Cather­ine Copeland

Aaron Pauls­ingh has al­ways been a dream­er and a vi­sion­ary, and his vivid imag­i­na­tion helped launch him un­to a ca­reer path. The 20-year-old launched his own me­dia com­pa­ny, Tri­nis Gone Wild, and planned his first par­ty in Fifth Form of San Fer­nan­do Sec­ondary Com­pre­hen­sive School. He used HI5, which was the so­cial net­work at the time, to spread the word about the par­ties. "The first two years af­ter the launch of Tri­nis Gone Wild Me­dia Inc were slow be­cause I had not got­ten in­to the groove of man­ag­ing my own com­pa­ny. Then every­thing just took off. In late 2007 to ear­ly 2008 I start­ed to do pro­mo­tion­al work with Space la Nou­ba. Thanks to Face­book I cre­at­ed a very large net­work. "Every­thing in this busi­ness re­lies on net­work­ing. Soon I was sought af­ter by in­ter­na­tion­al agen­cies–from pok­er play­ers in Ve­gas to run­way mod­els."

To Pauls­ingh it's all about giv­ing peo­ple ex­po­sure, es­pe­cial­ly lo­cal celebri­ties. He de­clared with con­fi­dence that any­one who col­lab­o­rat­ed with Tri­nis Gone Wild would get ex­cel­lent re­sults. "This is my great­est ac­com­plish­ment, I nev­er ex­pect­ed to get so far. The suc­cess I have achieved with my com­pa­ny is main­ly thanks to my fam­i­ly. "With­out their men­tal and spir­i­tu­al sup­port I could not have done this," he said. Pauls­ingh said peo­ple as­sumed his job was easy be­cause it's just about plan­ning par­ties, but, he added, it takes a lot of work to plan an event. Hav­ing to be up at all hours mak­ing sure every­thing is per­fect. Re­gard­ing his most re­cent event en­ti­tled La La Land, he said, "I went to Am­s­ter­dam and saw how they were throw­ing their raves with the spe­cial light­ing, ef­fects and the trance mu­sic.

"Late­ly trance mu­sic is be­ing adopt­ed by a lot of artistes, such as La­dy Gaga. I want­ed to in­cor­po­rate that con­cept in­to my La La Land par­ty. "I had lasers through­out the club and hired the best dj's. Pa­trons did not leave un­til al­most 6 am the next day. It was that good." He said he has al­so got­ten ideas for par­ties from sev­er­al oth­er coun­tries, in­clud­ing Bu­dapest and New York. He said the busi­ness was mul­ti faceted and ad­vised that any­one want­i­ng to get in­to the busi­ness of event plan­ning should ed­u­cate them­selves in the fields of pub­lic re­la­tions, fi­nan­cial man­age­ment, and event co-or­di­na­tion, as knowl­edge of those skills were key in run­ning a me­dia man­age­ment com­pa­ny. Pauls­ingh said he has hopes of tak­ing his busi­ness to an in­ter­na­tion­al lev­el, and would al­so like to at­tend the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas.