UTAR Entrepreneurial Talk Series

Dear All,

The Department of Consultancy & Commercialization (DCC) is pleased to invite all UTAR staff and students to an "Entrepreneurial Experience Sharing" by Yang Berbahagia Dato' Haji Ameer Ali bin Mydin, the Managing Director of MYDIN Mohamed Holding Berhad.

Details of the sharing are as follows:

Date: 23 March 2011

Time: 10am to 12.00 noon

Venue: Heritage Hall, Block A, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Kampar, Perak.

Admission is Free

For information and registration please contact: the Department of Student Affairs (DSA), Perak Campus. Tel: 05-4688888 extension 2282 (email: chiangjf@utar.edu.my) or the Department of Consultancy and Commercialization (DCC) PJ Campus. Tel: 03-79582628 extension 8255 (email: ooist@utar.edu.my)


With best regards
The Department of Consultancy and Commercialization

A Moment to be Remembered by EN Society

Date: 19.02.2011
Day: Saturday
Event: Around the World in 4 Hours - Entrepreneurship Society's Interaction Day
~A video to be shared. It's a video that comprises of the smiles, the 'fear', the moment of accusing people as 'killer', moment of tiredness, moment of touched....... All compiled in 20 minutes.. shared during the end of the Journey around the world.. Thanks for joining us.~

Chinese Cultural Night Fund Raising

I am Raymond Lee, the organizing chairman for Fund Raising during Chinese Cultural Night and this event is the second event organized by Entrepreneurship Society. Chinese Cultural Night was a success and a blast! It was crowded, happening and it was totally awesome! 

Our society, Entrepreneurship society rented a stall with the Chinese Cultural Night’s party to sell our product that we called 水果葫芦~~~Wow, it’s actually very tasty and new for me since I don’t like to eat sweet stuff. It’s actually some fruit with some chocolate on top of it, imagine. With the freshness of the fruit, add on some sweet delicious hot chocolate, when the cold and the hot melt together in your mouth, it will also melt your tongue and heart together. YUMMY!!!

Other than the chocolate fruit, we also sold some delicious fruit tarts too. From what I have learned from Vincent, it’s called as a finger snack or finger food. My team and I were very busy selling our food as the crowd was fantastic and supportive! We are all exhausted in the end but satisfaction was in our heart! We really did enjoy ourselves during the event!

I would like to say thank you to my society’s chairman, Vincent for giving me this opportunity to learn, and also my society’s vice-chair, Jason for teaching me about the proposal and budget thing. Not to forget are my lovely and supportive committees - Xueli, Kathy, Mac, Sherry and Wai Sing for assisting me in making and selling our products. Furthermore, I also want to say thank you to our DSA officer Ms.Lai for her guidance.

Last but not least, I would like to thanks all my fellow friends and customers for supporting our society’s fund raising event! Joining this event was a good experience for me as I had learn how to be a better leader, how to collaborate with other team members and how to cope with difficulties that we might face in the future.

Next Level Board Game Workshop (23-10-2010)

 Hello. I am Wai Sing, the organizing Chairman for Next Level Board Game Workshop 2010.

Firstly, I want to say thanks to all my committees for cooperating well with me to make our first Entrepreneurship Society’s event a true success. Although all of us was lack of experience since it was our first time organizing event, we did learn a lot from this event and enjoy ourselves!Let me give some brief explanation about what this next level board game is all about. .

Next Level Board Game is the FIRST business, entrepreneurship and finance board game, it allow players to experience what it is like to start your own business as compared to climbing the corporate ladder. Players will need to master financial tools such as insurance, investment, loans and their financial statement to survive in the game. Next Level Board Game is the more than just a game; it is a complete learning package every student should go through before graduating. 

This workshop was conducted to teach students more in entrepreneurship mindset, financial literacy, soft skills and team spirit. We invited the creator of this board game, Jay Tiew Jin Jie to conduct this workshop. Jay was graduated from Multimedia University (MMU). He created Next Level Board Game and him also an author of “Why I Skipped Class”.

On the day of the event, participants arrived and everyone of them look excited and was looking forward to try out this new games! Our facilitator, My Jay welcomed all the participants warmly and started off teaching all of us the fundamental about this game. He taught us this game step by step. By having a job and by having business, we all faced different situation and problem to be solved. 

When every one of us mastered the basics, we went into a full mode after our lunch break. Every one of them enjoyed themselves, laughter could be heard throughout the whole training room, priceless expression – stressful, cunning, worried, happy, delighted, acting and other expression could be seen in that room. 

Mr Jay wrap up the whole event by explaining the meaning and hidden concept behind this game. One good example is insurance. From our game, we can see some of us would buy and keep insurance card so that we will be safe from being fired but some of us took risk but not buying it. As a matter of fact, those who bought insurance are safe from being fired but they spent money for it; those who did not buy insurance save money but they will be fired anytime in the game (in this game insurance card would protect you from being fired when you have a job).

Therefore, in life, buying insurance is important or not? Think by yourself!

Lastly, I would like say thanks to Entrepreneurship Society for giving me this opportunity to host this event. I do believe the things I learned from this event such as leadership, management, teamwork and all sorts of new skills will benefit me in my entrepreneurial pathway!

All the best to Entrepreneurship Society and thanks for reading my lengthy blog post