16/2/2006 - 19/2/2006.
It finally ended on 19/2/2006, Sunday at 1pm.
After 4 hectic days of deliberating, speaking, debating, mediating and striking compromises, together with the fun of forming a bloc of my own, a resolution of sorts was reached with Singapore’s interests in it. I will type out the resolution in another post soon. Have to comment that I realized the narrow-minded mentality of the Americans in the way they formed their foreign policy, (I can have a delegate representing Thailand telling me that Thailand is a predominantly Muslim country :( ) Still, I have made wonderful friends in Americans who really knew their foreign policy ( Zach from USMA is a really good example with Brazil), and the Latin Americans who were pretty impressive ( Ana from Bolivia representing USA and Adriana from Venezuela representing France are two good examples :D ) To top it off, I am really honoured to know and work with people who have really studied in Singapore, e.g. Mardan from University of Pennsylvania and Yash from UC Berkeley, and Ronald who is a SAFOS from Berkeley. Mardan represented the PRC, while the latter two represented Nigeria, who were instrumental in gathering the African Bloc. Special thanks also goes to Kelly from Wheaton College for helping me gather the bloc of ASEAN countries though.
Thanks to the above friends for making my conference so wonderful.
There also marks the end of Historical GA 1971, Bangladesh crisis.
As I finally decided to go to sleep, I also thought of the awards and realized that the awards went to Americans alone. No wonder, since the conference itself is a ‘National’ rather than ‘International’ conference. But I realized that this is one which the experience will be invaluable in making the local version more professional. Guranteeed.
Then on, me together with Thomas and Yuneng went to NY on a whirlwind one day trip. Yup, you are not reading it wrong. It is a one day trip, and what a heck of a one day trip I can tell you guys…
It was a very wild trip to mention from the start. We initially pushed off from Boston at 8am and reached New York’s Chinatown 4 hours later. After a handsome lunch, the 3 of us went on a quick spin of literally all the prominent places we could find: (in order) Ground Zero, Wall Street, NYSE, Statue of Liberty, UN Headquarters, 5th Avenue (a famous shopping mall), Empire State Building, Times Square and eventually, this one I must mention: Madison Square Garden. We were just literally trigger happy and took a lot of photos here and there, and bought a lot of souvenirs. But I was just swept by the electronic billboards that surrounded the famous junction of Times Square, managed to see the whole of NY atop the 86th storey of the Empire State Building, and finally, took 3 valuable photos outside Madison Square Garden. Photos of these places available so long as you ask me...the only sour point is that I was not able to find the stuff that Fiona and Jianwu wanted me to find…so apologies to my dearest friends for disappointing you.
That’s about as succinct as I can be…I rather show you what I have seen in pictures…indeed, pictures tell one thousand words…so imagine how many words these pictures tell. In short, seeing all of NY in one day was tiring enough, but then I decided that it was worth all the rush. At least I can declare to all that I have been to some of the most prominent landmarks in the world and left my mark there, however small and insignificant.
The following few posts will be all pictures and abit of descriptions...this is to make up for my inability to blog while in Boston...stay tuned...and apologies for not submitting a V-day post as I mentioned earlier...sleep mattered more to me I figured...
Sunday, February 26, 2006
A few minutes of reflection: HNMUN and New York
Harvard National Model United Nations Conference 2006 – Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA.
Sunday, February 12, 2006
There are still things worth cherishing
I had a chat with Thomas early this week, and got chided by him for still staying at Arts club to him. To him, the club is an insignificant piece of **** that I should disregard. As I have always raised in my defence that I have already learnt to let go of a few things,and have since told him that Rag is the only project that I am heavily involved in,he accepted it, albeit very grudgingly. Frankly, I am not sure what will happen for the next few days, but the road is certainly bumpy enough.
The point is that I hope he understands as much as I do that for everything in life, each of us does something because we know that we will cherish the memories of not just the fruits of success, but more importantly the process that goes along with it.
Take last night's example. Seeing Yuimin as the leading actress in Eusoff Hall's production, "Runway", was a great revalation. For as long as I know her, her performance that she put up yesterday was highly remarkable. She really acted out of her skin in her own role that eventually brought the crowd to rapturous applause at the end of it all. And at the end of it all, I could see her relief and joy in her face, and me and a few friends who came down to support her will readily admit that it was very worth it. The point is, the reason why Yuimin joined the production and succeeded, is the very same reason to why I am doing Rag: It's as much as the process, not just the result that matters. To me, the process is what moulds me as a person, and how I learn something more about myself yet again.
The same reason is also why I am embarking my trip to Boston. It is the very fact that I have not been involved in a major conference and will like to feel what it is like to do it. The thing about Rag is that every Rag is not the same. It's a totally different project. I understand Thomas's point about what Rag means to my cv, but the point of it is that I am not doing Rag because of my cv: in life, there are just some things that you will do again and again, because every time you do it, it's a new experience altogether. Hope Thomas can understand my point here.
Ok, I am getting a bit distracted here. But once again, regarding Yuimin's performance, I can only sum this up in one word: Magnificent. Nothing else can better describe her performance other than that.
This is not my final post to Boston, just in case you were wondering, as I will definitely put up one more before I fly off in about 48 hours time. Anyway, here are details for my trip just in case you are wondering:
Flyoff: 0600, 14/2/06 Return: 0040, 25/2/06
So yup, just take note of the times...for security reasons I will not reveal my flight numbers here...but I can tell you that the departure hall is at T1.
My Valentine's Day post tomorrow will be very special...considering the fact that I have been writing anti V-Day articles, so this time round I will be writing this in a very different manner. Keep your fingers crossed then, as all will be revealed tomorow. : )
The point is that I hope he understands as much as I do that for everything in life, each of us does something because we know that we will cherish the memories of not just the fruits of success, but more importantly the process that goes along with it.
Take last night's example. Seeing Yuimin as the leading actress in Eusoff Hall's production, "Runway", was a great revalation. For as long as I know her, her performance that she put up yesterday was highly remarkable. She really acted out of her skin in her own role that eventually brought the crowd to rapturous applause at the end of it all. And at the end of it all, I could see her relief and joy in her face, and me and a few friends who came down to support her will readily admit that it was very worth it. The point is, the reason why Yuimin joined the production and succeeded, is the very same reason to why I am doing Rag: It's as much as the process, not just the result that matters. To me, the process is what moulds me as a person, and how I learn something more about myself yet again.
The same reason is also why I am embarking my trip to Boston. It is the very fact that I have not been involved in a major conference and will like to feel what it is like to do it. The thing about Rag is that every Rag is not the same. It's a totally different project. I understand Thomas's point about what Rag means to my cv, but the point of it is that I am not doing Rag because of my cv: in life, there are just some things that you will do again and again, because every time you do it, it's a new experience altogether. Hope Thomas can understand my point here.
Ok, I am getting a bit distracted here. But once again, regarding Yuimin's performance, I can only sum this up in one word: Magnificent. Nothing else can better describe her performance other than that.
This is not my final post to Boston, just in case you were wondering, as I will definitely put up one more before I fly off in about 48 hours time. Anyway, here are details for my trip just in case you are wondering:
Flyoff: 0600, 14/2/06 Return: 0040, 25/2/06
So yup, just take note of the times...for security reasons I will not reveal my flight numbers here...but I can tell you that the departure hall is at T1.
My Valentine's Day post tomorrow will be very special...considering the fact that I have been writing anti V-Day articles, so this time round I will be writing this in a very different manner. Keep your fingers crossed then, as all will be revealed tomorow. : )
Saturday, February 04, 2006
Just for a moment...
It just hit to me that I have to talk about Rag again for this post. Looks like I am too much involved in it.
Jianwu did warn me just now while we went down to watch Chingay with Lionel, Aya, Jingyi and Gerri how 'unraggerfied' I am because I have not gone down to pick up logistics and stuff...that struck me. I cannot be at 2 places at one time, while I had to settle my laptop and desktop PCs, both which happened to be down at the same time(believe it or not), I had to settle them or otherwise I have no laptop to bring to Boston, and my dad and brothers will kill me over the desktop. Sighz...but I promised that I will come and help out for rag more often as and when I can. Basically, that means that I have to juggle Rag and Ps Soc stuff from now on. Time to find a balance.
Steven Lim finally passed me a video of last year's Rag. It was a brilliant video, not only because of the detailed recording of the rag float on the final night to actual presentation, but I was touched by words of support and encouragement from freshies, MC members, Prof Shandre and even the Dean himself. What this means from their words is that Rag can have a better future, and the efforts of Jingyi, Lionel, Jennifer and the current Rag com will not let this newfound determination and goodwill from the Dean's Office go to waste. Well at least it has been moving as fast as it can go.
Now back to other stuff:
Boston: Nothing else to say now, only that there are only 9 days to go until Valentine's Day, so efforts now only remain to fix up administrative loose ends and academic preparation to better ready myself for the conference.
Studies: Because of Boston, there is an increasing urgency in settling things, including an research essay that I have to finish most probably in Boston, but I will be asking my lecturer for a 24 hour extension at the very least.
All else done, it will be back to books and society stuff.
Will definitely post up one more before I fly off. Let me know if you guys want me to get anything from Boston, although that means I am almost down to my financial bare bones... but anyway, do let me know ok?
Jianwu did warn me just now while we went down to watch Chingay with Lionel, Aya, Jingyi and Gerri how 'unraggerfied' I am because I have not gone down to pick up logistics and stuff...that struck me. I cannot be at 2 places at one time, while I had to settle my laptop and desktop PCs, both which happened to be down at the same time(believe it or not), I had to settle them or otherwise I have no laptop to bring to Boston, and my dad and brothers will kill me over the desktop. Sighz...but I promised that I will come and help out for rag more often as and when I can. Basically, that means that I have to juggle Rag and Ps Soc stuff from now on. Time to find a balance.
Steven Lim finally passed me a video of last year's Rag. It was a brilliant video, not only because of the detailed recording of the rag float on the final night to actual presentation, but I was touched by words of support and encouragement from freshies, MC members, Prof Shandre and even the Dean himself. What this means from their words is that Rag can have a better future, and the efforts of Jingyi, Lionel, Jennifer and the current Rag com will not let this newfound determination and goodwill from the Dean's Office go to waste. Well at least it has been moving as fast as it can go.
Now back to other stuff:
Boston: Nothing else to say now, only that there are only 9 days to go until Valentine's Day, so efforts now only remain to fix up administrative loose ends and academic preparation to better ready myself for the conference.
Studies: Because of Boston, there is an increasing urgency in settling things, including an research essay that I have to finish most probably in Boston, but I will be asking my lecturer for a 24 hour extension at the very least.
All else done, it will be back to books and society stuff.
Will definitely post up one more before I fly off. Let me know if you guys want me to get anything from Boston, although that means I am almost down to my financial bare bones... but anyway, do let me know ok?
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