Wednesday, September 26, 2012
5:25 PM
To whoever it cares
For whom it may concern,
It has come to my attention that training attendance has
been going downhill. Do let me remind you that I have 30 plus members to take
care of, yet there are only a small handful of members that attends training
with due diligence. You guys are not helping me at all. I have to take care of
30 people and you as an individual can’t even be bothered to inform the
appropriate comm members about your attendance. For those who so far did not
inform about your attendance, I expect a 300 word letter of explanation telling
me why you did not attend training, why you did not inform anyone for not
attending training etc. I do not want to see reasons such as “I don’t know, I forget,
I overslept”. Failure to comply will result in zero cca point for the whole of
next semester. In case you don’t know whom I am referring to, I suggest you
come prepared with that letter. For those with legitimate reasons such as
attachment, internship and overseas only plus informing the comm members then
you are not required to do so.
I have been very generous with issuing cca points thus far.
But I can easily cut back on the number of cca points as I see fit. In case
most of you don’t know, the current year 2 and 3s received zero cca point for
the whole of last year because we had a useless committee who never cared about
the club. I gave the previous president zero cca point because of the things he
had never done for the club .Right now we have a committed committee that is
serving the club not because of cca points but to never go back to the
miserable days we once had. If you do not receive any cca points so far, you deserved
it. When I first took over the club, I made it very clear that I will not hold
back on saying the things that I want to say. If anyone feels insulted by it, I don’t care
how you feel because you never cared for me anyways. When I first became the
president, I took the initiative to look for the ex-advisor and I received
negative feedbacks from her. I had to achieve things that are deemed
impossible. With almost a year on, I can guarantee that if the next committee
is formed, the current advisor will say that there will be a huge gap to fill
in for. For now, you can enjoy and take
things for granted but when the time comes, we shall see who will suffer in the
end.
Today there were only 3 people including myself who came for
training. Let me remind everyone that Jeremy stays in pasir ris and yet he can
travel all the way down for training. I have to wake up early to take a 1 hour
bus trip to sch just to see only 2 people for training. I can have people who
stay near the sch and yet overslept, I can have people who consistently comes
to training late. It reflects a lot on the individual. Please do not waste our
time. If you don’t appreciate the things that we have been doing so far, please
come and inform me face to face so that we won’t be so extra, we can
immediately drop everything and go back to the way it was. I believe I have
made my stance very clear, regardless of the weather, the training still goes
on. I don’t care who your coach was or what he or she had taught or did not
teach, when I say training is on, it is on. And for your information, the rain
stopped when we started training so cut the stupid excuses that it’s raining.
In case you don’t know the reason why we lost during
competitions, it is because you have not been training hard at all. If you have
been coming for trainings, we would have no problem with placing you in any
position because we know that you are prepared for it. But sadly that is not
the case. If you realise why we did not have a coach so far, it is because of
irresponsible members like you. How can I hire a coach when we have atrocious attendance
like this? How can I answer the coach if nobody gives me the reason for not
attending training? How can hire a coach when you don’t even have the basic
knowledge on how to be a responsible member? For your information, the coach
selects the team to take part in competitions. If the coach doesn’t see us of
any chance of winning, they would rather not take part in competitions. You can
say we take part in competitions to gain experience, I can say you are wrong;
we take part in competitions because we want to win and prove to those very
people who looked down on us wrong. Your seniors were disappointed with the competition
results because you did not do your part to train hard and play hard. The ball
was just within your sight and yet amateur mistakes can be made over and over
again. The idea of a team is to trust one another but it is so hard to trust
people when they gave false hope and promises.
If you don’t like the things I have said or done, I invite
you to issue a complain to the advisor. If you feel that I have been
insensitive with the things I said, please come and correct me.
Your President Neo
