Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Why I love my job

In 1 year of doing AIESEC full time, counting 1st July 2007 till 4 August 2008 (when I officially finish as per my service terms), I will have

Visited 9 countries
  • Taipei, Kao Shiung, Tai Dong, Taiwan - July 07
  • Istanbul, Capadokya, Turkey - August 07
  • KL, Malaysia - October 07
  • Skopje and Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia - February 08
  • Sophia, Bulgaria - February 08
  • Tokyo, Japan - March 08
  • Guang Zhou, China - May 08
  • Jakarta, Indonesia - June 08
  • Next stop: Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam - July 08
9 moments of amazing conference experiences
  • Chair, Taiwan SNCF 2007
  • Delegate, International Congress 2007
  • Facilitator, Singapore Jump Start! Induction Conference 07
  • Facilitator, Asia Pacific HEROES Conference 07
  • Facilitator, Singapore NLDS 2007
  • Delegate, International Presidents Meeting 2008
  • Facilitator, Asia Pacific Exchange Leadership Development Seminar 2008
  • Chair, Asia Pacific EVOLVE Conference 2008
  • Facilitator, Asia Pacific Member Committee Transition Camp 2008
Managed
  • budgets that are in 5 figure amounts (SGD for some, Euros for some)
  • projects that have impacted more than 2000 youths from Singapore and around Asia Pacific
  • to attend enough company meetings and networking events to give away more than 150 of my name cards
  • to build a network of friends from more than 103 countries and territories in the world
  • to gain hands-on experience in project management, team management, budget management, external relations and marketing, PR, strategic planning and governance, coaching, website management and programming, talent management
Presented
  • A 2 hour discussion on "Youth Opinion in South East Asia" to a room of 30 HR professionals from companies around Singapore
  • Opening Address to a room of 40 youths and professionals at the "Business Leaders in ASEAN" Alumni Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Opening speech at AIESEC Singapore Gala Dinner, attended by 120 members, alumni and partners
  • Opening speech at EVOLVE Gala Dinner, graced by Mr. Baey Yam Keng, Minister of Parliament, and 100 other guests (members from Singapore and Asia Pacific, alumni and partners)
  • As part of panelist in a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia alongside Mr. Hermawan Kartaja (one of 50 World Marketing Gurus, President of World Marketing Association, 5 times co-author with Philip Kotler)
all this at the age of 23 and 24 years old... what more can one ask for? :)

Friday, June 13, 2008

Travel again...

Will be jetting off to Jakarta, Indonesia at 4pm today to attend



























Will be back on Monday about 3.30pm..

Thursday, June 12, 2008

The Displacement of Reason

This is an amazing article written by Alex Au, owner of Yawning Bread (http://www.yawningbread.org/) for a forum titled "A Christian response to same-sex attraction"

Fantastic article and very thought-provoking argument...

http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2008/yax-888.htm

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Random

Am sitting here at Starbucks with 4 of my MC VP elects...

they're discussing their session for national planning...

and I'm sitting here feeling nolstagic, highly amused.. and well just reflective :)