Floating...
Float……
As a freshman i get to experience a small bit of the vibrancy and endured a few days’ strenuous training as a helper in the float production. The insignificant bit I contributed was nothing compared to the floaters who spent more than 2 whole months toiling to complete the entire float. Even though I played a miniscule part, I had a great sense of pride and contentedness when our float was paraded in the Padang. This is the time where I started to feel a sense of belonging towards King Edward VII Hall and for the first time I felt proud to be a KEVIIAN. At the end of the event, I saw some of the floaters sobbing and crying at the pavement because they were disappointed at the achievement of our float I suppose. It was then where I finally understood that luck is truly a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. Sometimes no matter how hard you work the outcome might not be something we expect it to be. That was also when I told myself that Rag is definitely a no-no for me as i was afraid I couldn’t withstand the taste of failure after spending sleepless nights working on such a huge production. Moreover, floaters to me are people with extremely high level of endurance, diligence and impetuosity, which I’m definitely not one of them. But I’ve learn something from one of the floaters who were strolling around consoling the others. He seemed to be glad with their achievement which I think is already fantastic and he told me that failure is nothing compared to experience and with this experience they will be able to achieve greater heights in the future. That was when I told myself that I would rather fail in a cause that someday will triumph than triumph in a cause that someday will fail.
Why am I a floater now?
Somehow I still do not understand what made me a floater. I believe some part of it was persuasion and the other was the freshman part that stayed in me. I have the eagerness to indulge myself into such a great production yet I’m afraid it is something too big for me.
Anyway, I was made the operations head and I believe it will be a whole new challenge for me and for my teammates as well. I was totally unfamiliar with float marketing and I had no idea what are the goals I need to achieve for my department. What a senior told me was that I have to be the one who decide how far we wanted to go and what we wanted to achieve, which means I can either slack my way through it or make a hundred calls a day because we do not have any specific targets to hit. When I started float marketing in March, it was quite hard for me to set goals as our job scope is quite abstract, sometimes even if u set goals you will never be able to achieve it but things you never aim for drift into place. We get to hear a lot of complains and nagging sometimes because we were apparently the ones who seemed to have been slacking during the production phase though we are not. My team members sometimes get frustrated for the other floaters not being able to understand us but I’ll just act “big head” and bring it over because I knew these things will happen and I was warned before I took up the job. It doesn’t really affect me though because I do not need other s to see and to know what have we done or what we have been doing so long as we are capable of accomplishing what we aimed to do. But sometimes I do pity the engineers and the artists for having so much to achieve. My team is also part time engineers and artists who help out very often. I’m very proud of my team members because I see them labour for others with the same zeal as if it were for themselves.
As the production phase proceeds I believe the floaters will be more confident of what they are doing and what they have to do next. Conflicts do arise among the floaters in the process but I believe nothing is unachievable if everyone of us keep our mindsets focused on a common goal. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal and the secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well. People might give up or be discouraged along the way but that’s life. Float to me does not only encompasses bonding, endurance, pride and the pleasure of contentment, it is a way of life, enriching us with experiences we can get in no other places, unconsciously exploring our gifts and talents and nonetheless, revealing our own shortcomings. Some floaters might feel that they are just single souls whose presences are insignificant and they are not appreciated because they do not have talents or capabilities that shine. In float every floater plays a prominent role, may it be big or small. So all of us must not be discouraged as everyone who got where he is, started where he was; there will be no smooth sailing without turbulence and no one will learn how to walk before they know how to fall.
So from this moment on let’s start striving towards achieving our respective departmental goals and our common goal. Shoot for the moon, even if we miss it, we will land among the stars.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done, and the future belongs to those who dare to dream.
Alcazar will be the one of the miracles of KEVII !!
Work without a vision is drudgery,
A vision without work is only a dream,
Work with a vision is VICTORY !
p/s – to my dearest department members, the secret of success is to be like a duck—smooth and unruffled on top, but paddling furiously underneath.
We do things not to show people we are doing things, we do not meet targets to show people we have targets, we take it as a challenge to ourselves, pushing ourselves towards greater heights and exploiting our limits, making us better people at the end of the day.
I’ll be back soon, till then, all the best and keep on moving !!!
Jiayou !!
Lotsa love !!
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I am only one, but still I am one, I cannot do everything but still I can do something, I will not refuse to do this something I can do.
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