Tembusu Forum: Singapore a Model City?

On Monday we had another Tembusu Forum, the first for the semester. The theme was, "Is Singapore a Model City?". It was... okay. Much like the previous few forums. It seems that forum speakers are tending to shy away from contention and debate. For Monday's forum, only one speaker, Prof Heng Chye Kiang, attempted to problematise the issues, though only superfically. The other two panelists choose to give broad overviews instead. Prof Ian Smith didn't really say anything.

I think this growing "trend" would have a lot to do with the publicity and publicness of the forum. And that it’s recorded. Or maybe the speakers were briefed to speak that way? Not to say this renders them useless. I learnt an important lesson that night: one doesn't have to take away interesting "points" per se from these fourms. Good questions also count as learning. A few of them came up during the panel discussion.

Expectations of a CSC

So the Annual General Meeting (AGM) was last Monday. It went okay? It was quite different from the previous AGM... For one, only the president spoke, and that his speech was really short. It then occurred to me why! The members of the 3rd College Student Committee (CSC) had not organized as many events as the 2nd CSC, so each individual had less to present on what they had done. This is not a bad thing, as I will explain later.

But this also made me realize why I had so much less to blog about ever since their elections. My focus has been on college events and initiatives, and the past semesters under the 3rd CSC haven't been as eventful. Less events, so less posts. I suppose it's time to shift my focus.