Away Day 2008

19th aug

Away Day is basically an event which is held annually for the students to gather up to share various informations,opinions and experiences. Well, there are more reasons actually. We, as the juniors will have the chance to ask our seniors about various stufs including how to prepare ourselves to face our University life. This year, the committe decided to make it on 18th August(monday). I had a lot of fun especially due to the fact that I can gather up with my friends,cousin and seniors. We had some fun activities in the morning - Ice-breaking, aerobics&hand-ball@beach, Ice-breaking 2 and platform building.

To the interested readers, if you're wondering, here are some extra infos :-

P/S:In each activities, we were assigned to different groups.



ICe-breaking-basically, we had to write positive comments about our group mates and the group which has the most abundant positive comments accumulated is the winner. Personally,I think this activity stimulates your positive thinking about a person =)



Beach activities-we started with aerobics before the hand-ball game. For the hand-ball game, we were assigned with different group mates again but this time its based on animal groups. So, we had to make some distinctive actions of the animal to find our team mates which I think was quite hilarious and fun process LOL. I was under the Fish though =)



Ice-breaking 2-By this time,each participants had been assigned to different groups again via means of Countries' flags. Mine was Thailand. We were given some coloured candies. Basically, what each of us had to do was actually take four candies and each candy represents a question which we had to answer in front all of our team mates. So, this activity enable us to learn more about our team mates especially in terms of their goals in life.

Plaform building-Sticks(the ones they use for Satays), scissor, and a roll of string were given to each group to build the highest platform BUT it must able to withstand the weight of a big bottle of mineral water(SEHAT, Suci etc.) which was quite tough though lol. But, this activity encourages one to be able to work in a team effectively.



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In the afternoon, we had a talk by a staff from Brunei Shell Learning & Training Center. We did some activities as well and one of them require some sort of presentation. And I did the presentation on behalf of my group. At first, I didnt want to since i was too shy and worried I cant explain effectively since I dont know how it feels like to study abroad. But I have to admit, I like doing presentations though and I was carried away aka talked too much but it was a nice experience though since its been few months after my last attachment presentation.



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In the night, we dressed up for the 70s night which was held at BSRC. Mine was simple though and I decided to experiment a bit with my hair lol. The foods were so yummy~SERIOUSLY esp.the beef and fruit tart =)


Since digi-cams are so widely-used nowadays, we took many pictures~I had a good time during the 70s night!!!!



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I would like to thank the committee members who organized this year's Away Day. Their hard work is highly-appreciated. I really like the shirt and the souvenier guys =)