We Are A01!

Annual Sports Meet 2006

On behalf of the NJC Aerius House Activities Team (HAT) and the 12 NJC 39th Student Council Aerius Councillors, I would like to extend a HUGE vote of thanks to all those (especially my dear A01 mates) that actually came down and stayed on to support AERIUS in the sports meet. I know we did not actually perform as well as we did during the Road Run, but all of us really appreciate the invaluable effort and loud cheering (despite our small size!) by you guys nonethless! Your presence, no matter how active or otherwise you were, certainly made a BIG difference for our house and school spirit! On the same note, I really hope that all of you will continue to support AERIUS in whatever upcoming inter-House events there are because no matter how much you may hate Aerius (I hope not!) or think that we're absolutely hopeless (we won our fair share of the pie too!), our life in NJC and thereby AERIUS is as good as we want it to be. If all of us put in effort to make it memorable, hyper and fun, it will certainly be so! So do continue to support us! Same goes to our senior class if you read this, 05A01! Cheering does wonders to relieve mugging stress!

On a more personal note, I would like to thank you guys once again for coming down, especially to (in alphabatical order) Bernice, Carmen, Chantalle, Desmond, Fadiah, June, Hong Yi, Hanson, Huiling, Hui Xian, Natania, Wang Mo and Weizheng as well as whoever whom I had missed out (so sorry!) for joining in and helping me in cheering for AERIUS, especially when it came to singing the Aerius House Song! We've shown that A01 is a class which is loyal and committed, definitely! For those who did not turn up for one reason or another (other than those excused by the school), I must admit in all honesty that I am somewhat disappointed because it did reflect rather badly on our class. You may argue that it's pointless, or that other classes had even far worse turn up, but you know that essentially you have chosen to do something which you know is not exactly the best thing to do and that those aforementioned reasons are but blatant excuses to worm our way out of something that is not directly nor tangibly beneficial to us. This is not a reprimand, but rather an urge to all of you to try and participate more in House activities and eventually College activities because the verve should not end at the class level itself! We were very enthusiatic during the first three months, and there's no reason why we can't be rah-rah as we used to be! Ultimately we must remember that we cannot be ego-centric because there's always a bigger picture, a greater stage out there which we all have a role to play in - and since most things in life are interdependent and symbiotic - it will eventually come back to us! Like a famouse adage says, a single thread in a tapestry plays an equally important role although its purpose may not be that obvious in a pattern of a grand design!

So as one of the last few words as your CT Representative, I humbly urge all of you to be more enthusiatic so that we can look back fondly some day at the 'good old days of past' which we all shared together as one class, one Aerius House and one NJC! And don't forget about who you want to elect as the new CT Rep and House Affiliate on Friday or so! I think it's high time for me to step down as CT Rep because with my new responsibility as EXCO Member and Honorary Secretary of the 39th Student Council, I am worried that I will not be able to serve you guys as a class well because A01 is such a great class and you guys do not deserve to be shortchanged! As for House Affiliates, it's a new system whereby a class "House Captain" would be democratically elected by the class themselves as with the CT Rep to facilitate and coordinate all inter and intra-House activities along with the main AERIUS HAT. This person should be responsible and rah-rah when it comes to such activities so elect wisely! The HATs of all houses are coming with new incentives and benefits for their fellow house members to fuel enthusiasm towards the House and eventually towards the College, and I can assure you that AERIUS falls nothing short!

On a side note, please cooperate with Serene for Cultural Mapping! And thos who have yet to hand in the travel indemnity form to Ms Suhaili, please do so ASAP - a nil reply is required even if you are not travelling out of Singapore during the June break.

Cheers and with much Love! (:

posted by Jafnie Ardie @ 8:15 AM