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Groundhog GBM

Hosted by: John & Xavier

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New Members

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Ice Breakers: What’d You Say

  • Have one person turn off their mic and say a phrase
  • Have everybody else try and figure out what that person said
  • Whoever guesses correct introduces themselves (name, year, major) and goes next

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APSA Fit

  • Come out to the first APSAFit of the new semester!!
  • Talk, stretch, sweat, exercise
  • Special Guest: Chloe Ting!!! (just her youtube videos tho)
  • TOMORROW!!!!

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Mandy’s Kultura: Lunar New Year

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What is the Lunar New Year?

The Lunar New Year, also known as or the Spring Festival, is China’s most important festival. But is also celebrated heavily in Vietnam, Korea and other Southeast Asian countries.

The date of the Lunar New Year is determined by the lunar calendar.

  • The holiday falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice.
    • The Lunar new year falls on different dates than the usual Gregorian calendar every year.
    • Somewhere between January 21-February 20.

This year, the Lunar New Year falls on February 12th.

The traditional greeting of is pronounced: “kung hei fat choi.” in Mandarin. In Vietnamese it's “Chúc mừng năm mới”

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Zodiacs

The Zodiac is is typically associated with the Lunar New Year.

The Zodiac is a repeating cycle of 12 years, each year is represented by a different animal.

  • These animals are (in order): Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig
    • The Vietnamese Zodiac: Replaces the rabbit with a cat
  • Each animal is said to influence some aspects of your personality

This year’s animal is the Ox

  • Diligent and dependable, but also stubborn and hate to lose

The Heavenly Gate Race Story

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How is the Lunar New Year Celebrated?

  1. New Year Decorations
    • Every street, building and house is decorated with red.
      • Red is the main color for the festival
  2. New Year’s Eve Dinner
    • Family is meant to return together on New Year’s Eve..
    • Dishes include: dumplings, fish, spring rolls and nián gāo (or rice cake)
    • Dishes in Vietnamese new year include: Banh Chung, Banh Tet, Coconut candy, and watermelon seeds
  3. Fireworks
    • At midnight, billions of fireworks go up, the most anywhere at any time of the year
  4. New Year Gifts and Red Envelopes
    • People exchange gifts during the Lunar New Year
    • Red envelopes (hóngbāo in Mandarin, Lì Xì in vietnamese) enclosed with money are given to children and retirees.
      • Only employers give red envelopes to working adults

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Why is the Lunar New Year important?

The Holiday was traditionally a time to honor household and heavenly deities, as well as your ancestors

  • It was also important to bring family together at least once throughout the year in celebration
  • Business life comes to a stop (mostly).

Many people take this time to forget about work and school focus on spending time with their loved ones

  • Look at the fireworks in the sky!

Also about spreading culture across the globe.

  • The festival is very recognizable to internationals.

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In conclusion...

Also sources:

https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/special-report/chinese-new-year/

https://theculturetrip.com/asia/china/articles/why-is-chinese-new-year-so-important/

https://www.oprahmag.com/life/a34892893/what-is-lunar-new-year-festival/

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Valentine’s Day Fundraiser

  • Submit an anonymous (or not) confession that FruGal Duo will read out loud during GBM on 2/16!

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  • Confessions require at least a $3 donation on Venmo to @apsasdsu!

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  • The fam with the most confessions gets an affirmation!

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  • 30+ Confessions and FruGal duo will sing a love song <3

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T-Shirt Contest

Artsy? Creative? Put your skills to the test and enter to create APSA’s next T-shirt!

Winner will receive the shirt for FREE + a MYSTERY PRIZE!

T-Shirt Contest Interest forms will be in the FaceBook page!

‘19-20 Design by Lynn Nguyen

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Report on Academic Resources: Indecisiveness

Barry Lomibao, Jr.

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What is Indecisiveness?

  • Definition: marked by or prone to indecision, a wavering between two or more possible courses of action.

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Keep in mind that...

  • Indecisiveness stems from not knowing our own set of values.

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  • Wastes a great deal of our energy.

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  • “When a person is basically divided, they can never put their energies wholeheartedly into anything but wants always to pursue two or more incompatible goals… they will either scatter their energies or actively or actively frustrate their efforts.”

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Reason #1

We rarely take a stand in accordance with the objective merits of a person, idea or cause, but rather on the basis of our own emotional needs.

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Reason #2

One takes no clear position in their mind but at best, register the good, the bad, the valid, and the invalid- without arriving at any conviction of their own, because taking any clear position takes commitment.

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Phenomena of “Decisiveness”

  • Don’t get it twisted; “Decisiveness” is not always good.
    • Being opinionated doesn’t always mean you’re good at making up your mind.

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  • Some people show a close-minded purpose
    • Wholeheartedness is of desperation rather than of integration.

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How can we deal with Indecisiveness?

  • In order to be less indecisive, we need to know ourselves
    • Values, beliefs, ambitions, boundaries, fears, vulnerabilities, inhibitions, and wishes.

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  • Keep in mind that what we reject and accept, will be reflected in what we consider our shortcomings and faults.

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  • Be conscious of one’s emotions.
    • *emotional agility - accuracy is important.

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“The better we know ourselves, the less indecisive we will become.”

*Time and energy used when facing indecision can be saved to be used towards other matters*

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Schedule Adjustment Deadline

  • Tonight, 7:59 PM !!

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  • Last day for students to add, drop, or change grading and the last day for faculty to add from their waitlist.

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  • Dropping and adding of classes must be done through your SDSU WebPortal account, so make sure you are enrolled in the right classes for Spring 2021 !!

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Academic resources

Computing Hub Chat

https://library.sdsu.edu/computers-technology#

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Math & Stats Learning Center

https://mlc.sdsu.edu

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Writing Center

https://writingcenter.sdsu.edu

Student Ability Success Center

https://newscenter.sdsu.edu/student_affairs/sds/aboutsds.aspx

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Sources

  • “2 Psychological Reasons Behind Indecisiveness.” YouTube, Strength Within, 6 May 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoG4GO8sqEA&t=1s.

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  • Horney, Karen. Our Inner Conflicts: a Constructive Theory of Neurosis. New York, NY, 2014.

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BARRY’S BARS

Bruh make up your mind (ay, yuh)

You wasting your time (ay, yuh)

Better know yourself, know your worth,

So you can get ya life right

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Thank You

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Shadow’s Night

Shadows Night: Friday, February 5th

Time: 5 to 7 PM

What is the Shadows Program?

The Shadow Program provides general body members the chance to shadow the Executive Board members of APSA. Shadows are given a glimpse of what each position entails as well as the duties correlated with that position. The goal of the program is to allow members to become informed of the commitments and responsibility of serving on Executive Board. We also hope to engage in critical learning dialogue between the shadows and respective officers.

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HSC Fam Head Sign-ups

  • Interested being a fam head?!
  • Responsibilities will include monitoring ice breakers, hyping up your family, etc!
  • Basically become just like your APSA Parents!

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Sign-Up are in the chat: https://forms.gle/xBf7kpwhgjpFYBZF6

CLOSES 2/15

For more info, hit up Mirei or Mandy

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Stanford Conference

Listen to the Silence (LTS) is Stanford's annual Asian American issues conference. It was first held in 1995 out of a need to increase the visibility of Asian American issues as well as the conditions of the Asian American community. The theme of this year's conference is "Strengthening Solidarity: Joining Forces in a Distanced World."

Each year’s conference features workshops hosted by students, nonprofits, and community leaders, all centered around the intersection between history, identity, and social change.

When: Week of February 21st, 2021

REGISTRATION FORMS COMING SOON!

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FTS Auxiliaries

  • Be a part of this year’s Fashion Talent Showcase
  • Get to know more about eBoard
  • Meet new members
  • Fun!!

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FamBam

When: February 13th 2021 @ 2PM-4PM

What is fambam?

All fams come together and play games against one another to compete for the fam trophy OoOoOoOo

Fill out the rsvp form and sign up for a fam if u haven't yet !!

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rsvp

Fam sign ups

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SPRING 2021 FAM BAM THEME IS...

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Spotlight

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Trivia

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Question 1: Who’s Spotlight did we just watch?

  1. Academic Co, Eggzavier Major (2nd year mechanical engineering major, CEO of Cheez-Its )
  2. The other Academic Co, Barry Lomibao, Jr. (aka Crack Coordinator, wawkee sluhsh)
  3. Mandy Altura (Happy Lunar New Year !!)
  4. Kaelan Ting (APSA FIT 5-6PM TOMORROW)

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Question 2: When is Shadows Night?

  • February 2nd (did I mention that today is Groundhog Day?)
  • February 16th (FruGal duo’s Valentine’s Day Fundraiser!)
  • February 14th (If you have plans on this day… good for you)
  • This Friday, February 5th (COME THROUGH TO SHADOWS NIGHT YUHHH)

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Question 3: When is FamBam?

  • February 13th (YO-HO LETS GOOOO SPRING ‘21 FAM BAM BABEYYY)
  • Wednesdays 12-1PM (Come to Study Sessions)
  • Tonight 7:59 PM (Spring 2021 schedule adjustment deadline)
  • February 15th (HSC FamHead Sign-Ups !!)

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SOY

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Announcements

Social Media

Website: apsasdsu.org

Facebook: SDSU APSA 2020-2021

Discord: https://discord.gg/ZKYRfNC

Spotify: APSA SDSU

TikTok: @apsasdsu

Instagram: apsasdsu

Snapchat: apsasdsu

Twitter: sdsuapsa

YouTube: sdsuAPSA

Flickr: sdsuAPSA

Soundcloud: sdsuAPSA

OFFICIAL APSA DISCORD

Auxiliaries

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Music — Fridays, 2:00-3:00 PM

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First meeting of the semester this week!

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Announcements

E^2

Join the Facebook group!

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Thursdays from �5-6pm

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HSC Famheads

Sign-Up

Scan the QR Code >>

HSC will be held March 5th 4-6PM and March 6th 11AM-3:30PM !!

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ACT Up!

Podcasts

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Announcements

APSA Dance Marathon

  • Join APSA’s Dance Marathon Team!
  • Fundraise for Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego

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APSA Merch

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2019-2020 APSA T-Shirt - $15

Shipping options are available!

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Contact Erwin Rivera or John Fox for more information!

Venmo: @apsasdsu

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External Orgs