Submitted by: Eunice Teo AIFD
Please note: You can find an English translation below the photographs.
几周前，我收到了来自Louisa Lam AIFD 的电子邮件，讓我与 Focal Points Blog 分享，感谢她的鼓励，我愿意参加并很高兴与大家分享这次 COVID-19 期间我一直在做的一切！
3 月 18 日，马来西亚宣布 MCO
“运动控制命令”因疫情的影响不能正常生活，我需要为家人储存食物和必需品。
我的心情很复杂因不知会发展到什么情况。在 COVID 袭击我们之前，耒自世界各地鲜花的供应从耒没有中断过，但疫情之后一切都不一样了。
我们被禁止离开我们居住的地方超过 10 公里、除了购买必需品。在那段时间里，我们有很多的花圈订单，我们不得不要求 Grab 协助送花到儐仪馆。在平常的日子里，我们只花了 15 令吉但是在那段时间里，我们付出的费用是正常费用的 8 倍。 。
为了以便从金马仑高原（Cameron Highland）购买基本的鲜切花。我们得先订购一箱的疏菜才能把鲜花拿到手， 感叹…我们并没有考虑太多的利润，而是关注定期客户的需求。 但值得庆幸的是，借助技术，我可以与正在准备进行在线 AIFD 测试的 2 名学生和来自香港的另一名学生进行Zoom 在线课程。我们聚在一起，进行了在线教程，并讨论了如何进行实用的插花课程。放松后不久，我们开始了理论学习，另外两人来自菲律宾，另一人在迪拜学习了“ AIFD 花卉设计指南”。
鼓励充满热情的人们参加 PFDE 是我当时的目标，因为我一生中大部分时间都花在花艺设计中，这使我想到“在这样的世界中，我该如何做才能延续我所有，和…必须帮助选择与我相同道路的人们。”
到六月为止，我们已经在香港和马来西亚提供了虚拟课程，因为这些材料可供选择。由于菲律宾的不稳定局势，该国，仍被搁置，但我希望它很快会好起来。
简而言之，我们生活在一个不确定和不安的时期，但是我非常感谢上帝和我周围的学生。在一起的激情在我们的薄雾中产生了希望的火花。
尽管现在处于新规范中，适应学生和客户的需求，适应新的工作预算是一个很好的挑战，但我对此感到很感激，对此我深表感谢。
在马来西亚，高地绽放热带花开植物，我们庆幸与感激能继续健康的生活与工作.
English Translation
Couple weeks ago, I received an email from Louisa Lam AIFD, asking for a submission to Focal Points Blog. Thankful for her encouragement, I am willing to participate and happy to share with you all what I have been doing during this COVID-19 pandemic!
18th March the day when Malaysia announced ‘Movement control order’ what I knew was I needed to stock up food and necessities for my family.
I was having mixed feelings and wasn’t thinking much of what would happen to my work. Before COVID hit us, we would have a chiller that could pack 400 stems of flowers which I did pack it to the max and didn’t know after that we were not allowed to travel more than 10 km from where we live for any other reason except for buying necessities. During that time we had many orders for condolences and we had to ask Grab to assist in delivering the flowers to the funeral parlors. For normal days we only paid rm15 for a trip but during those time we paid some up to 8x of the normal fee. We had to buy a box of vegetable enable to buy basic fresh cut flowers from Cameron Highland, that’s the deal for the flowers to travel to us! Sigh… We were not thinking about the profit so much but was focusing on attending to the regular clients.
But thankfully, with the help of technology, I could have Zoom online sessions with the 2 students who are preparing for online AIFD test and another one from Hong Kong. We got together and had online tutorial and discussions about how we we’re going to go about with practical floral arrangements classes. Very soon after relaxing, we began the theory session with another 2 from Philippines and one in a Dubai studying from ‘AIFD Guide to Floral Design’. Encouraging the people who are passionate to participate in the PFDE was my aim at the time as I had spent most of my life with flowers and it makes me think “in a world as such, what can I do to pass on what I have to help the people who choose the same path as me.”
In the month of June till now we had been on virtual classes with Hong Kong and Malaysia as the materials are available. Philippines is still put on hold due to the Unstable condition of the country, but I do hope it gets better soon.
In short, we are living in an uncertain and uneasy time, but I am very grateful to God and the students around me. The passion that puts together create a spark of Hope in our mist. Though now in the new norm, adjusting to the requests of students n customers, adjusting to the new budget for work is a good challenge that pushes me, which I am grateful for 😃 In Malaysia with the highland blooms n tropical floral n fauna, we are more than blessed to be able to keep going with the business n classes.
