Friday, April 14, 2006
here's wishing everyone a very happy mugging week ahead.. everyone, have a very happy mugging week ahead.
its only the exams.
its only the exams.
Friday, April 07, 2006
hiiii everyone! :)
just wanna say, thanks a lot for making those few days that i spent so memorable! and very inspiring too! thanks a lot to harvard and usc! and thanks for setting up this blog! (i'm gonna stop it here)
k so since i'm so camera-crazy, i tried to take as many pics as possible.. and i've finally put them up! they're on http://arkans.myphotoalbum.com! umm u can just ignore the other albums.. oh and do comment! if anyone wants the full picture, coz i don't think u can download the original-sized one, just mail me and i'll mail it to u! my msn add is arkans_14@hotmail.com, yahoo add is arkans_14@yahoo.co.in, gmail add is arkans14@gmail.com and nus add is archanab@nus.edu.sg. ok. so there's no excuse for losing touch now! could i have everyone's email adds too? anyway, my blog address is http://arkans.blogspot.com. heh. they're all the same ID coz i tend to forget easily :p
i digress. so i came here to say THANKS to everyone! i had a wonderful time getting to know you and your brains! really hope to meet y'all again :) :)
just wanna say, thanks a lot for making those few days that i spent so memorable! and very inspiring too! thanks a lot to harvard and usc! and thanks for setting up this blog! (i'm gonna stop it here)
k so since i'm so camera-crazy, i tried to take as many pics as possible.. and i've finally put them up! they're on http://arkans.myphotoalbum.com! umm u can just ignore the other albums.. oh and do comment! if anyone wants the full picture, coz i don't think u can download the original-sized one, just mail me and i'll mail it to u! my msn add is arkans_14@hotmail.com, yahoo add is arkans_14@yahoo.co.in, gmail add is arkans14@gmail.com and nus add is archanab@nus.edu.sg. ok. so there's no excuse for losing touch now! could i have everyone's email adds too? anyway, my blog address is http://arkans.blogspot.com. heh. they're all the same ID coz i tend to forget easily :p
i digress. so i came here to say THANKS to everyone! i had a wonderful time getting to know you and your brains! really hope to meet y'all again :) :)
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
HCAP Singapore 2006
Hey everyone! i've uploaded my photos.. you can check them out by clicking on the photo above.
Justin
Justin
Sunday, April 02, 2006
A toast
hi guys
I love you all, and its been a great week. I'll admit it was scary in an adrenalin rushing caffeine nirvana attaining sorta way, because of how I kept deciding not to sit down and write my essays and go hang with everyone instead. As a result I'm still stuck with 5 unfinished papers, but no matter. Like I said its been great and 5 beautifully typed completed papers would have not made me anywhere near as happy.
I would like to apologize for NOT appearing at the airport when we promised we would (we being qingru brandon jae and myself). SHit happens. People turn off alarms. People forget to set alarms. People sleep. Ah well. Sorry Eugene. Sorry Lendra. Sorry Harvardians......
And since we're here....Thank you everyone for making this brilliant - I'm not in the main com so I don'r really have a reason to insert an Oscar-type speech here - but thank you nonetheles, especially to Qingru and Jacky who rescued the night safari from the disaster that would have arisen due solely to a very idiotic oversight on my part.
But no matter, our memories are happy ones.
And so, a toast!
To Harvard and USP and Quality Hotel
To PPP - Prof Peter Pang
To JAckiiieeeeeeeeeeee
To happy times at Zouk
To scandals and sustainable gossip
To durians and yet more durians
To life the universe and everything
Love you all
Lynnette
I love you all, and its been a great week. I'll admit it was scary in an adrenalin rushing caffeine nirvana attaining sorta way, because of how I kept deciding not to sit down and write my essays and go hang with everyone instead. As a result I'm still stuck with 5 unfinished papers, but no matter. Like I said its been great and 5 beautifully typed completed papers would have not made me anywhere near as happy.
I would like to apologize for NOT appearing at the airport when we promised we would (we being qingru brandon jae and myself). SHit happens. People turn off alarms. People forget to set alarms. People sleep. Ah well. Sorry Eugene. Sorry Lendra. Sorry Harvardians......
And since we're here....Thank you everyone for making this brilliant - I'm not in the main com so I don'r really have a reason to insert an Oscar-type speech here - but thank you nonetheles, especially to Qingru and Jacky who rescued the night safari from the disaster that would have arisen due solely to a very idiotic oversight on my part.
But no matter, our memories are happy ones.
And so, a toast!
To Harvard and USP and Quality Hotel
To PPP - Prof Peter Pang
To JAckiiieeeeeeeeeeee
To happy times at Zouk
To scandals and sustainable gossip
To durians and yet more durians
To life the universe and everything
Love you all
Lynnette
Thanks everyone!
Hey guys, HCAP's officially over now, and so too are the days of endless running around like a decapitated chicken (especially if you're the Day IC), calling ah beng bus drivers who don't know how to get to the University Hall, battling alien spaceships and salmons, and praying that it would not rain when it mattered most; but so too are the days of free catered lunches, entry to night safari (i didn't go lor lucky asses), attending funky cantonese opera demostrations and hotel rooms with complimentary breakfasts that unfortunately end even before i get up... well, it was certainly fun while it lasted, wasn't it? (except the missing of the breakfast part... that was a severely stomach-groaning experience)
this is probably gonna sound extremely cliche but i would just like to say a very big "thank you" to everyone that has helped in one way or another in ensuring the smooth-running, and well hmm, general success of HCAP...
to the councillors and facilitators especially (there're so many of you that if i were to type all your names here my fingers would have to be given progress packages to compensate for their efforts) you guys have been fantastic in your support of HCAP, showing up for all events (and in some cases, even those that you didn't sign up for)...
thank you for your hard work, your dedication and committment to the program despite the many (and i really mean, MANY) changes to the schedule (i counted 15 differnt ones) and last minute meetings i've called/sms-ed/email-ed/MSN-ed you about at the expense of your freedom... you guys probably don't want to have to see another email from me in your inbox right?
i do not mince my words when i say that i couldn't have wished for a better team to work with for the past week... and if i've accidentally stepped on any toes with my big-ass 80kg frame during either the planning or execution of the plans, i'm truly sorry about it yea? don't crucify me, let my CAP do that...
to my beloved organising committee who shoots more arrows per minute and with deadlier accuracy than Legolas... when u all wanna do debrief har?
goodnight everyone, may the God of Good Results smile and bestow sunshine many many (he probably saved upon it last week)upon your CAP score and may he keep you safe from the Turbanator till we reach our spaceship
this is probably gonna sound extremely cliche but i would just like to say a very big "thank you" to everyone that has helped in one way or another in ensuring the smooth-running, and well hmm, general success of HCAP...
to the councillors and facilitators especially (there're so many of you that if i were to type all your names here my fingers would have to be given progress packages to compensate for their efforts) you guys have been fantastic in your support of HCAP, showing up for all events (and in some cases, even those that you didn't sign up for)...
thank you for your hard work, your dedication and committment to the program despite the many (and i really mean, MANY) changes to the schedule (i counted 15 differnt ones) and last minute meetings i've called/sms-ed/email-ed/MSN-ed you about at the expense of your freedom... you guys probably don't want to have to see another email from me in your inbox right?
i do not mince my words when i say that i couldn't have wished for a better team to work with for the past week... and if i've accidentally stepped on any toes with my big-ass 80kg frame during either the planning or execution of the plans, i'm truly sorry about it yea? don't crucify me, let my CAP do that...
to my beloved organising committee who shoots more arrows per minute and with deadlier accuracy than Legolas... when u all wanna do debrief har?
goodnight everyone, may the God of Good Results smile and bestow sunshine many many (he probably saved upon it last week)upon your CAP score and may he keep you safe from the Turbanator till we reach our spaceship
Thank you USC..
Hi all USC fellows,
The HCAP Conference has come to an end and on a personal note, I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for taking time off your busy schedule to come down for workshops, lectures, talk and R&R. We all put in our best efforts and saw it through fruition, and man, I'm proud of us, proud of you all.
I know Jacky had given his thanks earlier through the yahoo groups, on behalf of the organising committee. But here I would like to add a small note here..
This whole conference has touched me quite a bit. In the running of the conference, there were many times where the screwups beckoned at close call, but because we came together and work as a team, these screwups didn't materialise and the conference went smoothly without a glitch.
To me, that's especially heartening, not because the conference was successful as a result, but because everyone took ownership of this project. This was everyone's project, and everyone played a part in it: fellow friends going beyond the call of duty to take initiatives upon themselves, when suggestions (and all of them extremely pertinent) were thrown in to aid the decision making process during operations---these were a few things amongst others which really touched me deeply.
*hugs* Hope that through this challenging process of bonding, the friendships forged will sustain itself. You guys ROCK big time!
Yeah, give it up for *rollcall* Jacky, Brandy, Wenqi, Edwin, Kent, Eugene, Soonkit & his financial team, Vikram, Agyesh, Suhaila, Syahirah, Huiping, Shixin, Aileen, Baosheng, Natalie, Guili, Victoria, Yaojing, Lynnette, JieChun, Chunhui, Lendra, Wangfan, Wani, Shangyan, Xuyan, Bryna, Estella, Fangfang, Archana, Waqar, Yinghui, Elizabeth.
Not forgetting out academic participants namely: Justin, Renshao, Clement, Edmund, Saravanan, Eunice, Lavinia, JinRui, Seow Wei, Yih Hong, Advait, Sheela, Lele, Deliang, Eunice, Sharad, HeXi.
On a final note, rest well and brace yourself for the upcoming exams! heh...
Love you guys!
***Not forgetting our beloved Harvard Delegates, I will post an entry about the Harvard fellows soon! But for now, I've to rush to meet the delegates at Sentosa...oops, I'm late for the laser show at 7.40pm! Will post about the happenings of tonight too! =pp**
The HCAP Conference has come to an end and on a personal note, I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for taking time off your busy schedule to come down for workshops, lectures, talk and R&R. We all put in our best efforts and saw it through fruition, and man, I'm proud of us, proud of you all.
I know Jacky had given his thanks earlier through the yahoo groups, on behalf of the organising committee. But here I would like to add a small note here..
This whole conference has touched me quite a bit. In the running of the conference, there were many times where the screwups beckoned at close call, but because we came together and work as a team, these screwups didn't materialise and the conference went smoothly without a glitch.
To me, that's especially heartening, not because the conference was successful as a result, but because everyone took ownership of this project. This was everyone's project, and everyone played a part in it: fellow friends going beyond the call of duty to take initiatives upon themselves, when suggestions (and all of them extremely pertinent) were thrown in to aid the decision making process during operations---these were a few things amongst others which really touched me deeply.
*hugs* Hope that through this challenging process of bonding, the friendships forged will sustain itself. You guys ROCK big time!
Yeah, give it up for *rollcall* Jacky, Brandy, Wenqi, Edwin, Kent, Eugene, Soonkit & his financial team, Vikram, Agyesh, Suhaila, Syahirah, Huiping, Shixin, Aileen, Baosheng, Natalie, Guili, Victoria, Yaojing, Lynnette, JieChun, Chunhui, Lendra, Wangfan, Wani, Shangyan, Xuyan, Bryna, Estella, Fangfang, Archana, Waqar, Yinghui, Elizabeth.
Not forgetting out academic participants namely: Justin, Renshao, Clement, Edmund, Saravanan, Eunice, Lavinia, JinRui, Seow Wei, Yih Hong, Advait, Sheela, Lele, Deliang, Eunice, Sharad, HeXi.
On a final note, rest well and brace yourself for the upcoming exams! heh...
Love you guys!
***Not forgetting our beloved Harvard Delegates, I will post an entry about the Harvard fellows soon! But for now, I've to rush to meet the delegates at Sentosa...oops, I'm late for the laser show at 7.40pm! Will post about the happenings of tonight too! =pp**
Welcome Harvard & USP-USC fellows!
A BIG hi to all of you there, Harvard Delegates and USP students alike =)
1 Apr 2006 marks the end of the HCAP Conference in Singapore leg, but the friendships forged during the one week conference from 26 Mar - 1 Apr still continue on. Even after our Harvard friends leave for Harvard with fond memories of the conference, we hope that the cross-cultural interaction will not cease but instead, find its expression on this blog.
Feel free to post about anything, the conference, your valuable feedback, insights, reflections, and even intimate moments (for those well-informed about gossips, just leave it to the people involved to elaborate for us eh? ) As mature intellectuals, we all know that the best blog posts are reflective and often insightful, and we also know that infantile posts are inappropriately controversial and damaging. Blog graciously yea guys? =)
That said, watch this space as it develops into a locale for cultural and intellectual exchange!
1 Apr 2006 marks the end of the HCAP Conference in Singapore leg, but the friendships forged during the one week conference from 26 Mar - 1 Apr still continue on. Even after our Harvard friends leave for Harvard with fond memories of the conference, we hope that the cross-cultural interaction will not cease but instead, find its expression on this blog.
Feel free to post about anything, the conference, your valuable feedback, insights, reflections, and even intimate moments (for those well-informed about gossips, just leave it to the people involved to elaborate for us eh? ) As mature intellectuals, we all know that the best blog posts are reflective and often insightful, and we also know that infantile posts are inappropriately controversial and damaging. Blog graciously yea guys? =)
That said, watch this space as it develops into a locale for cultural and intellectual exchange!
