Annual General Meeting 2012.

On the 7th of January 2012, SMK Subang Utama had their Annual General Meeting (AGM) when all students were required to pick and join for one club under 3 categories for the year. The categories are: Uniformed Bodies, Academic and Non-Academic Clubs, and Sports Clubs.

And so the Interact Club of SMK Subang Utama had their AGM too! :D

This was the turnout for the morning session AGM, not too bad if I do say so myself. :)

What happened was the Board of Directors along with Pn Rajes, our teacher advisor, briefed the members on what was Interact all about and also what upcoming projects we had for the year.

There are some pretty exciting projects coming up, such as the International Understanding project, trip to Furry Friends Farm (an animal shelter), trip to an underprivileged home, recyling projects, fundraising projects, and many more! :)

There was also our Membership Drive which was on the 14th of January and a pretty good success. :)

President Madeline (left) briefing the members about general Interact stuff while our teacher advisor Pn Rajes (centre) looks on.

Community Service Director Tze Yun (left) and Assistant Heng Wei introducing themselves and talking about upcoming projects.

Same thing happening with Club Service Director Ganendra (left) and Assistant Arvind.

All in all, the attendance for AGM was great, both the morning and afternoon sessions, and I hope to keep seeing all you awesome members at all our projects! :)

Int. Charlene.
Peace out. ;)

New School Year + What We've Done So Far + Future Activities

The new school year has started!

I'm sorry the blog is getting slightly dusty but now that school has started again, we're gonna have a lot more activities (and hopefully, more updates!).

This year's AGM was kept simple and it was quite a success, if I may say so myself. What really impressed me was that we had quite a number of people who turned up for the interview the next day. To those guys who turned up for the interview, THANK YOU! You have no idea how much that helped us to know your perspective on things and we're really grateful for that.

For those who didn't attend the interview though, no worries. As long as you frequently attend the meetings (remember to get your attendance from Int. Liew Sher Mun, the tall spiky haired dude), you are a member of the Interact Club. On the other hand, even if you attended the meeting but you do not come for the meetings nor do you actively participate in our activities, your name will be cancelled out.

Also, for those not in the know, today was our first official General Meeting of the year. We had a pretty decent turnout, with both familiar and new faces in the crowd. We had several announcements made about the I.U Project as well as the Friendship Day Project. We also had a little sketch about Italy and we all learned some new facts about Italy.

Did you know that we have the Italians to thank for smelling good? The cologne was invented by an Italian!

Members were moderately participative but I must commend the members for paying attention to us most of the time. :)

Special thanks to the members who helped out with the Italy sketch!

Oh and make sure you guys come for the next General Meeting! There might be another hilarious sketch like that. :D


In somewhat related news, there will be a Production for Friendship Day tomorrow (16-01-2010) from 8am to 11am at No. 93, Jalan SS19/4. Bring your stationeries, glue and scissors! For more details, please call Int. Sarah at 016-3160125 as she's the one in charge of this project. Thanks.


- Int. Geraldine (Secretary)

General Meeting + BOD Meeting (21/8) + Miscellanous

Guys! Listen up!

GENERAL MEETING
Day/Date : Friday (21/8)
Place : 3 Gamma
Time : 12.30pm
About : Wishing Well Project! Paint the Store Project! And if we have time after that, GAMES! :)

For BOD members, pay close attention to this. President Zhiying has decided to have an official BOD meeting right after the previously mentioned General Meeting. Details as follows:

Official BOD Meeting
Day/Date : Friday (21/8)
Time : 1.30pm
About : We will be inviting our Rotarian Advisor to this meeting so if you have any qualms or questions about your job or your role to play in the Interact Club, you can ask him then. Place is yet to be confirmed.

VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE BE THERE.

Oh yes, I also have a favour to ask of all you SMKSU Interactors! I've been thinking of changing many graphic-related stuff on this blog for a while now, but I never really got around to it because:

1. My laptop is best friends with Mr Laggity Lag.
2. Although my desktop is super fast, I only have Adobe Photoshop on my laptop.
3. I cannot find any suitable graphics.

Ignore the first two, I just need your help regarding the last. (Unless one of you will be willing to buy me a new laptop complete with Adobe Photoshop. Or just a new Adobe Photoshop CD since I can't find it anymore. Hahah)

If you come across any interesting graphics that remind you of the Interact Club, that you'd like to see be put on the blog as the header or as an icon or whatever, please let me know! You can contact me from my email, crazy4more_xcitemen93@hotmail.com

Your help will be greatly appreciated and quite frankly, desperately needed. Thanks! :)

And lastly, just for laughs, Neil Patrick Harris dancing with Elmo. Makes me laugh every time. Hahah!


Ja ne!



- Geraldine

Bulletin Board + Meetings

Yo! I'm back. After a long hiatus of no updates, I promise I will try to be more active in posting here, hokay? Someone just has to, uh, remind me.

But I digress.

In case you haven't noticed, the Interact Bulletin Board has been given a makeover quite a while back. The work of our new Editor-in-Chief and Sub-Editor, Nadia and Ping respectively. Show them your appreciation and use your imagination check it out more often.

I like the Interact bear comic strip. It's so funny! I think the bear should be our new mascot. Hahah!

Ahem. Anyway.

The board is constantly updated, because Nadia works fast, so really, you should check it out more often for new information and stuffs like that. Also, just a little trivia for you, Nadia was the one who designed the pink Talent Quest flyers you see all over the school. She was also asked to design the backdrop for the Talent Quest event itself, but she turned it down due to time restraint and other priorities.

:))

At any rate. We have a new feature on the new bulletin board, which is the simple yet effective calendar. The calender is changed every month, and it is filled with information like the days of BOD meeting, General Meeting, events and projects. Also, it lists the funny days we should be celebrating but aren't due to lack of knowledge; knowledge that we now have, thanks to Nadia and her calendar.

Did you all celebrate Speak-in-Rhymes Day on the 30th of June? I did. For about 10 seconds.

Nadia: Hey, it's Speak-in-Rhymes Day! Let's celebrate it with hay!
Me: .... Okay....

Right.

This month though, there are more hilarious days to celebrate, so make sure you go and check out the date on the Interact bulletin board!

While I'm here, I might as well inform/remind all of you about several things:

1. BOD members! There is a BOD meeting this Friday, 3/7, after school at 3 Gamma. And another one on 17/7, which is two weeks from now.

2. All other members! There are General Meetings on Friday, 10/7 and 24/7. Yes, we are alternating the General Meetings with the BOD Meetings so it should be easier for you guys to remember the date. All other details are as follows:

Time: 12.30pm

Place: 3 Gamma

3. I.U Day is sometime this month, so keep your eyes peeled for more news of that. Either on here or on the bulletin board.

Oh and one last thing before I go, for those not in the know, the Interact Bulletin Board is right beside the PMR Lab 1 (which also happens to be the class of the Club President Zhiying, Club Secretary yours truly, Club Treasurer Natalie and I.U. Director Phanit :D). And the PMR Lab 1 is beside the PMR Lab 2. And the PMR Lab 2 is beside the sepak takraw court. There you go. A succint map on where the bulletin board is. :)

- Geraldine

General Meeting on 19 June

Alright. Guys! This Friday there will be a GENERAL MEETING (GM). Yes, first week of school reopening and we're already gonna get busy busy busy. All members of Interact, please try to make it!

Details are as follows.

Venue: 3 Gamma
Date: 19th June (Friday)
Time : 12.35pm


Please come cause it's gonna be the new BODs running the show, and we're gonna tell you the events coming up soon and what we're planning for them. We've got lots of projects and things lined up, so come and see what's new and how you can help us. :) Even if you can't help us, just come and check it out, they're some pretty cool ideas. Trust me, cause I was there for all the discussions; they sound pretty damn awesome. Kakkoii!

- grenade

Blogging Guidelines + Labels Mega Post #1

Hello everyone!

First post in the new Interact SMKSU blog! Cheers all round!

Currently under renovation, so there's really nothing much to see right now. But feel free to browse through the old Interact blog which shall be made extinct as soon as this one is up and running! :D

Right now, I'm using this post to add new labels to the blog to make it easier for everyone to search for a particular post or whatever. But I have to use another post soon, cause one post only allows 200 characters for labels. -___-

**IMPORTANT**
To the other BODs who has access and would wish to blog something, this is a list of things you can blog about:

1. Interact projects. This includes but is not limited to information about upcoming Interact projects, post-mortem of an Interact project, your own pictures/views/ramblings about an Interact project you attended, etc.
   
2. Announcements. Things like announcements about general meetings (GM), BOD meetings, productions, etc.
   
3. Interact news. Anything new with the Interact club.
   
4. Messages from the BODs. Want to send out a message to the Interactors of SMKSU? You can do so here but please restrain your language.
   
5. Basically anything Interact-related. As long as you keep the more flowery and colourful side of your language to yourself. Otherwise, either Nadia or myself will have to delete that entry and have a talk to whoever posted that.

Although I would like to point out that normally, it would be either Nadia or myself who will post about Interact projects. Most of the announcements too, but sometimes both of us miss some of the information for a meeting, so if you checked the blog and don't see an update about a meeting you know about, please update! (Also, please don't make up meetings. It's not actually that funny and it would cause some problems for us.)

The others, well, you are welcome to blog about them anytime you like!

A couple of things I would like you to follow when blogging to makes moderating this blog easier:

• Please include a title that is relevant and informative. Eg, if you're blogging about an upcoming general meeting, your title can be something like, 'General Meeting on [insert date here]'. Don't worry about giving crap titles; if you do it wrongly I can always help to edit it. ^^
• Please include labels for every post. This is to make it easier for me, you and everyone else to search for a post later on. And remember, the labels have to be relevant to the post itself! Eg, you can't put the label 'pictures' for a post that doesn't contain any pictures, right?
• Please do not create new labels by yourself! This is of utmost importance. No matter what circumstances you're under, you will not create new labels! If you do, you will make my life as the moderator hell. And in return, I shall make your life hell. *eyes all of you maliciously*
  
  Only use the ones I have created. If you don't know the labels, next to the blanks where you type in the labels, there's a link 'see all' or something like that. Click that, all the labels
  will come out. Then just click one to add it to the post. It's that simple!
  
• Please leave your name at the end of the post. Eg.
  

  
  Hey!
  
  [POSTPOSTPOSTPOSTPOSTPOSTPOSTPOSTPOSTPOST]
  
  - Gee [Or whatever your name is]

Right now, that's all I can think of. But yeah, all the basic rules of blogging apply, okay?

And oh yeah, I forgot. I'm a stickler for proper punctuation. So sue me. But if I see a post with writings like this (HeY, I aM hErE tO tEll yOu...), or like this (hey,i am here to tell you this.please don't forget...) I am going to edit it. Just telling you first, to avoid you feeling hurt or whatever. Sorry, I'm just a neat freak like that. I like all my blogs to be organized and nice-looking.

Other than that, BODs, enjoy yourself! :)


Last warning/reminder before I leave,

Srsly, do not randomly add new labels as you please. SRSLY.


- Geraldine, your blog moderator (mod) ! A.K.A Gee.