6:00 Monday 8th of September saw a mad rush by SRC committee members to bring together the Sydney High School senior dance replacement, The SRC Trivia Night.

With over two months of conscientious planning by Alex Shapilsky, the man in charge, the Trivia Night comprised of numerous segments. First and foremost was the Trivia. Having made the PowerPoint I can say with utmost authority that the questions were not easy, especially the deciding questions set by Tim Li, the Olympics section. The gates opened at six thirty with Shumin decked out in his pyjamas and Shaun Fletcher and Jamian Vuong in separate costumes as well. They were the waiters of the night. However it was the man of the hour Alex Shapilsky and Varan Perananthan, who kept the event running smoothly with the help of the SRC President, David Nam, and Vice President, Nick Wong with numerous other members and non members helping. Between the trivia and fierce competition there were activities such as Limbo. They were a huge crowd pleaser! There many videos as well which not only humiliated the year 12s present, but also broke the building tension among the teams. The SRC was keen on having no technological hiccups this time. Hence with help of Brendan Leo all computers and projectors worked smoothly, and I managed to make the PowerPoint work luckily at 6:20, because of a late call up. The winning table consisting of Nick Lindeback,  Nick Wong,  Johnny Lieu,  Sam Burnham,  Johan Santoso,  Christian Katsikaros, Nicky Block, Lucie Aitken, Amy Campbell, Rebecca Dukes, Audrey Won and Margaret Gordon. Well Done! The feedback was incredibly positive. Everyone said it was incredibly enjoyable and that it was a great night. The most popular part was the activities, they were huge fun. It'll definitely happen again next year and we encourage all future yr 10-12s to come. The SRC would like to thank everyone involved who made this event possible and a huge success having earned $630 for youth of the streets! Well done everyone.

Anirban Ghose
SRC Webmaster

Lately there has been a lot of dissatsfaction with the SRC primarily stemming from the organisation of the SRC Dance Off. With any failure by the SRC questions are asked of why it was allowed to be put forward in the first place. Suddenly everyone seems to be distant from any involment. As i was at an art excursion on the day it seemed diffcult to if anybody in the SRC willing to discuss what happened. However they did. Everyone knows basicly what happened, there were a lack of dancers, the music system failed and we were treated to an impromtu striptese. After much digging around many reasons seemed to emerge. Firstly reasons for the music system failing were put forward, as the failure is being attributed to this hitch. There are many theories. Someone proposed there was a power surge, or the wires were snipped. However i believe the problem lay with the lack of dancers. This was mainly due to the badly designed posters. As they were designed by me, I am sorry, but just in case you didn't get tjhem it was meant to be the ipod cover flow. The SRC accepts full responsibility for what happened, however now we need your input. Use the feedback form to send us ideas and ways on which we can improve an event like this. Are there any ideas that you have for events? Lastly I would like to congratulate Christian Katsikorus on his excelent organising and the effort he put in, well done.

Anirban Ghose

All I can say is success, success, success! It’s been a long time since the Sydney Boys SRC organised anything with the Sydney Girls SRC and both councils pulled it off. Like any event, there were mishaps along the way. Yet, when it came to the crux, the Sydney Boys SRC came through with flying colours. On the Thursday before the Quest, the Sydney Boys leaders realised that our organisation was lacklustre to say the least. There were calls from some leaders to abandon the event and reschedule. Yet, the SRC from both schools showed great determination and gritted it out. With only a few days to go, the SRC decided it was not going to organise a sub-standard event but rather wanted to give the crowd the whole she-bang. All bells and whistles were employed as we got access to Mr Hannon’s iMac and Touchbook. We attempted to get a live video-link happening and it worked due to the great work of Brendan Leo in 9S .Jamian Vuong (Year 8 SRC Rep) also helped with the tech work and also annoyed/entertained many helpers on the day. The video link proved a hit with the crowd (with its five minutes of fame) but the only problem was we forgot to fully recharge the video camera. The whole event ran like clockwork as we finished right on time. Mainly people from the boys’ school thought that the event was ridiculously awesome. Yet, the girls’ school, ever the pessimists, expected more. 

The Talent Quest raised in excess of over $2000 with half of it going to Youth of the Streets and the other half going to Black Dog Institute. The Sydney Boys’ SRC were able to raise $1069.125 for Youth of the Streets.

In terms of achievement, the Talent Quest went beyond the $1069 as it heralded in a new era in leadership. New links were formed between:

• Sydney Boys SRC and Sydney Girls SRC
• Sydney Boys SRC and Sydney Boys Prefects
• Sydney Boys SRC and rapport with the school

I’d like to thank all the prefects especially Lachlan Street who was the sound/music man, Kogulan Sriranjan who was the Operations Manager, Dominic Bowes who was MC and Josh Hui.

Special mentions must particularly go to these SRC boys:

• Brendan Leo – Tech guy (Honorary SRC Member)
• Jamian Vuong – Tech guy (Year 8 SRC)
• Michael Wong – Cameraman (Year 9 SRC)
• Isnad Zaman – Cameraman (Year 9 SRC)
• Nafiz Chowdhury – Leader of Stage (Year 10 SRC)
• Kumidika Gunaratne – Stagehand (Year 9 SRC)
• Vinodan Anadaselavakumar – Stagehand (Year 9 SRC)
• Shanaz Razeen – Stagehand (Year 9 SRC)
• Samir Kinger – Stagehand (Year 9 SRC)
• Kevin Lam – All-round handyman (Year 12 SRC)

By Varan Perananthan
Organiser of the Talent Quest 2008
Prefect of SRC 2008
SRC President 2007