Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

I had my graduation ceremony today, receiving my Bachelor of Social Sciences Second Class (Upper) in Communications and New Media, as well as the NTUC Income Prize for being the top student in my programme.

The graduation ceremony was good, but I think it meant much more for the family of the graduand than for the graduand. Many brought not just their parents but their grandparents as well. I think for many of families, it’s really a proud moment. For my own family, it’s too a proud time. My sister and I have become the first graduates of my family. The graduation ceremony is really more for the family, especially the parents, to feel proud and happy of the achievements of the graduands.

It is also a day for friends to gather together for one last time. It’s not going to be easy to meet up as much as they used to. Classes, tutorials and ECAs brought everyone together regularly for the past 3-4 years. Now, there are no such things to bring people together as often. So, the graduation ceremony is the time for friends to get together for one last time, taking pictures to preserve for eternity the final moments of one’s university life. Thank goodness that digital cameras make it so much cheaper and easier to keep memories of special moments. Here are the pictures taken today:

Myself
Me outside the UCC

With degree scroll
Me and my degree scroll

Me with fiancee

Me with fiancee again

Me, my sister and fiancee
Me, my sister and my fiancee

My sister, my fiancee and me

Me and parents

Me and family
The whole family

My whole family again
The whole family again

Dr Lim and me

Me, Dr Millie and Alanna

Gavin and me

Me and Liting

Peishan, me and Liting

Peili, Kamariah, Meera and me

Me, Warren, Alicia and Noelle

Everyone!

10 Responses to “Graduation”

# Hai~Renon 09 Jul 2007 at 4:34 am

Congratulations! Mine was Saturday afternoon.

I agree with your view that graduation ceremonies are more for the families and loved ones of the graduand; to me, commencement was more like a formality that merely signified the official end of my NUS days, which ended when I received my last exam results slip.

But it is a good opportunity for an entire class to get together and camwhore with everyone imaginable - classmates, classmates’ friends, favourite lecturers, classmates’ attractive siblings (haha). I wonder if any of my classmates managed to take a photo with Eunice Olsen. (She was guest speaker at my ceremony)

Funny how most of us probably couldn’t wait to graduate, but now that it has finally happened, we can’t help but reminisce on the memories of the past 4 years.
# Pseudonymityon 09 Jul 2007 at 8:25 am

Congratulations to all of you
# Daveon 09 Jul 2007 at 11:52 am

C o N G R a T s, Aaron!
May U find wisdom, grace & joy in your future endeavours.
# yhon 09 Jul 2007 at 12:01 pm

welcome to a lifetime of wage slavery…
# inspir3don 09 Jul 2007 at 2:52 pm

congrats! i’m back in sg. let’s meetup sometime
# Michaelkon 09 Jul 2007 at 3:32 pm

Congrats Aaron! All the best for all that you do!
# wen longon 09 Jul 2007 at 11:10 pm

congrats to you,aaron.

looking forward to my commencement which is on the last day…so exciting,woohoo
# Kaijunon 10 Jul 2007 at 12:55 am

congrats man. I agree with u, in fact I only went becuz my parents wanted to go.
# Aaron Ngon 10 Jul 2007 at 9:21 am

Thanks for all for your congratulations.

Wenlong, have fun at your commencement! And don’t be camera shy. Take TONS of pictures!
# wen longon 10 Jul 2007 at 10:24 pm

hi aaron

sure will take pics..

and it is in appx 12 hours time,woohoo!