5 Feb 2008

Dear Members of AIESEC HK,

Greetings from your MC team! Kung Hei Fat Choy! May we wish you best of luck in the Year of Rat!

2007 had been a year which we learned a lot and in this year, this is our time to show what we learn through determinations, passion and actions! We only have 5 months in the session 0708 and what can be our legacy? What can you impact yourself, others and the organization? Imagine that everyone of us is taking care one of the members to go through the entire @XP and you are being taken care as well, what will be the picture of @HK? Would you like to be part of this future? We do hope that everyone of us can take an active role in learning of ownself and the others through a simple theory "LEARNING by DOING" which no one can take your learning away in your life.

Let's keep continuing to create and spread impacts about your and others' @XP. We do share the same vision to impact both individuals and externals in a larger scale and also create more change agents for society in the future. We do very much look forward to learning from your successful stories soon!

All the best to everyone and your future!

Best of Luck,
Your MC Team

posted by Cyrus Mak @ 21:02   0 comments

4 Dec 2007

Dear all,

On behalf of MC 07-08, I would like to express my deepest excitement to you about the Member Committee President Recruitment for Session 2008 - 2009.

In AIESEC, we talk about dreams, we talk about how we walkthrough our journey, it will definitely be one of the stations in your AIESEC journey that make your dreams happen.

Considering our bright future ahead, huge amount of potential of the organization, and the best moment to inspire leadership, I can guarantee you that MC Positions 08-09 of AIESEC in HONG KONG would be one of the very best opportunities in AIESEC for you to go for!

During my four years AIESEC experience, I met people with wisdom, with passion, with dreams and persistence. But from all the people I met, I have found an interesting common characteristic – They are dare and willing to take action to walk out what they believe in.

" We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

All journey start with a single step, however, without taking action you would just remain dreaming, but never reach your destination. Commitment, Persistence and Bravery are essential for you to step forward. Grasp your opportunity and start your amazing journey now!

1. Application of MCP of AIESEC in HONG KONG Session 0809: NOW is opened!
2. Application of MC Directors of AIESEC in HONG KONG Session 0809 (both international and local): 2^nd Week in Jan after WNCF 2008

I am looking forward to receiving your application.

posted by Beatrice @ 00:14   0 comments

3 Dec 2007

Wow...finally it happened.



The starting point

On 12th Aug, right a few days before I left to IC 2007, we confirmed to drive this amazing event with support from SG and Think Tank..YES! We decided to go fot it. Before leaving to Turkey, I put this reposonsibility to Sandy, the acting MCP during that period to represent me to have meeting with Think Tank.. Thank you Sandy. Without you I do not think it would happen.
Storming the idea on a foreign land

In Turkey, Yuellis and I had quite a lot of meeting and discussion on how to make the dinner happen, reading through the input and questions raised by Think Tank, I was nervous and a bit lost as I found myself couldn't do much because I was not physically in HONG KONG and I made Sandy help me to sending the messages from me.

I felt heartache when I saw Sandy and Yuellis was up on Gmail to work on those things and waited for me to get online to ask me for clarification on some points, so she can have meeting with Think Tank..

Return to the Garden

On the flight retuning back to HONG KONG, I kept think about what should I do to the dinner and the theme of the dinner. I was so sick during the flight from Dubai to HONG KONG, I felt very sick and I kept fell asleep. It felt like I was between staying sober and dreaming, I thougth about the LC recruitment situtation, the 40th Anniversary Dinner, How to do IC Bring Back, NLDS 2007..... It wasn't a decent flight trip, however, somewhere somehow I got a picture in my mind, it's a Garden. The Garden with lots of tree and flower. It's so green and I could even smell the grass.


Not long after I back to HONG KONG, I had a meeting with my team and decide the theme for the dinner. I proposed to theme the dinner as "Welcome Back Garderners". After lots of discussion and selection, we finally chose it. Lots of effort put on researching the venue, price etc, we finally decided to hold it on 3rd Nov 2007.


Laughters and Challenges

It's the first time for me to engage alumni that is not from my home LC. I was nervous but somewhere very excited. I started to meet up with alumni from different LC, especially those MC/NC alumni, those ex-NCPs via e-mails, lunch and meeting. They are so nice and great! It's so enjoyable to talk to them and listen to their stories in their time in AIESEC. They don't know me, they questioned me but for the good sake. They encouraged me and showed me how much they care about AIESEC in HONG KONG. It kept me going and going...It made me laughed and felt energize.

At the same time, Yuellis was recruiting the OC team for the dinner, preparing the 1st draft and update of the celebration series.. thank you Yuellis =) It made us move forward and moved with a large step.

My first tear for the dinner

The first tear I cried for the dinner was the moment I realized I was totally out of capacity to manage Solar 2007 and also the 40th Dinner. The limited time made the LC find difficulties to invite alumni and MC Team didn't have much capacity to prepare the dinner. I was so frustrated. However, with the support from LCPs and MC, we decided to postpone the dinner to a more feasible timeline, we postponed to hold it in Dec.

Another round of crazy research and meeting

As the dinner was postponed, we had to search for another venue and think about how to manage the financial stuff. It was a painful but very interesting and meaningful time during the process. Meeting alumni, inviting external guests and confirming the venue and price and discussion with LCs and opinion leaders among alumni, I felt like I was a bit dizzy but knowing and understand a lot more about AIESEC and how people think about this organization. Its so motivated and at the same time, pressuring myself to drive better.

Final stage and getting ready

In the last month of preparation, quite a few of us was getting sick, Sandy, Yuellis..etc. I was a bit worring and I felt stressed. Solar 2007 just passed and the whole team was a bit exhausted becase of that. Cyrus was ouccpied for a whole month because of the LN day and AI ER Director visit. Bonida was busy with the exchange growth strategies and start preparing the SRB, finance Area stuff. Managers started to having mid-terms...

At the night of 17th Nov, I was looking at the bottle that I showed in Solar 2007, I read through the messages in the bottle again, it was thr 5th time I did that. The energy came back and I told myself I cannot give up and I want another drive and high time for AIESEC in HONG KONG.

LCs was doing their best to calling up alumni to invite them to the dinner. MC team did the same to callup alumni and invite MC/NC alumni. Think Tank members were helping out to link up people to join. Gary dedicated to be the moderator for the Alumni Chat. Everyone was on fire to drive and wanted to have many participants to join the dinner as we could.

It happened

on 1st Dec 2007. The Dinner finally happened, the work in the past 3 months paid off when I saw the alumni, new faces and old faces in the dinner. My MC babies, without you, I wouldn't be there.Without you, all of these things wouldn't happen. Without the supportive LCPs, we woulnd't have more than 150 people joined the dinner. Your work for the AIESEC in HONG KONG update was impressive and I appreciate what you have done to support the whole AIESEC in HONG KONG.

What's next? =) Hey if you're read this, you tell me!!! =p

posted by Beatrice @ 01:31   0 comments

27 Oct 2007

posted by Jonathan @ 11:59   2 comments

16 Oct 2007

posted by Jonathan @ 12:36   3 comments

10 Oct 2007

Yesterday, it has been a hot topic over most HK citizens about the new policy address and the future of HK in the coming 5 years. Topic is very clear: New Direction of Hong Kong. After reading part of the Policy address and the recent news updates, are we up to par to claim ourselves as "New HKers"?
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/071011/12/2hbjl.html

Translated into English for those who may not be able to read Chinese:
"New HKers" should possess the following qualities:
1.) Confident
2.) Take entire Country (China) as a perspective
3.) Care about development of the future
4.) Continuous-learning and adapt changes
5.) Having standards towards corporates and government

The qualities the our CE mentioned seems to be very fundamental but how many of the future generations would understand and even take care about the qualities that would be more long-lasting irrespective to the ever-changing world?

We mentioned a lot about technology advance, the world is flat, ICT, sustainability, generation X & Y, etc etc. What are the qualities we should possess to ensure our world grow in a sustainable and enlightening way? We have to take care of generational issues yet the transition parts are also an issue which among generations should learn and practise so as to ensure the sustainability of the future! Am I too ideal?

I love HK, as my home and root! That's why I care this place so much and I wish everyone knows this place well and how great, high-potential and qualities the people are in HK. Thanks for the past generations which made a huge effort to bring HK a better place and show to the other countries. We are the next generation already, what can we do to make this even better? A topic worth discussion as well as bringing a lot of other topics like globalization, education, diversity and inclusion, etc etc, into our topic. But again, how many of us are care about this?

posted by Cyrus Mak @ 18:12   1 comments

30 Sept 2007

Team Atmosphere, Team Bonding, Team memory and Team spirit are the inevitable parts in MC life which no one can forget !

24th Sept, a very special night (with very normal day-life in MC office for some of us!!! :P) for our team. We spent about an hour to go and buy food while spending around 3 hours to get ALL dishes already!!
(Disclaimer: Not because of our skills but not much space in the kitchen. :) )

This was indeed a very good memory especially to those MC Managers which MCP + 2 Directors cook for them while they always shouted at us about the time we spent in the kitchen!!!! :P Finally, due to the team spirit and setting goals in the kitchen, we finally got those dishes done and all of us are very very full after the meal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is no doubt cooking can be a very effective way to do team bonding and we believe there will be more to come in the coming months!

MC Team Hot-to-go!

If every month, there will be similar kind of thing happening in @HK, it would be great ! What is your view on it?

posted by Cyrus Mak @ 06:30   0 comments