CONTENTS SOCIAL REPORT The Sunway Education Group DOING SMALL THINGS WITH GREAT LOVE Sunway College No. 2, Jalan Universiti Bandar Sunway 47500 Selangor Darul Ehsan Malaysia T: 603-5638 7176 E: [email protected] sunway.edu.my/college Sunway University T: 603-7491 8622 E: [email protected] sunway.edu.my/university Monash University Malaysia T: 603-5514 6000 E: [email protected] monash.edu.my Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences T: 603-5514 6000 03 Doing Small Things with Great Love E: [email protected] med.monash.edu.my MOVERS & SHAKERS 2 Top in Malaysia and 23 Top in the World Awards for June 2016 Exams Sunway International School 04 T: 603-7491 8070 07 Gaining Insights Through Entrepreneurship and Career Bootcamp E: [email protected] sis.sunway.edu.my 12 AUSMAT Superheroes Tribute & I-Care Day Stimulating Intellectual Discussion at the Economic and Leadership Forum Sunway College Johor Bahru 14 T: 607-359 6880 E: [email protected] Chow Jun Kit, Sharifah Azlinah, Yap Yee Ting, Yap Wye Keat and Muhammad Ali 17 Mobile App Idea for Loyalty Card Wins the Nurture Business Challenge Imran Ya´akub at their pre-loved books booth sunway.edu.my/jb Students and lecturers preparing food 18 Harvard Prize Book Award Winners Share Their Stories 19 A Good Night for the Graduating Class of Monash University Sunway College Ipoh For six hours on a Thursday afternoon in September, the T: 605-545 4398 Energy Hub was home to all things Australian at the MUFY Foundation Year E: [email protected] sunway.edu.my/ipoh (Monash University Foundation Year) Sharity Carnival. A 10 Celebrating Australia Week yearly event that focuses on creating awareness for the FACE TO FACE Sunway College Kuching less fortunate, the MUFY Sharity Carnival has always been T: 6082-451 221 / 573 251 / 573 252 an opportunity for students and lecturers to get together to 05 Pursuing a Comfortable Life E: [email protected] give life to doing small things with great love. 06 Travelling to Harvard swck.edu.my Sunway-TES Selling booklets of coupons at RM10 each, these coupons 08 Making the Most Out of the A-Level Centre for Accountancy Excellence gave the Sunway College community access to a wide 09 Life and Time at AUSMAT T: 603-7491 8622 range of food, activities and experiences at the Sharity 13 Visiting His Second Home E: [email protected] sunway.edu.my/college/sunwaytes Carnival, the opening act for the first ever Australia Week 15 A Game Changer held on campus. Sunway International Business 16 Inspiring the Young Through the Power of Football & Management T: 603-7493 7023 The Sharity Carnival had the ‘didgeridoo’, an indigenous wind instrument; pies from ‘Pie Face’, pavlova and other Wong Zhi Wei, Aiman Iskandar, Tey Jeremy and E: [email protected] Loo Meng Yoon selling chocolate brownies sibm.com.my types of of Australian pastries. UP2 or UPP or Uniquely Purposeful Programmes is a quarterly publication that represents a Shanghai Sunway Financial Training Co. Ltd. progressive Sunway College. Owned and governed by the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation, this T: 603-7491 8622 All-time favourites like nasi lemak, pizza and ice-cream were also available alongside the variety of fun-filled games leading private institution of higher learning is forging ahead towards the next level E: [email protected] with an Aussie twist, a variety of fashion accessories, curious collectibles plus a whole load of fun for those who came in of excellence. sunway.edu.my/college/ssft support of a good cause. Advisor : Dr Elizabeth Lee UP2 is published by Sunway College Sunway Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary Arts Editorial & : Jerrine Koay With pulsating music playing in the background and people calling out attention to their ‘wares’ at the Sharity Carnival, Should you have any comments, T: 603-5632 1188 Photography Team Katherine Kee this year’s event pooled together a team of over a hundred students led by the MUFY student council to make those six Tan May Ling kindly contact: E: [email protected] hours count as some of the most memorable in the MUFY calendar of events. Concept & Design : Writers Ink The Public Relations Department lecordonbleu.com.my Printer : Gloverin Sunway Education Group Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia Having spent many hours turning their classrooms into a sinister maze of horror filled with the walking dead, vampires and 19-05, The Pinnacle, Block B, 19th T: 603-7491 8622 T: 603-7491 8622 Floor, Jalan Lagoon Timur, 47500 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] a whole range of ghoulish creatures, the ‘Class of Horror’ may have sent chills down the spines of the visitors but scared Bandar Sunway, Selangor www.sunway.edu.my/college jci.edu.my up a whole lot of business for the students. Greeted by long queues outside the entrance to their ‘Class of Horror’, the students had a delightful time being scared out of their wits. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed For the volunteers at the MUFY Sharity Carnival, this yearly event has enabled the students and lecturers to successfully or implied in UP2 are those of the authors or contributors and do not necessarily reflect those of combine their efforts as a team to doing their bit as caring members of society. That afternoon, a total of RM14,000 was the Sunway Education Group. collected in the name of charity and sharing. 03 MOVERS & SHAKERS FACE TO FACE 2 TOP IN MALAYSIA AND 23 TOP IN THE PURSUING A COMFORTABLE LIFE WORLD AWARDS FOR JUNE 2016 EXAMS Guitar playing, K-pop fan, recent book reader and FIA student ambassador, Chong Yen Ling from Sitiawan found herself very busy during her time in the Foundation In Arts (FIA). Loving the 50 percent coursework, 50 percent examinations ratio of the FIA, she found that learning to manage her time well in FIA translated into meeting deadlines for assignments and doing well in the examinations. Tan Kin Aun with his mother Although the assignments often took hours or days of hard work, Yen Ling enjoyed the time as it helped her build stronger bonds with her friends and enabled her to organise a community visit to an orphanage as part of her assignment. Citing the community visit as one of her best memories in FIA, Yen Ling remembers organising a barbecue party and celebrating the birthdays of the children The Sunway College A-Level award recipients with their lecturers and Dr Ben Schmidt, during the visit. Regional Director Southeast Asia and Pacific, Cambridge International Examinations Yoogen Valoo @ Velu and his parents Advising future FIA students to manage their For achieving exceptional results in the June 2016 Cambridge International time and deal well with people, Yen Ling Examinations, Sunway College students, proud parents and A-Level lecturers recommends the programme as the FIA including Ruth Cheah, Director of the A-Level programme at Sunway College were helped her to realise learning is not just on hand to witness Sunway College take away a total of 25 awards at the recent memory work but involves learning from Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards Ceremony. experience, learning to be patient in dealing with others, learning to A KPM (Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia) scholar hoping to further his studies manage her time well and helping in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge or pursue Actuarial Studies at her to grow as a person. the National University of Singapore, Tan Kin Aun adores Mathematics. Formerly of Chung Ling Butterworth High School, Kin Aun took home the Cambridge Having chosen to study FIA International AS Level Top in the World awards for Mathematics and Physics. in Sunway College at the Happy and very proud of his achievements, his mother Teh Poo Lian came from recommendations of her friend Butterworth just to attend the ceremony. and her parents, Yen Ling is Kin Aun’s passion for Mathematics had him winning the Gold Medal and the looking forward to improving Grand Prix awards in this year’s Kangaroo Math Competition (KMC). He also won herself by choosing to pursue the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) bronze medal twice, two years her interest in Accounting and running. Kin Aun brought home the two bronze medals from the Hong Kong IMO Finance after completing in 2016 and from the Chiang Mai IMO in 2015, having received an honourable her FIA with an aggregate mention for the South Africa IMO in 2014. Ghaneassha Nadarajan with his mother of 91.1%. Intending to join the Student Council when Sharing similar ambitions to Kin Aun is Ang Yi Fang, who is also from Chung Ling Butterworth High School. Yi Fang received the she goes back to pursue Cambridge International AS Level Top in Malaysia award for Economics. Intending to do some online courses and maybe her further studies, Yen gain some hands-on learning experience in finance or investment, Yi Fang has received offers from University of Manchester; Ling is prepared for more- City, University of London and the University of Southampton whilst waiting for her A-Level results in January 2017. learning, challenges and Coming all the way from Negeri Sembilan to attend this prestigious Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards Ceremony new things to try. were the parents of Yoogen Valoo @ Velu. Valoo @ Velu Raman and Kamala Doraisamy came to witness their son Happy that her hard work in FIA has getting the Cambridge AS Level Top in the World for Mathematics award. contributed towards reducing the financial In the presence of his mother, Santha Kumari Vasudevan at the ceremony, Ghaneassha Nadarajan received a burden of her studies through a scholarship Cambridge AS Level Top in Malaysia for Thinking Skills and a Cambridge AS Level Top in the World for Mathematics.