NJC leadership symposium
This is the second time that I'm organising this "apex of NJC's leadership development programme". As the Publicity Head, there are TONNES of work to settle before the actual event itself. I've learnt a lot more about leadership, not so much in business, but rather leading a group of people, managing them and fitting them into the correct positions so that their strengths can complement each other. Things turned out to be pretty good, especially with Dr Lim micromanaging a lot of stuff for me as well. Kudos to her.
However, there are lots of places where we can improve on. One of the greatest weakness of the org comm is that there are TOO MANY PEOPLE!!! we are overstaffed! call this x-inefficiency or bureaucracy at work.
At the end of the day, the sake sushi treat just made it all worth while. It is a really rare opportunity for sapphires people to mix with councillors. I discovered that Junyang, Edmund, Aloysius and Xinglong are pretty humourous people, even though they might look geeky from the front!
MAS JC ESSAY
Writing this essay really makes me feel impressed of Lee Kuan Yew and Co. It took me like 1 whole week to think of a vision for singapore 2013, and LKY & Co. had their vision for singapore for about 30-40 years wayyy back in 1960. Consider that there is no such thing as Internet back then. Where are you going to get all the info in the world???
Enough for now... I had deeper thoughts about things that happened and observed recently... trying very hard to understand these inner emotions...
Monday, April 28, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
perspectives...
It has been a while since I had wrote something up here. No one will read it anyway. Perhaps not.
Many things happened for the past month or so. Starting off with the CSR trip to Thailand with a group of NP students, then I fractured my ankle during training, Leadership Symposium, MAS JC essay and throughout this time, Pre-U sem.
I really want to write tonnes about these events, but in short, from all these experiences, I've learnt things from a perspective.
The trip to Thailand was quite an eye-opener. My impression of Bangkok very much stops at the big shopping malls and the cheap stuff that I can buy in MBK or Cha-Tut-Chat. I know poverty exists and not to mention the infamous traffic jams. This trip showed me how poverty is REALLY like by going far away from the urban areas (we aren't even talking slumps here!) to rural places where there is semi-arid lands, some labour-intensive manufacturing plants, subsistence farming etc. Having opportunities to visit agencies such as the World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF was good learning experience as we get to see things from a more macro point of view, though poverty was merely spelt out. But what struck me the most was the things that PDA did to ensure self-sustainability as an NGO while coming up with new ways to alleviate poverty. (microcredit is not their idea, but they did apply it very well) But what makes things possible and fun was all the people whom I went with. These people are really cool and smart. Leaders of their respective fields but yet exercising ability to socialise and mix around with other "strangers" like me.
Fracturing ankle wasn't nice at all. I trained 3 years for this year's nationals and now I'm out for 3 months. Most probably, I'll be missing the floorball one as well. Though this kept me at the sidelines, I began to see things differently as people treated me differently. Some of my friends had conscious attempts to provide assistance while some stopped at the level where they just asked about my condition. Fair enough, not all friends can be good friends. Neither would I want to have friends that stick with me just because they sympathise me.
Many things happened for the past month or so. Starting off with the CSR trip to Thailand with a group of NP students, then I fractured my ankle during training, Leadership Symposium, MAS JC essay and throughout this time, Pre-U sem.
I really want to write tonnes about these events, but in short, from all these experiences, I've learnt things from a perspective.
The trip to Thailand was quite an eye-opener. My impression of Bangkok very much stops at the big shopping malls and the cheap stuff that I can buy in MBK or Cha-Tut-Chat. I know poverty exists and not to mention the infamous traffic jams. This trip showed me how poverty is REALLY like by going far away from the urban areas (we aren't even talking slumps here!) to rural places where there is semi-arid lands, some labour-intensive manufacturing plants, subsistence farming etc. Having opportunities to visit agencies such as the World Bank, UNESCO, UNICEF was good learning experience as we get to see things from a more macro point of view, though poverty was merely spelt out. But what struck me the most was the things that PDA did to ensure self-sustainability as an NGO while coming up with new ways to alleviate poverty. (microcredit is not their idea, but they did apply it very well) But what makes things possible and fun was all the people whom I went with. These people are really cool and smart. Leaders of their respective fields but yet exercising ability to socialise and mix around with other "strangers" like me.
Fracturing ankle wasn't nice at all. I trained 3 years for this year's nationals and now I'm out for 3 months. Most probably, I'll be missing the floorball one as well. Though this kept me at the sidelines, I began to see things differently as people treated me differently. Some of my friends had conscious attempts to provide assistance while some stopped at the level where they just asked about my condition. Fair enough, not all friends can be good friends. Neither would I want to have friends that stick with me just because they sympathise me.
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