AIESEC in NUS Blog

Quick Update

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Nabeel Khalid | Year 2 NUS | Year 2 AIESEC | NUS Branding & Communications Coordinator

I thought I'd make just a quick update... Yesterday we held a welcome dinner (thanks to Cathy for organizing it) for the new trainees that had arrived - one through an NUS and the other through an NTU account. A bunch of us were there to finally meet up with Anna and Aiina (I don't think I spelt that right!).

A lot has been going on within the various executive committees. Asia Pacific Regional Transition, MC Transition and of course, LC Transition. Now we'll have the upcoming National Planning Conference 2008 (NatPlanCon08) over the course of two weekends as most of us have internships or jobs (that means both Saturday and Sunday also busy, yes). We're also having departmental trainings and meetings - a lot of them this weekend in fact.

There should be some pictures appearing somewhere with a link in an email or on Facebook, and as soon as I get them I'll post them up here. So check back soon!

Labels: AIESEC, NatPlanCon07, NUS, Training, Transition, Welcome Dinners

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36th Annual General Meeting 2007-08

Monday, March 31, 2008

Nabeel Khalid | Year 2 NUS | Year 2 AIESEC | NUS Branding & Communications Coordinator

AIESEC in NUS has been alive since 36 years? What!?

You know, some faculty members dropped by GV and they said they remembered AIESEC from when they were students at NUS - and these faculty members were quite advanced.

Okay coming back to AGM (Annual General Meeting) - what was it about?

In a nutshell, it is a formal event (everyone wears coats and ties!) where the successes of the past year are celebrated in the presence of all the stakeholders of AIESEC in NUS. People such as Dr William Koh, a professor in the NUS School of Business, who is our teacher advisor was also present there, along with people from the MC team. There is always a speech from the incoming and outgoing president. The outgoing executive board (EBs) are bid farewell and the incoming EBs are welcomed.

This year, after Imran's introduction, it started with Mayas Singh's speech introducing AIESEC Singapore.(FYI, Imran was last year's President of AIESEC in NUS and Mayas is the incoming president of AIESEC Singapore). LCP Shubhangi Faujdar talked about some of the major accomplishments that were made by members in the past year, followed by department updates from the Incoming Exchange and Outgoing Exchange LCVPs Ashwin and Song Jie, respectively.

Jiuyu who had recently returned from a conference in Japan called APXLDS had a lot of things to share, as she made her brilliant speech. It was followed by Adrian's brief on the Finance Workshop where he clearly identified the reasons why "Strategic Investment: A Practitioner's Approach" was such a cool name for the Finance Workshop. He went on to further introduce the prominent figures of Singapore that were involved in the workshop by showing some pictures from the events.

Snigdha then spoke about the PBoX (Project Based on Exchange) that she and Vasudha have been working on and shared some of the things each and everyone of us can do to save the environment. It was followed by my slideshow presentation about GV and I suppose you can read the previous post to know more about it and see more pictures too.

Henri came on stage as Honorary General Secretary to announce awards for the members. Dr William Koh, our guest of honour, was invited to give them out. Adrian (our incoming Finance VP for 2008-09) bagged two awards, while ICX bagged the best department award. There were no nominations for the best dancer award among new members so no award was given out (I think Shubhangi's superior dancing skills overshadow potentially good dancers).

Here are the details of the Rewards and Recognition (R&R) 2007/2008:

LC Best Department Award
Incoming Exchange

LC Leadership Award
Chang Siew Yik

LC Member Excellence Award
Justine Lim Shi Wan

LC Best New Member Award
Zhou Jiuyu

LC Best Team Player Award
Adrian Ong Liang Kiat

OGX Department Excellence Award
Teo Kah Ming

ICX Department Excellence Award
Meet Shroff

ER Department Excellence Award
Tan Yanling

Finance Department Excellence Award
Adrian Ong Liang Kiat

PD Department Excellence Award
Hanna Khalid

Service Department Excellence Award
Tye Mei Peng

LC Mr. Candor Award
Nabeel Khalid

LC Best Dancer (Seniors) Award
Shubhangi Faujdar

LC Most Enthu (Seniors) Award
Cathy Chan

LC Most Enthu (New Members) Award
Wenny Natalia

The outgoing EBs held a special introduction ceremony for the new EBs who are a crazy bunch of people (myself included - in both categories!). It must have been quite a sight for the audience to see the entire leadership of AIESEC in NUS for two years on stage.

Siew Yik had some words to share about what his focus as next year's LCP would be. Imran did the closing after which everyone ~~ran~~ headed out to eat and drink (and be merry). Some people were surprised there were no curry puffs, which is like, tradition for such events because of budget constraints, but the food was really expensive tasting (that means it was good). Most members didn't bother coming, which is okay because we had a lot to eat that way. Haha!

Unfortunately, we didn't take many pictures but you can see the pictures that we did take by clicking here.

Labels: 2008, AGM, Annual General Meeting, Awards, New Member Excellence, NUS, Rewards, RnR, Transition

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Executive Board Applications 2008-09 Open!

Monday, February 11, 2008

Chang Siew Yik | Year 2 NUS | Year 2 AIESEC | NUS Vice President of People Development

Hey AIESEC!!

How have your involvement in AIESEC so far?
How have your past 6 months of AIESEC Experience been?
Are you ready to go on to the next stage?
Are you willing to take up the challenge?
Are you looking up for further opportunities?

NUS EB 0809 applications are now open !!
For further information, please visit the link below
http://myaiesec.net/content/viewwiki.do?contentid=10004965#

Deadline: 19^th February 2008, 23:59hrs

Also, fill up the Senior member progression questionnaire to tell us how YOU would like to be involved and how the EB team of 0809 can support your learning and development !

Download the Senior Progression Questionnaire via the following link.
http://myaiesec.net/content/viewfile.do?contentid=10004956

Send your EB application or senior member progression questionnaire to chang86yik@gmail.com.

For any queries, kindly contact chang86yik@gmail.com or shubhangifaujdar@gmail.com for more information.

Labels: 2008, Applications Open, EB application, Senior Member Progression, Transition

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Like, wassup?

Thursday, July 05, 2007

More than half the vacations are through by now - Western and Asian nations have agreed to end 'green imperialism' together after accusing each other for the alarming change in climate the world over, Gaza journalist Alan Johnston was released after being kidnapped for 114 days, some Mexican Mr Slim managed to get a wallet fatter than Bill Gates', Apple released the first generation of the new iPhone, and smoking was banned in clubs in Singapore and UK - but where is AIESEC? Is AIESEC dead?

No! It's alive! It's very, very alive. Things have been happening. Plans have been made. Actions have been taken. Lists have been made. People have been contacted. Things are in motion. Things are happening.

Wait, what are you even talking about?

Okay, so the vacations began somewhere around May 7, 2007. That is when AIESEC in NUS started having its LC Transition...

Err, what is "LC transition"?

Local Committee transition. AIESEC in NUS is a local committee of AIESEC Singapore, which is a member of AIESEC International. The two levels of hierarchy here are the Member Committee (the national team) and the Local Committee (the local team within the university). LC Transition happens every year when a new team comes in and takes over the previous team's achievements. It involves sharing experiences, passing on important information and statistics, and a whole lot of learning.

The old team... (They had black and white cameras back then!)

Are we clear on the transition part? What followed next was LC Planning. The learning continued as the entire team went through the process of planning activities and events for the next year. Each department head analyzed the previous year's plan, recognizing strengths and weaknesses in their implementation, and making other observations before making their own plans.

Trying to get a picture after LC Planning at NUS Biz without the lamp ruining the picture.

Both these activities occurred over a period of two weeks, taking up as much as every evening of the week as well as entire weekends. On occasion, we had an external or two over to train us. It sounds hectic, but it had been a great learning experience, and also a lot of fun!

It might be noted here that similar activities were taking place in AIESEC Singapore's other LCs - namely NTU and SMU.

That was like, local or LC work... what about activities on the national level?

I was coming to that. But let me first mention here that the national team (MC team) went to Malaysia to attend the first ever AP MC Transition. "AP" is short for Asia Pacific, and this is the first time there was a regional event concerned with regional planning, coordination and strategy.

Our MC team in Malaysia chilling with other MCs from all over Asia Pacific.

So that was the international level. On the national level we had what has been dubbed as "NatPlanCon07" or National Planning Conference 2007. It has been recurring every year as AIESECers in leadership positions map out the national plan to be implemented in the upcoming year. Each department in the LC liaises with, and takes direction from a member of the national team throughout the year, so whatever plans one has within an LC need to take place in coordination with the national plans. The event or conference aims to jump-start that process over a period of two successive weekends. This year it took place at NTU's Student Activity Centre (SAC), and the national team graciously sponsored the stay for all the EBs in NTU halls through these two weekends.

The MC team members had explored Singapore from different perspectives, and they shared their learnings with everyone during the early sessions in their presentations. It helped everyone know how AIESEC is relevant to Singapore and to understand local realities. The most amazing thing we learnt was that AIESEC is relevant to almost each and every industrial classification in Singapore!

Sharon talking about past year's goals.

Various workshops and sessions were held throughout NatPlanCon07, each aimed at a different aspect. There were LC presentations for everyone to understand LC realities. There were departmental presentations for everyone to understand what the various departments had planned to do for the next year.

The most fun part of the conference - and this, I believe, would be unanimously agreed upon - was the gossip box.

The gossip box?

A box containing random squabbles from random people, about random stuff. At the end of the conference an R&R (Rewards and Recognition) was held, and Siew Yik (AIESEC in NUS Vice President People Development) was presented with the "Most Scandalous" award. There was quite a lot of shocking stuff written about him - love affairs with girls and even guys! (Disclaimer: The word "gossip" entails that the content is not factual.)

Anything else?

JumpStart 2007 is also a national conference that will be taking place in September to induct new AIESEC members in Singapore, and the marketing team has been working really hard to get sponsors, as other departments also carry on their good work. Do click here to check out what's new on JumpStart 2007.