
There are quite little things that I can say that I am really proud of about my uni, UTAR. Some things that I am really proud of is our big picturesque campus in Kampar, and an event that they have in UTAR every few months, Malaysia Festival of the Mind. This is already the fifth Festival of the Mind, and it is the 1st time it is held in the Kampar Campus.
This year it is officiated by our Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Y.A.B Tan Sri Dato' Haji Muhyiddin Bin Mohd. Yassin. When I went to uni on the first day of the event, which was Friday, I saw so many police cars around. Didn't really bother.
When I was still at home, I suddenly received an sms from Yi Lyn asking if I was in Kampar, because she is here with her parents for the Festival of the Mind. I was like OMG yay! since I hadn't seen her for quite awhile, let alone hung out with her much since we graduated in form 5. So I went to meet up with her in uni. I would have already been in uni by the time she smsed me if I could wake up for my 8am class that day =P My next class was at 1pm, so I went early at 10 something, and went around Block A visiting the booths with her and her parents. Friday night Yi Lyn and I went to yum cha at La Foresta in New Town, catching up. Played with my camera a bit, but we didn't use the flash because we didn't want to attract so much attention to ourselves =p

Ong Yi Lyn
:D
With Grand Kampar Hotel as our backdrop, they were all staying there.


Our wedges and sausages, too bad the wedges came out blur, sausages look juicy though, with the sauce somemore hehe

Shadows

When we're leaving

Yi Lyn wore our troop tee
:D Aih, Scouts
There was like a number of talks going on during the whole three days of the event. I was planning to attend a talk on Saturday, titled
"Self Hypnosis- Release the Power of Your Mind with the Click of Your Fingers!" by
Mr. Terry Winchester. I got to shake hands with him on Friday because Yi Lyn's dad was talking to him. I googled him and I found out that he is an internationally renowned hypnotherapist from South Africa. He is the founder of
The Winchester Foundation, which is an organisation dedicated to the spiritual awakening of humanity through the power of the mind. Yi Lyn's dad told me that
Mr Winchester can actually like "talk" to bees and snakes. In his website I read that he is a holistic beekeeper in South Africa also, and that he has like a telepathic rapport with the bees. He can like "talk" the bees out of an inaccessible place so that they won't get exterminated. Find out more
here *click*On Saturday when I went for the talk, outside of the venue it was totally packed, so many people wanted to go for his talk, but the tickets were out. Luckily I could get the tickets hehe. They let some of the people without tickets in, but they had to sit on the floor. I took down a whole lot of notes, because I have to write a short report on it for one of my classes. I would share the whole thing here but it would be extremely long. In a nutshell, what he was talking about was how the subconscious mind is so powerful that you can achieve something just by visualising it. Your thoughts create your reality. It is all in the mind. It is like
"The Secret".
Before the session ended he did a relaxation exercise with us, asking us to close our eyes, with the background music of waves playing, we had to let his voice guide us the whole time, asking us to visualise our future as we want it. I really felt relaxed and refreshed after that. There was a smile on my face even while I was cycling home in the sun
=P The other people from my class that also attended the talk, asked me whether I was relaxed or not, and I said yes, and Madame (nickname) in particular sounded like she was scoffing. I guess she didn't follow him. Too bad Madame, you would have benefited from his teachings, then maybe not all of us will dislike you. Okay enough, don't attract negative energy.
Honestly I am a new age person. I am open to new concepts and not so close minded like so many Malaysians. So many things they judge based on what they see in movies and stories that is like so outdated, all their prior knowledge that leads to the abstraction of knowledge. (Oops, info from what I study for my Cognition midterm leaking out) Like associating Wicca with black magic. Hmph.