AIESEC in NUS Blog

by Chang Siew Yik

wow!! we are going conference in HK. it was my 1st overseas conference. discussions about CSR and entrepreneurship, some of the hottest topics around. it was so fun.chaired by Felix from canada, co- chaired by Din from phillipines and jointly organised by LCs from 3 countries, this is the amazing 4days experience for me. Total of 10 delegates from Singapore. David and Pamela from SMU had to rush over with greetings from the @SIPO greetings in video after the election.

Arriving at HKU on Sunday, we had some sessions getting to know people in the conference better, and we were introduced to culture of excellence by @HK MC PD. Hong Kong got the UBS Global Excellence Awards for Asia Pacific region last year in the Poland IC. and that is mainly caused by the CoE in HK.

the 2nd day was about CSR,we had few great speakers came and speak about CSR in HK and the Greater China Region as well as LC to present about their own Pbox in Taiwan. Of course, the sessions wont be complete with at least some @ dances. And last but not least we had a study tour to some places in HK.

The 3rd day was mainly about entrepreneuship. we had a chance to hear some great speakers as well as real life entrepreneurs to come and share their experience. They are real entrepreneurs and each and everyone of them has an unique story to share.and the nite is the @ party nite.we had lots of fun and lots of @dances from other region that has never been seen,but it was fun learning those dance moves.

That comes the last day which we had simulation of what we had learned in the last 3days and the closing plenary for the conference.

Ripples Conference was the 1st @overseas conference that i attended and i personally think that not only that i gained knowledge about entrepreneurship and CSR, what i appreciate more was the chance to really meet people from other LCs and really talk to them. It let me had the chance to experience what @ really can gives you that can really touch your heart. There were participants from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, China Peking, China Guang Zhou, Australia, Austria, UK, and Norway. it gave me a chance to talk to people from these places to understand the difference interms of cultural as well as @. We really get to experience the @ culture,challenging your worldview and getting to know the other LCs made us feel that there are actually much more spaces for @SIPO to move on.

And the most amazing thing was after the conference, we all stayed on for few days planning to tour Hong Kong. We met an @ alumni from New Zealand while we were checking in to the hotel. She just came out of no where and talked to us, as if we are really close friends and we did talk about @ experience of hers as well as other stuffs, we had dinner together. The reason bhind it??she saw us gathering in a big group while checking in and one of us was wearing an @ phone stripe. That is how the @ world is connected. I felt simply amazing bout that, simply because i had never expected that we could have met someone with so much similar topics in such a situation. I call it the MAGIC of @.

Besides that, i personally was very touched by the enthusiasm of @ in other countries. their passion and enthusiasm was all shown on their faces when you first met them. Can anyone imagine that at a temperature of 14, i was wearing 2 layers of T shirts and 1 layer of jacket. and i got into the @ party. After non stop of @ dances, its the passion and enthusiasim of @ that burns everyone in the hall to take off their cloths untill 1 layer of Tshirt and still sweating through.

Can you ever imagine people who have collected whole stack of @ T shirts of various countries and tell people, LOOK,these are the countries i have friends in,its all written in the T shirts.How cool was that.

I believe that the knowledge we gained in the conference will some how benefit us but It was the people u met in the conference that made the conference memorable and the inspiration that u got from the conference that keeps our passion going.

I strongly encourage whoever are passionate about this amazing organisation to go for an international conference,get to really meet the people and feel the difference. I believe everyone will be inspired alot through conferences. It will be a great and memorable experience.