Just return form the first Annual ASEAN Educational Forum from 7:30am to 5pm. Arrived at school then board bus at 7:30am then the bus travelled to NIE at about 8 sit at the lecture theatre wait for 1 hour as it only start at 9. We were siting at the first 2 rows where the vip would be behind us at the third row. Then at 9 the VIP come then the guest of honour is His Excellency Mr Ong Keng Young who is the Ambassador-at-Large in the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was the Secretary-General of ASEAN from jan 2003 to jan 2008.


The forum start with the NIE director giving his welcome speech then the GOH make his keynote speech. After the speeches is the award ceremony for the Essay Writing Competition "What ASEAN means to me" which i dont think our school got participated. After that was the panel discussion where the GOH and 3 other speaks talk about the roles of youth in ASEAN. After their presentation was the Q&A where the MC had told us not to talk about politics such as Myanmar but got this student go ask whats the stand of the ASEAN on Myanmar human rights and democracy. The GOH say that its ok for the question and he will say his opinion saying that ASEAN would not interfere with Myanmar and its policies as the leaders of Myanmar didnt say they are against human rights or democracy but that its not the correct time.



After a few more question was lunch, then finish lunch another presentation by the ASEAN Club at NIE about its founding. Then is the sharing of the winning essays. After the sharing was the ASEAN Flim Showcase: Reel Revolution by SIIA and the flim was funny and interesting it was related to ASEAN. These video can be found on the youtube by searching reel revolution the funniest video was "uncensored", "Pirate(d) a musical" and "eraser". The eraser one i think is most relevant to ASEAN. After the short video presentation was a performance by the 2 NIE teacher in training who won the NIE Talent and Starlite.1 of them played the keyboard and another played the guitar. They played and sang Linkin park's What i've Done, One republic's Stop and Stare and Apologise, Rihanna's Umbrella and 1 song they composed named Altogether. I think they also got sing one more song but i forget the name. After the performance was another presentation by Cicada Tree Eco-Place. After that was the closing speech by the event organisers then we are dismissed.

I desribe the forum until like very boring, but it is interesting, the presentation sometimes they add jokes which is funny so that was half of saturday gone.