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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

well, since there is an order from our Chief Delegate...i have to post our discussion so far for more people to join in and give comments and ideas....synergy and energy.
all externals of rippleans as well as others are welcomed to join in our discussion and give suggestions.

WARNING: DUE TO SOME EXTENSIVE USAGE OF LANGUAGE, SOME CONTENT MAY HAVE BEEN CENCORED OR EDITED.

hey dudes,juz some suggestions. Since our group are this high quality, highenthusiasm people who just got back from Hong Kong, still suffering fromthe post cenference syndrome or watever u call it. and we are all stillsomehow a little bit inspired by the conference, does anyone have anyidea so that we might come out with some projects in @, so that wereally dun waste all the inspiration we got from the conference. coz ifwe do nothing after the conference and so many sleepless nites ofdiscussions the passion and fire will soon go down and i dun think thattime anyone would wanna do anything. its juz a suggestion. Show ppl welearned something from Ripples. I personally suggest we organise aconferecen( i like conference,im addicted to meeting people). tho itwill be abit of similar OC SK work, but i think it will benefiteveryone. can all enthu people give some replies or comments?? - Siew Yik

yeah! i want another conference! haha~ Cheryl

Haha,Another conference is good, I'll be free from Mid-May onwards after allmy FYP/Exams/Projects...A bit overloaded for now. ;)Maybe something small like "Problems and issues facing South Eeast Asia"?Just something for thought.Hee.. - Nic

i'd like to organise another conference too! but my involvement would really depend on the timeline, cos i'll be overseas from 2 may to 2 august. but it's definitely an idea we should consider seriously. keep the fire and passion going guys!!mx =)

Having a conference is a good idea. But i was thinking, what do we want to achieve by organising more conferences?? Is it juz only about meeting pple and having fun? I feel that the ultimate relevance of such conferences is to provide platforms for people to come together and exchange ideas. From these experience, we are able to formulate ideas on how we can improve our society. A good conference is an event where people learn more and are able and motivated to apply their knowledge to benefit the society. Period.
I'm keen on starting a conference but it must be of important themes and objectives. Or do u think it will be better if we can start applying what we learn in HK?? Like promoting entrepreneurship in Singapore? - Lun Kai

just to add: i agree with lunkai but i think it's not just about applying what we learnt in hk. the most important thing, IMO, is to centre the conference around an issue which is of high relevance in the singapore context. entrepreneurship is a good idea, but just that i feel that this issue has been overdone and over-discussed in singapore.i actually thought of politics in singapore and the region, but maybe that's too much of a sensitive topic to attempt. hmm. will try to come up with better ideas when i'm less sleepy! =Pmx =)

Cool man! I can see that our passion is placed into action! This thought just crossed my mind while typing the previous line. We can organise a conference/project called 'Passion in Action!' It will be a joint project by 3 LCs in Singapore and may be we can invite regional LCs to come together and work on a topic we are passionate about. Right now I can't really think of any projects/conferences to do. Oh yes I do have 2 ideas! One is PD! not PB. Was thinking it as a regional/international conference where LCs come together and discuss specifically about PD. Another one is Roof for All. This is to cater to people who do not have a roof over their head. We can do a project about it, to collect donations to help them for short-term, and at the same time probably provide them with some skills so that they can be employed, and this will hopefully solve the probs of the homeless people. But this project will be a more regional ones, as there are fewer homeless people here in singapore. What's your say? But I am currently down with another AIESEC proj in NTU. Hopefully can be free.. which I seriously doubt so. And for Teajoy, my lesson ends at 630, so will join you all straight at teajoy instead. Hopefully I won't miss the last train again. I still prefer this,PB

i agree with wanxin(i ll be nice for once, not calling her PB =Pp)
i seriously think SG needs a great revamp in the area of PD, which is much more established in other areas. like our member tracking system, is it for EBs to make a decision with? are the activities we plan enough to excite members, hence translates to higher member retention rate? have we been putting together a team with gd dynamics to the best of efforts? has the model adopted by AIESEC been communicated to all? lots of qns which i dun haf an ans and do not expect to have a straight answer.
and the area of passion, we can talk about passion. how to ignite passion? are there general rules in which we can do to ignite passion among members? and what are the elements tt keeps tt fire going on? its always based on the individual, but izzit based on team dynamics too? =) - Marcus

Hey all :) Wow I'm so proud of you all! Rippleans rock!
It's great to see such a high level of enthusiasm, passion, and the desire to create positive change for a better society. That's the AIESEC spirit man! See, that's what I mean when I say there's HUGE potential in the current members...yeah :) keep it up!
Ok about the conference.
YES we should organise a conference...i'm all for it! There should be more vibrancy in AIESEC rather than just the normal induction and NLDS. There should be conferences to address issues on a more specific level and to engage members. So YES organise a conference!
Next, the conference SHOULD be a collaboration btwn all 3 LCs. Firstly because Rippleans are from all 3 LCs, and because we can pool together more resources (both human capital and monetary) by involving all LCs and the 3 universities.
We can even learn from HKU and involve SNs as well! Especially since we all know how successful this year's SN recruitment is. (There are 100 over applicants, should be able to engage some of them)
With regards to the topic, I think we shouldn't focus on CSR and entrepreneurship cos these have been done too much already.
If we want to make it a regional conference, meaning Asia in general, we should identify a topic that wil be relevant to all AIESECers coming from the region.
PD might be possible...if we can do something like experience sharing from PD departments from LCs around the Asia.
I'm also thinking along the lines of coming up with a joint Development Traineeship for Asia as a whole - kinda like M.A.D. on a regional scale. Community service trips to Thailand, Vietnam, China are becoming so popular among students nowadays, so it might be a possible project.
That's all I can come up with now. Keep the ideas flowing! :)
Cheers,
Pam

i was thinking maybe we can start by revamping Jumpstart... Jumpstart is the event that all 3 LCs will definitely pariticipate in... Furthermore, it's the event where most fresh members will first attend and hence form an impression abt AIESEC. This way, we not only get to organise an event, but partially tackle the problem of PD as well... since many of us have ideas abt how to run a conference/camp/nlds... we can start by channeling those plans to creating a whole new jumpstart experience...Laura

yeah i agree that we should focus on themes like community service for Southeast Asia, especially promoting education. My idea is that we have a conference where we invite LCs from other countries to discuss about regional issues. It can be something like a starting point for @ers to embark on multi-national social projects.
great to see that everyone is so enthusiastic! keep the fire burning! carpe diem! - LunKai

wow, Lun Kai ur idea is cool....so the conference can be like each country rep presenting the problems in their countries......mayb we can even have something like comunity service projects around south east asia. wouldnt it be cool if our schedule is something like 2 weeks go malaysia and teach,after that 2weeks go thailand and teach,after that 2 weeks go myanmar and teach so on so on so on...then it would be an SEA thing....that sounded cool...but it is possible??or am i just dreaming??it requires lots of preparation and lots of planning before hand.comments anyone?? -SiewYik

Siew Yik, u are not dreaming! Our idea seems very ambitious but i believe it is achievable. The important thing is that we are committed and we can get committed @ers to join us!- LunKai

so i do a summary for all k?
Brainstorming Ideas:
1) Organising a conference
themes: Problems and Issues facing South East Asian Countries (Nic)
People Development (Marcus)
politics in SG and the region (Mei-xi)
Passion in Action (Wanxin)
Passion (Marcus)
MAD on regional scale (Pam)
CIP to thailand, china, vietnam (Pam)
promoting education in thailand, china, vietnam (Lunkai & Siew Yik)
2) Improving on Jumpstart and NLDS (Laura)
Execution style to be overhauled and OC should be conducting the sessions too.
Marcus Chia Xiquan

True True! AIESEC is truly THE PLACE for us to realise wildest dreams we have to change the world! Bring on the passion man! Yoohoo! So glad I stepped into this correct boat! Still in PHD,PB

My thought led me on and on.. What is the ultimate source for poverty? Money? Definitely not if you just outright donate it to the poor. Education? Yes it equips the person with the suitable skills for employment. But he can only break free of the poverty cycle if the society has an established economy that is in need of large quantity of workers, blue or white collar. How about for countries which do not have economy? It may be hard to imagine this. Allow me to tell my teacher's XP of doing comm service at Nepal as a teacher. The parents spent almost every cent of their meagre earning to support their children to school. They believe that education is the way out for their children. But sadly, the town has no economy at all. Like people only use their money to purchase food and that's all. (They are using barter trade still, if I am not wrong. If I wasn't hallucinating, I believe my teacher told us that some of the parents pay school fees using cows or other farm produce..). So, even with education, there'll be no one there to employ them. Unless they go far far away. Ok.. enough story told. Basically the point is, there're more problems to solve than just education. Poverty is a long deep multi-causal problem, as we all should have realised long time ago. Do we want to stay at the shallower but easier and more manageable level? Or do we want to go all the way to the core (if we can even do that). Like discover more layers of the problems then come up with a more probable set of solutions? If my humble ideas are accepted, I was thinking that we can first have a conference to discuss poverty, then it may spin off to be numerous pbox projects targeting at different problems to poverty! hehe wild dreams spinning its way! Hopefully wan xin is making sense.Oh my gosh.. it's the first mass mail that EVERY RIPPLEAN replied! Synergy! Empowerment! Next point, I was thinking if we can discuss about our great ideas at the blog instead? So that the rest of the OCs can be involved as well. And furthermore, external people like LCPs MCs and EBs may be able to join in and give valued suggestions! OK? Once again, the blog add is http://ocakask3.blogspot.com/. Still in PHD,PB

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