri, we delivery to this two places. Then we go to SSM for the process of withdrawal of one of our partner Tan Hwee Fen. Thanks god that we are able to keep using the name we registered for our partnership Fororo Trading without changing name or dissolve the partnership.
We are so worried that we will be forced to change the company name or dissolve the partnership.

After wait for around 2 hours at there, we finally get our new cert of partnership. After that, we go to LHDN for the stamp proceeds of our partnership agreement. The partnership agreement is to avoid the withdraw partner use the name of Fororo, establish a onigiri business in the short time or disclose the recipe of our onigiri.

This is me stirring the rice to make it cooler.

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Today we wake up as usual and prepared to work. After we done our preparation, our worker calls us urgently and tell us that her motor tires puncture. So she is not able to come for work and help us delivery to our distributors. So we force to close one day due to this reason.

This is me putting the rice into mold.

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Today, we finally able to launch our new flavour Vegetarian Sambal Onigiri to our customers. As usual, we wake up at 5am and start to work in the early morning. We make 5 Wonderful Onigiri, 5 Burger Onigiri and 10 new flavour Vegetarian Sambal Onigiri.

Onigiri with meat such as Wonderful Crab Onigiri and Burger Onigiri is for Kebun Sultan Food Court while Vegetarian Sambal Onigiri was delivery to Natural Vegetarian Food. The owner of Natural Vegetarian Food will bring the onigiri to USM canteen sell at his stall. We sincerely hope that USM students will love this new flavour onigiri.

This is me stirring the crab stick and mayonnaise.

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Yesterday afternoon our worker finally reply our message and explains to us why she never come to work without an explanation yesterday. She is sick. She is diarrhea and vomit since yesterday midnight. So she ask for one more day rest. So we have to close on today too because we do not have anyone help us delivery to our distributors.

This is me delivery onigiri to Kebun Sultan Food Court.

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After one day of rest, today we started to work at 530am. We make Vegetarian Sambal Onigiri today. We plan to launch this new flavour today.

After we cook the Vegetarian Sambal and cook rice, we wrap 3 pieces of onigiri to taste by ourselves. It taste too spicy as breakfast in the early morning. So we add cucumber in it. It become neutral with some fresh vegetables in it. We started to worried because we do not heard any news from our worker. She never pick up our phone calls or reply our messages. When the time turns to 8 morning, we know that we are not in time to delivery onigiri to our distributors. So we force to clean everything and start to prepared for go home. Today have to consider as lost.

This is my worker fetching me to delivery to our distributors early in the morning.

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Today is the first day we make onigiri and ask our Malay worker Shahira delivery to Natural Vegetarian Food and Kebun Sultan Food Court. We make 15 Corn Corn Onigiri, 5 Wonderful Crab Onigiri and 5 Burger Onigiri. We wake up at 5am and started to prepared for making onigiri such as cook the fillings and cook rice at 530am. We make this in the dark because Gary Cafe do not provide any light for us even we ask so.

After done making onigiri, me and my partners started to make Vegetarian Sambal again. We improve the recipe and add our own recipe in it. It taste more spicy compared with yesterday. So we add sugar in it. It taste better and delicious with a bit spicy, salty and sweet. We very confident that vegetarian consumers will love this new flavour !

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Yesterday, we successfully deal with the Kebun Sultan Food Court cakes hawkers by giving commission of up to 15 percent. The vegetarian food owner of USM stall and Natural Vegetarian Food Shop interest to take our onigiri only if we make vegetarian onigiri. So we decide to continue come out our Corn Corn Onigiri by using Vegetarian Natural Butter to make it.

Besides that, yesterday when we go to Natural Vegetarian Food Shop deal with the owner, the owner teach us to make Vegetarian Sambal. We decide to try to make a new flavour which was Vegetarian Sambal and expand our target market to Vegetarian consumers. We had bought the materials needed to make Vegetarian Sambal when yesterday outing. So we follows the steps and refer the suggestions given by the owner of Natural Vegetarian Food.

This is me delivery onigiri to Natural Vegetarian Food Shop owner.

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Today we decided to close one day. This is because the people in UMK have been lesser. We have to find another way to replace the target market of UMK students, staffs and lecturers. So we rent car and go out find our new target market today.

The first destination of us is USM which located at Kota Bharu. We go to the USM canteen. There are 3 canteens of USM which are Murni Cafe, Harmoni Cafe and Nurani Cafe. We deal with the seller that we think is most suitable to put our onigiri and sell at there. The vegetarian stall owner interest on our onigiri and invite us to go to his shop to discuss further. After USM, we go to the Kebun Sultan Food Court and deal with the hawkers who sell Malaysian cakes.

This is me and one of my partner dealing with the owner of Natural Vegetarian Food located at Kota Bharu.

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Today we make onigiri and sell as usual. But besides that, we search supplier of Shoyu Sauce, Nori (seaweed) and wasabi for the coming semester.

We search local suppliers who sell the materials we want through google. After a detail view on their website, we email those supplier and also send enquiry form to their website. We ask that whether they sell Shoyu Sauce and wasabi in small packet and Nori for onigiri. After received their reply, we discuss with the suppliers in email. One of the supplier immediately call us back and talk with us. We very appreciate the attitude of this supplier who take immediate action and intend to discuss more efficiently and detail in phone call. We ask them to send a quotation about the price and quantity offer to us.

This is me helping my partner to clean the pepper seeds.

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This week is UMK International week while today is International Language Day. Japanese club had invite us to put our onigiri and sell at their booth inside DTK. We really grateful and thanks for the Japanese sensei provide us this opportunity to let us have one more opportunity to let more people know about our onigiri.

We make onigiri as usual today and put some of our onigiri at Japanese Club. They help us sell our onigiri so that we can sell our onigiri in front UMKEI and take care of our own kiosk like usual. At afternoon, the end of the International Language Day event, Japanese Club returns us the onigiri left and give  us the money earns today.

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After two days of rest, we open and operated today. Not only First year students, but second year students also started to go back home even there is still left one week only start study week. Only left some of the third year students who still have classes and presentation of Final Year Project 1 on this week haven go back home yet.

Even like this, we still manage to sell finish 80 onigiris today. This is because today is Sunday. Sunday have the most crowds inside campus instead of outside campus. But compare with last Sunday, the crowds has reduced quite many on today.

This is me testing the onion rings of Burger King for future purpose.

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Today is Thursday, most of the First Year students had go back home and start their holiday because they had finish their syllabus. They are no much people left, not spoken today is Thursday. But we still decide to open and make onigiri to the customers.

We only make little onigiri today. But we still have to stay and sell the onigiri until 5pm. It is exhausting. Many people doubting, including us doubting why we put away a nice air-cond environment, sitting in a office working but choose to sit under hot sun make and sell onigiri. But this is our choice so we have to execute the consequences of our choices and finish our intern. We are doubting but we never give up on this business. We reluctantly, wake up early than people, finish work later than people.

This is me, my partners and UMKEI staff

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Today is Wednesday so the Police Undergraduate Voluntary Corps (SUKSIS) have their practice and training on this morning. They come to have their breakfast at Gary Cafe after finish their training. Thanks to them, we sell almost half of our onigiri to them and those who have morning class. There are crowds inside campus and also at Gary Cafe. Luckily we manage to finish making onigiri early and able to sell to them.

We closed early a bit today because we manage to sell the onigiri quickly the onigiri today. Not only because of SUKSIS, but many of our customers choose to redeem their voucher on today so we able to sold out the onigiri early.

This is me selling onigiri in front UMKEI.

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Today many of the winners of Contest Snap and Win started to redeem onigiri from us using the voucher they won. Thankfully, because of them we manage to sell the onigiri left.

After work, I started to work for the marketing on the Contest Snap and Win. I decided to do a Top 3 Winners of the contest to promote and let more people know about the winners and this contest. With this, more people will be know about this contest and increase their intention on  joining this contest next time. I choose 3 participants who had the most creativity and most likes on their post as our top 3 winners and make it into a album so that people can view it easily.

This is the post of Top 3 Winners.

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Today start the Carnival celebrate 10 years of UMK for one week long. There are lots of event held in DTK which provide free foods and waters to UMK students. This had indirectly affect our business. Our sales drop however we still manage to sold out all the ongiri we made today.

On the other hand, the lucky winners from our Contest Snap and Win started to claim their voucher from us. But they do not redeem the voucher immediately but choose to keep it and redeem while they need. So we will make more onigiri for the rest of the days and save it for the redemption onigiri of our lucky winners.

This is my partners and our customers.

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Today is a special for Fororo Trading and also the participants of Contest Snap and Win. Besides operated and making onigiri as usual, we also announced the lucky winners of Contest Snap and Win.

After near to one week of waiting, we finally come out the result of winners. First we eliminate those participants who did not follow the rules. We had clarify the steps to join this contest so if the participants did not tag our Fororo Trading facebook page, forget to tag 5 of their friends, put photo of the onigiri they bought, hashtag us or write their precious comment on our onigiri will be eliminate from the contest.

Then, 10 winners with the most likes from their friends and family on that post will be our lucky winners. Winners can start claim the voucher from us start today.

This is my partner giving voucher to one of the lucky winner.

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Today we do our little experiment at home. We try to put egg mayo which often appear in Sandwich in our onigiri. But we have add our own recipe in it.

First we boil the eggs. After that we peeled the egg and crumble it. We mix it with mayonnaise. Then we add some soya sauce and black pepper powder for seasoning.

We put it in onigiri and wrap it. We try it but it is weird. It got a little spicy and salty with the taste of eggs. But it match together turns out not so good. So this flavor can be considered as fail. Maybe we will try to improve it in the future.

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Today we are not opening. But we did not spent our holiday wasting time on rest or entertainment. We decide to do little experiment on our new flavour. We already take fish floss and chicken floss from our supplier. So we will do a mix and match on floss.

First we try to match chicken floss with mayonnaise. But it turns out quite weird. So we try to mix fish floss with mayonnaise but it fails also. We compare the taste of chicken floss and fish floss itself. Chicken floss is more particles while fish floss is more powdery. Because fish floss itself already tasteful enough. It had a little bit spicy. So we decide to mix fish floss with rice. Surprisingly, it turns out very delicious.

This is me tied our new canopy and the canopy besides our stall using rope.

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Today is Wesak day. UMK take holiday for Wednesday and Thursday. We decide to operated as usual and see the response.

The response was very bad because there have no people come out from their room. Most of the second year students had already go back home. Some of the first year students had join trip and go to Kuala Lumpur. There are no people come to Gary Cafe.

Fortunately, we make a little onigiri only. There are few people come to Laman Siswa meeting or do assignment. Due to there are no stall operated around Gary Cafe, they bought onigiri from us. On the way our General manager go to hostel sell at there, she pass by the crowd who waiting for bus to go Kuala Lumpur. They bought a lots of onigiri from us so we are able to sold out all the onigiri we make today.

This is me putting chain locked up our canopy and the canopy and table of the stall beside us.

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This week is the program of Walawey UMK. UMK had held many food stalls inside hostel and also outside hostel. This has provide many choices to students, staffs and also lecturers to settle their meals. This also indirectly affect our business.

We make 100 pieces today but it left few pieces of onigiri. We do not sold out all the onigiri today. So the onigiri that do not sold out have to consider as lost.

Today me and my partners have accept an interview from junior. They are third year students. The interview is about the issue and challenge that we faced in our business. After the question, they also provide us suggestions based on the issues and challenges that we faced. It is a special and totally new experience for us because we used to interview other owners of company for our assignment but never received any interview before.

This is the photo taken in the middle of the interview session going on.

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Today is the last day of Contest Snap and Win. So far the response was quite good. The participants did not reach 10 people yet. But we looking forward for today that the last day will bring more people to join our contest.

I brought a whiteboard to our kiosk today. After done making onigiri, i write the words at white board to announce and inform people that today is the last day of our contest. This had attract many people stop by and ask about the contest. Buyers of onigiri also ask about the contest. But many of them already knew this ongoing contest but they do not intend to join due to busy on assignment. Many of them straightaway eat the onigiri they bought after they bought it. So there is too late for them to capture photo of onigiri. This had really match our Grab and Go concept.

This is me tied our canopy together with the iron bracket.

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Today, inside DTK had held an event. When there are any activity, event or program that held inside campus involve food such as give free food or selling variety of food, this always affect our business indirectly. We started to think a new strategy to solve this problem.

We sell onigiri which is a Japanese food. Many people do not consider to buy our onigiri because the fillings is inside the onigiri which they could not see it. But they accept sushi. Got customers suggest us to do hand roll sushi because the fillings is on the top of the rice so they are able to see the fillings. They afraid that the fillings we use is raw food.

We think that it is a good idea to expand one more product line of our Fororo Trading. Material to use in handroll sushi is similar with onigiri so we do not have to purchase more material and spend more cost but able to expand the variety of our product.

This is me and my partners.

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Today we go to purchase a new canopy due to the old canopy bought one month ago had stolen. Me and my partners rent car and depart on the early morning.

We straightaway go to the shop specially sell canopy and equipment use for a kiosk or shop. We buy the new canopy with the price RM 180. This time, we extra buy an most thickest iron chain and a lock. We plan to lock up our canopy together with our table and the table and canopy of our next stall.

After that, we go back to our kiosk and build up the canopy. We do it by our own with only 3 of us. It is quite hard for us because the first time we build up the canopy was with the help of Gary Cafe workers. We have to learn how to build up and we do not have enough strength to build it so it is very hard for us.

Last, we go to Pantai Timur Hypermarket and Tesco Mall for replenishment our material.

This is me setting up the new canopy with my partners.

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Today i start to design our cash voucher at home. I have to do 2 sides of cash voucher. One is the front which state company name and the value of cash voucher with design. While another side is the terms and conditions of our cash voucher. This is what i learn from the cash voucher of other big companies.

I design the front side with cute onigiri that i search from internet. I match the colours of the background until i am satisfied by using Canva apps. After that, I refer terms and conditions that usually use in a cash voucher. I also add some terms that need in our cash voucher. I put QR code of Fororo Trading Facebook page and also our contact way on the backside of cash voucher.

This is the front side of cash voucher made by me.

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Today after work, i continue edit the video that i have done until half yesterday night. I arrange the photos and post it at Fororo Trading Facebook page by using slide show technique.

After that, i start to design the voucher of our contest. The cash voucher worth RM 5. Customers with the most likes on the photos that they join the contest will get the cash voucher. There are 10 lucky persons have the opportunity to get the cash voucher.

I search and save the photos that can use it in the voucher. After that i search for many examples of cash voucher from internet. I also search the example of cash voucher from big company such as KFC, Mcd, Domino and Pizza hut as reference.

This is the cash voucher that i am doing.

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Today we work as usual under big sun without canopy. After finish work, i do the video at home. I decide to do a video about the steps to join the contest to let people more understand about the contest.

There are few steps to join the contest. But missed any one of this step will be unqualified to join this contest even u have does other steps. I make this video to avoid the participants do wrong on any steps. By watching video that had demonstrate the step will be more clear.

I have to do every step in order to join the contest and screenshot every step that i have to do. After that edit it with instructions inside the photos.

This is the video that i have made.

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Today we work as usual but not so usual because our canopy still haven't come back and we do not have time to buy it because we have to operated the business as usual.

Besides operated and make onigiri, our Snap and Win contest start on today. We post the copywriting together with the poster we had design last day at our Fororo Trading Facebook page and also at UMK Facebook page.

Other than post the contest at social media to inform our customers about the contest, we also inform every customers that bought onigiri from us. We also use mouth to mouth strategy to viral this news.

This is the posting of our contest at Fororo Trading Facebook page.

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Today after work under big sun, me and my partners draft the copywriting of contest. Yes, we decide to held a contest to attract more people and increase our publicity. The purpose of our contest was to increase the popularity of Fororo Trading Facebook page. The name of our contest was Snap and Win contest! We edit the copywriting many times and finally come out the final version.

I design the poster of our contest. A poster of a contest was very important. I search photo that can use and save it. After that, i use Canva apps to design the poster. I design the poster with very cute onigiri. I put sharp colour as the background of our contest poster so that able to catch people's eye immediately. I edit it many time until i am satisfied.

This is the poster of our contest design by me.

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Today our mood still very bad since yesterday the canopy was missing. But we cheer up and decide to operated as usual because we do not want our customers disappointed that we are not operate.

When we start cooking it is early morning so the weather and temperature still okay. But around 8 morning, the sun come out. We move our table inside Gary shop and start making onigiri at there. We force to serve our customers under the big sun. It was like standing on a stove. When there was no customers, we sit at the next kiosk. Luckily the next kiosk do not operated this week. We sweat a lot until our clothes was wet, like sitting inside a sauna. We drink a lot of water to prevent ourselves heat stroke or faint. We have to be like this for the rest of the day until we buy a new canopy on Saturday.

This is my workers promoting onigiri inside campus.

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We recalculate the latest amount of onigiri that we need to sell in order to achieve break even before this semester end. We adjust the target of onigiri that we need to produce every day so that we can achieve breakeven as soon as possible.

Today we had do 3 different flavour of onigiri. We have 2 standpoint today, one at our own kiosk, one inside UMK campus. We wake up at early morning and start prepared and working at 630am. We do so so that we can start making onigiri before 8am. We can get more customers or even catch up the crowds such as students that want to attend 8am class, staffs and lecturers who come to work.

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After one day of rest, we plan to do experiment at our kiosk. But when we arrived our kiosk, bad thing happens. We are so shocked! Our canopy was missing! We know that someone had stole our canopy. We quickly check is there any other things missing. We found out that our banner that tied together with our canopy was missing too! Plastic bag that hang at the iron branch was missing too. The theft not only steal our canopy but take away the whole canopy together with everything on it. Luckily there was no other expensive property was missing such as our gas bucket, flat pot and stove.

We immediately called the owner, Gary come. He do not notice our canopy was missing yesterday night when his shop was operated. We noticed from his instagram that in the video which was night our canopy already missing. So we speculate that our canopy was stole at the time maybe Thursday midnight, Friday morning or afternoon. We deal with him, he let us to cook inside his shop temporary while our canopy still missing.

This is the photo of kiosk with our missing canopy and banner.

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Today we work as usual. We come out less quantity due to today is Thursday. Although we produce less quantity but we come out total of 4 flavour of onigiri which are Thai Curry Fish Onigiri, Wonderful Crab Onigiri, Burger Onigiri, and Tuna Bilis Onigiri.

Today the sales was very bad. This is because the morning market and also the young entrepreneurial week had attract many lecturers, staffs and also students buy their food. There were less class on Thursday so less people come to campus to attend class.

We sell until 6pm to sold out all the onigiri. All of us are very tired. After come back home, we have to write the log book for our intern activity. We decide rest tomorrow because tomorrow have no class so there will only have few people come to campus.

This is me cleaning the ikan bilis by throw away the head and also the inside

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Today we make more than 80 pieces of onigiri and we able to sold out all the onigiri at 130pm. It is a very good result because now there are around 54 booth open in UMK hostel and most of them selling food during this 4 days young entrepreneurial week of first year students. All of them are our competitors. So we are very happy that we able to sold out all the onigiri earlier today.

After finish work, we check our material. We check the balance of our material everyday after work. We noticed that we are run out of filament crab stick. We are not able to come out Wonderful Crab Onigiri tomorrow if we do not do replenishment on our crab stick. So we went to Pantai Timur Mall for replenishment and prepared for tomorrow.

This is me putting the rice in the mold.

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Today after work, me and my partners do the experiment on the onion ring again due to last time fail to do it.

First, we try to do the original flavour. We cook salt solution and pickled the onion ring for like 15 minutes. But after fried it, the onion ring was so salty. So we just dip a little salt solution. It turns out just so good. It got a little salty but do not lost the original onion taste and not too salty.

Afterwards, we make spicy curry onion ring. It turns out successful but we think that it was too spicy. We were still wonder that it do not accept by most of the customers.

Overall, our onion ring experiment was quite successful. But we will try to make our own recipe of chilli sauce next time.

This is my partner and one of the UMK lecturer.

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Today is public holiday, but Fororo Trading still operated. This is because we know that many restaurant did not open on today. So we want to provide students another choice to eat our onigiri instead of cook instant mee.

We do not cook much for today but  more than 50 pieces. We set 3 standpoint, which were our kiosk, inside campus in front UMKEI and also the front gate of UMK hostel at Pengkalan Chepa. We do like this because we want to provide convenience for students. They can buy our onigiri easily when they pass by and no need to go far away to buy food or have to purposely go to our kiosk to buy our onigiri.

We able to sell finish all the quantity we make today. After work, we go Pantai Timur Mall for replenishment.

This is me wrapping the rice and fillings at seaweed packaging.

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Today after work, me and my partners do our introduction card at home. The purpose of introduction card was for simplify and easier the customers to understand the material in every type of onigiri we make. We plan to show customers this introduction card when we introduced the new flavour or when we meet customers that haven't try our onigiri yet. With photo in introduction card, customers will be more easy to understand what is onigiri and do not worry when they enjoy our food.

We find attracting photo for every material in our onigiri. After that we design the pattern we want in the introduction card. We design few times to make sure that it is attracting and also easy to understand.

This is one of the example of our reading card.

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Last time we had do the experiment for our onion ring. The experiment do not went well because it was too salty. We pickled the onion with black pepper powder and also salt but it come out some very salty some are not. So we decide to try another way, which was pickled the onion with salt solution.

We went to Pantai Timur Mall to purchase the material for onion ring. We plan to add another flavour which was spicy curry instead of original flavour. After purchase the material, we straightaway go to our kiosk. But unfortunately, Gary cafe was close so we could not take our equipment from his storeroom. So we fail to do our experiment on onion ring on today.

This is the photo of the owner of Gary Cafe help us promote our onigiri at his Facebook and Instagram.

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Today is Thursday. Instead of having Thai Food Festival inside UMK hostel, but also have morning market. So we decide to reduce quantity of onigiri we make to avoid waste of material and cost.

We were very wonder that could not sell finish all the onigiri on today. But luckily, we have many regular customers and loyal customers support us who come to buy onigiri regularly. Some of them even bought food from morning market, but they still support our onigiri. Last time, we have a new idea which was Chicken Floss Onigiri. But we could not found Chicken Floss supplier who provide cheap price. Luckily, today when our General Manager sell onigiri at campus, a staff come to talk her. Through the conversation, the staff know that we are looking for Chicken Floss. She immediately say that she can recommend us a Chicken Floss supplier in Kelantan. We really appreciate for her help.

This is me stirring the egg with soy sauce and pepper powder.

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Today, we operated as usual and come out few types of onigiri for customers to choose.

The sales was not so good for today. This was because beside our kiosk finally come a new kiosk owner. This competitor who sell Roti Canai with the price RM 1 per piece for Roti Kosong. They give free Roti Canai on their first opening day. This had attract many students come to enjoy free Roti Canai instead of spend money buy our onigiri. We started to worried for the days after the Roti Canai officially operated. This is because their Roti Canai price for different type of flavour was far more cheaper than our onigiri. But we would not lost our hope or give up !

This is me teaching our customers how to open the packaging of onigiri.

This is my partner and one of the UMK staff customer.

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We had contact the owner of Chill'x  today. We did not come to a consensus so lastly we decide not to put our onigiri at Chill'x. This is because the owner of Chill'x want us to put our onigiri at there with the price lower than our original price. The owner want to attract customers come to Chill'x buy our onigiri. But we only can accept the owner draw a commission from every piece of onigiri that sell at there. If the price at Chill'x lower than the price we placed at our own kiosk, customers would not buy onigiri at our kiosk anymore. We feel bad that we have to give up this opportunity to put our onigiri at Chill'x but we do not regret with this decision.

This is my partner explaining onigiri to customers.

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Today, we launch our new flavour which we test yesterday. We named it as Thai Curry Fish onigiri. This name will let customers know inside the onigiri got fish and the sauce we use was Thai Curry.

The response was not so enthusiastic. We think that maybe it is because today was the first day of launching this new flavour. When we introduced this new flavour to customers, customers still tend to choose the onigiri that familiar to them or try before. But this new flavour still sold out. We put our hope on the next day.

This is me cooking filament crab stick.

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Today after work, we do our little experiment on our new flavour. We have a new idea which was Thai Curry flavour. We test the curry and match it with other materials to find the most suitable and delicious combination.

The Thai Curry was so delicious. It taste a little bit like tomyum which mix with curry. It got a little bit sour and spicy. We believe and confident that this flavour will very suitable for Malaysian especially adults like staffs and lecturers. Besides, in our Thai Curry contains of sardines fish.

We make the Thai Curry into onigiri. We put cucumber inside because it able to make the onigiri more delicious.

This is me and my partners

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There are around 8 kiosk at Gary cafe. We force to move our kiosk from kiosk number 7 to number 6 due to got people want to rent kiosk number 8 and 7. The owner of Gary cafe request us to move our kiosk in this 2 days. We decide to move our kiosk on today.

We had to move everything on our table to other place then close the table and canopy. After that, we move everything including our table, canopy and equipment to the next kiosk. We spend a lot of time on making our table balance because the floor is rugged.

After everything was done, we start to do our little experiment. We decide to sell snack which was quite popular among students. We want to sell onion ring which haven sell by anyone around the campus yet.

This is me, my partner and one of our loyal customer at Sri Kemumin hostel.

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Today we do not open kiosk because we have to make replenishment. We rent car and go to Tesco Mall. We bought 2 pack of 10kg white rice, 6 packs of cooking oil and other materials.

After that, we fetch everything inside kiosk UMK hostel and move everything to kiosk at Gary. This is because the contract of rental kiosk with UMKEI was end. So we have to empty everything in kiosk UMK hostel. First we fetch everything and put at kiosk Gary. After that we rearrange the things that we need and can use at kiosk Gary. We move things that we do not need to use yet back to our home.

After that, we do our little experiment at kiosk Gary. We try to do Nasi Tomota again together with our employees.

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Today we sell three flavour of onigiri just like yesterday. We have many idea to expand our business. We encounter the chief of UMKEI,  Prof Razli when we sell inside campus.

We proposed our idea which was put our onigiri at Sultan Ismail Petra airport. Prof Razli support our idea and proposed help us to deal with the chief of UMKBV. We also state our plan which is replace our onigiri to the sandwich or food at meeting of UMK and also event such as talk held by UMK or other party. He advance us to write a letter to all the registration office of UMK to deal with them. We appreciate and thanks for his suggestion and also help.

This is my partner giving samples to our potential customers.

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Today we make two flavour which was Wonderful Crab Onigiri and also Tuna Bilis Onigiri. We go inside campus and sell around. This is to provide convenience for students to buy and go without the need to go to our kiosk.

We wake up at 6 morning and start prepare at kiosk at 630 morning. We work almost 12 hours everyday which we have to work until 5 or 6pm only go back. This is because we have to make onigiri earlier for customers who buy our onigiri as breakfast. After finish selling we have to clean the kiosk, arrange the kiosk and close the kiosk. Before go back home, we have to make sure everything needs was prepare for tomorrow if not we have to go Pantai Timur Mall do replenishment.

This is me, my partners and UMK staffs at Sri Kemumin hostel.

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Today is the opening of our kiosk at Gary. We are quite hectic because the environment was new and we are not familiar on the things we place yet. We launch the new flavour we test before mid sem break started which was crab onigiri. The response was out of expectation. Customers love our crab onigiri ! They come back buy another one after bought the first crab onigiri. They give a high compliment on our crab onigiri.

Overall, the sales for our first opening day was very good. Just like our expected, the crowds pass by Gary was so many compared with our last kiosk inside UMK hostel. This make us more confident on our decision moving our kiosk to Gary.

This is our new kiosk at Gary Cafe.

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Today, we rent car and bought the material and also equipment needed for our new kiosk at Gary. We bought canopy, table, table cloth and other material and also equipment. It spend our half day looking for the material and equipment we want which we have to run for few places to get it such as shop at Kota Bharu area, Tesco Mall, KB Mall, Eco Shop and also Home-U.

After finish purchasing, we brought everything needed and drive few times to fetch the things we needed to put at kiosk Gary. After that, we set up the canopy and also arrange the layout of our kiosk. We put everything neatly and accordingly so that we can find our things quickly. We spend whole day on prepare for tomorrow opening.

This is my partners, worker and our loyal customers.

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We finally have an idea to explain further and easily to customers when they ask us what is onigiri and what was the material use in onigiri. Our General Manager suggest that we can make a info card which contain of the picture of material that we use in every type of onigiri and show it to customers every time they ask us or when we explain to them. We think that it was a good idea and we start to design it.

We decide to design a reading card just like the one for children studying alphabets. It contains of the picture of materials use in a onigiri in different card for different type of onigiri. We are very satisfied with our job.

This is our loyalty male customers.

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I spend almost half day on editing the poster that i draft. I edit it based on the suggestion of my partners. After get the advice from my partners and edit it for few times, we finally all satisfied with the poster. It spend us almost two days to create our poster. Poster is very important as it represent us and our product to customers without anyone explain from side.

Me and my partners was looking a easy way to explain further about the material we use in the onigiri. We are upset for this because every time customers that come to our kiosk first time were asked for the material we use in onigiri.

This is my partner and our super loyalty customer UMK lecturer who love Tuna Bilis Onigiri so much !

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Today we need to design poster for stick it around UMK area which including campus and also hostel. The purpose of the poster is to promote our onigiri and also our new kiosk at Gary. We want to use this poster to inform UMK students, staffs and also lecturers.

First, me as a marketing manager draw a draft of our poster. I spend whole day to design and also draw it. After that, I seek for the advice from my partners. My partners give me suggestion about where should edit and the place to change in order to make the poster become better.

This is my partners and our loyalty customers.

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The banner maker company finally reply us. He send us the draft he draw and colour. We do not satisfied with the type of writing and also the colour. We asked him to change the colour into bright colour to make the writing more visible. The we wait for his reply. We only have 3 times of chances to ask him edit it.

After received his reply, we still do not satisfied with his draft. The banner could not attract people eyes immediately and also unable to let people read through quickly and easily. So we ask him to change again.

This time, we finally satisfied with his draft. The background change to green colour which suitable for our onigiri image. The writing also become visible. We ask the banner maker proceed to print it and sent it to us as soon as possible. We hope that we able to received the banner before the kiosk at Gary open.

This is the reply from the banner maker company.

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We need to do a sticker about instruction step to open onigiri sticker for our packaging. So we plan to design it today. We do not need to find a new sticker maker because we plan to let our logo sticker maker make it.

First, we try to search for the best instruction step in english version from internet. Next, we find the most suitable and understanding picture of the instruction step to open onigiri. We make the instruction sticker in laptop. After that we send it to the sticker maker and wait for his reply.

After he reply us, we very satisfied with his job and ask him to proceed printing and send it to us in this week.

This is the final version of instructions sticker reply from the company.

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Fororo Trading kiosk at Gary need a banner to let people know that we are selling onigiri. We find a banner maker company from internet such as Facebook and also other sources. We deals with those banner makers patiently asked for the price they offer, chances to change the design, postage fee and also quantity. After looking for so much banner maker company, we finally found a banner maker that we satisfied.

First, me and my partners draw a draft that we want. After that we design it to make it more attractive. We redraw and discuss so many times to finally come out a final version of draft. We sent it to the banner maker company immediately and wait for their editing.

This is my partners, my workers and our loyalty customers.

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Today, General Manager, Operation Manager and me discuss marketing strategy for our onigiri. General Manager suggest do Facebook advertisement on Fororo Trading Facebook page to promote and increase the number of viewers.

First, we save all the photo that we have capture with customers, students, lecturers and staffs. Next, we create a copywriting for our advertisement. We edit it many times to make sure that the advertisement able to catch Facebook users eyes immediately. This is to make sure that very sen that we paid for each post engagement from Facebook users was worth it. After that, we post a posting with the photo we save and the copywriting we write. We do post engagement advertisement. We hope that we can let people know about our new kiosk at Gary before the mid semester break end.

This is me promoted Fororo Onigiri door to door of UMK Pengkalan Chepa female hostel.

This is my partner teaching our workers.

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Today we open as usual. UMK students start their mid semester break on tomorrow. So there are less and less people at hostel and campus now. So we have to close our kiosk earlier compared with usual and make a bit less of onigiri.

Unluckily the onigiri we make was hard to sell finish. This is because many first year students live in UMK hostel already go back their home. So me and our General Manager force to go inside UMK Campus to catch the crowds left who attend to lecture class. Luckily there are still people who come to campus. Our onigiri able to sell finish in the end.

This is me putting the kedondong juice inside blender.

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To combine every onigiri with Malaysian taste is hard. So we agree that sometimes we can come out with common onigiri fillings or onigiri with Japanese style.

Another idea come out from me which was crab onigiri. We named it as Wonderful Crab Onigiri. We named it this way because the rich fillings will make you feel wonderful. We bought the material after finish work. We bought mayonnaise and also crab stick. We cook the crab stick with boiling water and take it out. Mixed it with mayonnaise. The fillings of Wonderful Crab Onigiri has mayonnaise crab stick, cucumber and also fried egg. We feel that the taste of crab stick was less something. So we tried to fried the crab stick instead of cooked it. The taste become better and so delicious!

This is me writing our menu on whiteboard.

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Today when we working, a lecturer come to us. He suggest us to put our onigiri at Chillax. It is a good idea and we really appreciate for his suggestion.

After finish worked, we go to Chillax to survey the environment. The environment was very nice for meeting, discussion and eating. It was like a combination of restaurant, meeting room and library. It was suitable for us to put our onigiri at there. But we were thinking the cost which was the commission that we need to give the workers at Chillax. We also need to think about is there any crowds go to Chillax because the time we go to Chillax, there was no people there. So we have to do more survey and discuss with the owner of Chillax before put our onigiri at there.

This is me, my partner and our loyal customer.

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After finish work, me and my partners try to make Ayam Merah today. We follow the instruction we search and do it step by step.

First, we clean the chicken and the feathers. After that we fried the material set A. Next we blend the chilli sauce set B. We put the chicken and fried it with turmeric powder become gold colour. Last step was pour the blended chilli sauce in it and cooked it.

The scent of Ayam Merah come out. We tried it and it was out of our expectation. The Ayam Merah was so delicious. But we think that Ayam Merah that we cooked was different from outside. What we can say was not enough Ayam Merah. We have to improve next time.

This is me, my partner and our loyal customers.

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After finish work, me and my partners try to make Nasi Tomato today. We follow the instruction we search and do it step by step.

First, we have to fried all the material according sequence. After done fried it, we pour it into rice cooker and cook it. We wait it patiently and expectancy. When the rice cooker change to the warm signal, we open it with surprisingly.

The scent of Nasi Tomato come out. We tried it and it was out of our imagine. The tomato rice that we make was so delicious ! But we think that we need to add more salt because it was not enough salty. We will improve next time. We become more confidence with this new flavour.

This is me, my partner and customers who bought onigri and kedondong juice together.

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Today we work as usual. People said, "You were only appreciate after you lost something". It is truth because everyday we were very grateful to have electricity to use and able to cook at our kiosk.

After work, me and my partners rent car and go to Tesco Hypermarket purchase those material needed. We plan to do our little experiment tomorrow. We were not affort to make Nasi Tomato and Ayam Merah today due to after finish work and purchase material already late. We are so tired and need a good rest for tomorrow.

This is my partners and UMK lecturers.

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As an entrepreneur, we need to come out business idea from daily life or things surrounding us. If we did not come out new flavour from time to time, we will be eliminate from the market soon. To match with our theme which was combination of Malaysian taste in Japanese food. Our General Manager have a new idea which was Nasi Tomato with Ayam Merah fillings onigiri.

We feel so confident with this idea and plan to launch it on our opening day at kiosk Gary. We search the material needed and plan to rent car and purchase the material tomorrow after work.

This is me ladle out the kedondong fruit from container

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Today while working, we meet the lecturer again. She love our Tuna Bilis Onigiri so much. She came and buy 4 onigiri on the same time everyday since we launched our Tuna Bilis Onigiri flavour. Not only this, she also brought her colleagues and also her students come to our kiosk. We are so grateful and thankful to her support.

Today me and another 2 partners go to Gary and discuss with him about the equipment needed at there such as canopy and table. We are looking for those equipment but we do not have any sources who sell this kind of equipment. Gary recommend us the shop located at Kota Bharu who got sell the things we need. We also pick the kiosk we want and set the date we want to officially operated.

This is me, my partners and one of my worker.

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Yesterday after a long thought, me and another 2 partners wants to rent kiosk at Gary. We make this decision because 3 of us want this business become long term and become a career for us. We do not want to end this business after our intern finish. If we continue rent kiosk at UMKEI, our target customers will limit on first year students only. If we want crowds from different people, not only UMK lecturers, staffs and students but also people outside from UMK, we need to rent a kiosk at outside UMK campus or hostel area, such as at Gary cafe. After decided this, we immediately paid deposit to Gary.

Our Financial Manager insist to continue at UMKEI kiosk and end her position at Fororo Trading after intern finish, so we only can continue different path.

This is me helping my partner to cook Coke Chicken.

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After work, me and my partners go to Gary cafe find the owner and told him we cancel our plan to sell our onigiri at his cafe and refuse his invitation to rent kiosk at there. He persuade us to rent his kiosk by offering better offer to us. 3 of our partners including me were attracted by his offer. But our Financial Manager do not suggest and not agree to rent kiosk at Gary cafe due to the more than double rental fee at Gary compared with UMKEI kiosk. We have different opinions. We decided to discuss further afterwards.

At night, we received a good news which was UMKEI kiosk have repaired electricity and upgraded it. It means that we can cooked at our kiosk start from tomorrow !

This is how we look when we busy serving customers and cooking. I am counting the balance to customers.

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Today after work, me and my partners go to Gary cafe together. After we declaim our intention, Gary allow us to put our onigiri and sell at there under a condition which was draw a commission from every pieces of onigiri sell at his place. He also offer us to rent his kiosk at Gary cafe because now there are many kiosk empty.

After a whole day of thinking, me and my partners decide to reject the plan to sell the onigiri at Gary cafe because the cost was increased and the profit decrease due to the commission and worker cost.

This is our worker giving sample of kedondong juice to customers.

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There was still no electricity at UMKEI kiosk so we continue cook at kiosk Gary. After the observation of this few days cooked at kiosk Gary, me and my partners found that many UMK lecturers, staffs and students buy those sandwiches or Malaysia pastry placed at a long table in front Gary cafe. So we have the idea of putting our onigiri at there to sell it.

This idea was quite risked because onigiri was not well known among UMK lecturers and staffs. So we need someone stand at there and help us to explain and promote onigiri. But this will burden us because we have to employ another worker. We decide to deal with the owner of Gary cafe first tomorrow.

This is my partner explaining our combine Malaysia taste and Japanese onigiri to Japanese Sensei.

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Today the crowds pass by our kiosk was not as many as before maybe because it is Friday. So me and one of our partner decided to sell it inside campus. Our target group was those come to campus for meeting, discussion, do assignment, studying or revision. We go to table by table and ask each of them whether they are hungry and wish to buy onigiri.

We able to sold out all the onigiri make on today. It is a quite long week and all of us were very tired. So we are very excited and looking forward for the holiday.

This is my partners and our customers.

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Today we launched Fruity Tuna Onigiri. The fruity means green apple. We named it because we want customers immediately know that this new flavour was tuna combined with fruit and make them curious with this combination and feel want to know what is the fruit.

We successfully attract customers come to us and ask about this new favour. They feel surprised but also weird with this combination. So most of them tend to choose other onigiri that they were more familiar with such as Burger Onigiri. We feel quite sad but also more motivated to push this flavour to more people because we confident with this flavour !

This is my partner explaining onigiri to our customers.

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Today we launched Tuna Bilis Onigiri. We named it this way because it combined tuna with fried anchovies which in malay call ikan bilis. We hope that this name will let customers have the picture easily about the make from of this onigiri.

The first thought of customers was surprised on this combination but do not feel weird as fried anchovies often appear on Malaysia dishes such as Nasi Lemak. They were not refuse to try it. So in short, this combination was quite successful on our first launching of this new favour. We sincerely hope that there will more and more customers fall in love with this favour.

This is my partner explaining onigiri to UMK staffs.

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Today after work, after a small rest, me and my partners start to do our little experiment number two ! We were quite afraid and worry that green apple do not match with tuna. We also worry that people might feel weird and could not accept this combination easily. So we have to think a most suitable marketing strategy to promote and introduce it after launching this favour.

First we bought green apple and cut it into dices. After that we add green apple in each tuna to find the most matching combination. After a few try, on the fifth type of tuna we finally found the most matching combination! We were so excited with this result.

This is my partner promoting onigiri inside campus.

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Today after work, me and my partners do our little experiment at home. We will test tuna combined with fried anchovies. We mixed tuna with different type and find the one match the most. We clean and fried anchovies until crispy. The purpose to add anchovies in it was to add crispy taste and more delicious.

After we make it into onigiri and try it, me and my partners feel that it taste a bit quite dry. So we add on mayonnaise in it. After try it again, it taste much better and very delicious. The combination of tuna and fried anchovies was extraordinary match ! We were very confident that this favour will hit the market and bring a great mass fervor !

This is my partner, worker and UMK lecturers.

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Today still do not have electricity at UMKEI kiosk inside UMK hostel. So we still borrow kiosk and cook at Gary. I have an idea of new favour. There were quite many customers who come to us seek for tuna favour. So we decided to come out this favour to carter customers' taste.

We have to be creative and do innovation on our favour. To comply with our theme, we have an idea to combined Malaysia taste in this tuna favour.

The first idea was was add on fried anchovies in it. The second idea was to add more nutrient and freshness taste in tuna favour, we plant to add green apple in it to let the tuna onigiri more taste. We will start do our little experiment after work start from tomorrow.

This is my partner and our loyalty customers.

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Today we decide to make more onigiri to sell because we aim students who live at hostel Sri Kemumin. We have this action because our kiosk located inside hostel UMK Pengkalan Chepa. The main group of students live at there was first year student. We need to expand different year of our customers group. By selling at hostel Sri Kemumin, we were not only get to contact with third year student but also veterinary student who live at there.

We get a very enthusiastic response from students who live at there because some of them surprised with our combination taste of product and some of them feel curious with onigiri as they never try it before. We sell it at the corridor on the main entrance of hostel. But not all the students live at there know our products because just some of them pass by only able to see our product and many of them did not come down.

This is me, my partners and Miss Azlinda

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We operated just like yesterday. We conducted a interview session for our candidates. We interview them by using Whatsapp. We asked for their basic information and experience. Some of them have experience on promoting products because they work as promoter before whilst some of them do not have any experience and does not like to social or face people. We got few candidates who prefer on cooking but not promoting. We were more concern on their interest on selling onigiri and get commission. They have to be very impulsive and motivated on promoting our onigiri without any push from us. It is about their hardworking.

After a discussion with my partners, we do not confirm them yet as we haven't found the satisfied and the best worker in our heart. We insist on finding the one we want !

This is my partner and our loyalty customers.

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Today we open kiosk and operated by borrowing Chapati's kiosk as usual. Although Corn Corn Onigiri was not get enthusiasm response from customers, but we put a faith on this new favour so we insist on launched Corn Corn Onigiri. We think that customers does not accept this favour easily because they feel that onigiri combined with corn kernels very weird. But we believed that once they try it, they will fall in love with it. So the main problem now is how to let people out of their first step ti try our Corn Corn Onigiri.

Me, as a marketing manager, discuss with partners and a long thought about how to improve this situation. At last, me and one partner go into campus and give free sample of Corn Corn Onigiri to our potential customers. We sincerely hope that after they try it they will return and buy it afterwards.

This is my partner giving samples to students inside campus.

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As usual, we borrow Chapati's kiosk to cook and make Burger Onigiri at our own kiosk. Besides Burger Onigiri,we launch the new flavour on today, which was Corn Corn Onigiri. We don't know why but mostly our customers insist on buying Burger Onigiri and refuse to try this new flavour. Our Corn Corn Onigiri sold out very hard. But we put our hope on tomorrow and wish that tomorrow will be better.

As I mentioned on the earlier post, we post the vacancy copywriting on UMK Facebook page. The response was not enthusiastic as we thought. But there are some UMK students respond to our posting and show their interest on this job vacancy. But there are not many candidates we can choose. So we arrange a interview session after 2 days.

This is my partners and Mika sensei.

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Just like yesterday, we cook at Gary cafe borrow Chapati kiosk. After finish work, me and my partners go to UMKBV asked for the progress for the electricity problems. UMKBV called the technician and follow us to kiosk immediately.

After they discussed, UMKBV said that due to the voltage we used including the kiosk located at there was too high so it always tripped off. The only way to solve it was to upgrade the power supply. So it take times to change the current wires to bigger wire so that it can supply bigger voltage, install a power box besides the current power box to increase the voltage and also install new wires. To avoid tripped off and power failure of hostel, head of the dormitory supervisor not allow us to use the elctricity until it is upgrade. But we do not know how long it would take. So currently we only can borrow Chapati's kiosk.

This is my partner, worker and loyalty customers.

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Today is a brand new day, we sincerely hope that everything will goes fine and smooth. We woke up and started to prepare burger meat and egg, wash rice at 730 morning. After that, our employee bring it to Chapati kiosk and cook at there. After done cooking, we bring it to our own kiosk and start make it into onigiri.

By only having one chance to cook, we only able to produce 30 pieces of onigiri. It is little but better than not opening and let the customers forget us slowly. We do a lot of hard work to built up relationship and trust with our customers. It is not easy to build a reputation slowly but we does. Even the customers base is not very big. But if we continue not opening due to electricity problem, we afraid that customers will forget us eventually. We could not face that no customers come to us when we come back. So we know that it is a alternative way we must do !

This is me choosing the insulation box to put rice in it in order to keep it warm.

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After close for 4 days, we know that we could not continue like this anymore. We could not just waiting for electricity recover. We have to find an alternative way to solve it. We decide to talk with former student union, Afifah. She and her partners was fourth year student, doing own business for intern under UMKEI just like us. They rent a kiosk with Gary Cafe located opposite Laman Siswa selling Chapati and other indian foods.

We asked for their help for borrowing their kiosk for us to cook only and we will bring everything cooked to our own kiosk to make into Onigiri. They propose a term which was charge RM 1 per day when we use their kiosk to cook. They only able to give us borrow their kiosk start from 830 morning and only half hour. We agree with that. Because we don't have any other way anymore.

We started to prepare for Sunday operation. We replenish material finished and expired. Using this free time opportunities, we started to post the vacancy copywriting on UMK Facebook page to recruit Fororo promoters.

This is my partner and our loyalty customers.

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The plan for today is improve the recipe of Corn Corn Onigiri. Yes, we have to close for one more day. Not only us but all the kiosk located at hostel rent from UMKEI force to close. We have to bear for one more day of loss.

For Corn Corn Onigiri, we try to use Planta Margarine instead of Natural Margarine because Natural Margarine was too expensive and high cost. It taste quite not bad using Planta Margarine. Planta Margarine retain the taste of butter and salty but cheaper. But honestly, Planta Margarine taste do not as smooth as Natural Margarine. Planta Margarine also do not have scent when the rice was done as Natural Margarine. But we still decide to use Planta Margarine to replace NAtural Margarine.

This is me trying to blend Kedondong to make KEdondong juice.

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Today we still didn't received any news from UMKEI yet about the electricity recover. So our kiosk still didn't open. So we do our little experiment at home.

Next, we start to do Corn Corn Onigiri. We wash the Corn bought at Pasar Siti Khadijah. The corn from Pasar Siti Khadijah was very fresh and sweet. The step to do Corn Corn Onigiri is more simple and easier  compare with Coke Chicken Onigiri. It is because Coke Chicken has to stew it but Corn Corn Onigiri have no fillings. Corn Corn Onigiri is an Onigiri cook both rice and corn kernels together and add seasoning to make it more delicious. After we taste it, we feels that it is very delicious. Our housemates love it so much !

This is me cooking Coke Chicken with the help of my partners.

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Although did not receive any news from UMKEI yet, but we still decide to wake up and go to kiosk as usual. We want to check that whether the electric power has back. But unfortunately things doesn't goes as we thought and hope. There is still no electric supply at kiosk. Without electric supply, we could not use rice cooker to cook rice and hot plate for cook the fillings. In short, we could not do anything without electric supply. We force to close the kiosk again and bear the loss for another day.

Without wasting our valuable time, we decide to fully utilize our time to improve our marketing and come out with new product ! We already have few ideas. Those ideas come out while we working and resting. As i said, an entrepreneur never really rest no matter physically or mentally. One of our idea is Corn Corn Onigiri. We search the materials needed and rent car to Pasar Siti Khadijah and Tesco buy it. We plan to buy those materials and start to do the experiment in the next day.

We are very happy that sensei from Japan bought Onigiri from us. This is me, my partners and Nao Sensei.

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Today we come to kiosk at 7 morning. But bad thing happens on today. When we reach and open kiosk, after wash rice we only realize that there is no electric supply! The electrical supply box has no electric supply! We doubting that is that no electric or our equipment is spoil? We got confused and panic. We want to take the equipment to the nearest block of UMK hostel and test it but we afraid that the electric power of the whole block of hostel will tripped off if the problem was on our equipment. But what can we do? We only can close the kiosk and take the equipment back to home to test it !

After reach home, we test the equipment and it shows that it can use. The equipment has no problem! It means that there is no electric supply at kiosk. We contact UMKEI immediately to report for this issue. Now the only thing we can do is wait for the news from UMKEI.

Today really was a bad day for us. We feel disappointed for having to close kiosk and bear the loss of that day.

This is me and another 3 partners of Fororo Trading.

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Today we open and operated as usual. We are so grateful that we are able to sell finish all the Onigiri everyday. Time flies. This is the third week of my intern and also the third week of Fororo runs.
We are still working hard to achieve breakeven.

Besides making Onigiri and sell it, after finish work me and my partners gather together and finalize our vacancy copywriting. Well, this is the life of an entrepreneur, which have to work almost 16 hours per day. It is exhausted honestly. We have to keep working until go to bed. After finish work and close the kiosk, we are not really 'finish work'. We have to check whether the material is enough or not, and go to Pantai Timur Mall to purchase material. At home, we have to think about the marketing, plan for the recruiting, do the financial, visualize the future development composition of Fororo and prepared for tomorrow operation. When off day, we are not really 'off' as we have to purchase material that need vehicle to bring it such as rice and oil.

This is me, one of my partner and one of our regular customer !

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Today is Thursday, which is the day that i dislike the most among a week. It is because there were have morning market outside campus. This provide an opportunity for UMK student to access with variety of food. They might weary with the food selling around the campus, including us. So they will catch this opportunity to buy the food at morning market. We noticed that every Thursday, our sales will become quite bad so we force to knock door to door to sell our Onigiri. But at last we able to sell finish too. We no need to go to Pantai Timur mall to purchase material because to make sure the material is fresh so we decide to purchase it on Saturday.

Today after finish work, me and my partners think about the vacancy copywriting together. We drafted the copywriting and edit it again and again to make sure that the copywriting is attracting and perfect. We want to catch the eye of UMK students immediately once they scroll the Facebook.

This is me wipe dry the dishes after wash it.

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As usual, today is a working day. After days of thinking, finally we have come out with a solution to solve the problem of hard to reach more UMK student with different year.

Me and my partners decide to employ one to two UMK student each year to expand our networking. We decide to employ one male and one female from first and second year, and one student in every course from third year.

Through this way, we able to access to every year and course of UMK students. But first of all, how do we employ those students in the first place? Me and my partners plan to used the method that we used before when we looking for the employee last time, which was to post vacancy posting at UMK Facebook page.

After found a way and decide the method that we want to used to find the best employee, me and my partners have to start to think about the copywriting to rise their interest on our vacancy.

This is me chopping garlic and ginger.

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As usual, me and my partners make the Onigiri with our employees and off to Pantai Timur mall to purchase materials after work.

As i mentioned before, the influence of social media is very powerful. So me and my partners had established a Facebook page for Fororo. By having a own Facebook page, we able to do Facebook advertisement to reach more people that have a link with UMK, upload posting to inform the launching of our new product and also inform any notice about Fororo. Facebook advertisement able to let Fororo reach to more people. Below are the link of Fororo Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/Fororoonigiri/?ref=bookmarks

We are still looking a way to solve the issue that we faced, which was to expand our networking. It is very hard for us to expand our networking because we are fourth year student. Our coursemates, unimates was doing intern and no longer in campus. So we barely knew anyone in the campus. It is quite challenging for us.

This is me, one of my partner and employee together with our regular customers.

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As usual, me and my partners wake up before that sky turns bright and start to work when the sky started to turns bright.

We are very thankful for having such great employees that hardworking, good in copywriting, love cooking and serve customers. They help us to sell the Onigiri when we go door to door. We really appreciate them.

But unfortunately, a business doesn't runs smooth and goes well that easily. We noticed that our customers and potential customers that we can reach only First year students. It is because our kiosk located behind block 4 inside hostel. There are mostly First year students and few Third year students. So we only able to reach the same students. We know that we must expand our networking in order to reach more people. We are looking a way to do so.

This is me and Fororo team !

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After rest one day, me and my partners are now more motivated to work. As usual, we reach kiosk at 7 morning and start busy. We teach our employees slowly, so that they can learn and do it on hand. We hope that they can fit in quickly and able to help us making Onigiri.

We are very happy because through Mouth to Mouth strategy, there are few customers come back to Fororo and buy our Burger Onigiri after their first try. Their comment is our Burger Onigiri is very unique and delicious. We feels so great for the result and also feel worth it for the effort we paid. We close the kiosk after we finish selling all the Burger Onigiri.

Besides that, we also used the power of social media to do marketing on our product. We upload posting at UMK Facebook page which have more than 11 thousand of UMK students in the group. By using this method to promote our Onigiri, it can let more people know about Fororo.

This is me together with one of our regular customer.

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In order to increase the name of Fororo Trading and let more people know about Onigiri, we decided to use Mouth to Mouth strategy to promote our product and also the company.

We go to knock every door from Block 1 to 7 of UMK hostel. Our aim wasn't selling onigiri to them but to introduced them only. For those who already know what is onigiri we introduced them our own recipe and innovation onigiri with combined taste of Japan and Malaysia that they never try before whilst for those who do not know what is onigiri, it is our opportunity to attract them to try their first onigiri by buying our product.

We noticed that there were quite many people have try onigiri before and mostly was at Aeon Mall Kota Bharu. So they know what is onigiri and willing to try a new flavor that never try before. We also noticed that for those who do not know what is onigiri, after our introduction and explanation they have the courage to try it. Maybe because they are quite weary on the food around campus so they are very surprised on the new product selling around campus.

Through Mouth to Mouth strategy, we confident that there are more people know about our onigiri and brand.

This is me cutting chicken burger meat.

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Today me and my partners wake up at 6am too. We depart to our kiosk at 6.45am and start operates at 7am. As usual, we open the kiosk, clean it and tidy up everything first. Next, we prepared our product which was Burger Onigiri and Coke Chicken Onigiri. Burger Onigiri is a product create by Fororo Trading partners. We innovate and create our own recipe. We combined the taste of Japan and Malaysia and come out with this product, Burger Onigiri.

First, we cook the rice and cut the materials needed. After that we cook the materials and put it in a seal containers for hygiene purpose. Then we start to wrap the rice and materials with seaweed.

Yesterday we close the kiosk early due to equipment problem. So, today can consider as the first day of our business. Not much of people know about Onigiri so we have to explain it to our potential customers. We were not only attract students to come to our kiosk but also UMK lecturers and staffs.

This is me peeling the ginger.

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Today, Fororo Trading officially operated. Me and my partners choose to start the business on today because UMKEI authorized us to start operated our business on 15-2-2017.

Me and my partners wake up at 6am to start prepared ourselves. We walk to our kiosk which located inside UMK City Campus hostel at 6.45am. We start prepares and making the Onigiri at 7am. We thought that all the things gonna go well but unfortunately it go not like we thought.

After hours of using the hot plate, the hot plate we bought suddenly fume and could not function anymore. This happens on the middle of cooking burger meat. After hours of waiting the hot plate to cool down, we try several times to switch on but it still could not function. We force to close the kiosk early and rent car to Ban Huat Sdn.Bhd.

After we declare our situation to the owner of Ban Huat company, the owner decide to change a new hot plate for us. We very appreciate and happy for the thoughtful of the owner. Then, we go to buy some materials and supplies before we go back. We bring the materials and supplies that we bought to our kiosk. Before go back home we clean the kiosk and tidy up the things. I really hope that tomorrow will be a good day.

This is me wearing our customized apron writing Fororo

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I have published a vacancy for Malay employees through social media. I upload the vacancy posting on UMK facebook page with attracting copywriting to attract peoples. Me and my partners create the copywriting together. The copywriting also briefly state the benefits of the job such as salary and flexible working hours.

There are many UMK students interests on this job. After a brief discussion with each of them through Facebook messenger, we conduct a interview session for them. We interview our candidate by adding them in Whatsapp group and ask questions that we want to know and provide opportunity for them to ask their questions. After that we discuss among each other and decide whose is the best and needed employee.

After screening, me and my partners have choose two employees who can fix each other lecture schedule. Today, me and my partners had conduct a teaching session. We teach our employees how to make our product by demonstrate one time and ask them to watch and learn it. After that we provide opportunity to them to demonstrate it so we can correct their mistake on the spot. Overall, our employees is quite quick learner and we are quite satisfied with their performance.

This is me and my partners teaching and demonstrate the making process of Burger Onigiri.

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Me and my partners go to UMKEI for apply loan and kiosk. Finally the kiosk is approved. Me and my partners clean the kiosk together. We feels so happy because the most important thing, rent kiosk is approved! We go to Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri to pay for stam duty.

After experiment and failed for so many times until i can't count, and practice for many times to maintain a stable taste, finally we able to make our product different with other competitors and successfully maintain the taste in stable .

Today me and my partners go for many places to find a best quality and price of equipment. We go Tesco, Pacific inside Kota Bharu mall, Ban Huat Sdn.Bhd, Mr.DIY and Eco Mart. We compare prices, quality, services and warranty of the equipment. Finally we bought a rice cooker, Hot plate, Pan, Pot and Juice Extractor.

This is me checking the equipment that we bought.

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I establishes Fororo Trading, a partnership company with my members and do my intern in my company under the supervision of UMKEI. I have done lots of preparation before my business officially start.

Today i went to many places searching for suppliers for my product (Onigiri, Coke Chicken and Balonglong juice). I went to Pasar Siti Khadijah,  market in front  Pantai Timur Hypermarket looking for balonglong (kedondong) and fresh chicken. I also search process fresh chicken shop in Pengkalan Chepa and Kemumin area. I pay a visit to ice cube suppliers' factory and office to have a brief discuss with them in order to have a better understanding in time delivery and also negotiate in price and quantity. The ice cube suppliers that i pay a visit were Yustra, Suzzy and Atlas. In the end, I chose Yustra as my ice cube supplier.

This is me and my partners at Pasar Siti Khadijah.