Saturday, December 27, 2008

This is the ACELS Blog

I think this blog needs a proper introduction.

First of all, ACELS is the acronym for the Arau Campus English Language Society. The purpose of this blog is so that we can update everyone involved with this club on club meetings, activities, discussions, etc. This blog too is made to document the club's progress (if any) and provide a platform for ACELS members to express their views on whatever topics posted, or even contribute to it apart from strenghtening the bond between the club members and the committee board.

There is no specific theme to what you can post over here - if you want to contribute to this site. Anything can be posted as long as the language medium is English since the club itself is a English club. You can do so by posting your work to acelsuitm@gmail.com and we'll upload it up to this blog. And remember to put your name so that we can credit you to it.

Sorry for being cheesy but this must be done.

Good day all and a happy (advance) new year!

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

The Annual General Meeting

Last night we held the ACELS AGM. Not particularly a strong number was present for the AGM, but 30 is a good number to start i suppose. Thank you to those who came last night, i do sure hope that a fruitful partnership can be made between us.

For the AGM, five activities for this semester was announced together with two suggested activities. The activities announced were :

1 - Karnival Gegar UiTM.

The carnival will be on the 1st till 3rd of august this year. Our booth will be a 20X20 and we will sell sweaters, t-shirts and crisps. We will also open up an information counter for Herbalife health product. Apart from that, we will also do a scrabbles and boggles demonstration whereby we are hoping for everyone, the members in particular to come and join us manning and playing scrabbles and boggles together at our booth.

2 - Gathering

It was decided that to strengthen the bond between members, a gathering should be made. A few places were suggested. Coffee Bean, Starbucks, Secret Recipe and bowling were just some of the places suggested. Alor Setar sounds a logical choice. The date for the gathering could be anytime before Ramadhan. Any other suggestions please do so by posting them in the web forum at http://s4.invisionfree.com/acels .

3 - T-Shirts

We all wear shirts, and to recognise some of the ACELS members we hope to have our very own t-shirt for this semester. It was still undecided about the design. We will consult Mr Bad about this matter. As again, any suggestions for the t-shirt please post it at the web forum.

4 - ACELS Day

We are proposing for the Mushroom to be made ours on either one of the two days of any weekend. Activities suggested during the AGM were public speaking, spelling bee, English exhibition, scrabbles competition and essay writing competition.

5 - Web log and web forum

You are currently viewing the blog. You too can view the ACELS web forum at the url given earlier. The colour for the web forum was decided by members to be black. We'll try our best to change the design.

The activities suggested by the members were :

1 - Trip

A night stay trip was the idea but we're not ruling out a day trip. Suggested places to have our trip are Langkawi, Bukit Merah, Pangkor, Pulau Pinang and Padang Besar. The Board of Directors however might favour a visit to the other UiTM campus for an educational or if we have other English Clubs there, we can make a sisterhood visit to those campus. Money is the name of the game here, but we're carefully considering this because no one hates going to a trip.

2 - Outdoor activities

Jungle trekking, flying fox and rock climbing were the suggested activities with UUM being the venue of choice. We can make an educational visit to UUM as well, think of it as a2 in 1 activity.

So i guess that's all for now. We do hope that you can post your thoughts and get along with the others in our web forum. To those who came for the AGM, thank you very much, and to those who wants to register with us, please do so by sending us an email to acelsuitm@gmail.com or text us at 013-4059047. Registration is open all semester. Again, thank you very much for viewing our blog.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

We Are ACELS

Hi everyone. Thank you for visiting the ACELS weblog.

If my memory serves me right, we are only the second club in the Arau Campus to have its own blog after IMAM. Here we will keep everyone concerned with the club on updates and news related to ACELS.

Apart from that, there’s a link to our web forum on the “Links” segment on your right hand side. The web forum will be our heart beat where anyone from our campus registered to the forum can interact with each other and exchange ideas or even gossips. There’s even a forum created for you to learn on how to score in BEL papers and the MUET examination. That said, our BEL lecturers too will take part in the forum.

For the time being, hopefully everyone has no problem using this blog, with the all text header and the blog design which is already a blogspot template with no special designs. We’re looking to develop this blog over time and hopefully we can add in things that can make the blog look prettier perhaps? (blame it on the poor wifi).
As for updates, our first for this semester is the ACELS Annual General Meeting. Details are as below.


The annual fee is RM 10. Bring along you friends to the AGM ok?

See you there!