15 May 2009

Pegasus sports rep meeting 2009

This meeting was held on 12th May 2009.
But here's the agenda for the games captains who couldn't make it or didn't manage to get a copy of the handout..

1. Money - for trainings, etc.
A budget must be handed in to Ray Mun by end of this week, 15th May 2009 (WHICH IS TODAY ACTUALLY)
House Committee will review the budget and see if it is feasible or not
Budget must be written down showing the breakdown of how much each training is, etc.

2. T-shirts
House t-shirts will be blank at the back, up to each individual games captain and their team to decide if they want to print names and numbers at the back of House t-shirt to use or they can get another jersey :)
Each player will bear the cost of printing the jersey/printing the names and numbers at the back of House t-shirt

3. Recruitment
House Committee will be calling every House member to find out which sports they are interested to join. In the meantime, sports reps can start recruiting ppl already
Training to start when? ASAP!!!
IMPORTANT! we want to involve all the faculties in IMU as much as possible. Therefore, try as much as possible to find ppl from other faculties too. Make an effort to involve other faculties. We don't want our House/IMU cup to be faculty-centred

4. Trainings and announcements
All announcements for recruitment/tryouts/trainings can be made through batches (through faculty reps, NOT PR comm), facebook group, I drive, notice board, House blog :)

5. Protem games captain
During our OHM, the games captains we chose are protem games captains only as not every House member was present and as it is the first time IMU Cup House System is being done, we don't know each other's potential
So, teams will have 3 training sessions led by the protem games captain, after a period of which the team members will vote/nominate candidates for games captain.
Whoever wins the voting will be the permanent games captain :)

6. Report
Games captains are to keep the House Committee updated on all trainings, matches, etc.
This is to ensure team's progress
Updates must be given once in 2 months?

IMPORTANT INFO!!!
I Drive: Go to IMU Cup folder/Pegasus
Facebook group: Pegasus
Blog address: imupegasus.blogspot.com
IMU Cup is from 24th August-17th October 2009
If you need anything, feel free to contact me at 012-3668152 or weichinng@gmail.com

Also.. The rules for IMU Cup games are not our yet as the IMU Cup Committee has yet to be formed. In the mean time, teams can refer to last year's rules.

14 May 2009

Sports representatives 2009

Event

Sports rep

Batch

Contact No.

E-mail address

Badminton

Shanmugam A/L S. Somasundaram

ME1/09

012-4277154

shamu_app@yahoo.com

Basketball (Male)

Alex Yeong Jian Lee

ME1/08

012-2066212

silentghost88@gmail.com

Basketball (Female)

Asha Thalisha

ME1/08

019-7732020

starlocket@gmail.com

Bowling

Lee Shing Lung

ME1/09

019-2616991

wusufasa@hotmail.com

Chinese Chess

Tee Sunn Ren

ME1/09

012-6217948

sunnrentee@hotmail.com

International Chess

Tai Wei Jian

P1/09

019-2630582

gazuri2095@hotmail.com

Cheerleading

Sharon Yang & Ng Wei Chin

B1/06

016-5004483

sharon_maca@yahoo.com

Debate

Ashwin Muruhadas

ME1/08

012-3027572

ashwinmuruhadas@gmail.com

Darts





DOTA

Felix Scit Pyay

ME1/09

013-6068633

felixscitpyay@gmail.com

Foosball





Football

M. Izzat bin Md. Hayazi

M2/07

012-6101801

hayazi_arshad@shell.com

Futsal (Male)

Ahmad Naufal

ME1/08

012-3082865

naufal_28@yahoo.com

Futsal (Female)

Mira Swaminathan

ME1/08

019-3910520

mira2020@gmail.com

Netball

Lee Weei Foong

P1/09

017-6175417

weei_foong@hotmail.com

Pool

Lydia Chew

DT1/08

016-6647388

lydiacorr@gmail.com

Road Relay

Chey Chia Sin

ME1/08

016-8845826

chiasin89@hotmail.com

Scrabble

Anushya Jeyabalan

ME1/08

012-4765663

anushya.29@gmail.com

Snooker

Benedict Sachdev Singh

ME1/08

012-2887323

benedictsachdev@gmail.com

Swimming

Eunice Ewe Mei Ning

ME1/09

017-6339186

orange_bubbles89@hotmail.com

Squash

Yoon Hui Yeong

ME2/08

012-2609422

cryster101@hotmail.com

Table Tennis





Tennis

Alex Yeong Jian Lee

ME1/08

012-2066212

silentghost88@gmail.com

Track & Field

Jeremy Joseph

ME1/08

012-9354104

jocularjj@yahoo.com

Volleyball (Male)

Yap Guan Hui, Joel

ME1/08

012-3027572

joez_08@hotmail.com

Volleyball (Female)

Pang Rui Yi

ME2/08

012-7997088

ruiyi89@hotmail.com

Faculty representatives 2009

Faculty

Name

Batch

Contact No.

E-mail address

Medicine

Esther Kang

ME2/08

017-2008286

radicalme_7@hotmail.com

Medicine

Julian Tee

ME1/09

016-7975461

juliantea@gmail.com

M Pharm

Tan Ei Leen

MP1/08

012-2139749

eileentan22_3@hotmail.com

B Pharm





Nursing

Lee Sin Yee

N1/07

012-4045172

xinyi_321@hotmail.com

Health Sciences

Tan Sing Ean

ND1/08

016-5670696

singean_cl88@hotmail.com

12 May 2009

Pegasus: The story

Mythologically ,Pegasus was the son of Neptune, and the Gorgon Medusa (Algol), sprung by his father's command from the blood of the Medusa's head, which dropped into the sea after her head had been severed by Perseus, and the foam of the sea. He was a horse because Poseidon had been in the shape of a horse at the time of the seduction. When Perseus cut off Medusa's head, Pegasus, whose name means the 'Springs of Ocean', was born from the blood which fell into the sea. Pegasus was raised by the Muses and his hoof marks caused their fountain of inspiration to start flowing. Urania, the Muse of Astronomy and Universal Love (also an aspect of Aphrodite) showed the most interest in his rearing. Prophesying of his future heroic deeds and eventual celestial honor, she grieved the most when Bellerophon, at Athena's beckoning, came to take Pegasus away from Mt. Helicon.

Pegasus was a jolly and kind horse, he was always seen as a lighthearted creature, a sort of emissary between Earth and Olympus. He loved to gambol around, sometimes in the heavenly fields, sometimes on the earthly plains, and sometimes skimming over the waters from which he had been born . During a singing contest between the Pierises and the Muses, Mount Helicon swelled in pleasure. On Poseidon's order Pegasus struck the mountain with his hoof to instruct it to return to its normal size. Helicon obeyed, but at the spot where Pegasus struck it, there gushed a spring; the Hippocrene or Horse Spring. It was alleged to have magic power in its waters, if one were to drink water from this spring, one would be gifted with the art of poetry .

He was caught by Bellerophon at the waters of his fountain, and ridden by him when he slew the Chimaera, a fabulous monster with a Lion's head, a goat's body and a dragon's tail (hence the name in English for an illusory fancy, a wild incongruous scheme). By this time classical legend had given him wings, and Bellerophon sought by their aid to ascend to heaven but Jupiter, incensed by his boldness, caused an insect to sting the steed, which threw his rider. Bellerophon ignominiously plunged headlong to Earth, where he landed with a terrific crash which blinded him for life. Thereafter, Bellerophon wandered in misery, alone and fleeing the haunts of men. A warning for the presumptuous! Pegasus then rose alone to his permanent place among the stars, becoming the "Thundering Horse of Jove ",that carried the divine lightning. Urania (his nurse), was enraptured by Pegasus' triumphant arrival to Mt. Olympus.

The Greeks called the constellation simply Hyppos (Horse), or Divine Horse, and Eratosthenes distinctly asserted that it was without wings, and until after middle classical times it generally was so drawn, although loose plumes at the shoulders occasionally were added. Ptolemy mentioned the wings as well recognized in his day; and this has continued till ours, for the sky figure is now known as the Winged Horse, - a recurrence to Etruscan, Euphratean, and Hittite ideas, for the wings are clearly represented on a horse's figure on tablets, vases, etc of those countries, where this constellation may have been known in pre classical times. .

It is said to have been placed in the heavens by the early Aryans to represent Asva, the Sun. The figure was considered incomplete, a possible reason for this being given under Aries. Thus it was characterized as, "cut in two," or as if partly hidden in the clouds; the Half-visible Libyan Horse. Translated from Greece by the Romans, it was Equus and elsewhere it was Cornipes, Horn-footed; Sonipes, Noisy-footed.

Jewish legends made it the mighty Nimrod's Horse; "are swifter than eagles". Pegasus appears on coins of Corinth from 500 to 430 BCE, and from 350 to 338 BCE, and 200 years thereafter,- complete and with wings; as well as on coins of Carthage, with the asterisk of the sun, or with the winged disc, and the hooded snakes over its back. It is also shown on a coin of Narbonne as a sectional winged figure, and as a winged horse on a Euphratean gem, with a bull's head, a crescent moon, and three stars in the field. A coin of Panormus, the modern Palermo, has the Horse's head. The Bridled Horse, used for the figurehead on a ship, which would account for the constellation being shown with only the head and forequarters; others have considered it of Egyptian origin, from Pag, "to cease," and Sus, "a vessel", thus symbolizing the cessation of navigation at the change of the Nile flow. From this, Pegasus seems to have been regarded, in those countries at least, as the sky emblem of a ship. In the old work the Des frudion of Troye, we read of "a ship built by Perseus, and named Pegasus, which was likened to a flying horse".
The stars of Pegasus

The great square is formed by alpha Pegasi, (or Markab, "the Saddle"), beta Pegasi, (or Scheat or Menkhib, "the Horse's Shoulder"), gamma Pegasi, (or Algenib, "the Wing" or "the Side") and alpha Andromedae, (Alpheratz the Princess's Head or Sirrah, from Al Surrat al Faras, "Navel of the Horse" which is sometimes called Delta Pegasi) form the body of the horse. The Greeks identified these four stars in Pegasus (called the Square of Pegasus) as the gate to paradise for souls who escaped the necessity of reincarnation. The nose lies in epsilon Pegasi, or Enif. Eta Pegasi, or Matar, is the knee of the horse. Sirrah, also called Alpheratz, along with being the naval of Pegasus, is actually the first star of Andromeda, the princess' head, however, it is believed that it takes its astrological influences from Pegasus.

Pegasus lies north of the Urn of Aquarius and the easternmost Fish (Pisces), the stars of the Great Square enclosing the body of the Horse. The figure is usually shown as half a horse, upside down, it is believed that the horse is just rising from the ocean, the other half still submerged.


Text obtained from: http://prosites-magicstables.homestead.com/ThePegasusMyth.html