Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Shall we go further?


CGTI family Singapore was born in 1989 and it has been active in social activities among ex-students who are working in lion city. It's main priority is likely to collect donation from family members and manage to pass them to needy teachers who are in and out service. It has been gone beyond expectation by a family of few hundred members. We have to recognize that CGTI family has been existing in the lion city for more than 20 years is not by default. In other words, it's not easily maintain to alive by itself. Of course, without its CEC members who are also never hesitate in plugging the gap especially in the financial loop, this special purpose-built family would have been disappeared long long ago.

But, I personally think that CGTI family could be able to do more than just a firm of collecting donation for ex-teachers. If they are standing alone for just the single mission, it is most likely to lose its members in the long run. I don't mean the members will go away from family on the stingy ground. I would say it will be more healthy to bond among family members if the family create much more activities. It's boring to learn that CGTI family only do for fund collection and will be seen unattractive unless it has some fun-pack innovative events.

Let me recall a day of Myanmar Engineer Society Forum held in Singapore few months ago. It was organized by RIT family Singapore and they managed to invited Dr. Nyi Hla Nge as a guest of honour. It was relatively success as a first time initiative. I guess why not for GTI families to hold such event if RIT family can do it. At CGTI alone, it has produced so many Engineer who are specialized in four major called Civil, EP, MP & MT. Some of ex-GTI students had gone as far as Ph.D and some are able to work as a white collar worker in Singapore. CGTI family can ask them for sharing their working and educational experience to fellow GTI graduates who are inferior to them. I don't think any option rejected by those successful GTI graduates if they are being asked.

We don't need to have very high standard contents to hold such seminar among CGTI members. Because it would be handful amount of GTI graduates who are working as a design engineer. Mostly we are working as technician such as supervisor, draftperson, quantity surveyor, site engineer, etc. If there are 100 CGTI graduates in Singapore, it means there are 100 options to be shared through members. What we need most now is just start. After that we don't need to worry for attendants because people know what is good and what is bad in real life. The family can put some titles on the website and invite possible candidates to register through online or mobile phones. May be we can do it such event once a month at the early stage. Later we can expand the service to bi-weekly, weekly and so no.

I have crazy idea that those seminar would be recorded properly and try to publish as a book and send them to our mother institute (CGTI) library. I believe it'ld be popular topic among students at institute because it reflect actual working world's difficulties and know-how technology before they are going to actual world. I hope they are also helpful to the in service teachers in teaching their students. We are obliged to share what we have learned oversea and they would be priceless for those engineers who are working in Myanmar. Probably we can buy one projector if the attendance gain by time through funds. I think, this is within our potential and want to urge CEC members to look into this suggestion. Once we succeed in gathering our members regardless of anything, it'ld help family to collect funds as well. So I must say it's win-win situation if this imagination become true.

May our fellow citizen able to share their valued experience to advance our careers and maintain existing job at our own will.

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