mpx4_unite at... Saturday, September 15, 2007
Its time for me to blog again about what had happened so far in MPX IV.
Not too long ago, we had our first meeting on a saturday, meeting outside LT7A before proceeding to one of the tutorial rooms. A few people were late, and our dear treasurer, xinling, lost her way somewhere in architecture. I got to go fetch her in the end.. Haha.. but its okay.. if you're not from engine, you will probably not know where is LT7A just as i don't know where are the LTs in Arts. Haha.. We proceeded to self introduction where a metaphor describing ourselves was drawn on a piece of paper and everyone talked about why they wanna join this trip, their hopes and fears for this trip and also what they expect to gain out of the entire project. Joanne drew a very sophisticated drawing with a garden, food etc.. Xinling drew a dinosaur.. i drew a half filled cup and there were many others who drew very interesting drawings. Fun Ruey mentioned that wherever he goes, there will always be bad things happening.. hahaha.. so lets hope this wouldn't come true for the trip!! The objective of all these is to compare what you originally thought of this entire expedition with what you feel after the expedition and judged whether to see you are where you want yourself to be in the beginning. So here comes this philosophical statement, "The difference between where you are and where you wanna be is what you do to get there. "
We then proceeded downstairs to play a game called "Husband and wife". This game goes something like this, everyone would begin the game holding hands and standing in a circle facing inwards. The husband and wife would first start to walk around the circumference of the circle and once they tapped the hands of another couple in the circle, the two couples got to race in opposite directions to come back to the original spot of that couple whose hands were tapped, something like musical chair except there's no music. haha. So the couple who did not manage to make it back in time got to go and tap another couple and the game repeats itself. This is something that was very often played in Cambodia with the kids. And they really do run very fast, perhaps the only way to stop them from running so fast is to carry them and run! hahaha.
After the game which lasted for around 20 minutes, we proceeded back to our tutorial room where the whole project, MPX IV, was introduced to everyone. Pre-expedition, Expedition and Post-expedition commitments were briefed and roles were given out. The team was separated into 4 sub committees, 2 fundraising teams, 1 logistics team and 1 programs team plus a secretary, treasurer and photographer. Everyone then proceeded to discuss within their individual committees about what they are going to do and...
MPX IV IS BORN!!!
-Qiu Rong
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4:50 PM :D
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