Opportunity

Only when the school year starts do I see all the opportunities that are out there. So many competitions and seminars and crap I can go for. I guess it's kind of gay then, that I only have one CCA: the Current Affairs Club. They also had a Drama Club, but both the CAC and the Drama Club meetings clash. Moreover, their representative at the CCA fair told me that they were going to make their members take plenty of compulsory multidisciplinary modules. I'm done with not having a choice in how I spend my time. I choose CAC. It's high time I come out of my shell.

My course is only just starting on the basics. My schedule pretty good at first glance - besides my class, I heard only business school students have Fridays empty.

But look at this email I just got:

Dear Members

Mr Gan Kim Yong, Acting Minister, Ministry of Manpower, will be at school to hold a dialogue session with our students as part of a module.

We wish to invite 10 members from the Current Affairs Club for this session. This is a rare opportunity, it's not everyday that you get a chance to engage a
Minister in an exchange.

The topic is Global Economic Crisis & Economic Issues. When I saw this in my mail, the first thing I did was to check my timetable - I had class on the big day. I considered emailing my lecturer if I could miss his class that day. Or if I shouldn't email him, and miss his class anyway.

In the end I did neither. The truth is I wouldn't know what to ask the Minister of Manpower, and more embarassingly, am a little uncertain about how I might behave in his presence. During the first CAC introduction meeting one of the seniors said he read opposition publications and went to opposition rallies - so there is at least one person with something to say.

You read the email - only ten members. If I muscle in it's not fair to the people who have something to ask.