Sunday, August 06, 2006

UNIMAS 10th Convocation Festival 2006

Saturday, I went to UNIMAS with friends to 'attend' our friend's convocation. In fact, we were there to 'tumpang his kegembiraan'. We thought the convocation would take part in the new campus, but it was held in the old campus. We thought that the event would be ended by 10am, but it was only completed at 12:30 noon. Therefore, I took some photos to kill the time.

Like previous years, UNIMAS always put up banners on the lamp posts along the road to the campus. The banners are always printed in 3 colours: red, yellow and blue.







What you normally found when there is a big function going on?
No 1. Ambulance

No play play, we saw someone was wheeled towards the ambulance after the ceremony ended.

No 2. Traffic Police Bikes


No 3. Flowers


All the graduates were inside this building, waiting for their turns to get the certificates.


Outside the hall, all of us waiting anxiously for the graduates to march out from the hall.


Before the graduates were released, you can see the free space and the big cars in front of the hall. Once the graduates were released, where were the big cars?? Not even a tiny little hole that you can peep through the crowd to see the car.


And...this year, a lot of master and doctorate degree holders were born. I just realised that the robe for master and doctorate degree holders are in pink colour whereas bachelor's degree robe is in blue colour). Look at the headgear for the master and doctorate holders are different too! The master degree holder got the normal mortarboard while the doctorate degree holder had the tudor bonnet. The round cap is cute! 'x'


We bought a bouquet of orange african daisy for our friend.

Nice? I love the price, it is RM60, quite reaspnable price. =)

Look at the other 2 big bouquets of flowers that he got...
Roses...


Mixed flowers: african daisy, lily and rose! White rose on the right.



August is an eventful month:
Kuching - Kuching Festival (aka Kuching Day)
Malaysia - Hari Merdeka (Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka! ;p)
UNIMAS - Convocation (Most local universities have the it in this month too)
Pinkcotton - Mindless Musing Birthday
Me - a meaningful anniversary month
Thus, Happy August to everyone! =)

12 comments:

Selba said...

Those banners reminded me to Harry Potter movie, hahaha...

Wow.. so many flowers... beautiful...

Ah... the gowns are red? When I was in high school, my gown was purple (the guys were black) then I had black rose in my hand :)

Winn said...

nice pic!! ..the flowers..wah so many!!

i didnt know convocation got malay spelling one..hehehe..

happybday pink cotton !!!!!!! * hugs*

Redsponge said...

selba, the colour should be pink...high school also wear gown? wah..so nice! Here, I only wear it on kindergarten and university graduation days. LOL! Wah...black rose...did you take photo for ur black rose?

winn, yalor, he is a lucky guy has us as friends. lol.
and konvokesyen...yeah I teach u a new word! hahaha...

Wilson Chin said...

convocation~~it reminds me few years back when my convo at INTI. before the convo, full of dream, after the convo full of nighmare (look for job) ;P

Redsponge said...

wilson, eXactly!
Studied for years, graduate (30 seconds to receive the honour), works for the rest of the years. ok...this is life! LOL

HappySurfer said...

Congrats to your friend.
Beautiful flowers.

Redsponge said...

=)

Chen said...

I remember my friend's mum saying that the round cap for the PhD holders look like the chef punya topi :P

Redsponge said...

chen, the hat is very cute...if i were to continue studies, the main reason would be no others but the hat lol!!!

Chen said...

pengsan
u continue study just to wear that topi? LOL

Redsponge said...

nod nod! really cute o

Pink Cotton said...

OH DEAR RS~~~

SO SORRY..only see this post now!!!

*hug hug*

*pau pau*

tu say wanto chia u eat liao lorrr..KEEKEKEK...

YAY! I WANT PINK GOWN TOO!!! any course also got pink gown ka? ok ok i wanto study in unimas liao!LOL