HI HH!!! No, we're not dead, merely slightly knocked out from the all-too-recent Promos. Unfortunately for us and fortunately for you, our horsey house never stops being happening~~ Promos may be over but IHC SPORTS is coming up!!!! IHC Sports is so epic that it gets a bigger font (even though 3 days only lah, but still).
It doesn't take a H3 Math student to know that we're currently lying in 5th position. Does this mean we've been the worst house through and through for the whole of 2009? THIS ISN'T TRUE. It merely means that we made little boo-boos in Orientation and IHC Aesthetics, and with IHC Aesthetics' buff and manly elder take-steroids-every-day brudder, IHC SPORTS, coming up, the race is very much open.
"Okay", you may say, "why should I care about HH?? HH SUX LIEK S***." If you're one of the 0.000012135245% of HHians who think that way, by all means, take IHC Sports as an opportunity to showcase your talents and play sports that you would otherwise never have the opportunity to play in, with a chance to win FAME, GLORY, and most importantly, "IHC CHAMPION" T-SHIRTS. So that's why you should sign up!
Yet the other 99.999987864755% of us know that IHC is above individual glory. It's about proving once and for all that HH isn't half as bad as people make us out to be. Maybe you maintain that you don't feel for the house, but surely you feel a twinge of annoyance when someone carelessly says that "HH iz 4 nubs u gg". Maybe you claim that the house system doesn't mean anything, but then you are lying. Everyone regards the house system with some seriousness whether they know it or not. When you walk around school wearing a HH PE T-shirt, being a member of HH will be all you appear to people who don't know you. If you hang out at the HH House 'Ome every single morning, people will - whoops, we don't have an 'Ome anymore, bad example.
And because of this, we at the House D and House Comm feel that we all have a stake in IHC, and this is hence an appeal to YOU to sign up for IHC Sports events! You don't have to be Buff, Strong, or Handsome - though these would of course help. The only thing you need is your name, your class, your preferred events, and a pen.
Seeya at the sign-up boards!
Signing off,
your favourite (and only) House Directorate
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Friday, October 09, 2009
end of hiatus
woohoo! finally finished promos (:
promos was a rather stressful period this year. more stressful than CTs definitely 'cause the mugging materials doubled. but i'm quite glad with the way i've done. (:
but now that promos is done, everything's back. YAH meetings, council work, pw... rarh. but at least it's a little more interesting than mugging. (:
anyway had some leadership workshop today. wasn't really looking forward to it. would have preferred staying in the chalet and playing cards but it was very worth it in the end. haha. we had lots of fun and learnt loads. let me try to remember as much as i can (:
hmm.
i thought the first speaker was quite impressive. haha. he was rather humourous and he kind of connected with us. and his joke on his bald head was really funny haha.
anyway, i was quite impressed by the 5 stages of leadership and how positional leadership is the first stage of leadership but the worst form of leadership. I think I'm in the second stage, the permission part. haha. but it's really interesting. eric feng talked about it later on too so i guess it's important.
another thing that impressed me was how he could spot people's personalities so accurately, especially sixuan omgg. he basically split people up as extroverts and introverts and then split each group into 2 further groups. It's quite scary how he predicted the way we behave so quickly. but i guess that's how first impression works. but at the same time, i think people don't stay in one group forever. i'm not sure about others but i change when i'm with different people. usually, with familiar people, especially guys, i'm an extrovert. i just feel more confident when i do stuff with people i'm familiar with. or if i'm with introverts, then i become more of an extrovert. it's quite weird sometimes haha. it's like in my current class, i'm considered a complete extrovert when in fact i'm usually not. i guess jun sheng feels the same way too. but if i'm with people i'm not so familiar with, i'm usually an introvert, the more friendly type. haha. i like to lead by serving. it just makes you feel good. that's the way i worked in CO and still the way i usually work in council. i like the feeling of helping people out. (: and when i'm by myself, i'm a complete introvert who, like Gordon said, would stare at the lift maximum weight and maximum no. of people and divide the 2 numbers to get the average weight. damn. hahaha. and i'll always think of things in a very logical way, too robotic at times for my own good. haha. a bit similar to kenneth.
then he mentioned about time management and the must do, should do, can do and why do-s. haha. i guess it's kind of true that we always do the must do and why do but we never do the should do until they become must do. that's the way i do things too. pw's the best example
the second speaker, eric feng, was very good too. he talked about many of his personal stories like how he used to fail at public speaking and how someone inspired to become who he was today. and he kept talking about his girlfriends hahahaha. so funny. and of course the story of how he motivated his indian friend. and oh the story of the strongest dad. that was quite inspirational too.
anyway a few things i really thought were very inspiring...
1. leaders need lots and lots of energy. i think that's really true and i lack it sometimes 'cause of lack of confidence. once again, it depends on who i am with.
2. then he talked about visions and how they shouldn't be long-winded and stuff. i guess that's very true. i keep saying that i try to make my trainings (in sec4) fun so that people will enjoy coming for prac but he said that if your vision is to have fun trainings, then the vision is set is wrong. it's kind of true that the long statements on visions are better stated in a few words like "healthy fast food".
3. another very true things is how people love attention. haha he thought two brilliant ways of continuing awkward conservations through "tell me more" and parroting which we just can't stop parodying haha. so funny... i guess i'm rather good at this somehow haha.
and then mr. lan's talk was quite okay bah. haha i kept laughing and smiling omgg.
hmm oh and i really want to learn the way the 2 keynote speakers today spoke. i remember learning loads about eye contact the other time in the YAH training. That was really helpful. Eric mentioned today about imagining yourself being rooted to the ground and that the roots grew to all 4 corners of the room and that the nervousness keeps going downwards. haha hope it works for me 'cause when i speak, my voice is usually okay but my hands will shake like crap. and i have to reduce my pause fillers omg.
oh and i realize good public speakers share a lot of their personal experiences. haha it somehow makes people connect.
then, he mentioned about the importance of making a good first impression by knowing how to connect with people by being interested in whatever they do and connecting with them through prior knowledge and the 4 techniques of elevate and AHHH crap forgot the other 3. go ask kenneth yong lol.
okayy that's all for now. bye.
PATRICK
promos was a rather stressful period this year. more stressful than CTs definitely 'cause the mugging materials doubled. but i'm quite glad with the way i've done. (:
but now that promos is done, everything's back. YAH meetings, council work, pw... rarh. but at least it's a little more interesting than mugging. (:
anyway had some leadership workshop today. wasn't really looking forward to it. would have preferred staying in the chalet and playing cards but it was very worth it in the end. haha. we had lots of fun and learnt loads. let me try to remember as much as i can (:
hmm.
i thought the first speaker was quite impressive. haha. he was rather humourous and he kind of connected with us. and his joke on his bald head was really funny haha.
anyway, i was quite impressed by the 5 stages of leadership and how positional leadership is the first stage of leadership but the worst form of leadership. I think I'm in the second stage, the permission part. haha. but it's really interesting. eric feng talked about it later on too so i guess it's important.
another thing that impressed me was how he could spot people's personalities so accurately, especially sixuan omgg. he basically split people up as extroverts and introverts and then split each group into 2 further groups. It's quite scary how he predicted the way we behave so quickly. but i guess that's how first impression works. but at the same time, i think people don't stay in one group forever. i'm not sure about others but i change when i'm with different people. usually, with familiar people, especially guys, i'm an extrovert. i just feel more confident when i do stuff with people i'm familiar with. or if i'm with introverts, then i become more of an extrovert. it's quite weird sometimes haha. it's like in my current class, i'm considered a complete extrovert when in fact i'm usually not. i guess jun sheng feels the same way too. but if i'm with people i'm not so familiar with, i'm usually an introvert, the more friendly type. haha. i like to lead by serving. it just makes you feel good. that's the way i worked in CO and still the way i usually work in council. i like the feeling of helping people out. (: and when i'm by myself, i'm a complete introvert who, like Gordon said, would stare at the lift maximum weight and maximum no. of people and divide the 2 numbers to get the average weight. damn. hahaha. and i'll always think of things in a very logical way, too robotic at times for my own good. haha. a bit similar to kenneth.
then he mentioned about time management and the must do, should do, can do and why do-s. haha. i guess it's kind of true that we always do the must do and why do but we never do the should do until they become must do. that's the way i do things too. pw's the best example
the second speaker, eric feng, was very good too. he talked about many of his personal stories like how he used to fail at public speaking and how someone inspired to become who he was today. and he kept talking about his girlfriends hahahaha. so funny. and of course the story of how he motivated his indian friend. and oh the story of the strongest dad. that was quite inspirational too.
anyway a few things i really thought were very inspiring...
1. leaders need lots and lots of energy. i think that's really true and i lack it sometimes 'cause of lack of confidence. once again, it depends on who i am with.
2. then he talked about visions and how they shouldn't be long-winded and stuff. i guess that's very true. i keep saying that i try to make my trainings (in sec4) fun so that people will enjoy coming for prac but he said that if your vision is to have fun trainings, then the vision is set is wrong. it's kind of true that the long statements on visions are better stated in a few words like "healthy fast food".
3. another very true things is how people love attention. haha he thought two brilliant ways of continuing awkward conservations through "tell me more" and parroting which we just can't stop parodying haha. so funny... i guess i'm rather good at this somehow haha.
and then mr. lan's talk was quite okay bah. haha i kept laughing and smiling omgg.
hmm oh and i really want to learn the way the 2 keynote speakers today spoke. i remember learning loads about eye contact the other time in the YAH training. That was really helpful. Eric mentioned today about imagining yourself being rooted to the ground and that the roots grew to all 4 corners of the room and that the nervousness keeps going downwards. haha hope it works for me 'cause when i speak, my voice is usually okay but my hands will shake like crap. and i have to reduce my pause fillers omg.
oh and i realize good public speakers share a lot of their personal experiences. haha it somehow makes people connect.
then, he mentioned about the importance of making a good first impression by knowing how to connect with people by being interested in whatever they do and connecting with them through prior knowledge and the 4 techniques of elevate and AHHH crap forgot the other 3. go ask kenneth yong lol.
okayy that's all for now. bye.
PATRICK
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