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By Lance in Swinburne on December 21st, 2008

After the Open Day, our university has become very quiet…everybody has gone back for the holidays or busy with part-time jobs. What about you guys? Enjoying your holidays? I just reached home from Sabah.

Thanks everyone

By @lex in Swinburne on November 13th, 2008

Hello, fellow Swinburne students.

Thank you for voting me and my team as your new Swinburne Student Council members for year 2009. It was great and challenging to be competitors of Edina’s team. Perhaps, we can look forward to work together in the near future.I would also like thank all those who have supported me during this election period.

This victory alone is not the change everyone is seeking for; it is only the chance for us to make that change. The road ahead will be long but I have never been more hopeful than I am that evening that we will try our best to get there and you have my word.

There will be setbacks. There will be many who won’t agree with every decision we make. But we will always be honest with you about the challenges we face and we shall listen to you.

This is our chance to answer it all. This shall be our moment of time to put our manpower to work and open doors of opportunity;we are one;that while we’re still here, we hope; and where we are met with cynicism and doubt of those who tell us that we can’t, we will prove them wrong and say : Yes, we can.

But, above all,we will never forget who this victory belongs to. It belongs to all of you who believed and voted for us.

Thank you and good luck to all of Swinburne students in your final exams. God bless you!

A message to election campaigns

By Amir in Celebration & Events, Random Ramblings, Swinburne on November 11th, 2008

Now that two campaigns have already posted their intros and slogans, I found it note worthy to remind them a few things:

Guys! We, as Swinburne Students, are tired of just listening to aimless slogans, which would be definitely forgotten or could not be fulfilled after you got elected! They are very very general and do not point to a certain problem!  Let me justify my thought:

Let’s start with Alex’s:
They have come up with the following general slogans:

1. To be proactive, responsive, communicative, more transparent, and an effective advocate for the students.
(What do you mean by proactive, communicative, transparent and effective? How do you want to be like that? Describe your programs)
2. Encourage a co-operative approach to learning, living, and working together in the school community.
(Again  how? Let’s say today is your first day in office! How would you start your program?)
3. Be student medium in which they can channel their views and voice their opinions.
(It is exactly the same slogan for almost every campaign, currently and in the past! Highlight your different method of bringing it to reality, if you have any!?)
4. Solve issues/problems that students have by encouraging students to participate in open meetings & discussion. (Sounds like a good idea. Describe it in detail! I’m sure you are not gonna have a meeting with 2000 students!)

5. Organize more exciting and meaningful events for students. (Like? How?)

6. Forge a closer tie among local and international students.(Hey! you do not have even one international student in your  campaign! How can you claim this?)

I can see the same problems in the girls campaign’s slogans.
We do not really want to see another boring (Sorry current SSSC!) club, which is just carrying the name of  Swinburne Sarawak Students Council, but is actually Swinburne Sarawak Few Students Council! I do appreciate former clubs’ hard efforts, but there are still lots of problems you guys are expected to address! The long procedure of establishing a club and getting SSSC’s financial help is one of our main issues. As a committee member of International Students club, I have personally witnessed this hectic thing when we were arranging International Students Cultural Night.

Once more, avoid historic slogans and come up with something new! Not general, but specific.

Speaking on my own behalf, I would not vote for a group which does not describe its program specifically .

Thank you

Girl’s Campaign for SSSC Election

By anide.dna in Swinburne on November 11th, 2008

Finally!!! Our poster is finally ready to be published. So here it is; our campaign poster. =)

*click click*

What I would like to point out is that to become the new president of the student council, I believe that the foremost thing to ensure is to have effective communication and also place myself in the shoes of students to understand their needs and their requests.

Being the current council member for 2008, I have learned alot from my fellow seniors, and this made me confident from the experience I have went through this year. Plus, I believe Geraldine and Chai Tyng has the utmost capability to carry out the responsibility as I have work with them before. Everytime I think of Swinburne students, I have this mindset; Kuching people are very hard to please. And this gives me the motivation to do the best to do what is best for the students!

Hence, vote for my team!! CHANGE CAN HAPPEN!!! Thanx!!!

The Heat is On!!!

By anide.dna in Swinburne on November 7th, 2008

Guess what all??!!

EDINA IS RUNNING FOR STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT!!!

YES, NO JOKE!!!!

I REPEAT!

EDINA CHONG IS RUNNING FOR SWINBURNE STUDENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT!!!

Student Council elections is on its way and seriously, it’s time to choose.

I don’t wanna be “si ai bin” or any vain title there is, but honestly, I feel I have the potential and what it takes to become the next Swinburne Student Council President!
Therefore, please SWINBURNIANS, vote for me!!! You will have no regrets!

Oh damn, I’m so excited! It’s going to be like Clinton vs. Obama.

Oh ya, make sure you vote for the rest of my committee to kay::
Ong Chai Tyng (Vice President)
Kee Jia Jia (Secretary)
Geraldine Tan (Treasurer)

To make your castings, election day will be on the 12th of November (Wednesday). Venue will be at B002 and B003! Bring your friends along to support me too!

For those who don’t know who to vote, consider me! Come talk to me when you see me round campus.
If you don’t know who I am, visit my blog here.

So please people, route for me and my committee! Each vote counts!
For more information, check your blackboard announcements.

Funny or Insulting?

By brendan goh in Swinburne on November 7th, 2008

Funny or Insulting?

You decide

Swinburne Sarawak Prom Night 2008

By Admin in Celebration & Events, Swinburne on October 13th, 2008

Orginally Written by- Ms. Woon Yien (www.yienyien.com)

Its Prom!!!

In the end.. i still choose to write a post about it before i finished up my assignments. haha! Well… i went to the prom night.. It was my last prom in Swinburne. The venue was at Riverside Sarawak Chamber. The place is nice as i have my first swinburne prom at there too.. back in 2005. What a co-incidence right? My FIRST prom and LAST prom in Swinburne was actually the same place. HAHAhA!

Anyway.. i will not comment much about the prom.. What can i say is.. i like the deco. Thats it.. but compared to Prom 2005, 2006 and 2007, this one is a more.. hmm.. not so happening one.. Ok.. no offend ya.. But still.. i like the deco.. Lucky enough for me, my table is full of interesting people and we have fun.. So again, thats what i mean in my msn pm, i have a great time tonight.. not because of prom but the people i met.. Arghh.. finally understood? hehehe! Anyway people, thanks for the prom..!

This year prom mostly consisted of juniors rather than seniors.. i can hardly see any familiar faces during prom.. *reason to be covered ya* haha! so again..lucky enuf for me.. wow..i m so lucky.. i m the youngest in my table! *NYEK NYEK NYEK* I went to prom with fabby, my closest in swinburne since foundation and we have Ken (fab’s fai), Terrence, Yii Seng, Yii Seng’s lovely gf who i duno the name (Pretty, i hope u do see u again ya), KK, Steve, Kheng and Kok Song.. Ken, Kheng, Steve and Kok Song is not from swinburne.. but stil they came. How supportive! ^^

Here’s some deco of the ballroom.

The opening ceremony

ANd most importantly, our table..Oh.. see my name? hahahaha!

Our table.. I like the rose pedals.. and Yii seng’s gf love it too! ^^

The food.. we have 8 dishes altogether..

Oh.. i forgot to take the picture of the Chilled longan and almond beancurd pudding (steve insisted its pudding.. Hohoho).. so u guys just imagine la hor… ^^

Okay.. here comes the random pictures of Prom 2008!!! There’s still a lot of friends which i din get to take pic with.. hmmm.. nevermind.. i still love u guys. ^^

Why is everyone is WHITE??!!!

The nOn- swinburners guys! heheheh! thanks people!

Me and Princess Fabby!

Oh.. she contributed this pic.. Woots! nice rite??!!

Ken won a lucky draw prize and he was so so so happie! hahaha! guess what’s inside? u wont wan to noe. haha! His lucky number - 280!!

SO here comes the footloose!

and our group pic! *fabby is so talkative.. muahahha*

And this one.. well edited by her.. she is definately a pro in photoshop eh!

What i owes like about Prom is..there always have lotsa balloons around.. last year we have Blue and Silver.. and this year.. they have red and white.. ^^

And lastly.. picture of the day!!

I like this pic the most eh.. coz its CANDID.. hahaha! u noe.. candid pic always look so cute and natural bah !!!!