i don't like to attend dinners i.e. wedding dinner, birthday party, company annual dinner etc. however, when i received the invitation from Cambridge Trust on their reception for new scholars from Cambridge Commonwealth Trust (CCT) and Cambridge Oversea Trust (COT), i accepted their invitation without any hesitation. haha! my dear friends, please don't complain that i am unfair. without their busary, i may ended up washing UFO in one of the restaurant in cambridge now. therefore, i really need to show my face by supporting their events.
as i have been told from other experienced scholars, this year reception is relatively small scale compared to last year, which was a whole-day event with Prince Charles as the honourable guest! anyway, the Dining Hall in Robinson College was still full of scholars from different countries, enjoying their "finger buffer" and also busy interacting with their new and old friends. There are about 60 scholars from Malaysia; other majority scholars are from Australia, Canada, China, Cyrus, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, USA. There are few from Algeria, Antiqua, Bangladesh, Chile. Egypt, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordon, Sudan, Turkey etc. Some are also from the countries that i have never came across i.e. Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Guyana, Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Trinidad etc. The world is very big!
That evening, surprisingly, i was one of the last few to leave the hall! First, I met two of my Hong Kong friends, Adys and Man Yi. Both of them are very sweet and soft-spoken girls, it is always very pleasant to talk to them. They are totally different from those career-woman-type of girls we used to watch in HK movies. Then i was attracted by a Korean girl in her national costume. Jihyun's korean costume really reminded me of my youngest sister in Malaysia. she had one when she was small, also the similar pink color as Jihyun's, but its top part is in vivid green; it is a present from my mum's korean friend, a civil engineer who built the Penang Bridge. i still remember that we always had to spend some time to play with the ribbon in order to get a correct, typical korean knot. haha!
after that, there were these two very sporting girls from China joined us. i especially like one of them, Mei Mei. she is a bit dark, so i kept on telling her that she doesn't seem like a chinese from China to me; because many new friends told me that they can tell that i am definitely not from China, firstly due to my accent, secondly is because i am not fair! haha. then i bumped into some Malaysian, some i knew but no chance to talk much, some i just met; and also some new friends from my college.
all in all, this is a fantastic evening, lucky to meet Adys and Manyi again, and other new friends. this makes me feel that i started to catch up. i was late for most of the things in cambridge; i didn't come during last october, which is the start of 2006/2007 academic year; i even missed the fresher's week and the matriculation for this Lent Term; i have missed many chances to meet new friends, but i think i am catching up now :D
as i have been told from other experienced scholars, this year reception is relatively small scale compared to last year, which was a whole-day event with Prince Charles as the honourable guest! anyway, the Dining Hall in Robinson College was still full of scholars from different countries, enjoying their "finger buffer" and also busy interacting with their new and old friends. There are about 60 scholars from Malaysia; other majority scholars are from Australia, Canada, China, Cyrus, Hong Kong, India, Singapore, USA. There are few from Algeria, Antiqua, Bangladesh, Chile. Egypt, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordon, Sudan, Turkey etc. Some are also from the countries that i have never came across i.e. Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Guyana, Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Trinidad etc. The world is very big!
That evening, surprisingly, i was one of the last few to leave the hall! First, I met two of my Hong Kong friends, Adys and Man Yi. Both of them are very sweet and soft-spoken girls, it is always very pleasant to talk to them. They are totally different from those career-woman-type of girls we used to watch in HK movies. Then i was attracted by a Korean girl in her national costume. Jihyun's korean costume really reminded me of my youngest sister in Malaysia. she had one when she was small, also the similar pink color as Jihyun's, but its top part is in vivid green; it is a present from my mum's korean friend, a civil engineer who built the Penang Bridge. i still remember that we always had to spend some time to play with the ribbon in order to get a correct, typical korean knot. haha!
after that, there were these two very sporting girls from China joined us. i especially like one of them, Mei Mei. she is a bit dark, so i kept on telling her that she doesn't seem like a chinese from China to me; because many new friends told me that they can tell that i am definitely not from China, firstly due to my accent, secondly is because i am not fair! haha. then i bumped into some Malaysian, some i knew but no chance to talk much, some i just met; and also some new friends from my college.
all in all, this is a fantastic evening, lucky to meet Adys and Manyi again, and other new friends. this makes me feel that i started to catch up. i was late for most of the things in cambridge; i didn't come during last october, which is the start of 2006/2007 academic year; i even missed the fresher's week and the matriculation for this Lent Term; i have missed many chances to meet new friends, but i think i am catching up now :D
The Dining Hall, Robinson College, Cambridge on Monday 12 March 2007, 5:00 to 7:30pm
Friends from Hong Kong: Adys (Center) and Man Yi (Right)
From Left: Jia Jia (China), Jihyun (Korea), CL in baju kurung, it is a present from Rassilah of S.E.H (Malaysia), Mei Mei (China)
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