Campus Development Kickoff

17th November 2009.

One day to remember, for our university.

This is to kickoff the construction and development of our campus towards year 2020.

[Sounds like the Malaysian vision 2020 =.=]

Anyway, it's a super grand day. A lot of VIPs were invited, and even the first President of HKUST, Prof Chia-Wei Woo attended the event.

I guess there's no other similar events where all these important people (Presidents, VPs, Deans...) come together on stage at the same time.

So what has this thing gotta do with me?

Yaya, representing Malaysia, I am escotting one of the VIPs, sadly, he's one person that I do not know and I have 0 info about him, the Dean of School of Engineering. =.=

Anyway, about 2 months ago, when I agreed to help out in this thing, I didn't know that it's THAT huge.

Until about one week before the event, when tonnes of event information were sent to me, and emails from the Office of University Development and Public Affairs were received by the university community.

I wore the baju kebaya (hmm, first time in my life perhaps?=.= and I can't believe this first time happened in HK) lended from the Malaysia Tourism Board. Only one layer of silk, and nothing else. And it was around 10 degree celcius outside. Probably the coolest week ever in a November of HK.

Me looking stupid on stage~~

The stage used for the graduation was also used for this event. Decorations on the stage and surrounding atrium was pretty cool. Great audio and visual system were setup. And there are around 20 other international students doing the same thing as me, representing different countries, and they are sooooooooo beautiful. (and their costumes are so much nicer than mine =.=)

Wohoo....the beautiful costumes, and ladies~

Africa!!

I really liked their costume!!

Well, I had a quick task, escot the VIP up on stage, put on the Malaysian flag on to the sphere thing, shout out "Great Vision for New Era", leave the stage, and I'm almost done. There were then speeches, opening ceremony, the 75 meters long dragon dance (led by out President), and some performances by the socities. And it's FOOOOOOD time. Four booths were setup, namely Asia, America, Europe, Africa. There were some great snacks served, super long queue too~~ I was also responsible for giving out candies to the people, candies from all around the world.....and it's kinda fun seeing people enjoying these free stuff. Owh ya, while I gave out some candies, one of the random came to take a photo with me....*wink*

The 75-meter long thingy~

So the day and all the fun ended around 6.30pm. And I guess I got sick because of this, as I "ate too much cold wind"~~ =.=
Haha, they should compensate me for this!!!!
Anyway, enjoy the photos~~
(There are more....but I'm just too lazy to upload everything...hehe)

Me with the basket of candies~

Greenday@UST

While I was sick, a lot of events were actually happening around me...

One of it is the Greenday@UST, an event organized by me and my fellow Green Ambassadors~

It was a fun day actually. But too bad, I was not feeling well, during preparation and the day.

Nevertheless, I am glad that I did not skip the event which was held last Saturday, at least I took a lot of photos of our activities and the hyper active kids.

Their puzzled looks while watching some video clips about carbon footprint

Well, it's always fun being primary school students. They raise up their hands to answer questions to get prizes, they shout out their opinion, they do whatever they like, and they just enjoy themselves, with no worries.

A mini game that we arranged - Pick up the right bins!

The reusable bag drawing session~ 

And they enjoyed it a lot!! =)

 

And the big group photo!~

This kinda reminds me of how my primary school life was. Of course, chances to get out of school for such fun activities are minimal, and perhaps, come to think of it, there was none. No youtube at that time, and Microsoft Office was just gradually building their recognition and gaining popularity in the public.

But still, we had fun. And I think I enjoyed most being a primary school kid. Haha, and I really missed Chen Lao Shi, for who I am today is pretty much influenced by her during the 6 years of schooling life in Hun Bin.

Sick notice

Well. I'm supposed to have a hell lot of things to post.

But................things went very wrong since last Wednesday.

I wasn't feeling too well after the yum cha session. I first thought there were just some "temporary" butterflies in my stomach. And I thought going to the toilet once, could perhaps solve the problem.

It ended up, toilet-ing, and no food-ing, for about 5-6 days O.O

This is the first ever most suffering diarrhea I'd ever had.

And so, there are a hell lot of things that I can't do.

I can't do my assignments, I can't think properly, I can't attend project meetings, I can't sit in front of the computer, I can't attend classes, I can't walk, eat nor sleep properly.

And I vomited....for like 4 times?

Scary experience.

Glad that I "think" I am feeling much better now.

Owh ya, one more thing. Doctors in HK aren't helpful.

That's why I never go to see a doctor.

Update soon!~

Congregration Week

It was the annual congregation of HKUST last week.

Because of this huge event.......

1) We can't access to the escalators from Atrium to LG1 Canteen for a month

2) We had to go all around the stairs and lifts of UST to discover the right path to reach Academic Concourse, Sundial and Canteens for 3 afternoons

3) There are never enough ladies toilets for use around Atrium

4) People with graduation robes are all around campus taking photos with friends and their family members, even inside the library and in front of Professor's room~~

5) Flowers and graduation bears are all around...the bears are sooooo cute!!

There should be more......hmm.

6) I had free mini dinner for 2 (supposed to be 3) days sponsored by the uni to all guests and graduates (ya, I actually do not fall into these 2 categories....hehe)

Our atrium, full of graduates

Entrance, photo taking everywhere before the ceremony

Well, it made me think what will it be when I graduate two years from now.

Will I be able to even attend graduation? My parents will definitely be here, how about her? Will I have Xiaoqin or any other friends here too? How many bouquet of flowers will I receive? And which bear bear will I get?

Okay, thinking too much......

What class will I be in? Where will I be working by then?
Owh....still thinking.

 Me and CK with Ghee Leng, why is CK smiling while sleeping ahh~

Mathematicians~ Aun and Kae 

I managed to take some photos with a few Malaysian seniors. All the smart people. One even got his name carved (or whatever you call it)  on a "yeng" board in the Academic Councourse in front of LTA stated "President's Cup" winner of 2009.

Took some photos with my fencing seniors too.

My sheung sheung jong Benny! 

It is a week with full of happiness and enjoyment. Reunion with some of your long-time-no-see friends, being in a graduation robe for the first time ever, receiving your first ever undergraduate degree after all the at least 3 years stress and tension life, thanking the professors you like for the fun lectures and knowledge taught, finally get to leave the life of stress and tension but perhaps starting another life of boredom?

Haha....okay, again, thinking too much.

Well, congratulations to the graduates of The 17th Congregation of HKUST!!

Bloomberg

SBM arranged a company visit for the students to Bloomberg, Hong Kong.

I went there on a Thursday, skipped one of my LANG class for it. But it is definitely a worthwhile visit.

The building, too tall to be taken a photo of....

The company is located at Cheung Kong Building (You know, the one owned by Lee Ka Shing), at 3X floor if I've not mistaken. The office is soooooo cool.

Once you come out from the lift, it's the office's pantry, and guess what, I really loved the design of the pantry, and to me it's more like a mini bar.All sorts of snacks (healthy ones and junk food) and drinks available. They even a cool coffee maker. And guess what, everything there is for free!!

A presentation was then given by one of the HR staff from Bloomberg, andit was pretty interesting. I didn't know that Bloomberg is THIS great.
I like the tour around the office session, everything is really transparent in Bloomberg, and there is also a shooting area for news reporting etc. Each staff has at least 3 monitors in front them...wohoo, imagine how busy their work could be.
We then had some time to explore the Bloomberg system. Wow, according to Angel (the staff), you can't finish exploring even you've worked there for 10 years, coz new applications keep coming out!! Well, as a beginner, of course we just simply click here and there, and amaze ourselves. Everything else about the system is really powerful, but there's just one little thing I don't like about it, it uses the font and theme similar to the old DOS system, or more like Lotus 123!! haha.......

Well, we're not supposed to take any pictures of the office.This was taken....err, secretly~~

Anyway, it made me feel like working in this company. Hope I can have the chance though, even it's just a 1 month internship~~

Nick's Miracle

He is a miracle.

I first saw his video on Youtube around a year ago. It was so inspiring.

And today, I saw him, live in Hong Kong.

Even more fascinating.

He placed a lot of motivating thoughts and stories together, and made everything sounded so real and so possible.

Touched, I would say.

And what's even better is, I got this HKD150 worth event ticket for free!

I am actually surprised with the crowd attending this event. A few thousands of people in the auditorium I guess. And he had a translator for him. There's no doubt that the translator is really enthusiastic, but the funny part was, a lot of stuff was wrongly translated. =.=

Nick's parents nearly gave him up when he was born without limbs. And he nearly gave himself up at the age of 10. Love was what made him stay, and love will keep him strong in facing future live challenges.

"Love, unconditional love can heal a broken heart. Love goes on a long way...." Nick Vujicic.
"The greatest way to heal your heart is to be an instrument to heal other people's heart"

He told us about how he started school, entered university and graduated with a double degree in Accounting and Financial Planning, and how he started his journey on becoming a speaker. It was simply, amazing.

"If you can't see hope, it doesn't mean hope is not there..." Nick Vujicic. 

The whole auditorium paid full attention to every single word he says. And we were lucky to have the opportunity to listen to him playing the electronic drumset instrument. He was soooooo cool. Too bad we were not allowed to take any photos or videos.

"I will never be you, and you will never be me; that's the most beautiful thing about life." Nick Vujicic. 

We always claim "I give up!" whenever we meet with obstacles, or failures. We just easily, give up.

I have shouted that I wanna give up this and that for XX times last month. I remembered how I always wanted to avoid the problems, from just giving up........

"Keep trying. You do not fail until you give up..." Nick Vujicic.

I'm glad that I made my way to listen to his talk, of course, at the same time I would like to thank Dragon Foundation for the free ticket. It was definitely a memorable experience.

For all of you who would like to know more about Nick, just google his full name or search for his videos in Youtube. You will definitely be touched with what you see. Also, do visit the foundation found by him @ http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/