people who claimed we, the excos, are unproductive childish lot.
i heard that last year during my first year bearing the post of secretary. here we are trying our very hardest and our very best to organize some quality programmes and we got stamped unproductive. so what is productive?? are you productive enough to contribute ideas and suggest programmes or agendas that we can carry out for the benefit of others? and the person saying it doesn't even have the initiative to come and join our programmes. they would rather sit in their rooms and be as anti-social as can be. while on the other hand we are slogging through classes and assignments and we still have to organize programmes. why in the whole world are we doing it at all?
we can claim now that we managed to organize two creative thinking workshops, a collaboration with MUIS for Singapore Seminar and another with IMPIAN for an inter-faith preface and another with RSI for a forum.
even with these, they don't bother to come!!! because.....
people who want us to knee down and beg them to come to our programmes
this is the most favourite group i have ever come to know. we usually gave out handbills as invitations to our programmes. not only that, we wasted RM10 to top up the credit to sms to these people as reminders or in case they didn't get the handbills. and then surprise2 they claimed they didn't know anything about the programme!!! what the tooottt. and they have this inclination, that if they didn't get the handbill, they are not invited.
or favourite excuse, we have other important things to do. oh yeah, we forgot that the excos have tremendous free time to spare!! and they think they are smart beacuse they don't know how to manage their time.having saying that, i have to point out that there are people who couldn't come because of classes. that we are perfectly ok with that. but to those who doesn't want to come because they are too matured to join, i'm sorry we can't cater to your hormonal needs.
they never understand that we NEVER see them on campus, so how are we supposed to give them the handbills. sometimes, we passed it around to the others to pass to these unidentifiable people, and was that our fault if you didn't receive those pass-it-along handbills?? and then they have the cheek to feel disappointed with us! what the tooottt. reflecting back, do they even come if they do receive the stupid handbills? this come to another point which are...
people who doesn't appreciate the dissemination of information
they throw the handbills away. and to think we put extra effort to put in cool pictures and sometimes printed in colours, with the thought that they would take it as keepsakes, as reminders, that it would be nice enough to be pasted on their noteboards. but no. the most significant experience i had was the handbill was folded into a paperplane and was so appropriately thrown back at our table, which coincidentally the table was filled with 4 excos. what a pretty thoughtful sight. that was a sharp dagger right through the heart. we were trying our best to let every breathing -and- wasting person on earth get the information and this is what we get. how narrow minded some people are. at least if you don't want it, put it in the recycling bin, or pass it to the next person you meet!!
and then the smses!! this also became a problem to the united people of singapore. the favourite excuse would be they didn't get those smses. and then we found out that....
people who doesn't care to inform that they have changed their numbers
very intelligent lot these people are. they changed their number and they are just too forgetful to inform the excos about it. do we have to go to every person and ask 'have you changed your number lately, dear???' but hey wait, aren't you among the unidentifiable persons in iiu-land, dear?? i guess we'll try telepathic network, next time.
'tak cakap seyy!' 'tak tahu ppuuunnn!' 'takde orang cakap puun!' 'tak ajak ppuuun!' = i had enough of these beautiful proses. i'm so overwhelmed with the compliments.
people who are not serious about their tasks
sometimes they just have to be told. without having any initiative to do something and here i am doing the thinking. too much thinking at that. i was always thinking whether she got the prog-info, or whether they are included in yahoogroups, will they read the emails, will they be able to come?? why are they not coming?? and they might be some people who doesn't care less. like i've said a hundred times to make use of that stupid exco emails to remind people, but they just won't do it and then complain people are not paying the fees!!
and then there would be those who doesn't care what in the whole world is happening in the society!! they don't bother to come for meetings, they don't bother to ask what's happening. they just don't bother to do anything, can i tell you to just go jump and die? i can't. like the debate thingy. i tried hard looking for people, i cared about the debators wellbeing, i asked how they are going to be, i even ran to-and-fro from the booth to the canteen during lunch just to ask about them. where are the rest of the important people?? they don't even bother to ask about the outcome!!
people who have always been there
i am ever so grateful for the people who have never failed to come to our programmes and have always given us positive support! May ALLAH bless them ever. without them, our programmes wouldn't be a success. their presence are like flowers blooming in a desert of souls. being in a post for two years now, there had been some who have always been there for us and personally am grateful to them. i assure you there is nothing to lose in spreading some care and concern towards fellow scholars. having once in a while gatherings and have a talk about what is going on. i wish we could strengthen our ties more. but we cannot be too idealistic. i understand that now.
pardon me for letting these out but sometimes, things have to be let known or we might just perish with heartache. i'm no perfect person but sometimes efforts and hardwork pays. and a little interest that could bind us together. and these are my experiences having positions in some societies.
dont put the blame on the workload, blame your selfishness.
