My name is Elisha and I write Eli Shares.

A little bit about me…
I’m a Lun Bawang from a small city in the Northern part of Sarawak called Lawas. Well, I might look like Chinese but I’m not – I’m a pure Lun Bawang (Orang Ulu).

Currently I’m taking my bachelor degree in business, majoring in management and international business.

Here is the small blog post that I’ve wrote about SwinTalk, where I’ve shared my views and thoughts about what I’ve expected from Swinburne. Please do give some comments or feedbacks.

Anyway, I’m new here (in SwinTalk) so if you happen to see me along the hallway, just say hi to me yea.

Cheers~ Happy Mid-Term Holiday mates!!

Here’s our campaign poster, you can click to zoom it:-

Our theme: Make the most out of uni life

President- Alex Lim
Bachelor of Multimedia – Business Marketing
(*With previous council experience – Term 2007)

Vice President – Jeremy Tay
Diploma in Business & Information System

Secretary – Jong Khai Ian
Foundation in Engineering

Treasurer – Steve Tang
Bachelor of Business – Accounting

Our Objectives:

1. To be proactive, responsive, communicative, more transparent, and an effective advocate for the students.

2. Encourage a co-operative approach to learning, living, and working together in the school community.

3. Be student medium in which they can channel their views and voice their opinions.

4. Solve issues/problems that students have by encouraging students to participate in open meetings & discussion.

5. Organize more exciting and meaningful events for students.

(We aim to organize more fun and happening events which will make sure your study life here in

Swinburne a meaningful and memorable one whether its educational or mainly for fun.)

6. Forge a closer tie among local and international students.

(We hope to forge a closer tie among local and also international students so as to create a multi

racial community whereby everyone can support each other and make Swinburne a happier place to study in.)

We hereby, are calling for your votes!  Each vote counts and is very much appreciated.

The election will be on:

Date: 12th November 2008 (Wednesday)

Time: 9.00am – 5.00pm

Venue: Swinburne Block B, Room B002 and B003

Date : 15 October 2008

Day : Wednesday

Time : 2.00pm 

Venue : B213

So.. leave a message if you are not able to attend. =) New BloGGers are most welcome too! 

* if anyone has any issue which you would like to touch on, please do attend*

Anyway, the place is fully ventilated by the centralized air-con, so its cool inside there, except certain time where its cold.

The MPH has allocated time and session for which sports would be allowed, which one can find it on the left of the wall when you enter the hall from the main front entrance. Its a piece of paper pratically stuck to the wall.

Overall, the place is great, with rubberized floor like Sports Arena.

And like Johnson Woon would say, “Hey, how come got wind one in the hall ar?”. That was when he missed the shuttlecock. Hope to see you all there using it.

PS: They gym is kinda cool too. Bigger. And we now have LCD TVs. 32″ of pure widescreen.

Yes, Swinburne’s version of Teh-C-Peng.

Speechless?

Off and on, i just don’t know how to react to such thing when my friends order this Teh-C-Peng, whether to laugh or to hide my face.

LOL… and *sigh* Tell me. >.<

A lot of people has asked – How to become a blogger at Swintalk.com. So I thought its a good idea to share the details once again.

In order to become a blogger here, you just need to be either a current, ex or prospective student of Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak, Malaysia). If you are currently studying in any of the Swinburne Melbourne campuses, you are also welcome to join us here! So here are some of the things you need to do first in order to get access to blog at Swintalk.com:

1. Register Yourself as a Member of This Blog (Free of charge). It just takes a min to register and once you do that you will be able to comment on the blog posts also participate in undergoing dicussions in our Swinburne Forum.

2. Once you Register, You will be emailed with a Password. If you wish to keep the password that has been assigned to you by our system you can do so. However it is advisable that you change your password to something that you can remember. You may change your password anytime, from your user profile page. Or if you have already forgotten your password, use our instant password recovery service.

3. Once you have registered, simply send an email to info[at]swintalk.com with your username and request for blogger access. If sending email is a bit of hassel for your, you can use our automated contact form instead.

4. Within 24-48 hours, someone will reply you with your access information, which will allow you to directly write at Swintalk.com blog and share your words with thousands of other swinburners.

5. If you have your own blog and want to get listed in our Swintalk Blogroll (located at the left hand side), you may also send us an request email with your Name and Blog URL. We would prefer to add bloggers who have an active interest to participate in our Swintalk community.

Now if you are thinking what to blog about here at Swintalk.com, Below are some basic guidelines:

• Feel free to write about anything you like provided that it is some way or somehow beneficial for the swintalk readers. Some ideas may include: News regarding different swinburne events or swinburne in general, movie reviews, food reviews, reviews/feedback on different swinburne facilities etc.
• You are also welcome to write about your daily ramblings, funny stories/jokes, local and global news, Food & dining, fashion, Games, Sports etc.
• If you need advice or have tips about something in particular you are welcome to share it with this community.
• If you are happy/unhappy about any faciltiies/services that Swinburne currently provides, or if you have any suggestion that you FEEL can make things better, please do share!
• If you like taking photos, or you are photogenic yourself and would like to share your photos with everyone, in our Swintalk Photo Gallary – Email them all at info[at]swintalk.com.
• If you are involved with any student club, which is organizing any event that needs to be publicized here – Simple send the event details at info[at]swintalk.com

What we DON’T allow here:

• Any distructive writing/discussion regarding personal beliefs, religion or politics in general.
• Personal Attacks, Spamming, Defacing etc.
• Ccontent (Text/visual) that is inapproriate for General Public.

Happy Blogging!

Now it’s our turn to attract more and more bloggers to join us in this lovely environment by having more and more posts as well as dedicated activities!

Let me share my suggestion: I think it would be great if we can have an outdoor gathering in some place for a couple of hours and take some group photos. It does not necessarily mean going to Damai or somewhere special! We can just go to waterfront or state library lake by our own transport, just to have an informal gathering. my suggested date is 27th or 28th of September as all of us have (or have not!) done our postponed works during the break and have no excuse for not coming!

So, what do u think?

In line with the looming Grand Opening Ceremony of Swinburne Sarawak’s sprawling new extended campus, it’s community blog, SwinTalk, has also unveiled a whole new look!

Not only do Swinburnites get to enjoy the new campus, now, even our online presence has a unique theme to boot! How’s that for aspiring for us to be the best online campus community out there?

The new SwinTalk theme proudly parades itself in the two major colours of the Swinburne Sarawak logo – black and yellow, which are also the colours used in our campus’ interior decorations ahead of the Grand Opening.

The theme aims to be vibrant and fun, an image Swinburne tries to paint itself in all the time.

Your help is needed!

No code is perfect. Granted, a Wordpress theme might not be the most complex stuff to code out there, but mistakes and errors do occur. I am after all, human. =)

That said, I’ll need you, the community, to help in identifying any bugs, errors or weird stuff you see. If you happen to come across something not working or something that might seem not right to you, please do not hestitate to tell me about it throught the comments!

I also regret to inform that the theme has not been tested on IE6. So those of you using IE6 out there might be experiencing broken layouts. I highly recommend the lot of you to upgrade to IE7 or other browser alternatives. Rest assured, the theme has been tested to run fine on the latest of all major browsers.

Suggestions!

The layout you’re looking at right now has been rather carefully thought out by those collaborating behind the theme. We’ve taken into consideration the placings of items, features of every nook and canny to make SwinTalk an enjoyable experience. But we are almost always bound to miss out a thing or two along way.

Because this is a community blog, it is my job to tune the theme to the needs of you, the community. As such, I’ll most certainly welcome any comments and suggestions on how the layout or design of the theme can be improved!

So keep the suggestions coming in! =)

This is ember, the resident SwinTalk graphics guy, checking in my first ever post on SwinTalk.

Hope you like the new look as much as I enjoyed designing it!