Winter Break Newsletter
- Victoria
- Dec 25, 2016
- 4 min read
Merry Christmas!! We hope that you are feeling the Christmas joy and spending time with your family and friends :) This special holiday edition of the LSE Singapore Society newsletter is filled with exciting updates and events to make you all pumped up for the new year!! (On a sidenote, here are some Christmas song recommendations to put you in the right mood this holiday!! Different songs to suit your personal tastes!!!! Traditional upbeat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8 Modern and hip (??) cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku7ohU1IGls Old-school Taylor Swift because why not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmMBe5Jy2P0 Enjoy!!)
1. Christmas Party Round-up
Thank you to everyone who came down for our Christmas party in November. Hope you had a good time and enjoyed all the delicious char kway teow, chocolate tarts, pizza, vegetable dumplings and roast chicken! :)
Photos from the night can be found here:
2. Chinese New Year Lunch!
We are glad to announce that sign ups are now open for our annual CHINESE NEW YEAR SINGSOC LUNCH!!
Yes, this means sumptuous Chinese food abound in the company of your beloved SingSoc family and friends!!
Date: 21 January 2017 (Sat) Time: 12pm Venue: Imperial China Cost: £12
Link to the sign up form: goo . gl/oYjhAv The deadline for sign ups is 1 Jan 2017, 2359. Bank transfer details are on the google form.
Casual reminder that being in the UK means that we will be missing out on those pineapple tarts and love letters and not to mention the ang paos ya so BEST NOT TO MISS OUT ON THIS LUNCH AS WELL!! Sign up today!! ：）
3. Back-to-school Week
The school term is starting soon! Are you dreading having to go back to lectures and early 9am morning classes?? WORRY NOT! Our upcoming back-to-school events are sure to brighten your days!! Here's a list of what we have planned: 9 Jan (Mon): Free Breakfast Venue: 4th floor old school building 11 Jan (Wed): Dinner Party x Movie Screening Venue: Holborn 12 Jan (Thur): Singsoc Sports Carnival Venue: TBC 17 Jan (Wed): Ministry of Sound: Refreshers Venue: Ministry of Sound; predrinks @ Bankside bar Only 30 tickets reserved Stay tuned for more details!! :)
4. LSE Public Event with Tharman Shanmugaratnam
The LSE will be hosting a public event with Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies. The event details are as follows: Inclusive Prosperity: making it possible Date: 30 Jan 2017 (Mon) Time: 6.30pm to 8.00pm The event is free and open to all, but tickets are required for entry. LSE students can collect one ticket per person from the SU shop (located at Lincoln's Chambers, 2-4 Portsmouth Street) from 10am on 23 Jan (Mon). The tickets are available on a first come, first served basis. Do check out the event page for more details: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2017/01/20170130t1830vLSE/Inclusive-Prosperity
5. Invitation to Rajah & Tann-Cambridge Moot 2017
The LSE has been invited to participate in the Rajah & Tann-Cambridge Moot 2017. For the past two years, the moot has been a success in bringing together Singaporean law students all over the UK to hone their advocacy skills and legal thinking. Given that it is sponsored by Rajah & Tann Asia, partners from the firm fly to the UK specifically to judge the finals of the moot and it is therefore a very prestigious opportunity for young aspiring lawyers to impress the partners and build a wider network with law students from other universities. Date: 4-5 Feb 2017
Link to the sign up form: goo . gl/forms/ezF3XMYR4oDplTrj2
Check your email for more details in the newsletter attachment!
6. Careers Updates
FinTech job opportunity at FriendlyScore FriendlyScore, an expanding FinTech startup, is looking for interested candidates to join as Sales/Business Analysts. They provide alternative credit scoring based on big data, which gives an opportunity to people with low creditworthiness (such as students, foreign citizens and underbanked people) to get a loan. Also, they target retail banks, insurances, and P2P lending platforms offering our algorithm in order to increase their revenues by including more clients from the aforementioned group. For more info, please find their website at friendlyscore . com/ FriendlyScore is currently expanding to Singapore, thus they are looking for Singaporean students and graduates who would be interested in joining, doing a part-time internship if you are still studying at the LSE or joining for a full-time role if you have already graduated in order to gain experience. The duties include the following:
acquiring a good commercial awareness of lenders and the FinTech sector in your specified country
identifying clients in your country (intelligent online search for retail banks, insurances, and for any potential clients)
contacting them by email explaining about and offering our product
attending FinTech/startup events and promoting FriendlyScore
anything else you can contribute to our venture, we are opened to learn about you and your skills
What you will gain from this experience:
learn about FinTech, including both the technical and the commercial side
get a first-hand insight of venture development
experience multitasking by taking responsibility for different tasks
salaries are negotiable depending on your availability, work-load, and experience
If you are interested, please send your CV to m.molnar@friendlyscore.com with a brief description of your interests, background, and availability (how much you could work, when you could join etc.). For further inquiries, please email M.Molnar@lse.ac.uk
7. Constitutional Matters: Calling for Suggestions
For those who did not attend the previous AGM, you might be interested to know that an amendment to the LSE SingSoc's constitution was raised and hotly debated. The issue was whether society members should be allowed to leave the SingSoc AGM before the elections have finished. Here is a summary of the arguments on both sides (for which your constitutional officer admittedly felt strong empathy):
Allowing members to leave early permits more flexibility, which recognises the problem of clashing commitments. This might encourage more people to attend future AGMs.
Preventing members from leaving early would accord proper respect to the election process and ensure that those who run for later exco positions are voted in in an equally democratic manner.
We would like to invite suggestions for an amendment which will strike a progressive compromise. An example would be a clause which stipulates that if anyone leaves early, he/she forfeits his/her next singsoc event subsidy. Careful phrasing of the amendment will be greatly appreciated :) For further inquiries or to submit a suggestion, please contact our Constitutional Officer, Josh Han, via Facebook message or text/Whatsapp (+44 7548 133807). We look forward to hearing from you! :)
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