See² started today.
It was fun for the most of the morning, when I had to romp around the LT@SRC just setting up the food and wearing a blazer and a long-sleeved collared shirt with a tie and just playing with the walkie-talkie. I like wearing formal attire. It makes me feel important, and I can roll up my sleeves and go “IT’S BUSINESS TIME!”
The tea was kind of bad which made me wonder why I decided to choose such bad choices of food (Baked Spinach Quiche, Mini Soon Kueh, Mini Cheese Bun etc etc). The packed lunch was surprisingly okay.
Meanwhile I’ve gotten the nickname of “childish” from Clarice because we were playing around with the talkies. I am such a wuss.
And the OPs room has a nostalgic look to it. Must be the way things are arranged.
On to serious stuff.
See²’s been an important part of my CCA life thus far. I’ve been a part of it for 5 years, and I can safely say that I’m a veteran at this. (hoho)
I’ve seen this event from various positions:
As a worker in Sec 1 and 3 (I will not label myself with something as demeaning as saikang), my primary motivation was just screwing around with Derek while preparing for the games and stuff. I had no real connection to the event.
As a participant in Sec 2, it was incredibly boring for me and I believe I bailed on the last day, which was quite honestly something I regret rather much.
As a facilitator in Sec 4, I wanted to see how it was like to facilitate. Primarily to meet people. I ended up neglecting my duties and going over to the people I knew most of the time, which is making me hate myself right now.
As a member of the Organising Team now, I wanted to help make this year’s See², well, “the best ever”. To make a terrific comeback. To raise a phoenix from the ashes. But we didn’t manage to.
Of course, as part of human nature, we blamed teachers for being too restrictive. While this was, in part, rather true, Li Sheng had a little talk with us during dinner. He said to us (directed at Ray Yan) that he talked with the previous OS (Chin Ying was there so it was rather funny) and the previous one and the one before that about the problem of See² being far too… redundant.
So we were all hunching at the food court, over plates of hokkien mee, spaghetti and char kway teow (the only things anyone ever eats there anyway), listening to his critical views.
At first I didn’t really believe that it was so. I mean, low participant counts are the teacher’s fault right? Then it hit me that, well, most participants were forced to join this and they don’t really gain anything from it since NOTHING ever gets solved anyway.
We were faced with 3 options for this problem: Fix it (what we’ve thought we’ve been doing), Ignore it (what we’ve actually been doing) or Kill it. We’ve been keeping See² afloat mainly because of a sense of duty, and not because of it main reason which was to create proposals to solve infocomm club problems. We’re trying to keep this afloat so as to hopefully have the same amount of fun we did as participants (which wasn’t actually a lot).
We had a general consensus (actually it was Li Sheng’s idea) that See² should actually grab a proposal (frankly all proposals are the same; camps, competitions, workshops), and make it a reality. Make it something that people would actually join to save their clubs, and not some ol’ get-together where everyone nods their heads and do nothing.
We also agreed (with Li Sheng’s view) that See² should move to a different location. Like a University, Polytechnic or a corporate location. This way we could appear more professional and get expert support at the same time.
If we’re desperate (seeing that participant counts are dropping like flies I can safely say that we should be desperate) we could move the OT entirely to the JC side completely considering that we’re the only people who know about this problem and actually care about it.
That guy’s a genius.
Still, I don’t think it’s a pity to have joined the See² OT. It is a pity only joining it this year and nothing much has been done, but it’s definitely not a shame. The people are sweet and I get to feel useful and professional. Haha. I’d clarify my words but my laptop’s out of battery and I can’t be assed to get my charger.
Sigh, it’s been a year already.
TL;DR: See² can be saved. But it’ll be hard.
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