just minishorts.

I must say it amuses me to see the negative feedback from my little one-liner about going for the AsiaWorks Basic programme. Wait a minute, I'll put it out to you, lucky me doesn't have to pay for it, cos my company requires me to participate in the programme. If they tell me to go all the way to the leadership training, then so be it.

I read rickross.com, stuff like that, and I'll say, Rick Ross hasn't been to a charismatic prayer group yet. You wanna know life-changing? Get into a church camp, meet up with Christians who group together and pray in full tongues. Surprise, surprise, I do that sometimes.

Actually, come to think of it, I think I'm a cult-training veteran, in a way. Should I start from the Chinese Society back in CHS? Way, way back in 1992 when i first entered high school, I was recruited by the Chinese Language Society. Mad bunch of cultists, I tell you, and yet I was swept up in it… even while I was in the afternoon session I'd turn up at school by 8 am every single day just so that I could hang out with those people and then we would discuss debating topics… that lasted a few more years until I joined the Board of Librarians… a book-lovers cult… which required me to be at school by 7.30 every morning so that we could do book arranging and labelling. God knows it was boring but I LOVED IT, the dork I was.

Fast forward a few years, I got lucky and joined BRATs. Definitely almost cult-like, and for months, even years, I couldn't stop raving about the BRATs. Of course eventually I joined a local university, and heh… I joined yet another groupie. I call this, the groupie of groupies, because, 7 years on I'm still in it, and I still love talking about my AIESEC years. Yet I can't still call myself a true-blue AIESECer cos I never did go all the way.

If you've ever joined AIESEC while you were in uni, you'll probably know what I mean. If you've ever joined one of our camps, whether it's the LLDS or the NLDS or the NPMs of any of the conventions, you'll probably remember the silly square dances and the mad bunch of people right at the front of the stage doing those silly roll calls and jingles… You'll probably remember the customized for AIESEC training sessions, and you'll remember how your AIESEC seniors worked so hard just to convince you that this is the course for you. And if you were just a bit like me, you'll remember how you didn't mind staying up till 2 am every morning just for AIESEC meetings and training sessions. You'll remember the 9-day long workshops and you'll remember the midnight sharing sessions… and the international conferences, and how you, at some point in time, chose AIESEC over getting good grades.

I wonder if Asiaworks is worse than AIESEC. I'm bracing for the worse, but I'm also prepared for the best. But cultish trainings? Uhuh, I've been there, still in it. And at least, I'm not paying for this one.

*Let's hope we do get that striptease holiday in Pattaya.*

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