UNSW Asia Open House

20 Jan 2007, Tanglin Campus

UNSW Asia Open House

The day started early at 8.30am where I drove into the campus, getting ready to start an exciting day – a day in which we had been planning for some time. Meeting new prospective students who will be enrolling in UNSW Asia just excites me.

Though today we will mainly be advising the lifestyle of UNSW’s education system and experiences, we will not be able to attract students to UNSW Sydney Campus where my alma mata resides. Today’s open house basically targets students who are interested in our Asia campus in Singapore.

Photos can be found here: http://chuppachubbs.multiply.com/photos/album/33

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Thank god I had done all the set up of the student consultation and alumni centre yesterday evening so that we can buffer time this morning for other help that Angela perhaps will need for the day.

Everything looked good and ready to go. The flora and fauna were placed gorgeously to welcome our guests; Aussie Barbe all set up for hungry guests; Alumni Center and merchandise area are all ready to provide testimonials to eager prospective students…

Everything’s good to start the exciting day. We will leave the rest to God to decide the weather for today.

The volunteers strides in about 930am and I got them their Polo-T, Lanyards and name tags. Polo-T : BRIGHT GREEN! Wooohooo…really bright! Oh well….UNSW Asia’s corporate color is conceptualized based on Singapore’s Green City. Explains why…

Special Guest Appearance! Ning Hao! Holy soul! I haven’t met Ning Hao since I left Sydney…or to be précised, after my final year.

Little ‘Geeky’ Ben also turned up pretty early in the morning and stayed till about noon.

The day went on fine. I haven’t had any time for lunch although I was so looking forward to our long-awaited Aussie Barbe……….well, I guessed I didn’t missed out a lot coz the barbe is SOOO DARN local! Sausauges….TMD! it was those canned sausages where local people loved to refer to as “hot-dogs” MAN! Don’t you guys get it?! Hotdog refers to luxurious sausages stuff cozily in fluffy hotdog buns layered with a canopy of yummy-creamy-hot onion cheese!!!

Sausages. Hmmp!

Okie..since the “hotdogs” already pisses me off so much, I don’t really wanna go into the chickee wings. Utterly disappointed

Move on.

Busy day went on with more consultation work and the sale of merchandise. The crowd thinned off when the heavy pour started. Darn.

At about 4pm, we decided to call it a day, and went to the library to watch the HAMPI.

Special Feature of the Open House: PLACE – HAMPI Augmented stereographic panoramas of Vijayanagara, India

PLACE-Hampi is an embodied theatre of participation in the drama of Hindu mythology focused at the most significant archaeological, historical and sacred locations of the World Heritage site Vijayanagara (Hampi), South India.

Enfolded in this interactive installation, viewers explore a virtual landscape of panoramic locations enlivened by animated mythological events that reveal the folkloric imagination of contemporary pilgrims active at the temple complex.

Comprised of high resolution augmented stereoscopic panoramas and surrounded by a rich aural field PLACE-Hampi articulates an unprecedented level of viewer co-presence in a narrative re-discovery of a cultural landscape.


Woohoo! Angela was kind to arrange some light buffet snacks with wine and beer at the study room in the library. And of coz, Ferdi, Mark and me HAVE to patronized the VERY-WELCOMING room. Heee! WE ended up juz having some juices coz the buffet was not ready as yet. Ferdi needs to go church while Mark and me will leave about the same time. Anywayz…it was raining dinosaurs and elephants now – cant get out. So we had more juices and left about 15 minutes later.

*tired*

Day’s not over yet (told ‘ya its going to be a LONG tiring day).
Went back to shower and waited for Ah BIL to pick me up to Gina’s baby Jarius’ Fool (oops…full) month’s bash! Simply too tired to even drive..or move my soul.......

After the buffet (AGAIN!!) dinner which we basically scrapped the food off the tray (we reached about 9, you see) we were off to Shamen’s house to watch soccer. Ohhh of coz, anaconda-chubs was hungry again.

Bought some fried rice, shared with Junbin and then continue to SWEAR!!! TMD!! ^*&$%^&U@$%&^ Liverpool goal? What the….??!! DAMN! I predicted a draw…..CHELSEA you buggers better score lo!

OKie…match ended with chub’s head fuming like Mt Kinabalu……..

Fine fine fine…gawk about it Junbin!