I need your company )=

Professor Emeritus Tengku Dato’ Shamsul Bahrin, the President of Nilai University College, Professor John Raftery, Pro Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, Dato’ Dr. Sothi Rachagan, Mr. Gan Eng Hong, our visitors from Oxford Brookes University, Academics, graduands of Oxford Brookes University and Nilai University College, family and friends.

Good Morning. We stand here today with much to be thankful for and I am honoured to be given the opportunity to address you this morning. I welcome you to this memorable and prestigious ceremony. To those who have had to travel halfway round the world to be here today, thank you.

When Henry Ford was bringing his vision of the motor vehicle into our world, people around him ridiculed him and thought he had gone mad in pursuing such a wild vision. But he knew much more. He said, “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it”. We are sitting here today, a testament, that we can win against all adversities, provided that we learn to conquer our minds, particularly when our will is weak.

In the course of our long journey, we reached many crossroads which have taken us to different paths. Some of us have failed, while others have flourished. When faced with adversity we should remain steadfast and strong. Don’t let the regrets of yesterday destroy our hopes and dreams of tomorrow. No circumstance should force you to live in despair.

To my fellow graduates, we’ve made it. We’ve finally made it! Congratulations. What honours we are about to receive today will be ours forever, so congratulations for all the achievements we have accomplished in academics, athletics, the arts, both in Uni and out. I hope that we will all continue to grow to be exemplary ambassadors of Oxford Brookes University and Nilai University College and that we will carry messages of morality and knowledge as we contribute towards the evolution in society – even if only through simple ways and means.

My fellow classmates, I’d like to thank you for your friendship and support. I am who I am today because of you. We are who we are today, because of each other. I pray that we will continue to learn from the experiences that we’ve shared in the past, as I have. I hope that each of us finds the right opportunity for ourselves; and that peace and good will prevail – for ourselves and our loved ones. The years we have spent together will forever be etched in my memory - the fun, the laughter, the sweat, the tears, and the sleepless nights. At times the road had been a rough one but we plodded on and perseverance prevailed. As I look back now, I know I wouldn’t have it any other way. So thank you and congratulations to all of you once again.

Distinguished guests, parents, teachers, families and friends; we are all proud and greatly honoured to have walked the halls of Nilai UC – blessed for being provided a healthy environment, conducive for study and growth of the mind with a balance of hard work, fun and good friends. For that, thank you Nilai UC. But the honours that we receive today could not have been achieved without the hard work of many people. Congratulations and thank you to our teachers and University personnel, for our success is your success. Thank you for giving us the opportunity and the freedom to explore. For the support and faith you have in us, thank you. Allow me to also extend my gratitude to the University’s Administration and its faculty for their perseverance and hard work – they have truly changed our lives. To the Corporate Communications department of Nilai UC, thank you for giving me the wonderful opportunity of helping out with the EXPLORER magazine. Special thanks to the department of Marketing and Economics – the Head of Department, Ms. Gowrie Vinayan and our many lecturers – thank you for all of your support and for making us who we are today. I shall forever cherish you and I wish you the best life has to offer.

Of course we would all not be here without the self-sacrificing contributions of our parents. For all that we are and have today, we owe it to you. Thank you for believing in us even when we didn’t in ourselves. So my dear friends, I now invite all of you to stand up to show our appreciation by giving them a round of applause. Thank you.

My fellow graduates, today, I wish you comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth and love to complete your life.

I had some of the best experiences of my life here and I hope you did too. Today, I dedicate this victory of ours to our parents and families, and to our teachers and friends.

Thank you.





Ms. Pomme de Terre

To Do:

(In random order)

1. Laundry
2. Print speech and MT's letter of consent
3. Perform speech-saying ritual
3. Apply for leave for Friday
4. Discuss product categories being passed on to Prisc for July data QC
5. Decide what to wear on Saturday
6. Practice in new heels
7. Save money
8. Call Mr. William Chin of Mitsubishi Motors and Mr. Chew Leng Huat of Fiamma
9. Reply emails to Mr. Colgate, Sanjay the Possum and the Happy-Three-Girlfriends
10. Watch I love you man
11. Call Liss again
12. Collect laundry (Friday)
13. Try to design Mr. Emmmett Lim's name cards
14. Obsess over the climax of Mae - Release Me
15. Sleep

Food for thought:

Reality came around

I'm starting to believe that bumping into the number 44 represents something; like its trying to say something.

Just read someone's blog like 30 seconds ago. It was so sad and depressing that I almsot hurled. Cannot take this anymore. I shouldn't anyway.

Things aren't going very well )=

"Sun rays come down as seen when they hit the ground, Children spinning around till they fall down down down. I wait for you: it's been two hours now. You're still somewhere in town. Your dinners getting cold. I rest my case you are always this late. And you know how much I hate waiting around 'round 'round. Bitter heart, bitter heart tries to keep it all inside. Bitter heart, bitter heart. Shadows will help you try to hide. Bitter heart, my bitter heart is gettin' just a little fragile. Bitter heart, bitter heart of mine. And then you come and tell me the same reason as you did yesterday. So tell me whats her name. Bitter heart, bitter heart tries to keep it all inside. Bitter heart, bitter heart shadows will help you try to hide. Bitter heart, my bitter heart is just getting a little fragile. Bitter heart, bitter heart of mine, of mine, of mine, of mine, of mine, of mine."

That does not represent how I feel. This probably does:

"Sirens ring, the shots ring out. A stranger cries, screams out loud. I had my world strapped against my back. I held my hands, never knew how to act. And the same black line that was drawn on you. Was drawn on me. And now it's drawn me in. 6th Avenue heartache. Below me was a homeless man. I'm singin' songs I knew complete. On the steps alone, his guitar in hand. It's fifty years, stood where he stands. Now walkin' home on those streets. The river winds move my feet. Subway steam, like silhouettes in dreams. They stood by me, just like moonbeams. Look out the window, down upon that street. And gone like a midnight was that man. But I see his six strings laid against that wall. And all his things, they all look so small. I got my fingers crossed on a shooting star. Just like me-just moved on"

And this: Zee Avi's Is This The End.

I know, so cliched. (=





OH well.

Must remember to call Emmmeettt Lim tomorrow. I hope you're doing okay.

Serious case of bad photoshopping. But I hate you too much to care.

Lori Mckenna - Beautiful Man

I am doing the best that I can

I have a feeling.

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to leave the world a better place... To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - This is to have succeeded." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep your eyes on the prize

"You can't make people love you, but you can make people fear you."


















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