My Mood Todae (on Left):very shortly, dis organisation known as the Singapore Students Association Newcastle will cease to exist...it will b replaced by e International Newcastle Singaporeans...its honestly grammaticalli indigestible n an agglomeration of words...
how dis organisation functions determines everythin else...esp whether we truli are different from e ol organisation...i hav my reservations as i alwaez do abt New Things..Convince mi first...dats wat i tell myself now as Co-President with Johnathan Choong...havin served in e ol committee as Treasurer i noe first hand e real difficulties of such committee work...n e great thanklessness of it all...
A position is juz dat...a position...how we discharge our duties is another issue...i take my job/role/task seriousli but humbli...everyone in e committee shd b a watchdog for e committee as a whole...
we need a diverse group of committee members but we also need to b able 2 make executive decisions when e time to act is here..i'll tell u a story...e men who launched e infamous Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in 1957 dat almost brought down e US govt of e time were a close-knit group of 'insiders' who were herded by a strong leader 2 make decisions they would individualli hav not made...its called Mob Behaviour or Groupthink..in contrast, e Kennedy admin of 1962 which did'nt launch a nuclear war with e former USSR durin e Cuban Missle Crisis were diverse n could not agree on many points...they purposeli met in different rooms to prevent Groupthink...n they had a leader with vision...Kennedy...n they saved e world..
its ok to disagree...its ok to hav diff opinions..its even better to voice out ones fears...but we need to agree to disagree...n compromise...n hav a final decision-makin process..whether by vote or executive decision..e comm shd b smarter than e sum of its parts...not dumber.......
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haha. i had the same thoughts exactly. you should have been at the meeting man. the other options were even less, grammatically digestable. forgot what we had liaoz. but that was the exact comment i made regarding the initial suggestions. so be thankful for where we now stand..haha. but its a good slogon that they came up with though 'INS'. you're welcome to come up with new meanings to the abbreviations: P
yeah. people dun get it until they're in, but you can't tell them in their faces. making excusing will be too pathetic.
you should have seen everyone trying to hacking at the budget, but after they're in, they automatically started defending our savings and thought of ways make profit to add to it. that was priceless. its the path to learning i guess. but at least now we have more comrardes tresversing this difficult landscape with us.
anyway regarding the examples, you muz remember that the selection of admin was thru a relative democratically elected process. with ppl represening diff interest-indeed contradicting interest to maintain checks and balance. like our com from last year.
not enjoying the luxury of the rebel grp to selective leadership -> singular, efficient, expediated, dictatorial outcome. our com this year: P
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