Weekly Updates #14

Dear Exco,

Focus on this week’s weekly update will be on our upcoming tea session with the principal. Hope to see you all there.

Hi Kent,
Can let me know who from the Exco will be coming for the meeting?

Ms Siau,
Me, QX and Xavier have discussed on Sat. Agenda of the meeting will be:

- Introduction of Exco Member and their roles
- Presentation on Alumni’s role in serving the AJ community (by me and Qixiang)
- Dialogue session
- End of tea session

I’ll drop Ms Leong an email shortly. From a personal perspective, I expect the tea session to start at abt 7.45pm, the presentation to end by 8.30pm and the dialogue session to end at 9.30pm. I’ll present till “Other Ongoing Events/ Processes” and will leave Qixiang to talk about the “Underlying Philosophy of AJCAA” (as shown in the slides).

Can I have Internet access during the presentation? I’ll like to show case the AJCAA blog and Facebook group during the presentation.

If Ms Leong will like a copy of the slides, please send a copy to her.

Qixiang,
Please confirmed with Reimin on the CIP stuff. If there’s anything else to amend or add to the slides, please make the changes and send me the amended slides. Will look through them on Fri.

See you all on Friday!

Best Regards,
Keith

Night Cycling June 2008 - Night Sights*

AJCAA recently held it's second night cycling trip in six months; this time around, it's aptly titled "Night Sights!" as we cycled past the evening skyline that lighted up the sky. Below is the afterthought by one of the Night Cycling Crew - Ms. Sabrina Ng.
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Cycling on the roads at night,
Enjoying the breeze,
Exploring Singapore’s beautiful night sights- Singapore Flyer, Esplanade, Sentosa,
Fulfilling supper, chit-chat and photo-taking at Lau Pa Sat,
Games under the stars at Vivocity...

All of these with a great company of friends.

Indeed, such an opportunity is hard to come by. But 38 of us who were at the night cycling did all of the above, with loads of fun.

Night Cycling 2008 - Night Sights - was successfully held on 6 June and the event was well received by ex-AJCians from various batches. There were many who brought their non-AJ friends along as well, immersing them in our alumni's activities and thoroughly enjoying it themselves. Blessed with lovely weather throughout the night, all of our participants managed to complete the entire 33.37 km route without any problems.

The trip from East Coast Park to Sentosa was made possible with our team of organizing committee and facilitators from batches 04/05, 05/06 and 06/07. Special thanks to them for their dedication, time and effort in ensuring the smooth execution of the event. These dedicated crew are Marcus, Tony, Nellyn, Meiying, Joycelyn, Pei Shan and Daniel, accompanied by the following facilitators - Henrietta, Huizhen, Siti, Chengfeng and Jiaying. Thank you all, once again. It was a memorable time organizing the night cycling trip.

We would also like to thank a couple of experienced cyclists whom we met at East Coast Park who volunteered to act as safety marshals, making our night cycling trip a safer one for all of us. Thank you Joel, James, Raymond and Nicholas for helping us out.

Along with that, the silent yet omnipresent safety drivers - Kiat Meng and Siau Hui. These two drivers made the sacrifice and ensured that things were running smoothly. We would like to thank the alumni president and his wife for gracing the event and helping us out in numerous ways.

For those who were present at the event, we thank you for your support and we hope that you had as much fun as we did. I’m sure all of us who were present would agree that it was a great night of making new friends, catching up, fun and laughter.

For those who were unable to join us this time round, we would love to see you guys at our future events!

By - Sabrina Ng.

Weekly updates #13

Dear Excos,

Apologies for the late email sent for last week. Last few days have been pretty hectic for me and yes, I know that the next update is 2 days away.

Can someone (Qixiang or Kent) give me a feedback on how many tutors have registered with us for the tutoring program? Looking at the Facebook event response seems like we only have a few people who are willing to tutor the juniors.

For the Bursary application, so far Siauhui has not received any applications yet. If the responses are so poor, guess we can call off or postpone giving the award this year.

The night cycling event 2 weeks ago was a success. Kudos to the organizing team and the facilitators! I didn’t join the cycling but was with the cyclists as the safety driver and can see that everyone had plenty of fun that night. J

Can Sabrina or Marcus get someone to do a writeup for our 2^nd night cycling event and post it on the blog? The pictures Siauhui took that night has been uploaded on Flickr, link attached below:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27343564@N03/

If any of the cyclists has any more pictures, please feel free to post it up on the blog.

Best regards,

Keith

President

Weekly updates #12

Dear Exco,

Our night cycling is this evening. If you all can make it, please attend to show your support. Me and Siauhui will be there.

Believe you all have received Siauhui’s email on what she has done in building the AJCAA blog. Please support accordingly by providing more photos and writeups.

We’ll discuss more on the follow up actions when the minutes and draft presentation (for the principal’s tea session) is ready.

Have a great weekend.

Best regards,

Keith

President

Join Our Juniors in Serving the Community - "Touch Run"

A Service-Learning project organized by class 09/08 to raise funds for TOUCH Young Arrows (TYA), under TOUCH Community services.

Details of the run are as follows:

Date: 3rd August 2008 Sunday

Time: 8am

Venue: East Coast Park (Marine Cove)

The available categories, together with their registration fees, are as follows:

(1) - Children (14 and under): $8

(2) 5km run: $15

(3) 10km run: $25

(4) 21km run: $30

All proceeds will go towards TOUCH Young. TYA reaches out to children from single-parent or low-income families in our society. It provides several services such as tuition and lessons to realize the potential of the less well-off children. To find out more about TOUCH, visit their corporate website at www.tcs.org.sg.

Your donations will go a long way in helping them to fulfil their aims. Please give them your kind support and make this charitable event a success.

Free shirts and drinks will be provided on that day. Do bring your families and friends down and have an enjoyable Sunday morning while running for a good cause!

Do log on to the official website: www.touchrun.com for more details and updates. Registration can be done online and it has started today until 4th July.

AJCAA Alumni Tutoring Programme 2008

Ever wonder what it would have been like if someone were there to give you a little support in the exams battle?

Since the introduction of the tutoring programme in 2006, we have helped over 40 students who were in need of academic support.We are now looking for volunteers to tutor the current students who will be taking their ‘A’ levels this year. Interested ex-AJCians would be invited for an appraisal. Testimonials and tokens will be awarded at the end of the programme.

28 Jun 2008: Deadline for the recruitment of tutors

12 Jul 2008: Briefing by AJC teachers on the new subjects’ syllabus

26 Jul – 25 Oct 2008: Commencement of the AJCAA Tutoring Programme (Sessions are conducted on every Saturday from 9am to 12pm in the Reading Room)

Contact: Kent Teo (HP: 91918526) / Qi Xiang (HP: 91783270)

"Non Mihi Solum"

AJCAA Undergraduate Bursary 2008

Anderson Junior College Alumni Association (AJCAA) Undergraduate Bursary Award was set up in 2005 with the support of the college, as well as our alumni. The awards are meant to assist former students of AJC who require financial assistance for their full-time undergraduate studies. The institution of the award amplifies the college motto of "Non Mihi Solum" where members of the AJC family step forward to help out a fellow member in need.

Anderson Junior College Alumni Association bursaries are meant to assist former students of AJC who require financial assistance for their full-time undergraduate studies in Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore or Singapore Management University.

Each award is valued at SGD$1500 and up to 3 awards can be given every year. Since its institution, 2 ex-AJCians have already received the awards.

For more info, please go to http://www.ajcaa.com/privileges.php?r=bursary

We need your help!

If you wish to donate, do feel free to send your cheque to:

Anderson Junior College Alumni Association
4500 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6
Singapore 569843

Please address your cheque to "AJC Alumni Association"

For any enquiries, feel free to contact us at info@ajcaa.com

Night Cycling 2008

AJCAA night cycling is here again! This time, it's bigger, longer and a way lot better!

Traveling from the East Coast Park all the way to Vivocity, we'll love to have you join us on this 33.37km journey. (:



Just for your information, you may invite two of your best friends along as well. (: All they need to do is like STICK next to YOU during registration, and they can join us! :D Whee! :D

The more the merrierrr! And yes, who said night cycling was boring? :D

Date: 6th June 2008
Time: 9 p.m. till 8 a.m. on 7th June 2008
Meeting Point: Mac Donald at East Coast Park

Contact Info: 91806201 (Marcus)
Email: ajcaaevents@gmail.com

Alumni Exco Weekly Updates #11

Dear all,


Nothing much to share this week. Hope to see you all for Monday’s meeting.

Best Regards,

Keith

President