Contents ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. President's Message on ICSS Membership 2. Ordinary General Meeting (3 Nov 2010) 3. We're Recruiting.. Still! 4. 4 more days to the end of ICSS Fiesta! 5. ICSS Bicester Village Trip (6 Nov 2010) - 3 days left for priority booking 6. Updates on upcoming ICSS Sports 7. Nottingham Games 2010 @ Nottingham University (13 Nov 2010) 8. Singsoc Photography Pals does Lightroom Update ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. President's Message on ICSS Membership ----------------------------------------------------------------- **If you have already purchased ICSS membership, you may wish to skip the following message. ** Dear all, I will like to bring your attention to the purchasing of our Society membership. If you do not already know, our Society membership comes at a mere cost of £5. As a member, you will be entitled to many benefits and privileges. Just to give you a flavour of some of the benefits: * Entitlement to Members-only events (eg. Imperial Ski Trip) * Priority in registration for events over non-members * Subsidies for events (eg. Chinese New Year dinner, Bicester Trip) * Discount card to many popular restaurants and cafes * Opportunity to vote and have a say at OGMs and AGMs * And much more! Hence, the sooner you sign up for membership, the faster you will gain access to all these lovely benefits, all at a very small cost! If the above reason isn’t compelling enough for you, as a paying member for the Society membership, you will be assisting the entire Society in fulfilling a membership count quota required by the Union. Once our numbers are met, we will be awarded grants, bolstering the finances of the Society. This will then lead to events becoming cheaper and better! Much effort has been placed into every single event we organize. Being crippled by finances will mean all the effort will go to waste. So do help us to help you! Signing up only requires a Debit/Credit card under your name, and a few minutes of your time. Instructions are: 1. Go to http://www.imperialcollegeunion.org. 2. Go under 'Clubs & Societies' and find 'Singapore' under A-Z clubs & societies list. 3. Click "Shop" on the tab at the left hand side. 4. Buy the membership for 5 pounds and we'll take care of the rest! To all those who have already signed up for membership, I will like to say a big thank you! I warmly welcome you as a member of the Imperial College Singapore Society. To the rest, please do not deliberate any further and get your membership today! Yours truly, Wenjun ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Ordinary General Meeting (3 Nov 2010) ----------------------------------------------------------------- ICSS will be holding its Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) on **next Wednesday**. Date: 3 Nov 2010 Venue: EEE 408 Time: 1:30 pm (Registration) All ICSS members are cordially invited to join us to get formally acquainted with the ICSS calendar till date and beyond. You are also welcome to offer suggestions for future events at this meeting. The OGM will be followed by a movie screening of "UP!" with light bites and drinks provided, so come snuggle up with your fellow Singaporeans on this Wednesday afternoon!   * View image: * <http://files.groupspaces.com/icss/files/32601/Up-Movie-Poster.jpg> The winners of our ICSS Fiesta will be duly crowned with lovely prizes at our OGM too, so do keep this afternoon free and we hope to see many of you present! ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3. We're Recruiting.. Still! ----------------------------------------------------------------- This Autumn Term, some of the most rewarding and satisfying openings are available for application! We are recruiting for a wide array of roles for Major Event 2011! Major Event is the finale event of the 2010-11 academic year which all Singaporeans must get involved in. This event is one where you will get the perfect opportunity to work and interact with fellow ICSS members. This year, the ICSS will be embarking on yet another production. The preparation process will call upon a wide range of people with diverse talents. As some of you have already heard, we are currently on the hunt for Directors and Scriptwriters for our play/musical/entertainment night. We are now opening up applications for 4 other teams. If you are interested to take up one of these exciting roles for the production, please email the following team leaders: | Directing / Scriptwriting / Acting | - Shuren (shurenlin@hotmail.com) | Music | - Sid (sidmontu@gmail.com) | Dance | - Haoyi (haoyi_crey@hotmail.com) | Publicity | - Junying (junyinglim@gmail.com) | Logistics | - Hongyi (wonghongyi@hotmail.com) (General enquiries can be directed to er.wenjun@gmail.com) Auditions for actors will be held tentatively on 5th and 7th November 2010. If interested in becoming our ICSS stars for Major Event 2010, do contact Shuren ASAP. We will be giving a sneak preview to our script this year at our OGM which will be held on the 3rd of November 2010. Do not hesitate any further and sign up now! Wenjun ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4. 4 more days to the end of ICSS Fiesta! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Already had a good time cooking together with your mates for ICSS Fiesta? Wait no longer and submit the photos of you and your food to our dear Liaison Officer, Jun Ying, at liaisonsofficer@ic-singsoc.net. If you haven't, arrange for a cooking session now and not miss out on a chance to win **our inaugural ICSS Fiesta Food Photography competition!** As promised, subsidies for food will be provided and this will only be possible if you send in legitimate photos for the photography competition. The prizes for the ICSS Fiesta will be given out during our Ordinary General Meeting on 3 Nov 2010. We wish you ALL THE BEST! :) Seniors who require contact information with the Freshers who have just shifted into your ex-hall can still email Yu Leng at secretary@ic-singsoc.net for it. * **Fiesta period**: 18 to 31 October 2010 * **Deadline for competition**: 31 October 2010 * **Competition Categories:** Whackiest Photo, Best Caption, Most Halloweenish * **Subsidies (*):** 5-10 people - 5 pounds, 10-20 people - 10 pounds, 20 and above - 20 pounds (*) The subsidy is a lump sum not a *per pax* subsidy. The subsidy will also depend on the headcount of the number of people in the photos submitted for the competition.  ----------------------------------------------------------------- 5. ICSS Bicester Village Trip (6 Nov 2010) - 3 days left for priority booking ----------------------------------------------------------------- Don't miss out on a fabulous shopping trip to Bicester Village <http://www.bicestervillage.com/en_GB/> with your fellow Singaporeans! Get some winter essentials to survive the cold or discover some fashion gems at cheaper prices! **When**: 6th November 2010 (Saturday) **Cost**: £10 (Members)*, £12 (Non-Members) **Seats Available**: Coach size up due to good response! Now, only less than 20 seats available on coach!! ***Do note that anyone going with us will get hold of a special 10% discount VIP day pass which applies to most outlets in Bicester Village!*** Seats will be confirmed on a first-come-first-serve basis. ICSS members will get priority over the seats so if you’re not an ICSS member yet, do sign up for membership on the Union Website to get a priority place on the coach! Here is how you can register: 1) ICSS members can continue to register from now by e-mailing icss.events@gmail.com?subject=ICSS%20Bicester%20Village%20Trip. Only ICSS members can book a place on the coach from now until 30th October (**only 3 days left!**). However, if you’re an ICSS member and you would like to bring along a friend who’s not from Imperial, you are allowed to book one extra seat for a friend. However, that friend has to pay the non-member price of £12. 2) After 30th October, registration will be open to non-members, so if there happens to be any seats left on the coach, anyone can email to the address above to book your seats. If the coach is already full, I will put you on the reserve list and should anyone back out, you might be able to go on this shopping trip! If you have any questions, please feel free to direct them to our Events Officer, Sid, at icss.events@gmail.com! *The £10 cost that ICSS members pay is to cover the cost price of hiring the coach.   ----------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Updates on upcoming ICSS Sports ----------------------------------------------------------------- **1. Netball - 30 October 2010 @ Ethos from 11:00 am  to 12 pm** Self invite & RSVP @ http://www.facebook.co/#!/event.php?eid=170935859588542 <http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=170935859588542>   **2. Football - 30 October 2010 @ Latimer Road Turf Court from 10:30 am to 12 pm** Self invite & RSVP @ http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150586528319178 **3. Floorball - 10 November 2010 @ Wilson House from 4.30pm to 6pm** Self invite & RSVP @ http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=164889556855393 This is not the complete list of sports activities for this month. More coming UP!! Please come down to have fun and meet more friends! Bring the relevant sports equipment along too! :D Any queries please contact me at 07564 022347 or icsssports@gmail.com. Cheers, Hong Yi   ----------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Nottingham Games 2010 @ Nottingham University (13 Nov 2010) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hello all, Nottingham Games 2010 is APPROACHING! The games involved are basketball, netball, football, floorball, adventure games (amazing race around campus), badminton, squash, snooker, poker, chess, table tennis, touch rugby, tennis, bridge and mahjong. All the games/sports above have been confirmed. Please hurry up and sign up for the event with me at icsssports@gmail.com. **Free ICSS Sports jersey given to all going to the Nottingham Games.** Available slots for the each game are listed below: * Basketball – 2 slots left * Football – 4 slots left * Floorball – 3 slots left  * Adventure Games – 1 slot left (if there is enough interest, we can form another team of 6) * Touch Rugby – 2 slots left * Table Tennis – 2 slots left * Tennis – 1 slot left * Bridge – 2 slots left * Poker – 3 slots left * Mahjong – 3 slots left Facebook group page : http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154413221265021#!/event.php?eid=154413... The team captains are --  | Badminton: | *Cherie – **diekirsche_rie@hotmail.com* <diekirsche_rie@hotmail.com> | Football: | *Derek – **derekjjlow@gmail.com* <derekjjlow@gmail.com> | Floorball: | *Yong Feng – **chinyf88@gmail.com* <chinyf88@gmail.com> | Tennis: | *Shawn – **shawn.tay1988@gmail.com* <shawn.tay1988@gmail.com> *Jun Xiang -* *jx_avatar@hotmail.com* <jx_avatar@hotmail.com>     | Touch Rugby: | *Don-* *don1988@gmail.com* <don1988@gmail.com> | Netball: | *Jia Jia –* jiajia.tan90@googlemail.com | Basketball: | *Shi Hong –* *limshihong@hotmail.com* <limshihong@hotmail.com> | Squash: | *Yi Wei –* *yiwei.27@gmail.com* <yiwei.27@gmail.com> | Adventure Race: | *Shuren -* *shurenlin@gmail.com* <shurenlin@gmail.com> | Bridge: | *Nicholas -* *nick31sg@hotmail.com * <nick31sg@hotmail.com> We are currently finding captains for the rest of the sports not mentioned above. Do tell me if you are interested. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Hong Yi ----------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Singsoc Photography Pals does Lightroom Update ----------------------------------------------------------------- After some deliberation, we have decided to hold our Lightroom session on this Saturday morning. For lightroom experts already, what I am going to cover may be dastardly boring (because I am a noob user myself), in which case I implore you to come and share with all of us a trick or two :) **Date**: 30th October 2010 (Saturday) **Time**: 9 - 10.30 am **Venue**: Sir Alexander Fleming Building (meet in the lobby) Equipment: Some of the photos that you want editing, a laptop (optional), a thumbdrive (to obtain a pirated copy for yourself. Not confirmed, still looking for the files in this huge library of mine) **Please contact Jun Ying at ****liaisonsofficer@ic-singsoc.net** <liaisonsofficer@ic-singsoc.net?subject=Singsoc%20Photography%20does%20Lightroom>** if you are coming :)** If you know any of your friends who want to be on this list, just email me their email address (but forward them the current email of course). Photo tip of the day:  Don't rely too much of the zoom on your lens, you'll be surprised at how much difference simply getting closer to the subject can make Jun Ying Official Singsoc Photographer :P --- http://www.ic-singsoc.net/ To unsubscribe, please send an email to liaisonsofficer@ic-singsoc.net. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Imperial College Singapore Society www.ic-singsoc.net http://groupspaces.com/icss ---------------------------------------------------------------- Powered by GroupSpaces - manage your group online http://www.groupspaces.com/e/about