THE YEAR OF THE TIGER HAS FINALLY ARRIVED!

SIM ICC WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL A VERY HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!

Since we live in a country that houses a variety of religions and races, it will be nice to know more about them. So i came across this article while reading up a little about Chinese New Year. Thus, i thought it wll be great to share with you all the following :

Chinese have a unique way of representing the New Year through animals. They have 12 different animals to represent each year of the 12 year -cycle and the order remains the same throughout with the year of the rat beginning the cycle and the year of the boar/ pig ending the same.

Chinese New Year of Tiger, 2010 fell on the 14th of February and will mark the 15 day long festivities beginning on the said date.

As the different years of the 12 year cycle are characterized by different animals, people born on the different years also feature different traits and characters and most often then not, they are believed to be influenced and inspired by the animals of the particular year they are born in.

Tiger symbolizes courage, power, earth, victory, passion and royalty. The Tiger years so far have been 1902, 1914, 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998 and now 2010 followed by 2022 (according to the 12 year cycle).

Traits of people born in the Chinese New Year of Tiger 2010 : Adventurous, sensitive, emotional, and risk-taking. Those who are born in the Year of the Tiger are smart, uncomplicated and friendly by nature. They have strong will power and never give-up attitude.

Few negative traits : short-tempered and suspicious are generally associated with people born in this year.

The above information was taken from :http://123chinesenewyear.com/chinesenewyear/chinese-new-year-of-tiger.html

HOPE YOU'LL HAD AND WILL HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!

Last Month on January 9th, SIM ICC had organised a tertiary level amazing race competition called 'Vettaiyaadu Villaiyaadu'. And we're glad to say that it was a major success. All thanks to our organising committee members, marshalls, volunteers and of course our participants.

Our V2 organising committee had went thorugh months of planning, preparation and hardwork in order to pull through this event. Thus we would like to thank :

Fairoze Sultana - Chairperson
Anan Jeyaram - Vice Chairperson & Marshall IC
Shameni T R - Secretary & Sponsorship Manager
Kajendran - Treasurer
Kavitha Selvarasu - Publicity Manager & Logistics IC

All of our marshall were very resourceful and helpful during the whole event. Thier co-operation and under understanding is greatly appreciated. We would like to thank all of them for all thier effort, time and commitment.

As for our participants, we would like to thank each and every participant for taking part and making the V2 journey even more exciting and of course a memorable one.

During our Prize Presentation Ceremony we had the honour of our Guest of Honour DR V P Nair to give away the top three awards to our deserving participants.

AWARDEES:
1ST : MAMBO MAAMAS (all guys group)

1ST RUNNER UP: INTHA VECHIKKO ( all girls group)

2ND: THE HUNKS (all guys group)

All in all we had a great time and hope that all who were involved did too. V2 committe will see you soon again for our next V2 event coming up later into the year ! Till then you can view our blogs for updates or e-mail to us @ for any queries.

P.S : Pictures of the event will be posted in the coming week.

Movie Night is back!!!

Hey Guys!

Back from the break, hope everyone's Christmas and New Year went on by smoothly and as fulfilling as they could! If you made resolutions, remember to follow up with them and not let go halfway!

Everyones back to school and most of us find it such a drag! To make the semester a little more bearable we've organized movie night for the month of February on the 18th!

This months theme is 'Bollywood in Hollywood'. I think the theme speaks for itself so what's everyone waiting for? Vote away right here!!

1. Bend it like Beckham
2. Pride and Predjudice
3. Monsoon Wedding
4. Slumdog Millionaire
5. Mistress of Spices

Naz =)

YOUR RACE IS HERE!

Calling All Indian Youths! Come On Out & Join Us For The 1st Race of 2010!

SIM ICC is organising its very own amazing race, Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu 2010 on Saturday, 9 January 2010.

Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu (literally translated as Hunt and Play) is an adventurous action-packed race set across the island, where competing teams proceed from one Checkpoint to another. Teams will be tested through various challenges at each Game Station as they race against the clock.

Participants will sweat it out competing through interesting and exciting obstacles which highly challenge their brain and mind !!

We are organising this event especially for our Indian youths from various post-secondary institutions, including JCs, ITEs, Polytechnics and Universities, nationwide.

Time is running out to register for Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu ‘10, so secure your team’s spot today!

Limited to first 20 teams only.

DATE: Saturday, 9 January 2010

TIME: Race begins at 8 am

FEE: $40 Per Team

REGISTER: To register simply fill in the registration form and email to us @ simv210@gmail.com

LOCATION: All across the island!

Interested racers please do contact Kavitha @ 92372214!!

BOLLYWOOD NIGHT 09'

We had our Bollywood night last weekend at the Ulu Pandan Campus with fun crowd. We started out with a a song item by Theeben and Sinthiya and proceeding with icebreaker games, birthday celebration for the November Babies, and dinner. After dinner we had a few more fun activities before opening up the dance floor that helped burn a whole lot of calories!

It was great seeing many new faces who were very sporting indeed. We would like to thank those who helped out for the event and those who attended and made it memorable!

Thanks to Naz and Niran for hosting bollywood night!

Thanks to Organiser Nithiya and Coorganiser Sri for taking charge of planning and arranging everything needed for the night!