Oct 4, 2010

The Poly Forums

Long time since I posted. Currently, I am busy in the poly forums. It is a very tiring journey. So much for debating and politics.

Day 1 of the journey:
It was sort of an amazing race to understand S'pore. Creates the bonding within the groups we had, but we split up later on... I had some friends on the first day, and was actually looking forward to it. In fact, we got a free S'pore flyer ride!! Looking forward to more goodies. :D

Day 2 of the journey:
We had a talk to some of the great people in politics. They gave greate insights to what challenges S'pore is facing and things we have to do. Before I continue, I have to say that the teams we had on day 1 is diffrent from day 2... Many wasn't happy about it. I am neutral actually, I see this as an opportunity to make our presentation better and a collaboration with other teams. Later on of the day, we spoke with Proffessor Jonathan Marshal, speaking about the mentality of a leader, and the diffrence of attitude through out the generations. That thought sparked me.

Day 3 of the journey:
I sort of noticed that one guy we trying to "Over-Perform" and wants alot of attention. I predicted a fight in the Poly Forums since then. I was thinking: "Our focus topic is on Leadership, that means everyone here is a leader, it's not a wise decision to assume leadership from the start." Nevertheless, I didn't start anything, but I sense the tension in certain people. programes for the day was a visit to the Home-Team Accadamy, it teaches us that not only the guy at the top is a leader, but also the people at the bottom. Then a question was asked "Since everyone is a leader, what are the qualities that define the leader of the leaders?" I know selfishness rules over that guy. What does he want to prove?

Day 4 of the journey:
We went to the "Dialog in the Dark" in NgeeAnn Poly and I have to say, it's a great experience! The whole idea is a stimulation of a blind man's point of view. We entered a place where it is pitch dark!! Everyone was in the state of confusion but after I told them to put their hands on the shoulder infront of them, they calmed. Despite that, the tour guide wants us in the state of confusion!! He told us to Not put our hands on the other person's shoulder. And we walked through the stimulated park, restraunt and boat ride like a blind man. After some boring story telling session from our tour guide, everyone(except for me) was touched by his story. What did I learn that they didn't? I learn to overcome the state of confusion by myself, they had no idea of walking through that place without a guide. That day was a long day, we had guest speakers talking about leadership again, and at night, we had religous leaders talking about their religon. Boring shit...

Day 5
I didn't talk about the discussions we had on Day 2 through 4 becase I am going to cover them all here. There is this "Over Performing" guy that have this very one-sided view of leadership. I don't want to say anything before anyone else does because that will make me the mastermind of the quarrel, and I know that I am not the only one that is unhappy about it. So as soon as Day 3, someone spoke up. As I expected, after one, there is 2, after 2, there is 4 that spoke about their opinion about his views. And obviously, he wants to make a come back, and debated. So from Day 2 through 4, we didn't accomplish anything but a very feirce debate. For the ones reading that don't know anything, I am categorise as the under-performing guy that don't speak up until Day 4. Day 5 is a great accomplishment as we were able to complete what we were suppose to do and at least, the "Over-Performing" guy is not so noisy anymore. Nevertheless, there were many one-sided view of leadership from people that didn't speak up from Day 1 through 4. I prefered not to speak up as I think that will only cause more conflict. I believed that is also the mindset of everyone there.

Conclusion:
After all, I strongly think that a leader, is not a person, but an elite group that can work together. One that has a time manager, conflict manager, publicity manager and resource manger. That's all I have to say.
God10:31 AM

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