I joined Arts From The Heart together with two of my friends Pau and Rui in NTU for the first year we join the school. Knowing that our life would be boring without a CCA, we chose CAC as it was the camp we kind of love it, especially the welfare. AFTH was chosen partially because our SA Yan Long did a good job in promoting during our times together in the orientation camp. Our dear OG mate, MeiYing also joined. We met our special partners and coincidentally they are involved. We wanted to contribute our part to the community and get to know more friends instead of the normal school routine.
We were first greeted by the chair and vice chair on the day we agreed to meet to interview us and got to know us better. We came in a package, want us or not. The interview din come to our expectation and we were chosen in 10 mins. I rmb clearly we talk about commitment and later we started talking cock. Rui and I were commenting on how rich our pau is and they just laughed. We had different roles but it did not matter as long as we were together, we ok de!
CHOP! AFTH COMMITTEE 2011/12 here we come.
Getting to know more friends actually worked out very well, till today I don't wish our committee would part. It was a time where we worked as a team, played hard in games and cheered for each other when we had our downs. It is more like my second family rather than my books, we cared, we shared and we dared.
I represented a business manager in part of the afth family. There were a total off 9 members but 5 were our so called seniors. Initially these 5 seniors were totally in their world while the freshie like me were not sure about what was happening. Minority like us were not experienced and shy a little so we just listen to orders. We were led pretty well thanks to our chief, allocating jobs, the proposals on different canvassing ideas and also our sponsorship. We manage to be the best so far, getting 31 sponsorships and a new record on our canvassing funds.
For the rest who are rerunning, i am sure they shared the same sentiment and feeling as me, hoping their presence will bring us together once again. I am sure most of them wants to voice out about their very own opinion about this but but, they chose not cos they are afraid they are wrong about the family.
We did lots of things together...
1. We had fortnightly meetings and almost all ended after 11.
2. When Garang Guni became a group work, without fail, some came late.. leave early??
3. Times at when guys are useful when carrying heavy things
4. Thinking of our very own highlight for very long.
5. Cracking our heads on the venue.
6. nvr fail to provide a birthday cake for the month
7. writing those little talks for the birthday guy or girl.
8. Our very own first interactive bonding session, where we had to play FOC games.
9. Pictures started to come in then.
10. Our very first representation of AFTH to CAC, where i was forced out to stage and act as a member of the formula 1 racer.
11. many were task to source the kampong cap!>
12. We were discussing on the importance of planning the highlight instead of small stuff like the games trail.
13. The confirmation of our AFTH's objective took quite a long time to settle.
14. and later we were questioning ourselves on the objectives whether we were meeting them.
15. Many canvassing ideas are coming through, Coffee tasting was the first.
16. We got the money in the envelope, but sadly we had to return to our treasurer the next day.
17. Our first AFTH main comm bonding session, KTV at Teo Heng, when most of them knows i stayed near there. 13 of them went to squeeze in Lilin's family car.
18. We had our first main comm meeting. where we see pau's add as friend tshirt.
19. We had our first interaction trail games for the sub comms
20. The encouragement given to our people when most of us are studying hard for exams.
21. Party after exam, most people can't wait for the next AFTH outing
22. GOSH it was my first time doing Garang Guni.
23. guys are relatively useful in carrying things while girls are better at asking the residents. We did ours at ANG MO KIO.
24. We met great friends there.
25. Our Canvassing funds were about 3000 then. Boss says garang guni was good, but not funds. Then we decided to hit a new record of 5 digits.
26. During our meetings, we nvr failed to stir some people and nvr failed to say on someone's stupidity.
27. Lao Ban's canvassing was great, we just sat there, and customers come, YR had done a significant part.
28. The programmers went to a camp which benefited them as a portfolio. The became more united then, haha, instead of quarreling during our main meetings. OOPs!
29. We made a surprise for Xinling's, a support not for the event but for her as our chair and representative of our identity, AFTH bond.
30. The new year began, our first task, an unshy PUBLICITY at Orchard, looking back, thinking what was i doing?
31-96. I am sure most of us have their own good and bad memorable 'thing' that makes us what we are today. Memories are meant to be there in your mind and heart and not written down.
97. went to the toilets at the swimming pool
98. The FOC was a great one, although we were separated, we are still the AFTH, celebrating YM's birthday although we were dead tired.
99. share the same profile pictures
100. We had an enjoyable time at Cynosure Ball. and Running man!
In the end just ask yourself what do you really want? Do u get a chance to work together again? or doing something new that interest you beats everything? Do u have a second chance to learn? and by rerunning, think of the happy times we had. this time it is still similar but slightly different witho t u.
we are not a good persuader but we wish you share the same sorrow some might feel.
