how to make us attached?

Don't be misguided by my title. I'm not saying anything related to BGR, i mean how to make us attached to a cca

This afternoon i went to help the maths trail competition. What i did was mainly timing the contestants. the task was not tough or tiring at all. however, i still felt unhappy about it. in another word, i'm not feeling like doing such stuff for mac. furthermore, quite a number of my friends did not turn up for this club activity. i became one of the very few non-exco j2 members present today. this makes me even more indignant, needless to say that i had to stay back until 530, half an hour later than the plan.

I know such thing is too trivial to be mentioned. On the other hand, it is also my obligation to contribute to my ccas, whether it's my major one or a minor. This sounds as if i dun hav any complaints about my PA stuff. is it? i seriously doubt.

Am i committed to PA? Apparently yes. At least I did quite a number of stuff in the past year. However, i did so much because i love to do or it is my responsibility to do? it seems that i'm more inclined to accept the latter explanation. my peers trusted me. they elected me. then i cannot let them down. that's the reason why i work for PA. Maybe my relative competence in PA was the reason why i was elected, but certainly not the reason i worked for PA.

So what is my role in PA? a leader that leads PA to a new stage? probably not. when i was running for exco last year, the ex-president asked me to define PA in Q&A session. I replied that PA is a group of servants. In my opinion, we, as PAers, should serve the school, be supporters in various occasions, and do nothing extra else. anything beyond my defined work scope is not PA's business.

After i was elected as the human resource manager, PA has become what i expected to be. Members were not informed of the duties unless i messaged to ask them to sign up. In Fed or march this year, quite a number of juniors asked me whether they still stay in PA because they had been not involved in any PA activities for long. This was simply because I did not have many duties for them.

So should PA become a cca like this, an event, or let say, duty-orientated one? My intuition tells me it is not a desirable way. However, i have been doing so since I was elected.

I dare to say my way of running the cca is and will still be an effective way, especially concerning the fact that PA is mostly made up of PRC scholars. Quoted from Wang Ren, PRC scholars are generally "individualistic". i totally agree with him. Therefore, i try to make PA easy for members. I have duties, i need you, then i call you. If i dun have, do whatever you like, i dun disturb you. everyone is satisfied. no one wastes his time.

then bonding neh?

At the beginnnig of this year, samual tan, the new teacher in charge of PA told us exco to change PA, from a school-supporting cca, into a club that has its own activities for all the members. Then he proposed that we organised some activities to bond the club members. I strongly opposed his idea. STRONGLY. I told him if we have too many activities, we may scare away our members. Actually i was more concerned about the PRCs. From my experience, we are quite materialistic. If I have concrete stuff to do, i may take it; if asked to go out for some activities to strengthen so-called bonding, i probably won't give a damn. Other than going out with those cca mates, i'd rather hang out with my intimate friends, or play computer or watch soaps.

In my view, it's almost a mission impossible to make a prc scholar to be attached to a club. maybe performing arts groups could be the exceptions. However, this is mainly because they have to practise a lot for their concerts and SYFs. it's sort of they are forced to interact with the cca mates. Yet, in many more ccas, i can't even find such external force to initiate the interaction, and then bonding becomes more unlikely. Furthermore, the situation seems deteriorating for the performing arts ccas. i heard that many juniors are already skipping the practice sessions for their concert. Next year, when the SYFs come, will they put in full effort, while PEARLS points are no longer concerned?

I feel very sad that i'm still in search of a way to make me to be attached to a club... could someone tell me?


P.S. In case you wonder why i suddenly blog in english. it's simply because I need to practise my english as my GP really CMI since this year.