On Saturday, 18th
August, 2018 morning, Soh Ai and I attended our youngest son Wai Kei’s 31st
Convocation Ceremony of UCSI University at its Kuala Lumpur campus, Taman Connaught, Cheras,
K.L.
Wai Kei first pursue a course
leading to Diploma in Management in USCI
University in April, 2013
and continued his Bachelor’s Degree of Arts (Hon) in Business Management from
2015/2016. He managed to graduate with a
Second Class Honours (Upper Division) degree now in August, 2018.
It is noted that UCSI University
ranked as Malaysia’s
best private university in the QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World University
Rankings 2019, placing it in the top 2% of all universities in the world. UCSI ranked 481 and is the only Malaysian
private universities in the top 500.
We woke up as early as at
5.00am that morning and left home at 6.00am as Wai Kei wanted to go early to
register for the Convocation at 7.00am. We reached the campus barely half an
hour later as there was no traffic jam.
We went to Dewan Tan Sri Ahmad
Razali, Level 5, Block C at about 8.00am and seated at the middle row.
The ceremony started at 9.30am
with the following itinerary:
9.30 am Ceremonial Procession and National Anthem
9.40 am Convocation Declared by the Chancellor, Tan
Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Dr Abdul Rahman Arshad
9.42 am Video presentation
9.45 am Opening Address by the
Vice-Chancellor and President Senior Professor Dato’ Dr Khalid Yusoff
9.55 am Presentation of Chancellor’s Gold Medal Award
/ Speech by the Award Recipient
10.05 am Presentation of First Cohort of Graduands
10.40 am Musical Performance by the Institute of Music
10.50 am Presentation of Degree
and Diploma Awards
(It was a long process as there
were nearly a thousand of graduands! Wai Kei went on stage to receive his
degree scroll at about 11.05am)
11.50 am Presentation of the Valedictorian / Speech by
him
12.00 pm Proclamation of
Graduates as Memebers of the UCSI
University Alumni by the
Vice-Chancellor
12.15 pm National Anthem and Ceremonial Recession
12.30 pm Convocation Morning Session ends
(There was an Afternoon Session
on August 18, 2018 from 1.30 pm to 6.30 pm, and another Morning Session on
Sunday, August 19, 2018.)
After the ceremony was ended,
we proceeded to adjacent Ground Floor of Block G for studio photo-taking. We
chose FotoRex’s graduation portrait package of RM330.00 (2 poses of individual/family portraits) providing 2
copies 11R (11”x14”) with Canvas & Frame + 6 copies of 4”x5” photos.
It was very crowded and we had
to wait for about 45 minutes to have the photos taken. Those photos can only be collected from their
Pudu office on October 2, 2018.
After that, we snapped some
photos with Wai Kei outside Block G. He
then joined his friends (and later returned home on his own) while Soh Ai and I
took noodle lunch at a coffee shop before returning home at about 2.30pm.
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Invitation Cards to the Convocation Ceremony (limited to two for free per graduate) |
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In the hall before the ceremony began |
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Ceremonial procession led by the Chancellor |
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View from my seat |
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Class photo taken by FotoRex |
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Wai Kei receiving his degree scroll at about 11.05am
Photo taken by FotoRex |
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View from the back of hall |
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The Chancellor delivering his conclusion address without referring to any prepared text |
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Ceremonial recession at 12.15pm |
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FotoRex studio photo-taking. The portrait photos can only be collected on October 2, 2018. |
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Wai Kei and Soh Ai |
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A pose with Wai Kei |
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A group photo of us taken by Wai Kei's friend |
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Wai Kei and his buddies (juniors at UCSI) |
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Wai Kei and his coursemate |
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Graduate list |
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Wai Kei's degree certificate |
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Report of UCSI earning the rank in the world's top 500 universities |
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FotoRex Portrait Order |
Below are photos of Wai Kei
when he “graduated” from kindergarten in 2001.
How time flies!
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Wai Kei in 2001 |
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Wai Kei was second from right in the front row (Tadika Seri Soka, SGM) |
THE STUDIO PHOTOS COLLECTED ON 02/10/2018:
Photos taken on 18/08/2018
Labels: Travelogue
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