Chatting with MM Lee

MM Lee came to NYP few days ago, on the 5th January 2009 and visits the School of Engineering & School of Interactive & Digital Media. He also had a dialogue session with 10 students from various schools in NYP, to find out more about the students studying here.

Many people are rather interested in what MM Lee talked to the students about. I am one of the representative in this dialogue session, so I would be able to share with you guys about my experience.

First of all, I find that MM Lee is a very gentle and nice man. At first, I felt pretty stressful, especially at the start of the dialogue session when I was sitting right between him and Mr Chan Lee Mun, our Principal.

MM Lee started the session by posting questions to us, the situation is quite tensed up at first, in the sense that everyone (students) are so nervous & excited, the feeling is like as though you're talking to your idol, and much more than that! (Trust me, you'll be sooooo excited. If you're there, you will understand what I mean :D)

MM Lee is very friendly to us, he joke with us, he always has a gentle smile and that makes us feel more relax. Everyone (students) tend to be able to speak more naturally and freely, without being afraid of not being formal enough when we are answering our questions.

First of all, I'd like to say that in my opinion, I find that he asked us on rather personal questions, in a sense that he don't really ask us what is our course about or stuffs like that. Finally, it's my turn. I was very relaxed and natural at first, but the moment he talked to me, I became soooo nervous. My hands start to tremble, not because I am scared. It's because I am so excited that I could hardly control my hands. I normally see him on textbooks, computer screen, television and etc - I have never seen him in person, let alone talk to him.

"AM I DREAMING?" - The kind of unreal feeling comes to me ... Firstly, MM Lee asked me how could he pronounce my surname, "Kong". He pronounces it as "Koh", and "Korr"but I tell him that it is pronounced as King Kong's "Kong". I'm glad he laughed! Okay, that makes me a little bit less nervous. Then he asked me questions like the following:

- Do you intend to go for further studies?
- If you do, do you prefer local university or oversea university and why ?
- How do you plan to finance your studies in university?
- What does my parents work as, at where, and stuffs like that
- To add on to the previous point, MM also asked about things like how many siblings do I have, where are they studying at and stuffs like that.

IMPORTANT: All the above "questions" are what I roughly remembered.

Personally, I'm proud to be a NYP student and I'm proud to be a student studying the Diploma in Multimedia Infocomm & Technology.