WELCOME TO FUN!

HAPPY FIRST-TERM SCHOOL HOLIDAY TO ALL MEMBERS OF PTEK JOGGING AND HIKING CLUB.

DEAR ALL THE JUNIORS WHO JUST JOINED THE CLUB:

On behalf of our president Sahli Salleh , our vice president Ramizah , our Jogging and Hiking Club’s committees and all of our members , I would like to say WELCOME TO OUR PTEK JOGGING AND HIKING CLUB!

As you guys already see from the video shown to you during your orientation, this club is full of FUN. It’s just FUN FUN FUN FUN. BEING EXHAUSTED AND TIRED IS FUN. SWEATING HEAVILY LIKE YOU’RE A SHOWER IS FUN. IT’S JUST LIKE THAT, FUN FUN all the waaaaaaaay FUN.

Personally, I was never a physically active person before I joined this club. Back then in high school, I used to fake all kind of stomachaches just to skip my P.E. classes. And that happened every week , to an extent when I was given a very strict P.E. teacher in form five , I would sometimes SKIP THAT VERY THURSDAY OF SCHOOL to skip P.E. classes. But since PTEK, things have changed.

It’s not a lie when people tell you CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES THAT YOU HAVE JOINED ARE VERY IMPORTANT FOR YOUR FUTURE. Universities don’t just look at your academic performance. They look at your academic performance AND your curricular activities. These days, almost all of us can perform decently well academically. So when a university has to choose between a straight As student with no curricular activities at all and a straight As student or maybe a student with some As some Bs but took part in many many variety of curricular activities , trust me the university would choose the latter!

The reason behind this is that, A UNIVERSITY would want someone who can perform ACADEMICALLY WELL but at the same time does not study 247 to achieve such result! A university wants someone who, with limited study time and brilliant time-management skill, can achieve such decently-well result who also, at the same time, be able to PLAY MUSIC, PLAY SPORTS, PARTICIPATE IN THIS AND THAT.

This is because, they want to know that you can SURVIVE in their university. You have got to be able to manage your time for many activities when you’re in a university. You don’t just go to school, come home from school, study, sleep and go to school again the next day. For those who are going abroad to study , you guys may need cook for yourselves , wash your own dishes , wash your own clothes , tidy your own rooms , AND ALL OF THESE ACTIVITIES TAKE TIME. Apart from all of those already-time-consuming things, you might need to catch a train for yourself, or walk yourself to school, and all of those very tiring and time consuming stuffs. A university wants to know that you can do all of these time-taking activities and still perform well academically! I hope this makes sense because that’s how I think of it.

BY JOINING OUR CLUB, OR ANY OTHER CCA CLUBS, YOU HAVE THUS SHOWN THEM THAT YOU NOT ONLY KNOW HOW TO STUDY! YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO GO OUT AND PLAY, YOU STILL CAN HAVE FUN WHILE ACHIVING GOOD GRADES, THAT’S WHAT THEY WANT TO KNOW!

AND ANYWAY BEING PHYSICALLY ACTIVE MAKES YOU HEALTHY. THAT’S A FACT YOU CAN NEVER DENY.

And I am just VERY VERY VERY PROUD to announce that our PTEK JOGGING AND HIKING CLUB is one of the most ACTIVE clubs in the college. We once won a most-active club award few years ago.

Every week there’s jogging session and most of every week, we will have hiking trips to interesting places (minus fasting month of course)!!

So what happened was, ever since I joined this club , I had this strong-iron-determination to keep myself active in this club till the very end. I don’t skip jogging sessions without valid reasons, I don’t skip hiking trips unless I really can’t make it. From a very lazy me to this very active me,THIS CLUB HAS CHANGED ME.

So it can too change you, to those who were never physically active in the past , I tell you not to worry! Just keep your determination alive and have fun! For the sake of your health, your personal statement for universities in the late future and most importantly, for you to have FUN!!

Perhaps my post has become so long that me myself seems to have forgotten the point of this post. The point is , THIS CLUB IS FUN. YOU WON’T REGET HAVING JOINED THIS CLUB. YOU WON’T REGRET IF YOU MAINTAIN YOUR ACTIVE MODE TILL THE VERY END. IT HELPS YOUR HEALTH. IT HELPS YOUR FUTURE AND IT HELPS YOU TO HAVE FUN!

Another point of writing this post is because, I am having fun myself! I love typing. I love writing. I love posting and expressing my self. DO you?

DEAR ALL THE JUNIORS IN THIS CLUB, WHO EVER INTERESTED IN BECOMING REPORTERS OF THIS CLUB , there are two vacancies. I will need a main reporter and an assistant reporter for this club. The job of reporters will be writing articles regarding this club, its jogging sessions and its hiking trips. It’s to be reminded to those who are interested that IT IS NOT EASY. It takes commitment and passion and most importantly, time-management skills must be there. Having to deal with so many subjects in school (5 in my case), writing on an average of two articles per week might sound too demanding, but then again , YOU WANT TO SHOW THOSE UNIVERSITIES THAT YOU CAN KEEP CALM AND DEAL WITH IT.

WANNA GIVE IT A TRY? register to SAHLI our president when school reopens. He will then give the names to me and I will then reduce the number to two persons through the articles that they make. Thank You. <3 HAVE A NICE HOLIDAY YOU GUYS. – reporter Caroline.