"in the past, for studies i wanted to quit council.
now, for council, i study hard."

Do you all see the difference? I hope you all do.
I still remember last year, at this time, I was struggling over a decision; whether to quit council and join some slack CCA just for the sake of my testimonial.
Soon, I have decided and wanted to quit, prepared everything, typed the apology letter which “quitters” are supposed to make for displacing the trust your voters place in you.
But, after seeing the principal I wasn’t allowed to quit, together with Gary, Veronica and Shuen Lin, so we were sort of forced to stay and continue in council.
I’ve decided to make the best out of everything, thinking that since I could never even get out. In short I was stuck in shit. Being the optimistic me, I decided to turn shit into a super useful fertilizer to groom myself.

I devote myself and gave what I could to council.
At first, I felt weird and felt unwelcome, because everyone seems to have their own clique and I don’t feel belonged. Luckily, I have with me my super OG11 peeps, Germaine Ng and Veronica, to accompany me. I wasn’t feeling so bad then.
At that time, I was just doing what I need, what I was told to do, not doing anything extra, thinking that I need not.

Then came the choosing of ad-hocs. I always admire teachers and are really thankful of kind and good teachers. Therefore, I chose Teacher’s Day as my ad-hoc. I was glad I chose it as my ad-hoc, because it bonded me to council more and I feel more at home. Now, I feel that I belong.
Aesthetico also helped in bringing me into council. Under the lead of Xuewei, even through she aint very aesthetical but I think she’s a nice leader, she’s caring, supportive and easy going. She always rope me into after council outing, but I always reject her, because at that time I still don’t get the ‘feel’ from council, thus I thought home was better. With Germaine inside Aesthe it was even better, I have a friend =] Luckily she’s there, if not I would be alone. There’s also the easy going, small June who so nice and always giving a helping hand whenever she could. Not forgetting the rest of the Aestheticians that they are nice peeps too! =]

Then came Open Hse, where how I feel bonded to council, I know more people and they are all nice people just like me! =]

I guess it was the trips to Ikea that really bonded me to council. All the Ikea, the Queensway and the food and the gossip really did work for me. I began loving council.
Previously, I feel kinda of obliged to go for council stuffs, but now I love going for council stuffs. I just enjoy it.

Orientation 1. We planned hard for it and want it to be good and better than the one we experience, it turned out well. We learned a lot and we grew.

Orientation 2. We managed it, being better day by day, being the best in the end. Some cried, I did not. I was just not touched or affected.

Council Camp. It was a mad rush. Before the council camp, I cried when miss chiew told to sit down and think back and played that nostalgic song. I cried because I saw how I grow, I cried because I was happy, I cried because I stayed in council. I cried because we really went through a lot to be what we are today.

Block test results was a devastating disaster for me. I somehow do agree to a small extent that council robbed my time of studying but it’s also due to me, myself, for not managing time well and for not placing priority right. But I dun blame council at all.

I reap a lot from my council term. I grew a lot and learn to be stronger. But somehow, I can’t really express what I learned. It’s just that I myself know that I’ve benefited. Now, I’m definitely a better Bingliang.

Looking back, I’m proud to say I’m from 29th Student Council and I’ve never regretted not quitting council. I love 29.SC!

Now, SC is leaving out lives, we would be feeling empty but I’m gonna fill it up with A’s. I promise I’m going to make full use of my time to mug and mug and mug to bring my As in. I will catch in all my work by the June holidays and then seriously ACE my mids! =]