1 Down and alot more counting...

Man writing lesson notes for photog is totally not fun. One of such notes takes like 5 hours (not straight of course) when it looks simply just like Copy and Paste. Gahh. But well this is a good start to one of the resolutions I've made for 2009, which is to make sure the new 2009 NJPS batch learn something from my properly scheduled lessons. Hopefully, I can finish all my lesson notes before school kicks in on 12th Jan. After school starts, I'll most probably be busy with Orientation 1 coverage and more coverage and catching up on the 5 days of lessons I would be missing during Orientation 1. So I wouldn't have huge fully unoccupied days like today to write lesson notes for 5 hours.

Hmm...probably why I'm so determined to make sure things work out well for photog this year is because I felt that I've not done a really proper job for the past 4 months as CIP (Chief Instructor & Photographer). To be fair (to us the current Exco), I felt that the previous Exco didn't really do a proper handover. I didn't really have a proper lesson plan I could follow up on. The handover was rather late too (perhaps due to other reasons). The current Exco was only officially formed at the start of August and very soon it was Promos. Kind of like 2 months wasted. And the next 2 months was holidays...wasted again because it's hard to coordinate everyone's timing. Apart from the time wasted, I felt that I couldn't really teach anything to the current batch of people, especially the members who have been staying in NJPS since IP1. Probably that was the reason for a lack of commitment from majority of NJPS.

For far too long, Photog has been treated as a second CCA. Almost everyone places their other commitments infront of photog. Unsurprisingly, I've been guilty of that too during the Rock Night period too. I've this feeling everyone is more interested in any other things (like cushions in the Darkroom) than photog, which is really terrible.

This year, I'm pretty determined not to commit the same mistakes I made last year as well as those that my seniors made. In fact, I can feel that the current Exco is putting quite a fair amount of effort to make sure things work out better for NJPS and to instil commitment in the current batch of members we have. Amongst the things we've plan are changing of an instructor, introduction of basic and intermediate groups and setting up of a National Photography Competition (As in National JC...although it's Nation wide too). I hope NJPS can very soon be placed amongst the ranks of VJPS, RJPS, etc. Hopefully, all that the current Exco has carefully planned will work out well during 2009 and we'll be getting alot more commitment from the peeps in photog. :)

2009 seems rather bright :D