In Between

QS-Apple conference

A group of us sort of work at QS-Apple conference last week. Well, all we did was talking to admin staff from universities and waiting for coffee break and lunch to come. They gave us too much freedom and the best thing is everthing was provided. Food, transport and accomodation :)

Our korean language teacher. Talked to her once in a while and she taught us new words. :)

With Jimmy from QS.

Our typical lunch. Not including dessert and appetizer.

Vietnamese popiah!

Desserts <3

I'm very lazy to blog now. So, I shall just upload pictures without proper description.

Ja mata !

YES 2009 Day 2

It was YES 2009 Day 2.
I personally feel that Day 2 is much better compared to Day 1, especially the list of speaker we have for Day 2.

We arrived at PICC earlier as usual. Well, since its day 2 and we already make friends on the first day. So, we catch up with some of them before the conference starts. Meet Shahab from NUS and Jenny from Sg as well.

The guy in red is very funny. He was asking my coursemate to be his pet sister. and the way he act is cute ? hahaaa..hmmm..I dont know how to put it in words actually. He's only 18.

Garry Kasparov- World youngest chess champion. I wish he talk about something like how he see life as a chess game.

Randi Zuckerberg- Marketing director of facebook.com. She's very charismatic I think.
There's one girl who ask her if fb is going to take any action since so many people are against the New feed and Live feed feature. I quote her "Will you remove something that you had been working on for 2 years just because the others don't like it? " LOL. I think people hate change and they are complaining because they dont like to adapt to new things.

Donald Trump was my favourite speaker because he talked about what we want to know. Everyone love him I guess. I quote him "When someone screw you, screw them back !" And he said dont force yourself to be an entrepreneur because not all people can work on their own. Some people work best when they work for people.

Nando Parrado- Andes plane crash survivor. He talked about how he survive 72 days in the icy mountain without proper food and drinks.

yours truly

Conference mates !

And day two ended with pillow talk with a few friends.
Ohhhh..that's the handcraft from Myanmar.
Do you know that they dont have surname ? They just combine 3 random words together and that's their name. They dont have family name in Myanmar. The major population are the Burmese and they have 7 main etnics and 130 sub-etnics. Awesome right ?

The awesome dinner.

What I remember was we were on the bus waiting for it to move so that we can get back to our room and get some nice food to fill our empty stomach.
I've talked to a few Thai and we were planning where to go for dinner after that.
No, the plans didn't work when Audrone show up and todl us that we were the lucky ones because they are letting us to have dinner at PICC. I guess there's too many empty tables left.

We were looking for new friends to sit with until we spot a empty table with 2 Vietanmese there. We greeted them and made some little chats. Then, we found that we were the only 5 people at the table. There's 5 empty seats left. haahaa.. The good thing is we can have all the food to ourselves and the bad thing is there will be so many leftover.

Take a look at the menu :)

Our first dish. Yummy*

We couldn't finish the shark fin soup because we were quite full after the first dish.

In the end, there's 5 bloated people who can't take anymore food.
The guy next to me came out with the idea of introducing us to his friends as Vietnamese after the dinner because he said we look like Vietnam chinese and we went. And the guy actually talk to us in vietnamese language the next day. LOL. My friend was mistaken as a vietnamese when people guess her nationality. I'm happy as I manage to keep my identity as a Malaysian. lol. They took my another friend is from Thailand. It's fun when you ask people to guess your nationality because we look almost the same.
Random facts about Vietname: Autumn is the hot season for wedding. Everyone get married in Autumn because the weather is the best. Hanoi has 4 season but Ho Chi Minh has only 2 season like Malaysia. It's amazing right ?

39-Impromptu trip

It was almost 12 noon.
She told me that she was very boring and I told her there's nothing we can do about it since we were trap in seremban.
Somehow we mentioned about shopping together in this holiday and I told her that I wont be around for a long period.
Then, we have this crazy idea of going to KL an hour later.
It was a crazy plan and we ended up in KL 2 hours later.
We went to Bkt Bintang and I was there one day ago. lol. But, we had fun together. haha..we are the perfect shopping partner I guess. We make each other buy lots of things.
Mua partner in crime. lol

39-Impromptu trip. (20/11/09)
When we were on our way back to the bus stand, we saw people running out of Sg wang and we heard the siren. Noo..they are not running out of the building because there's fire. It is because they want to see what happen outside. sigh..Malaysians. and the rest are happily shopping inside without giving a damn of what is going on outside.

Kai Jia send me a text message saying that she's eating the famous penang cendol and I replied her saying that I just had the famous hokkien mee and ikan bakar. And she called me sakai for that. lol.

YES 2009 Day 1

I'm back ! I'm back!
Do you miss me ? =x
I'm back from Youth Engagement Summit 2009 which was held at PICC. The conference hall was awesome with super cold air condition.
You should have read about it from the newspaper or Astro.

Around 1500 people attended the summit included 500 youths from Southeast Asia.

The thing I love the most is we get to know new friends when we were waiting for the conference to start, when we were lining up for freebies, when we were lining up in the washroom, during coffee breaks and even when we were in the elevator or waiting for the elevator. It was very spontaneous. They are all friendly people and nice to talk with. :)

We talked to everyone we met, exchange name cards and took picture with them before we forgot how they look like. Unfortunately, the pics were not with me. lol

Met some UKMers we had not met before even we studied in the same faculty there and also some UPMers.

Former presenter of CNN and CNBC Lorraine Hahn was our mc in the summit.
The first speaker was Biz Stone, the Co-founder of Twitter.

The second speaker of the day was Dr.Mamphela Ramphele. She talked about morality and it nearly put me to sleep.

And my favourite speaker of the day - Sir Bob Geldoff. My friends and I agreed that we managed to get inputs from him despite the other 3 speakers who spoke on the same day.

The last session was scrabble game between the delegates and Ganesh Asirvatham(world best scrabble player). I'm not sure if you saw the thick scrabble dictionary which consist of 500,000 words before but he memorized 420,000 of them. Amazing right ? But, the game was a bit boring so we took lots of picture in between. Was playing around with the Philipinos' dslr.

Meet Mai, my intern working for the event. She was the one who invited me to the summit.