Caderas ate up my life
2nd blog post this term – it’s been so long since I’ve had the time and the presence of mind to sit down and collect my thoughts and write in long-winded prose. This entire term has been a blast from start to finish – ever since I’ve tied my life to Caderas – now I just feel like there's nothing I wanna do more but tear myself away from it. I guess it’s probably a little bit like how marriages work out – all rosy and peachy and start but then the full scale of reality creeps in day after miserable day and eventually you just find yourself wanting a break from each other but then being wholly unable to.
One of the things that was stopping me from ever getting down to writing this blog entry for the last 12 weeks was that so much has been happening for me, every time I sat down to write I found that I didn’t know where to start, and certainly didn’t have the energy to start from the beginning. You know me, just long-winded and comprehensive and never really want to leave any little detail out of anything I write. But I guess there’s no elegant way to do this, so I’ll just break it up into a few posts – eventually I’ll catch up with the present, much like the way my Economist reading is coming along these days (I’m stuck in the week of November 11th! Obama hasn’t won yet!)
After Vivace, it was a mad rush to organize Caderas101, the running of which left much to be desired, I'm sure. First of all, thanks to Stageit’s occupation of the ACC for their production, we were forced to hold our annual intro and info session in the CCA room, which is about half the size of the ACC. Very annoying, and we were forced to limit the number of signups. This led to a smaller than usual number of people actually coming because we did not anticipate such a large percentage of no-shows. Other than the fact that it was really cramped at times we all had quite a lot of fun – but the guys shortage really began to show itself here.
From then on it was a big snowball all the way down through Auditions and the planning for Bailamos Para Siempre – I’ve done so many wonderful things for Caderas over the past term, mainly in terms of artwork for mailers, and I think I’ve really learnt a lot about Photoshop and design work, though apparently not enough. Here’s a dump of the artwork that I've done for Caderas from Vivace till now.
Academics have been fairly light, given the fact that I elected to do only 4.5 mods this term. Nevertheless there were a couple of times I came close to destruction, such as during my CAT exam (haven’t felt that way since I’ve taken a Chinese exam) and the submission of my Marketing paper just last week. At times I wondered why I was burning myself out for Caderas when my studies, church responsibilities, family life and most importantly LOVE LIFE were suffering. Looking back, knowing what I know now, I would probably have decided not to run for Caderas Exco – it’s been rewarding, but I’ve honestly had to give up more than I thought I would in order to do the job. And even then the job isn’t even close to being over.
But at least the end of term is within sight – I’ve just finished the last of my presentations and project submissions, which partly explains why I have the time to sit down and pour out my feelings on this blog. And upload images – that can really be so therapeutic at times. It’s nice to see one’s content all published neatly on the web after you’ve worked hard on it.
What is Bailamos Para Siempre? I’ll dedicate a blog post about it soon – it’s a whole new ball game this year, so many moving parts I feel like shooting myself and everyone else at the same time.
That’ s in January next year – till then I have to drive the Krazy Love event, which is happening in church in less than a month’s time, and I’ve barely done anything to prepare for. I’m just pushing people and events in a haphazard way and hoping and praying that it all coalesces neatly at some point in the future, in time for the event to take place. It’s rather worrying right now, but I do get a very strong feeling that everything will be alright in the end. This is the life that I asked for myself when I signed up for so many things this term – all these things must have seemed part of a natural progression given where I was coming from and where I intend to go, but now that I'm in the thick of it I feel as if I had made a really bad decision back then.
That’s it for this post.
One of the things that was stopping me from ever getting down to writing this blog entry for the last 12 weeks was that so much has been happening for me, every time I sat down to write I found that I didn’t know where to start, and certainly didn’t have the energy to start from the beginning. You know me, just long-winded and comprehensive and never really want to leave any little detail out of anything I write. But I guess there’s no elegant way to do this, so I’ll just break it up into a few posts – eventually I’ll catch up with the present, much like the way my Economist reading is coming along these days (I’m stuck in the week of November 11th! Obama hasn’t won yet!)
After Vivace, it was a mad rush to organize Caderas101, the running of which left much to be desired, I'm sure. First of all, thanks to Stageit’s occupation of the ACC for their production, we were forced to hold our annual intro and info session in the CCA room, which is about half the size of the ACC. Very annoying, and we were forced to limit the number of signups. This led to a smaller than usual number of people actually coming because we did not anticipate such a large percentage of no-shows. Other than the fact that it was really cramped at times we all had quite a lot of fun – but the guys shortage really began to show itself here.
From then on it was a big snowball all the way down through Auditions and the planning for Bailamos Para Siempre – I’ve done so many wonderful things for Caderas over the past term, mainly in terms of artwork for mailers, and I think I’ve really learnt a lot about Photoshop and design work, though apparently not enough. Here’s a dump of the artwork that I've done for Caderas from Vivace till now.
Academics have been fairly light, given the fact that I elected to do only 4.5 mods this term. Nevertheless there were a couple of times I came close to destruction, such as during my CAT exam (haven’t felt that way since I’ve taken a Chinese exam) and the submission of my Marketing paper just last week. At times I wondered why I was burning myself out for Caderas when my studies, church responsibilities, family life and most importantly LOVE LIFE were suffering. Looking back, knowing what I know now, I would probably have decided not to run for Caderas Exco – it’s been rewarding, but I’ve honestly had to give up more than I thought I would in order to do the job. And even then the job isn’t even close to being over.
But at least the end of term is within sight – I’ve just finished the last of my presentations and project submissions, which partly explains why I have the time to sit down and pour out my feelings on this blog. And upload images – that can really be so therapeutic at times. It’s nice to see one’s content all published neatly on the web after you’ve worked hard on it.
What is Bailamos Para Siempre? I’ll dedicate a blog post about it soon – it’s a whole new ball game this year, so many moving parts I feel like shooting myself and everyone else at the same time.
That’ s in January next year – till then I have to drive the Krazy Love event, which is happening in church in less than a month’s time, and I’ve barely done anything to prepare for. I’m just pushing people and events in a haphazard way and hoping and praying that it all coalesces neatly at some point in the future, in time for the event to take place. It’s rather worrying right now, but I do get a very strong feeling that everything will be alright in the end. This is the life that I asked for myself when I signed up for so many things this term – all these things must have seemed part of a natural progression given where I was coming from and where I intend to go, but now that I'm in the thick of it I feel as if I had made a really bad decision back then.
That’s it for this post.
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