I have been playing badminton on and off for past 1 year, want to persist on this kind of excise, but there always are many difficulties: busy schedule, no teammates and no organizers…
Now I volunteer to be the organizer of the team and try to set some ground rules and form up a solid team. Below is the proposal that I have sent out for comments,
“for future, to make this excise regular on every Sunday afternoon, some simple guideline to be made, I think. Here, I just write down a few points for your considerations, any comments please do feel free to contribute.
1. To avoid to book the court at last minute and ensure the court is available, I will book it before every Tuesday without asking you (preferred time slot: in between 1230 - 0430), and send it to every one after that for confirmation;
2. Location will be Nanyang CC (S$5 per hour) if no surprise, if no slot during that period, Jurong West stadium or Geh Pok CC will be alternative option;
3. I'd like to implement AA system, and share all the cost by all, S$5 per person for every time (based on 2 hours) to members, I will prepare a box for you to drop in;
4. To encourage every one bring in new members to join in, just be free to 2 times for trial for new members, and we do consider more if the new member is lady;
5. I will prepare a log sheet to record down all these expenditures and send to all in the end of every month, any extra we may consider buying some drinks or rewarding gifts to those loyal team members who do participate it every time and always be punctual;
6. Just bring you own racket and drinking water, and be present in due time, I will settle the rest;
7. Here I volunteer to do all the booking and all these preparations for the time being if no objection from all of you, and I am going to charge you (Wang, CheeHwa & Zhang), please do bring your S$5 to site, and free for Mr. William for 2 times (Actually I am very excited about that - The Return of King);
8. We will try this system for 1 -2 months, and I will look into above matters from time to time, may revise it if situation changes.
9. I will bring in a few of my old frinds (from NTU) if not enough participants later on in due course. “
To be honesty, the response is great and all almost everyone were present and be punctual yesterday. We have been playing for almost 3 hours (in Nanyang badminton, we always get ‘book 1 free 1’ based on previous record, that is also one reason I choose Nanyang CC as my preferred location)
A good start is almost 50% of the success, just keep it up and make it one part of my life.
