SICASA and ME

This is an article which was left unpublished in SICASA magazine. But thought its good to share with you all!! :) So read this as an article to magazine.

SICASA is Southern Indian Chartered Accountant Students Association

My experience in SICASA

It’s been some time since I have joined CA course, and I have felt how days pass by and I used to count each day to end, the case was different for last 1 year. I cannot believe that our term have got end so fast. It’s been a tremendous year, with lots of activities. I still remember how I join SICASA, I should thank Fahad for it, and also to CA Hari sir, our then SICASA Chairman. The opening program for me was the felicitation ceremony for May 2011, and now we are handing over again on a felicitation day.

There two persons who changed SICASA,CA Hari sir(past SICASA chairman), and CA Padmanabhan sir(present SICASA chairman). They both always inspired us to do more innovative programs and was also the real strength for us.

 What changed me because I joined in SICASA is my motivational level, I was a person of low profile, even I thou I love make new contacts all time,  but now I have enough confidence to meet people and to speak. Public speaking is another thing which I learned, to speak in front of a crowd without fear. There been many difficult situations and we as a committee was able to solve it all, this made me more strong to face difficulties and also equipped me to handle such situations, above all the solution, the best thing is that we as a team was able to solve it and this taught me what is really team work is.

I should personally thank Abhijith and Srinidhi, our Secretary and Vice-chairperson respectively, for giving us enough space to take decisions and to implement it, which is actually against conventional practices.

SICASA was a term which was alien to many when we took over the committee, we started from scratches and it was very difficult to get students to participate in programs. There were used to be hardly 40-50 students for every seminars or programs. But our sincere efforts, planning and implementation of new ideas made SICASA a popular term among CA student in Trivandrum. I feel six of our major programs and decisions helped us to popularize SICASA, and these are all milestones and benchmarks set for future committees, they are SPL(1^st branch level cricket tournament), Idea of implementing sub-committees(1^st such initiative), felicitation to intermediate pass students(1^st such initiative ), All Kerala inter branch cricket tournament(which sparked the whole one Kerala, one SICASA, which is now a wave across SICASA’s across Kerala), ARCUS(1^st ever cultural fest for CA students of Trivandrum) and charity work done at Hindu Mahila Mandiram(the program which was fully funded by generous collection from CA students). Of all these ARCUS and charity are close to my heart.

Number of beautiful friends i made because of SICASA is what i got in return for all my hardwork. Abhijith, Srinidhi, Deepak, Dee Pak, Arjun, Amritesh, Abel, Daksha, Anoop, Gopi, etc etc...its a very long list!!!