Tuesday, it had been.

That was the second day of the congress. It all started off with a series of talks, which I thought were really cool. First talk was by Mr Adrian Lim about his perspections of leaders. He came out with these series of ABCD theories, which were really good. I noted it down, but has somehow forgotten a large portion of it. After his talk, we had a short tea session under LT 2, during which a lot of us made use of the chance to really approach him and tap on his expertise. I managed to clinch a hard-fought chance, and that was really cool. This is for all potential leaders. I understand that there is a certain leader in each individual, and this congress was really a good chance for the leaders who have participated to really step up and showcase themselves. We, as facilitators, faced with this difficulty of not to lead, but to bring them out and let them lead themselves. My question was, "How can we really do this?" He provided me with a smewhat very cliche answer. Perhaps too cliche that it's already been neglected and forgotten. Throughout that 45 minutes talk, he had placed special emphasis on one particualr point- confidence. A leader must be confident of what he/she is doing. When I probed further, asking him how. His reply was simple, "work in group. People are generally more confident of themselves when they work in groups." After that I pondered over it, and realisation struck me. This was indeed so true. When we work in a group, all of us will share a common goal, and because of these group of people who are so supportive of our idea, confidence will naturally rise. How true, how simple, yet how easy to forget. On a side note, we did a clasping experiment, and like Mr Adrian Lim, my left thumb is over my right thump when i clasp my palms together. That meaning we were both non-natural leader, on the general. Initially I was quite shocked, but after much thoughts, and recollecting the dusty memory bank, when I remembered the conscious effort that I made when I was in secondary 1, when I was in secondary 3, and when I was in J1, all the deliberate attempts to break free from the comfort zone to go out and really explore, I can, but to only agree. Today's leadership skills were all the fruit of my hardwork. I worked hard for it, and am still trying to improve on it. Anyone can be a leader, I can, so can anyone else. Comment on his presentation, I like all the videos that he used to illustrate each of his points, The advertisements were funny, especially the Indian guy who said in a  chinese accent, "be a man, do the right thing." It was really good, except for the part when he said although money is everything, but the only thing. Mr Joseph Chean survived without money on his almost 15years of missionary work, and he's still doing great! So that's the only part which I didn't like.

After the tea session, we had a second speaker, Mr Stephen Chow. He happened to be an ex-TJC-ian, and from his presentation, I could really sense his passion for all the things he had done, and all the place he had belonged to, which included TJC as well. He's been in the coperate training segment, and is now moving on to become a full-time photography. It all started off with a mini personality test. As usual, I got a rojak personality again. 25 for results orientation, 40 for process orientation, 42 for idea orientation, 43 for people orientation. I remember during secondary times, there was this test to find out the kind of students we are, be it audio learner, visual learner, or practical learner. My score was a 7, 7, 8 if I was not wrong. So from yound I already have a rojak personality, and now I still am. Depsite socring higher for people, I decided to go for idea instead, (somehow I prefer this). And as "idea" as I was, I suggested to not to follow the template and grouped out answers in our own way. And that really satisfied the trait!=) Then, he continued to share with us a lot of things, most of which were his experience in his mountaineering period, where he followed his university's team to conquer mount everst. Others being that of his photography career. There were many jokes, but jokes aside, the talk was a fruitful one.

The last speaker was one of the co-owner of the network company, the Nuffnang, which the person said meant something cool. His talk was basically some advertisement for his own company, like really. So most of us didn't really like the last one. After that, we had our lunch opposite school, and we only had like 15 minutes? So in the end, the entire population was less than half full when we went back. 

After that,we set off for our survival race, which was altered due to the foul weather. The weather forecast which the organiser had used was everything but accurate. So we had to carry out our wet-weathered plan to do our stuffs within the school's vicinity. It started out on a high spirit, and everyone was shouting and making so much noise. But this somehow eventually died off, for me at least, largely due to tiredness. As facilitators, we sat at the side most of the time to wait for them to finish their game. The only ones that we participated was the bamboo soccer and the human obstacle course. Both of them were quite fun. I scored 2 of the 3 goals for the soccer, and the human obstacle course, the small number but huge strength guys rock socks! The last game was some protect the egg thing, and our power egg survived the fall from the 3rd storey. Kudos egg! 

Back in the LT, we carried out our affirmation thing, where everyone pass a piece of paper down the sequence to let the next person write on it comments and anything they want to share. I got to admit that I was not a very good facilitator for this congress thingy, because I stepped down too much? And I did not have the mood to step up anyway. Thing is do step up yea=P Jerald did a really good job leading the guys, and I believe I can learn a lot from him. Right VJ SC president?=P

After that, we had our dismissal, and Alpha had an Alpha dinner, where I ate prawn mee again for the second time of the day. Later into the night spark the beginning of the camp. Shall continue it in a separate entry.

Some pictures:

 apple challenge

 eggy discussion

muackx muackx xoxoxo

 tie tie tie=P

Grr! We're gonna eat them all! Grr!

 Hehe, we got apple to eat! 

 Me sleeping in my weird pose=P Malu!