-el finalmente-

The last official email I sent to my committee:


As it all began, so it shall all end.

I was having my dinner when an idea struck me. Hey, I thought to myself, I’m sure my committee would love to pore over another of my long messages, on account of how they simply loved all my previous ones. (which makes you wonder what my housemates put in my food)

And so I think it’s only fitting that I round off our year as a committee with yet another of my insalubriously (not that word again!) long emails,which never fails to discombobulate, and that is always about as well-received as tepid ice kacang. But this time sans the verbosity and grandiloquence. Or perhaps not. The pomp stays for good measure.

I just want to take this opportunity to thank everyone of you for making our year as the LSE Singapore Society Executive Committee a successful and definitely memorable one. While we weren’t exactly iconoclastic in that we didn’t pull away from the norm and shake up the entire administration, I think we did our jobs pretty damn well. So thank you all for making my job easier by always being there to help me out, for expeditiously carrying out everything you were tasked with, for being good sports and thinking up new events we kept taking gambles on.

More importantly, for carrying dead yellow flowers around London as if we belonged to some omerta-characterised top-secret sect the greater part of London was not privy to; for (albeit) begrudgingly trooping down to Imperial College to see how many supposedly educated university students it takes to fuss over a bunch of jelly, which was only one notch on the excitement scale below watching grass grow(cries of –farce!- rang round the LSE for days); for watching on in wide-eyed (green-eyed, perhaps?) wonderas one of our own went home with a return ticket on SQ on the same night that some bigshot stormed out of an event; for making an appearance at so many parties (all this while displaying assorted asinine behaviour like the reprobates we are) despite the essays you had to hand in the next day; for skipping a few heartbeats with me as we somehow ended up with only 5 teams 1.5days before the debates (think I lost a few years ofmy life that night); for watching on as a rather entertaining debate unfolded, in which some of us extolled the virtues of football and how we deem it more pleasurable than engaging in carnal acts (everseen me watch football?); for helping to plan and finally execute the best party this side of Europe,where everyone adhered ever so strictly to the colour theme and showed up in black; for always lending a helping hand and (to a certain extent) a listening ear; for featuring in the best (and, no doubt, worst) memories of my first year.

And so I have expatiated on our committee and the past year excessively and everyone’s bored. Mission accomplished.

People can try to denigrate our efforts as the Singsoc comm of 2003/04, but I think we can all walk tall and proud. Except for you, Hazel, it’s physically impossible. (Cue the release of unbridled joy as everyone is suddenly suffused with the realisation that they shall have to read long emails no more.)

Keep it real, and I’ll see you all around school.

JB
President
LSE Singapore Society 2003-04