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By @lex in Celebration & Events, Swinburne on September 3rd, 2008
Oh, this is my first post in SwinTalk. My first post should be about the Grand Opening but I haven’t finish editing the photo. So, just let me post some of the photos that I took during the graduation day. Ya, before I start, I think I should congrats all the graduands including Saad also.
So, this is what I will post in this thread, for those who want to view all the photos I took at that day, you can always go here. And for those who might find yourself in the photos, you can also grab the photos there.
By Saad Kamal in Celebration & Events on August 31st, 2008
Happy 51st Birthday Malaysia!
It was a bit dull Merdeka celebration in Kuching this year… (compared to previous year)…..the fireworks lasted only for 10 mins +- After 12:20am everything became really quiet .. sadly there was absolutely no feel of Merdeka celebration ….
However, The good news is everyone got their long weekend holiday ….(Saturday, Sunday + Monday)!
Hope you all enjoy your holiday! Happy Merdeka Day to Everyone! Play & Drive Safe!
By Admin in Celebration & Events, Swinburne on August 28th, 2008
I have been wanting to put up a post regarding the Grand Opening of Swinburne’ s extend campus that took place last week on August 23rd 2008. But due to the fact that there were too many back to back activities (rehearsal & graduation ceremony), I just couldn’t make the time.
First of all I’d like to congratulate the organizing committee of the Grand opening ceremony for doing such a wonderful job. Everything on that day was ‘just perfect’, starting from the actual ceremony at the newly built MPH (Multi Purpose Hall), followed by Campus Tour, Refreshment & Student Performances (at Block C).
The only possible drawback of the day was, it rained badly however it did not really affect the flow of the whole program.
The program kicked off by the speech of Mr. Bill Scales (AO) who is the chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology. He talked about a bit of Swinburne Sarawak’s history and how it all started. It was the Sarawak government who invited Swinburne University of Technology, Australia about 8 years ago to come into a partnership in order to strengthen the social, industrial, commercial & political structure of the nation.
Mr. Scales strongly believes that Australia and Malaysia are excellent educational partners because of their shared view of higher education and Swinburne is very proud to be involved in this partnership. (Just for your Information: There are two more aussie campuses in Malaysia – Monash & Curtin). But unlike other universities, Swinburne will only have ONE international campus and that is – Swinburne Sarawak.
Our Chief Minster’s speech was a bit long but I was able to pick some figures and facts which I’d like to share now:
- In 2001, Swinburne Institute of Technology was only occupying 2 Floors of the 9 storied government building and Now Swinburne has 8 new buildings of its own.
- Sarawak Government owns 75% share of Swinburne, and the remaining 25% belongs to Swinburne.
- Swinburne Sarawak has been formed in partnership of Sarawak Gov and Swinburne Australia, where Sarawak Government has provided the investment needed for the Physical infrastructure (e.g. Buildings, IT, computers, Labs etc) and Swinburne has provided the intellectual property (e.g. the internationally recognized academic programs)
- Swinburne Institute of Technology had 130 students when they first started in year 2000, but now Swinburne Sarawak has over 2600+ students.
- Within the next few years Swinburne aims for 5000 Students.
- Over 450+ students have graduated in the 5th Graduation Ceremony (held on 25th of August).
Review of the Library Facilities
Me and Ember managed to get Adeline (Library Staff) present in the library on the day of the opening ceremony and she was kind enough to talk to us regarding the improved library facilities. I wish I could put up the whole transcript, but I think I’ll just highlight the key points here:
- The new library is pretty big in terms of size, if compared with the previous one
- It has 12 discussion rooms and each can accommodate 10 students each.
- The library also has a dedicated AV room with TV, DVD Player etc.
- There is a dedicated room for training
- There are currently over 70,000 books in the library
- A new self checkout system is also in Place (not active yet)
- There will be 4 OPEC systems in the library which will allow the students to search for books.
- The PC area has 30 PCs currently. (I wonder why this number is still 30…the old library also had 30 pcs if I’m not mistaken)
- The Reading Area is pretty big compared to the old library
- The Individual Study blocks are more and have dedicated power sockets (So you may power your laptop and connect to Swinwifi).
- The whole library is covered by SwinWifi
Some Pictures:
Library Study Area
Automated Checkout Counter
Individual Study Area
Books & Shelves
I think they still need a lot of books to fill the empty space…..
PC Area
The library is big no doubt, but I think 30 pcs aren’t enough for 2500+ students.
Someone asked me a week back – whether Swinburne is going to use a false ceiling to cover the pipes on the roof of all rooms. Well I got confirmation that they don’t have any plans to cover it up…Many modern buildings of today keeps it that way..
Read other posts related to Swinburne Grand Opening Ceremony:
Swinburne Sarawak Grand Opening Ceremony (FEATURED)
Swinburne Grand Opening Coverage (Partial)
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My Potential Fingerprints
The Grand Opening Ceremony
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Grand Opening of Swinburne’s Extended campus
By Admin in Celebration & Events on August 28th, 2008
This Post was originally written by – WoonYien (www.yienyien.com). It was so good that we are featuring it in our Swintalk Blog. Here goes:
23rd of August 2008 is a BIG day for Swinburne Sarawak.
Today will be the expanded campus Grand Opening and it will be very very Grand.. But sad to say.. it was rainning that day early in the morning til late afternoon..
I m on duty that day! hahaha! Blogger?? hahaha! yup yup.. its considered student press for Uni. Not only me, I have oso Saad and ALex with me…
Oh.. they even purposely made a T-shirt for today! see!!
The Grand opening start at like 1.30pm and everyone have to arrive at 11am for lunch. they are providing us lunch.. but i dint take it as the sayur sayuran look so not nice and i m not very hungry. hehehe! Everyone is rehearsing.. the flag waving team, the traditional costumes team, the performances team, the choir team and a lot more.. as for me.. i don nid to rehearse la.. just walk around and take pics if i want. =)
Its 1.30pm and the Grand Opening took place at the MPH (MUlti Purpose Hall).. Multi purpose hall means its multi purpose as we can do wadever we want rite? haha.. they actually have basketball court, badminton court, stage, squash court, and Gym at the upper floor.. and its air-conditioned.. OMG!! So we goona play Badminton and Squash and basketball in the AIRCON??? haha! NICE!! i m loving it! weeee!
And of coz for tha Grand opening.. they cover up all the things will carpets and so on la. and this is the Stage…
I love this pic!! it was taken when i have nth to do waiting for ppl to fill up the seats. ^^
Ahh.. people are starting to arrive.. this wil be the registration booth for the Vips and invited guests..
ALL vips can get a very nice Keychain!! Oh.. only for Vips? sobx. T.T its real pweter ok? *grin*
The place is almost full of people once the time has hit 2. and u can see our lovely Leonie is busy around but still able to take picture! hehehe!!
We can see the place is crowded with people i suppose??
This is our dearest lecturer!! Mr. Rodney and Mr. CHan.. Mr. Rodney is owes our all-time-favourite and Mr. Chan is… (xinyi and theresa’s) favourite. =) *grin* Oh.. u can see that our lecturer all have friendly and easy-to-approach faces.. how good rite? hehehe!
It was almost 2.30pm when the Chief Minister is coming.. U can see the flag waving team is ready to wave..
And here comes the CM. oh.. i manage to snap a picture of him..
Haha..Hmm.. two pictures i suppose. hehe..
The opening performances. Hmm.. its sarawak bah.. so it wil be sarawak dances..
the guy can fly!!! Oh.. isnt his tummy pain. =(
Follow by that will be the choir.. singing Sarawak anthem and Australia national anthem.
After all the speeches by CM and our swinburne chancellor.. we Got the official opening ceremony!!
HAHAHA! guess wad??? Oh.. *paisei* YES!! they are lighting up the OBor Obor (torch) for the opening of the expanded campus!! hahaha! OLYMPIC GAMES MEH??!! swt.. =.=”
and this is the obor obor with is lighted up electrically. *huhuhuh*
After the grand opening.. everyone is heading to the A block..
Oh.. u can see ppl waving flag here too.. everywhere the CM goes.. there are red carpets and ppl welcoming him.. He is going to Eat actually.. after His campus tour.. I din follow the campus tour but i have taken my OWN campus tour later.. ^^
This is where CM is heading to.. so nice!!!! They are having refreshment in such a nice place?? and we are having buffet outside at the performances area. T.T They even have trained waiters and waitresses.. i heard them training them next door when i was taking the pictures. haha!
And the exhibition.. i din go in.. haha.. forgotten. =(
Okok! enuf for the CM. i m in my own now!! Let me show u my OWN campus tour.. with lestari. ^^
Our library.. oh.. we finally have big library.. one floor just for the library!! But sad.. its so hard to find a book!!we even have toilet in the library. =)
Me.. ha ha haa!!! its so not common to see empty library so must take a pic la! haha!
This is the another side of the library. the computers and magazines section.
Our Lecture Theatre.. yes… its like a theatre.. ^^
Inside the lecture theatre.. the light is dim.. and the air con is so so so damn cold.. plus the seats is so SOFT and comfortable.. so its definitely a ideal place to get ur sleep. =D
I m not having any classes in here because it my final semester at swinburne and u noe la.. final semester owes left a few ppl.. and the theatre can accomodate for like 250ppl so its mostly the first year students who are using it.. *oh! i must snap my own pic here of coz.*
the multi-storey car park as i showed u before.. =)
some random shots of swinburne expanded campus!!
Oh.. this is the place we have our performances and our food!!!
My favourite food of the day! haha! chicken wings! they keep refilling the food and it never get emptied!! even til when they wanna keep the everything.. its still full!! argh!!! i wana tabao! haha!
The stage for performances.. Gub is the Mc!
We have a lot of performances but this one is my favourite!! duno wads the name la.. =) Also.. i m busy eating so just less picture for the performances lo.. hehehe
Our Group photo of the day!!!! weeeehehehehe! Love u girls!
Me and lestari!! again! before the everything ends!!
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WAD R U DOIN LES?? teehehe! she is so cute!
By satriakid in Celebration & Events, Swinburne on August 27th, 2008
Well, since no one posted it up, I’ll do the honour of partial coverage of the opening events as I had to run off halfway during the opening to help out my fellow mates and also had something else to do.
Anyway, on with the pictures. Enjoy.
Red Carpet. Anyone strided on it before our CM step on it? I know I did.
While everyone was intense with the arrival of the Chief Minister of Sarawak, I caught a few shots of the things around me.
Busy preparing for the Opening.
Hrm, who’s this….
Lovely shot.
Frontal view of the entrance to MPH (Multi-Purpose Hall mind you). Even the rain drops were frozen in time.
Minutes passed and when we heard the blaring of the sirens on those big Honda police bikes, everyone had a final check on everything, including their attirewear and cameramens and womens where checking their equipment to get the perfect shot.
The arrival of the CM of Sarawak.
This were multiple shots, and what happened after he got out, he stroded so fast, the next picture will tell you the rest of the story.
CM being welcomed by the Vice-Chancellor and also other members of Swinburne Management and more.
See how fast he walks! Health guy ain’t he.
While he was being welcomed and so forth, I ran in front of his car and did this.
Hey, Johnson, I have close-ups. XD. Beats your fingerprint eh.
Everyone was busy taking pictures of the CM, and people say I’m nuts taking shots of his car instead *haha*. Gosh, lovely flying silver lady.
After he enters the MPH, everyone gathered inside and enjoyed the show cultural dance performed by Sarawak Cultural Village, while many more students came in to get a glimps of what was happening.
Committee? Seems the center stage area have been divided into different categories.
After that, I disappear to help my friends to get ready for their performance part, so the coverage after the cultural dance was missed, hence, a big gap but I heard many said the CM gave a long talk. XD. Honestly, I have no idea. I heard this from others only.
Later that afternoon, someone called and told us we were late for our performance so we all packed up and rushed to the event at the courtyard. When we were there, the Dancesports Club was doing their performance.
I’ll let the pictures take over again.
Dance move full of energy.
Is he psychic or something? ESP maybe?
After that, 3 girls, or should I say ladies in yukata went up to the stage and did their performance.
Emotions at play.
Singing with passion.
Singer trio.
They song they sung was in japanese called “Mirai” which means future. Forgot by who though.
Side shots while posing for a cameraman.
While the performance was still going on, others were busying themselves with free food which was provided.
Fellow Admins and Admins.
Boy, this guy can surely sing without any background song. Kudos to your performance bro.
Anyway, it ends here as I packed up and headed over to another place where there was another event going on. Hope you enjoyed the photos that I have shared here.
By ember in Celebration & Events, Swinburne on August 23rd, 2008
Just a quick update on today’s mark in the history of Swinburne Sarawak – the Grand Opening Ceremony of the new extended campus.
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The symbolic torch lighting marking the official opening of the new campus by the Chief Minister, YAB Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud, accompanied by Mr. Bill Scales AO, Chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology.
This post will be updated with more info shortly.
