Nathaniel Sia For President!

NATHANIEL SIA FOR ATUSA PRESIDENT~~~~~~

It’s that time of the year again! The ATUSA 2010 HiCom Summer Elections!

So, here I am to ask something from you, students of the American Program!

As we all know, our wonderful seniors are leaving Intec for the States to continue their further studies.

I feel really grateful to my seniors for making my life here in Intec, especially in the American Program, such a wonderful, unforgettable and awesome experience. I will miss these very same seniors when they step on that plane to America.

And not only that, when they do leave, there will no longer be anyone left to head the American student council, ATUSA.

So;

I, Nathaniel Sia Shan, will be running for the post of President of ATUSA and I need YOUR help.

How can you help, exactly? Well, do come on down to:

The Old Library Hall

26th May 2009, 2.00pm

and cast your votes for me, Nathaniel Sia as the next President of ATUSA!

I know you are all probably asking, "Why should I vote for him?", "What can he do for us that I can't?", "How is he any better than the other candidates out there?"

Well, here's all that I can say;

Why Vote For Me?

I believe that I have the drive, the capability and the experience of a leader to be able to efficiently guide and lead ATUSA as well as the American Program.

And these experiences of being a leader and taking charge I have acquired from being:

1. The High Commission Committee of SMK Batu Lintang’ Prefects’ Board (2007-2008)

2. The Vice President of SMK Batu Lintang’s Science Club (2007)

3. The President of SMK Batu Lintang’s Science Club (2008)

- Which, during that year, secured a spot in the prestigious Intel Science and Exhibition Fair held in Reno, Nevada, USA on May 2009.

4. The current President of the Intec Debating Society (MINDS) (2009-current)

5. The project manager of many events and functions in high school

To put simply, I believe that I am more than ready and capable of handling the burden and shouldering the responsibilities that accompany being the President of ATUSA.

With past experiences of leading a team, coordinating events and making important decisions, I believe that I am an ideal candidate for this post.

Furthermore;

Should I be elected as President, I promise that I will try to fulfill the President’s duties

to the best of my abilities

. This includes coordinating and organizing all the events and programs related to our American Program, staying connected with the HEP Office as well as the other on-campus student councils.

Moreover, during my term as President, I promise that I will also seek to improve the ways in which ATUSA can better provide for the welfare of the American students. And this is where you, the ADFP/ACTP students play a vital role. I need YOUR suggestions and ideas to help make the program a better (or more tolerable) experience for you and I.

Having some problem with the bus schedules? No problem, we can start a petition and lodge a formal complaint to the Transport Department. Sick of the queues at the cafe? Why not petition to call for a change in their cafe system?

Mind you, these are just some of the agendas I am keeping in view but with enough support from YOU all, these suggestions can, and will come true.

Thus, elect me as President and you can finally get the chance to play a part in making these changes.

Lastly;

We pride ourselves on being a unique program unlike any other here in Intec. We enjoy setting ourselves apart from the other programs. We enjoy the craziness and wackiness that the American Program can be at times.

We enjoy being special.

With that in mind, I dare to dream and go beyond my limits to make the American Program just as interesting, if not a more awesome program for us and our juniors.

I wish to preserve the individuality and the uniqueness of the American Program that sets us apart from the other programs. And I sincerely wish to carry on the spirit of the American Program, just like what the seniors before us have done.

I'm sure the seniors would very much like to leave Intec, ATUSA and the American Program in good hands. And I can think of no better reason to be President than to carry on their legacy and repay the kindness that they have shown to us in the little time that we had with each other.

If you see eye to eye with my plans for President and think that I am suitable enough a candidate to be the President of ATUSA, then please;

VOTE FOR NATHANIEL SIA.....

...........GO BEYOND FRONTIERS

No Pain, No Gain..

Spring Semester....

So much to say, so much to do, so where do I start?

Well, I would think that the cliche title did a good job in summarizing Spring Sem. The whole 4-month long semester was a whirlwind of assignments, sleepless nights and gratuitous awesomeness.

To go into further detail regarding Spring Semester, I can safely say that it basically entails all the usual academic fare one would come to expect of in college.

You have your usual lectures in the lecture theaters...

....near-fatal lab sessions in the chemistry lab...

...and amusing presentations for our Speech Communication classes.

Hobart ties the knot with a tie (pun intended)

Not forgetting those countless books that one needs to pore through for one's assignments and exams....

....and of course, the mental exhaustion and fatigue that soon follows from pulling all-nighters.

However, don't let the pictures fool you into thinking that college life revolves around a mundane and repetitive timetable (although it sometimes does) when it is in fact, quite the opposite!

For starters, college, especially Spring Sem, was packed with uber awesome, orgasmic food-fests! (P.S: The food in Shah Alam didn't help matters much)

Pictures above do not accurately depict Shah Alam's wonderful delicacies

Pictures above are courtesy of those ivy-league-universities-bound students who so generously chia us intellectually-inferior mortals to all these fine foods.

Kudos to this particular guy and others (but particularly this guy) who's bounded for friggin' Yale for the free food:

Hobart the Great~~~

Furthermore, as the old saying goes, the more the merrier no? This was definitely the case with my nights out to town.

Seriously, you guys rocked my socks off and made life here in Intec so much bearable on a day-to-day basis.

Whoever said that JPA scholars were incapable of partying hard, you people are sorely mistaken. Hur hur.

Just ask the nearby clubs of the Intec college kids and the crazy antics they get up to.

With all the rambunctiously good times in Intec aside, I have to admit that there was more to Spring Sem than just endless waves of unfinished assignments and exams.

Spring Semester was, for lack of better words, a journey of self-discovery and personal growth for me. As cliche as it might sound, I somewhat discovered traits I never knew I possessed amidst the chaos of Spring Sem.

Despite all the lack of free time to finish up assignments, I still found myself participating and trying out new things that I never thought I could do.

For instance, who knew I'd ended up in a leadership camp ala National Service style.

Safe to say, my inner Macguyver was unleashed and we macguyver-ed up a friggin' raft to escape from prison in style (which was so totally cooler than that of in Prison Break)

I also found myself singing and dancing to the tunes of Iyaz and N'sync in our very own talent show (in a so totally not William Hung way).

Producing and choreographing a Peter Pan performance for the class parades during the American Indulgence Fiesta .

Directing (in a so totally James Cameron way) a video-shoot for our engineering class.

Kicking zombie ass and taking names during Halloween Night (Bill from L4D would be so proud of me, god rest his poor soul).

The wonderful costumes worn by the others also made the night a memorable experience.

And who could forget literally grabbing life by the balls during Dodgeball. Balls were grabbed and balls were hurled. Also;

Balls. Were. Bruised. XD

Other highlights of my sheer awesomeness which manifested itself in Spring Sem were pretty self-explanatory:

I hereby endorse the prison system we practice here in Malaysia~~

Alleycats is all the rage here....

Speaking of cats....

College, like that of ritzy Hollywood, also had its fair shares of scandals, controversies and scandals.

Hur hur...

HUR HUR HUR.....

And I am proud to declare that, after 4 months of drifting between heaven and hell; which are two sides of the same coin to this semester, I have survived the ordeal that is Spring Semester!