SBM club Handover 2008

SBM club Handover of positions 2008!

The new sub-coms 15th Sbm Club members

14th Ex-cos! Always have my respect =)

15th Ex-cos! may we have fun, joy and laughter and yet work hard!

14th President giving speech


Sub-coms' performance

Sub-coms' Performance

Nasarath(Publicity Coordinator)

Me, Zhi Wei!(Logistics Officer)

Song Zhi(Treasurer)

Elizabeth(Secretary)

Haini(Student Laison Officer)

Thiam Wei(President)

Audrey(Events Coordinator)

Dorcas(Vice-president)

Shi Long (Threatre Managment Team Officer)

I just inserted the positions that we have been given, although it doesnt really matter in SBM club as we do everything from admin to logistics to event planning & execution.

Orientation 2008

The freshies orientation 2008 is coming up soon! Its on the 10th and 11th april! I am cursing all those supervisiors who aren't letting my OGLs be excused from their TEP! Especially a certain stopover, which is full of complains and blah blah blah. I am not going to mention the stopover as its HUGE enough to not be missed. Touch my OGLs and I will forever bare a bad impression on that stopover.

All the best to the beloved sub-coms, I hope they learned alot from the OGL camp and truely make orientation a success.

Remember, we are a club. Everyone does everything.

Regards,
Zhi Wei

Orientation Group Leaders Camp 2008

Ahhh~ 2 weeks after LTC and its the Orientation Group Leaders Camp(OGL)!! This time, its our beloved sub-coms who are planning for it! I admired their ambitious will to allow this camp to have as much events as possible. However, from what I could see, it was merely surface work =( Seriously, I felt like crying after I saw how the whole camp was being carried out during the 1st day. I guess it's partly our (ex-co) fault for not supervising them close enough. Luckily, the OGLs did not bear any grudges towards them =D That was what lighten my 2nd day out i guess.

Poor sub-coms, falling out after the 1st day =( Debrief did not start yet

Sigh, it was around 2am still! They must be dam tired from the day's hard work!

Ahh` longest line game!

All on board!

Obstacle Course

All on board again!

Continuation from the longest line

Lunch!

Learning the Mass Dance =)

Go Go Jump the Rubber Band

Island Game


If you think Nasarath is just skinny and tall, looks like its been proven wrong. She lifted audrey and dorcas for like a minute or two!!

Leadership Training Camp 2008

14th - 16th march was the leadership training camp(LTC) 2008. The 9 of us, Audrey, Elizabeth, Dorcas, Haini, Nasarath, Shi long, Song zhi, Thiam Wei and Me! We spent much late nights into planning for this camp. Much credit has to go to audrey, elizabeth, dorcas and thiam wei as the other 5 of us had TEP and IPP so we couldn't help out much except to stay back for late night meetings and to help out as much as we can. During the camp itself, I was in charge of logistics. Man, it was a tough job = =! Skipped 2 meals just because of getting the logistics ready before each game stage. Overall, it was fun!

Went to Changi Coast Adventure campsite this year, lots of airplanes flew past every few 1/2 hours. Loud and noisy.... lots of restrictions on the campsite too. ask any camper and they'd be glad to list out all the complains for you. They did kayaking as well, a whooping 4 hours long xD

Below are some of the photos that I could muster the time to take and they are in random order due to blogger's way of inserting picture.

Cleaned-up Room

SBM Club Room

Mainly, faizal, thiam wei and i went to clean up the sbm club room. It was so dam messy. A few people popped by and some helped. Charlene, Dorcas, Tricia, John lim, Jeremy, Teng chung, Xing xuan, Patricia, Dominic. Maybe somemore, cant remember. Thanks for coming to give us eye support and hand support, yea?

Oh, went to see the foreign exchange students as well. Germanish. they will be in nyp for 4months. Good luck to those who are buddies for them =)

So, after we cleaned up everything. It was abt 7.30pm, started around 3pm. Dorcas, Faizal, Thiam wei and i went for dinner at S11 in amk. Talked alot. Ended off at 11pm.

I will upload the pictures another day. Since the upload stream is having some sort of problems right now.

Unforgetful Orientation

Orientation~!

What can i say? 1 word : FUN!!

Woke up at around 5-6 am each day, ended days at abt 11pm-12 am...

Nothing much to write about. i had fun but i didnt had enough fun! freaking hell, i was in charge of a wet game station together with charlene. 3 families came and we had fun. when the 4th family came, halfway through, it started raining -_-! Then it was lunch. After which, it was still raining... sad that the other 4 families couldnt enjoy my wet game station. Of coz, i couldnt play it too!! Blahs, didnt had enough fun due to the rainy weather. well, i have sun burnt already...from just 1.5 hours of game time.....imagine if i had been in the hockey pitch from 10 am to 4 pm... i think i would have been burnt~! oh wells, i dont mind that as long i have fun.

Debriefs had their own uniqueness. Comments Shot, Praises Flew. This is sbm club's sub-comm's final big event that will ever be held. To be honest, i rather be an ogl xD It's so much fun being involved with people. I had my experience from ogl camp. Although i wanted very much to be an ogl, being able to have met the fellow ogls was good enough. Working behind the scenes, where most people cant tell what we have been doing to prepare for orientation, was indeed a great experience. An experience like this comes with great changes.

To the freshies out there, to enjoy a fulfilling poly life. Make more friends and get a CCA! I have enjoyed myself being in sbm club. Through sbm club, i met lots of people. Only regret that i had was, i didn't get another cca earlier in the year. Why didnt i get 1? influences from surroundings. I gotten over it now. I know what i have to do to enjoy poly life, not just studying for good grades.

Tata old me, Hello new me!

Pre-Orientation

Met in the club room at 11 am for a short overall briefing for tml's event - orientation!
Some of the ogls and task force team came at 12.30pm to help out in setting up the auditorium.
Lots of work to be done, carrying of tables/chairs, shifting of orientation packages(800!! Mind you), rehesaring of the stage works, and many other minor/major stuff.
Reached home at 7pm. Very tiring day. There were still others in school.
Cant wait for tml to come. lets have fun and introduce the freshies to NYP.

Haha, some people out there feels that what we are doing is pointless, meaningless and useless. Mind you, we are willing and able to do this. It's fun and enjoyable to be involved in all of this. Without a channel to output your energy into, life would be even more boring than ever!

I feel that i am fortunate enough to be involved in orientation. Even if sbm club was only to be made for the end and start of the year, it's still great fun to have met everyone along with the events and activities. Ogls and Sbm club members as well as task force peeps, we have experienced orientation once/twice, its time to see it once more. How many people actually have the chance to lead a class of 30? Being the people who bring life to the freshies? Being the people who have organised this event? Being the people who have laughed and sweared for this event? Only those who have stood up to prove that they have the capabilities to be leaders and willing to share their leadership amongst the peers, have endured hard enough for orientation.

(Benedict: Things that we do may be lameshit, but doing lameshit together is what it counts as fun.) Icebreaker games, Teambuilding games, Wet games and even cheers may seem to be lame. But when you come together as a group to play/do them, its fun. Things that can only be understood amongst yourself, that's what we call bonding.

Let's hope that orientation will be a success. Hopefully all the ogls will turn up!

Logistics

7 of us went to buy logistics that were needed for orientation. Thiam wei, Xiaoai, Shilong, Layling, Elizabeth and faizal. We meet up at 12 pm, amk mrt control station. Had lunch before moving on to the shopping. Bought stuff, not too many. After shopping for logistics, we went back to school in 2 cabs. Thiam wei cycled back. School was closed today as its a Good Friday. nevertheless, we still could make it in as long we had our admin cards.

We did pasting, sticking, writing, drinking and eating haha....we did what we could do. ended off the day at 6pm. Tiring day.

alrights, that's all for today.

Go Group 4! Manbits!

You Guys Gave Me The Best Time In The Camp!

OGL Camp

wooohoooo, completed the OGL camp!

Overall, the camp was a success i would say. there might be errors here and there, like overshotting of time slots. nevertheless, all of us who were involved have pulled it off. congrats to the sub-com, ex-co, year 3 help-outs and of coz the 1s who were behind the scenes planning for the events!

i felt that my role as a facilitator was great. if i had been given in-charge of other acitivity, i will not have liked it =) Being a facilitator really takes alot out of you. not only do you have to know them by names, you will also have to cater to different problems faced by them and making sure that they do not get lost in the events. A facilitator will also have to step out of his/her comfort zone and inject life to the group members. Interacting with them has really been a memorable experience for me. I did cheers with them, played acitivities with them and also done discussions with them. Leading a group of 9 proved to be challenging and i am proud to say that i have done it.

I am proud of my group members as well, they are xue ting, xing xuan, joser, guang zhe, veenotth, sarah, melissa, affi and amanda. They performed beyond my expectations during the group performance. Each group had to come up with a performance relating to the theme InRetrospect. Everyone looked dead on the first morning when they just came, some looked unwilling to be there, while some were being quiet. It wasn't easy for me to communicate with them during the 1st meeting. I can understand why as I have experienced it for myself during LTC camp as well. Eventually, some of the members outshine themselves by taking the initiative to speak up for the group. It brought life into them and they could stand firm as a group. I have enjoyed myself very very very much being with them. They showed me the qualities a leader should have, and they proved themselves to be worthy as an OGL! LayLing is also a facilitator of the group, we worked together to interact with them. Group 4, Manbits, we are proud to have been facilitators for you people. You guys will bring life to the freshies of 2007!

I was also in-charge of the sports league which were held after the morning warm-up. I hadn't made plans to what games were to be played, as i didn't know what game items were available. I feel that this was a mistake on my part, I should have thought of the possible games to be played and planned before hand. But i didn't do that. when the game items were revealed to me just shortly after the warm-up, I tried to think of the possible games to play. 2 Netballs and 1 Frisbe. So i decided that there will be 2 groups in each game, 2 Captain's ball and 1 Frisbe. I thank Dorcas, Shilong, ThiamWei for helping me with the games.(if i missed out anyone, don't flame me >.<, coz they are all that i can remember) I was at a loss at what to do for sports league as I didn't planned anything at all. Still, I went ahead with the games and it turned out alright. Not a great work done, but I pulled it off. I believed that i could have had 3 different games going on concurrently. Soccer, Captain's ball and Frisbe. I blamed myself for not thinking of the soccer game at that time. And being referee for 1 of the captain's ball game was tough, I didn't state out all the rules properly. Rules were added during the playtime. I could have stopped some actions that was wrongly taken, but i didn't. I could have used the chairs that was in the room at Forum, but i didn't thought of it. I don't think this activity was done well enough. Many mistakes I have made during this activity could have been easily solved if only I had planned ahead. I will take this as a stepping stone to further improvements in the future. This was a great experience.

Last but not least, Thank you Melody and Rahman for handing me the role of facilitator and in-charge of sports league. I would never have exceeded my own capabilities if not for the two of you. Thanks layling for being my partner facilitator, your help was greatly needed. Of course, Thank you sub-com and ex-cos for helping me in times of trouble, in times of need and in times of joy. Congrats to everyone! SBM club have made the OGL camp a success!

Preparations

tomorrow's the start of the 2-day ogl camp! many preparations have been undergoing for this event! went back to school for meetings/rehersals....lots of work. even more work for those who are in-charge of more stuff. kudos to them, dont feel stress when people come to you and ask what's going on. afterall, who else to look for? =)

well, very few items to bring along this time....as i will be in-charge of the sports league..not much, just pass over the game items and they can play on their own. and i will be facilitator of group 5. the list of people has not been revealed yet...so i don't know who i will be looking after too.

let's hope everything goes well !

Sbm Club Outing

went to siloso beach today, played some volleyball, soccer and frisbe (whatever u spell it). people who turned up, shilong, lee, zonghuan, kenneth, songchi, audrey, melody, alextine, cheryl, darren, xiaoai, chris, haini, benedict, sahara, qiu yan and elizabeth.

well, lee, shilong, kenneth and zonghuan drank redbull mixed with vodka during near the end of the outing. basically most of them got drank except lee. yea, things happens...

thanks for the advices and tips out there. glad to know that there are people who actually cares. i will heed them well and it just further proves my stand.

as for my views on alcohol, i don't think i will be on it. the most if i ever have to drink it. maximum 2 sips and that's it for me. no offenses here, but sometimes there are human limitations such as dislikes and likes. so, respecting each other's priorities is important as well.

oh and this goes out to everyone, you can change urself to whichever way u like. But never ever change urself to suit a particular group. you are who you are, your impression is what matters and not the group's impression. you decide your own life, do not let others take control of it. you can still have fun and such with a particular group, but remember that you are 1 individual who stands out on your own. do not allow yourself to be conformed under group pressure, you have every right to defend your own interests and that's how you lead your own life.

This is my personal message to everyone out there, i may appear to be very friendly, but i am not 1 to be manipulated around. i like to agree single-sidedly on almost everything, but that does not mean that i am not thinking about the topics. i may sometimes appear to be "emo" (since some ppl like to say that), that's coz i am bored and just dont feel like doing anything at that point in time. i admit that i am actually quite a boring guy, i tried changing....dont think it worked.... nothing much that i can do. guess for the time being, i shall return back to being an observer.

Another message i would like to add on is that, i like to see things in 1 view, as they always say...first impression lasts....so if i ever offend anyone based on this...i am sorry. and sadly there are some matters which has been going on for very long ever since i entered poly, and i have decided to give up on certain stuff. so don't wonder too much if i don't appear to be as enthu as ever. like i said be4 in previous entries of mine under the label "outlooks on life". well, i could also tell that i am a boring guy la and it's partly my fault as well. so i am sorry it has to come this way, but it has not totally been cut off yet. there are still chances, i will always be here until the day i die.

alrights, that's all for today. hopefully everyone has enjoyed their day/week. if not, suck it up and look forward to the next day! cheer up! kudos to those who perservered till this day!

Leadership Training Camp

woohoo!! i am back from a 3 day 2 night leadership training camp! overall feeling from the camp: tired, tired and more tiredness. overall lessons for the camp: take initiative! speak up, don't keep quiet! teamwork, cohesiveness and also the bonding! of coz, you have to self-high(zi-high) as well !! xD

there were 8 groups of us!

1st day of the camp, hmm this camp was supposed to be tough. and so the harsh treatments were bought onto us on the 1st day! let's see, we did alot of push-ups! that's besides the main point of activity tho........ so what did we do?........Assigning of quarters to sleep in, males and females were separated into bulks by gender and the facilitators had 1 bulk to themself. at first, they said that 2 lectuerers would be sleeping in the male bulks but in the end, non came.....and that we had to learn the rope tieing onto the bamboo sticks so as to create a structure to have our outdoor cooking. i watch the way they tie the rope until i go dizzy =.= well, i was in group 7 and the teammates were great haha...they did everything! since John(not sbm club zonghuan) was like the super enthu guy and he was like enjoying the leadershi, we just went along ^^v I wasn't really enthu enough and so i merely watched.....without taking any initative for that day and the day after. well, we did a lot of pushups between these interval changes as we were either too noisy or late to assemble. after which, we made another structure out of 2 bamboo sticks for the night's game candle war! was quick enough. only the outdoor cooking structure was longer and requires more cooperation and strategy. and so we did the outdoor cooking after a short while.gosh, it was raining too! but not to fear, the organisers already knew it would rain and so they prepared the cover for our structure. on the first day, everyone did badly on cooking! the tins for cooking were badly burnt and had burnt marks all coz we didn't apply colgate onto the base before cooking it over solid fuels! well, as the saying goes.....once bitten, twice shy.....we were going to do outdoor cooking again the day after. then, we had our station games! can't remember much of the games....but i know 1 of them made us do 30 push ups in 43 secs.......oh pls.....i am weak la! how to do???!?!?! but our group managed to made it though! the other 4 station games were not so bad, it improves on our teamwork and helps us to know each other better. and of coz, next was the candle war! 4 teams had to pick a location within a rectangle to plant their candle structure so as to tie a ballon with a string onto the structure. before that, it was raining! so the strings on the candle structure were all wet.....and guess what? we had to use candles to burn the strings on the opponent teams! and there were only 1 defender for each structure. gosh, it was wet la duh, how to make it go up on fire....and plus, the defender can blow out our flames.....-.- after struggling for like 20 mins?? instructions was given to just focus on burning opponents structure and defenders are not allowed to blow out any more flames haha... after which, we ended the 1st day and off to bed we went at 11.30pm

2nd day of the camp, woke up at 5.30 to shower and stuff to get ready for physical training (PT) which is also known as morning excercise... hmm and like i said, this camp was supposed to be tough, but it so happens that with all the push-ups done the day before. we ended up with alot of casualties! some hurt their legs, some their arms...o.o..... and therefore, we weren't given any form of push-up punishment anymore. well, PT was diffcult on the last part.... stretching your arms on your shoulder level. and rasing it above your head to make a clap....doing it over 200 times is no joke, my dear friends...especially after you have aching arms from the day before's push-ups. well, it was tough and all of us managed to make it through! then it was water sport and games time! kayaking was tough but dam fun! haha, we did alot of stunts on the sea and learnt to work as a team even tho we may not know each other that well! that day marked my first time in kayaking! woohooo, let the experience stack!!! then for water games, we were to use water bombs to wack opponent teams while preventing them from retrieving cans on the field back to their own side. everyone had to do both stunts! it was fun overall, but like i said, John was overly enthu and so we just went along with him. i can't be enthu at all, it takes a long while for me to settle in to new surroundings. our group won twice in a row and that concluded that water game station. there were other stations like spiderweb...etc..., i kinda forgotten the rest....oh wells. then to end off the 2nd day, we had our indoor campfire as it was raining on the outside. nevertheless, it was still fun! all 8 groups performed the skits on the theme "survivor" most of the groups used the training and games as part of their skit, while our group used the story "adam & eve" as our skit! wow, overall i thought it was truely fun! i acted as the wild animal (bear) to attack the main actors. haha, dam funny...didn't know how to act.....then the facilitators had a skit to put up as well! overall, everyone did a great job! then there were jam and hop from 11.30pm till 1am.. well, obviously i sense something is wrong to actually allow us to sleep at 1 am =.= and so i went off to bed first...around 12am......

3rd day of the camp,..........haahahaahhaha, i was right and we were all awoken by the sounds of the alarm drill and facilitators at 4 am! hmm, that's becoz we had to do PT!!! woohoo, this time it was rush and rush and rush! ah, but i wasn't feeling well on this day.....felt onto the floor while trying to get down from the top of the double decker bed....u think that's funny?? why don't u try working out for 2 days and having both arms and legs ache and then falling off only to have it land on ur legs! and i even felt like puking! gosh, wasn't feeling alright so i decided to opt out for PT. as Sahara said, "we don't want any more casulties, so if you are feeling unwell, pls step out and rest!" well, was a short day....after PT, we had to collect badges from 10 game stations....5am to 8am was the duration! woohoo!! the badges in the end was given to us as a reward and symbol of having completed LTC! after which, we went home !

well, i supposed the LTC really is an experience to be behold. you will need to have experience it urself to know how it feels like. even looking at the above entry will not tell you how tough or fun it was! seriously, if there were any chances of another LTC. i would take it up! and i suggest my friends and readers out there to go ahead! it might be tough, but knowing where you stand on ur limitations is great too.

alrights, that's all for today. and this concludes yet another chapter of my life! take care!