it's not about the money....

niznhny games is just around the corner and yet the committees are facing serious financial crisis in order to make this event real...

as far as reality is concerned, money IS indeed an important factor in determining the success of these events.

all the preparation we've done (i mean "they" have done)  including the project setia, the cheerleading, the singing, dancing, the food we've bought, the effort the sportsmen haven put in, will go down the drain if this amount is not gathered in less than 3 days time.

backing out is not an option now.

after account and budget was revealed last week about the shortage of so much amount of money, there were of course hoo-hahs about the committee trying to cheat the money, that there were some suspicion of the money "missing" somewhere, more probably into the committee's pocket. (this is not a subjective opinion, have a look at the account prepared by them and you will think the same too). the the Q&A session that day was basically a war revolving only the budgets and the accounts....

and well, 2 person was appointed to audit the account....myself being one of them. at first i tot our job was to check again the account and confirm everything with proper proof and approve it. but their 2nd account was just as unbarable as the first one. so we basically have to clean up their mess from ground zero...

after 3 days of mingling around the accounts, we finally managed to solve the mystery of the "missing" money....

i'm sure this is quite dissapointing to some of the ppl (actually i believe most), but if any of the nizny student is reading this, i'm sorry to announce to you that your anticipation to seeing a good show of how we reveal the "missing money" has to be let down. the money is not missing. we failed to find any evidence of the committee cheating (as many would want to see)........there were just technical accounting, and mathematical mistakes....(i tried not to include the word "stupid" here coz i made a vow to myself to use that word less often)

and so this means that everyone is required to pay extra ( a total of 300rub for non-players, and 700 in the players)....

this post does not end here....

as the title indicates, it's not about the money.........

c'mmon, i'm sure 100 roubles is not an issue for most of the students here. you can't even but a set of mc donalds with 100 roubles nowadays. even an extra 500 roubles, in my opinion, is affordable to most ppl.

handling 500 roubles is not a problem. but handling 500 roubles of 300 students is a large responsibilities.

i'm sure nobody would wanna cheat 100 roubles. but if having 100 roubles of 300 person gives you alot of space and opportunity to telan the money for yourself and not having anyone to know it.....

so it's not about the money at all, it's about the trust....

the mentality of most of the people here is that: it's such a huge sum of money, how would i know if you won't use the money in anyway for your own benifit?? why should you be trusted with such huge responsibilities?

you see, for one, many ppl are afraid to see ppl benifit, whether or not they loose anything at all. as an example, one of the sportsteam gets money to buy equipment, and the rest of the teams want money too.....even if they can do without it....

the second issue is trust. ppl don trust each other anymore these days. hearts are filled with suspicion, disbelieve and ignorance. this is rather ironic, as it contradicts with motto and aim of the nizhny games itself. what happened to the sportsmanship?? how do we expect to win if our hearts are not united??

regarding of whether the current committee is qualified and up to standard or not, well, i believe there are many others that could have done it better, avoiding the clumsy mistakes and not-so-wise decisions.....i'm sure many are complaining about the current committees...and go around bragging that they can do much better...

but one thing is for sure, for many are capable of doing the job, only those who are brave enough to take up that huge responsibilites are fit for the job. brag all you want, but if u do not have the guts to take the responsibilities, it doesn't mean anything at all....

with huge power comes huge responsibilities. as many long for power to control such huge event with such big amount of money, not many can bare the huge responsibilities that comes together with it. i know of some ppl who dream and brag of how they would spend the large amount of money better than the current committees now, that they would plan the budget better, distribute it wiser............but then again, these ppl could only dream.....

chinese has a good idiom on this : before critisizing on other's fault, think first, of whether yourself is flawless.

thus, i give the current committee a thumbs up for having the guts, and willingness to take the initiative to take this huge responsibilities. at least that's one thing that i couldn't do.  of course, they are to answer to everything that is going to happen, good, or bad.

you can find thousands of mistakes of the work they've done. but where does this bring us? more condamning and damaging is not gonna solve the current problem. instead, you could help by pointing out how things could be done better.

if how much benifit they've gained was your concern, then our auditing proved that your concern was for nothing. so, it means that they have done the job without any profit, and they were doing it because they were responsible enough to take the job....and there is no reason to be blamed for that...

one of the member of the committee told me : i have maids in my house all my life, and never before have i talked to them like how those ppl talked to me in the meeting the other day.....

you may have excuse not cooperate because u had questions on the money-whereabouts. if prove is what you need to give full cooperation for this event, well, our auditing can provide you all the evidence of the money in/outflow....

so basically, if the problem is not with the accounting.....there should be no problem collecting the money. and if the problem still exist, i suspect these ppl do not have intention to cooperate at all in the first place, and the accounting mistakes and all was an excuse to delay things....and thus having 2 audits working their ass off to prove the account was a mere waste of time....

now if this happens, who is to blame then???

Comments

[sёvvаитнээ]

haha..cudnt help but drop a comment : 1st of all, thanx 4 helpin out..personally, i hv no idea abt accouting - since i had no interest absolutely in that subject, i didnt bother 2 learn it..watz more important though is that so far the figures tally n no mismanagement of the $$$ in OUR CARE occured..yeap, itz true tht some others cud hv done better but since they didnt turn up at all, we novices end up in the pot..but i suppose we learn from experience n this has indeed changed our perspectives of many things..at least now i kno that things r not always as simple as they seem..mayb next time when msa collects $$$, i wudnt complain as much - unless we get served wit rotten food of cos =D

[iLeEnA]

lepas ni msa nak collect duit utk ape2 reason pun, pls do not expect any from me!
har har har.

[SooC]

any how the Nizhny Games is quite a success... da miss soo ching here enjoys her last moment of "stressless" day before exam...
well, we can't blame anyone for this...
if the committee didn't take this responsibility, who else would???
while us, as the "non committee" just sit around goyang kaki, waiting for the nizhny games.