Year Book MBA Class of 2003 The National Graduate School of Management The Australian National University

“We part to meet again Though mighty boundless waves may sever Remembrance shall bring thee near”

The Cast

Pradip Bhatnagar (INDIA) pradip_b@hotmail.com Robert Kong Chan (HONG KONG) rkc1360@hotmail.com Nirmal Choudhary (INDIA) neelamdig@yahoo.com Sumanta Choudhury (INDIA) sumanta_98@yahoo.com

Keld Ole Conradsen (AUSTRALIA) keldconradsen@hotmail.com Gaurav Golash (INDIA) gauravgolash@yahoo.com Shengming He (CHINA) he_shengming2002@sina.com Wen Huang (CHINA) wake_huang@hotmail.com

Helen Iruthayanathan (MALAYSIA) heleninathan@yahoo.com K. M. Rao (INDIA) kalepurao@hotmail.com Jian Wen Li (CHINA) nanren25_mann@sina.com Jun Liu (CHINA) john_liu_jun@hotmail.com

Siope Vakataki Ofa (TONGA) siope_@hotmail.com Anita Prakash (INDIA) anitatripathi@hotmail.com Asanga Priyadarshana (SRI LANKA) asanga@iee.org Edgar Ramos (PHILIPPINES) egay57@yahoo.com

Anita Rosalina (INDONESIA) anita_rosalina@yahoo.com Trevor Howard Schumm (CANADA) schumma26@hotmail.com Braj Raj Sharma (INDIA) tuktuk1994@hotmail.com Santosh Kumar Shilal (INDIA) sksilal@yahoo.com

Jatinderbir Singh (INDIA) jbsr83@hotmail.com Branko Sosic (AUSTRALIA) bronko_sosic@hotmail.com Yuan Sun (CHINA) sunyuan_73@hotmail.com Dwidjo Susilo (INDONESIA) dsusilo@yahoo.com

Redentor Talavera (PHILIPPINES) tortalavera@yahoo.com Annie Jing Tao (CHINA) y2shine@sina.com Simon Tsoi (AUSTRALIA) kmsdt@hotmail.com Sanushka Wijayadasa (SRI LANKA) sanushka@yahoo.com

Bin Yang (CHINA) binyangjy@hotmail.com Hua Yao (CHINA) yaohua1967@hotmail.com Suhong Zhang (CHINA) sue196899@hotmail.com The Show Begins…

“Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.” — Lee Iacocca IN THE CLASSROOM

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” — Chinese Proverb

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.” — Margaret Carty

“Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.” — Confucius

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” — Emerson

“You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be — in baseball and in life.” — Pete Rose

“Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” — Vince Lombardi

“Coming together is beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.” — Henry Ford

“The best mirror is an old friend.” — George Herbert FRIENDSHIP AND BONDING

“I’m not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead — ahead of myself as well as you.” — George Bernard Shaw

“Win together, lose together, play together, stay together.” — Debra Mancuso

“Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless.”

“The best vitamin for making friends is B-1.”

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.” — Emerson

“The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.” — Wilson Mizner

“Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.” — Mary Catherwood

“The better part of one’s life consists of one’s friendships.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.” — Tom Landry

“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving; make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.” — Amanda Bradley

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Good people drink good beer.” — A Celtic Saying

“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.” — Anonymous

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller

“My friends are my estate.” — Emily Dickinson

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Confucius

“…the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.” — Pierre De Coubertin

THE GREAT OUTDOORS “In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes.” — Thorstein Veblen

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings…and cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” — John Muir

“Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.” — Japanese Proverb

“Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world.” — Brenda Peterson

“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.” — Anatole France

“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.” — Emerson

GRADUATION DINNER “There are no goodbyes. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.”

“Time present and time past are perhaps both present in time future.” — T. S. Eliot

“Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.” — Phantom F. Harlock

“Think of all the beauty still left around you, and be happy.” — Anne Frank

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” — Joseph Addison

“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.” — Ayn Rand

“Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” — Albert Camus

VALEDICTION & CONVOCATION “Graduation is only a concept. In real life, every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life.” — Arie Pencovici

“Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.” — Robert D. Ingersoll

“Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.” — Bernadette Devlin

“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse.” — Ed Koch

“A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.” — Robert Orben

“Excellence is not an act, but a habit.” — Marva Collins

“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” — Robert Frost

The Show Goes On…