Imperial College Alumni Association Hong Kong

5th Anniversary Celebration!

Following last year’s success with an attendance of more than 530 alumni from 26 UK universities, this year the Organizing Committee has invited even more UK university alumni groups to co-host the Happy Hour Gathering.  This will be a precious opportunity for you to mingle with other UK university graduates in a warm and relaxed environment.  It is our honour to have Robert Ness, Director of British Council Hong Kong, and Paul Lynch, Deputy Head of Mission and Director of Trade and Investment of British Consulate General to deliver the welcome speech.  Don’t miss the opportunity to join such a marvelous event once a year!  Due to venue capacity restriction, please come early as entrance might be prohibited if the place becomes too crowded.

Please bring your business card for the lucky draw.

Details of the Happy Hour Gathering are as follows:
Date:    Thursday, 9 May 2013
Time:    7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Venue:  MAGNUM CLUB,
            3rd & 4th Floor, Silver Fortune Plaza,
            1 Wellington Street, Central, Hong Kong
            http://www.magnumclub.com.hk/
Entry charge: Supporting UK Association Alumni: HK$150
                    Non-Alumni: HK$250
                    – Walk-in and pay at the door
                    - incl. two standard drinks & canapés
                    – Non-Alumni must come with an alumnus
Capacity:       800++
Dress Code:    Smart Casual or Business
Enquiries:       Please contact your alumni association for details

Flyer for Joint UK Alumni Social

The Imperial College Alumni Association of Hong Kong (ICAAHK) is organising a visit to ZCB on Saturday, 13 April 2013.

Construction Industry Council, in collaboration with the Hong Kong Government, has developed the first Zero Carbon Building in Hong Kong – ZCB. ZCB is a signature project to showcase the state-of-the-art eco-building design and technologies to the construction industry internationally and locally, as well as to raise community awareness of sustainable living in Hong Kong. Designed to achieve carbon neutrality, ZCB utilises solar panels and biodiesel made of waste cooking oil to generate renewable energy onsite. It has a total area of 14,700 square meters. Its key components include indoor and outdoor exhibition spaces, a multi-purpose hall, an eco-office, an eco-home, as well as outdoor landscape areas with Hong Kong’s first urban native woodland.

In this visit, participants will be given a guided tour and introduced to the key features of ZCB and the green technologies deployed. Details of the visit are as follows:

Date and Time: Saturday, 13 April 2013, 2:00pm – 3:30pm

Gathering Point: 1:45pm at Entrance of ZCB, Sheung Yuet Road, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon (see map below)
 
Fee:  HK$ 20 per person

Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first served basis. For registration, kindly make payment to our HSBC account no. 062-1-064377 (account name: Imperial College Alumni Association of Hong Kong) and email a copy of the bank slip together with your contact details (i.e. your full name, mobile no. and email address) to our Carmen Liu at carmenliu221@hotmail.com on or before Friday, 5 April 2013.

A total of 15 persons, including 9 alumni and 6 current Imperial students, joined the technical visit, despite the fact that it had to be held on a working day.  The programme started with an interesting and informative 30-minute presentation by Mr Albert Chung on emergency preparedness and crisis management in respect of air traffic control.  The presentation sparked off a lot of questions from our group.  We were then given a guided tour by Ms Barbara Leung, who was very knowledgeable and patient in giving a very detailed briefing and responding to our queries.  We were taken to the Control Room, followed by a special trip up to Control Tower (thanks to a short spell of calm weather, as our luck has it), to see officers in action using the state-of-the-art equipment.  The next stop was the new CAD headquarters where we were received and briefed by Mr Benjamin Fong and Mr KF Cheung.  All in all, a highly enjoyable and educational visit for those who attended. 

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The ICAAHK is organizing a technical visit to the Air Traffic Control Complex (ATCX) on Thursday, 28 March 2013 to learn how technology and control systems facilitate the safe and efficient flow of aircraft movements.

The Hong Kong International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world, with around 350,000 aircrafts landing and taking off from Chek Lap Kok.  The ATCX, located in the centre of the airfield, is the nerve centre of the entire air traffic control operation.  Equipped with advanced radar displays and modern communication equipment, the Air Traffic Control Centre in ATCX provides approach control and area control services to air traffic. 

Places are limited to a maximum of 15.  Booking deadline is 12 March 2013.  Please email a copy of your ID card and mobile phone no. to Mr Ken Ho (kenho911@gmail.com; mobile : 6706 3186) so that we can apply for entry permits to the Airport’s Restricted Area. 

The itinerary is as follows:

14:15 – gather outside Airport Police Report Centre (adj to South Staff
Entrance, near aisle D), Departure Level (7/F), Terminal 1, Hong
Kong International Airport & security check

14:45 – briefing on emergency preparedness & crisis management in
Room 443, ATCX

15:05 – visit to Air Traffic Control Centre and brief visit to Tower (optional)

15:45 – travel from ATCX to new Civil Aviation Dept (CAD) headquarter

16:00 – visit to Education Path in new CAD HQ

17:00 – travel from new CAD HQ to Tung Chung/Terminal 1

Flyer for Visit ATC

Imperial College, along with King’s, UCL and SOAS, participated in the World Class Study in London Education Exhibition in Hong Kong, which was held in Grand Hyatt Hotel, Wanchai, on 26 & 27 January 2013.  The College was represented by John Laycock, Professor of Endocrine Physiology from the Faculty of Medicine, and Ms Angela Lin, Asia Recruitment Manager of the International Office. 

ICAAHK provided support and assistance in sharing experiences and attending to queries from prospective students and parents.  Ken Ho, Dr Paulina Chan, Ms Carmen Liu and KC Liu helped out at the IC booth over the two sessions.  Apart from getting an update on the key facts of IC, all had greatly enjoyed the experience of serving as ambassadors of IC in sharing our own inside stories of what life is like at IC and in London, and in giving careers advice.  Winnie Tsoi also joined the group after the Saturday session to welcome our two overseas visitors over the drinks and dinner gathering, upon finishing the IC joint bowling event with Cardiff in Ho Man Tin, for which she was the co-organiser and MC. 

This was a rare occasion whereby ICAAHK teamed up with the College in providing material support to their formal functions, and it represents one of our strategic directions in enhancing our bridging with the College as well as the current students.  This event has proved to be very meaningful for our alumni members.  Sincere thanks are due to all who have worked hard and given up their weekends to serve the College and talk to those bright students and their eager and anxious parents.

A total of more than 50 outstanding applications were received this year. Nine candidates were shortlisted for interview by a Selection Panel comprising Mr Ken Ho as chairman and Mr Peter Choy, Mr Adrian Sou and Ms Winnie Tsoi as members. The shortlisting was based on consideration of academic performance and all-roundedness, including achievements in arts, music, sports and other extra-curricular activities, as well as in leadership and community service.

After long and detailed deliberations, 3 candidates were unanimously selected to receive the 2012-13 ICAAHK Scholarship. Please see the Scholarship page of this website for details.

The 2012-13 ICAAHK Scholarship recipients are

Miss Kwok Yu-ting
Miss Lorraine Choi
Mr Mark Wong

The Scholarship Committee would like to thank all the ICAAHK Endowment Fund donors for making the scholarship possible.

The bowling fun day was well attended by 21 alumnus from Imperial College and University of Cardiff, here are some highlights of the afternoon:

http://gallery.kitamura-studios.com/Events/LSE-IC-Christmas-Party-2012/27179863_PSHPGK#!i=2283996562&k=NT32BRm

Julia Charlton on behalf of Friends of LSE in Hong Kong and the Imperial College Alumni Association Hong Kong cordially invites you to the LSE – IC Joint Christmas Party 2012

Christmas comes but once a year, join us for some holiday cheer! This year, we’ve teamed up with our friends from London School of Economics to celebrate the festivities.  Come along to catch up with old friends and meet new ones with our Christmas themed games and lucky draw!  A wide range of canapés and drinks will be served throughout the evening.  To confirm your attendance, please RSVP by clicking this link or bring cash to pay at the door.
 
We hope to see you there!

Details:
Date   : Wednesday, 19th December 2012
Time   : 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Venue : Harcourt Suite, Hong Kong Club, 1 Jackson Road, Central
Cost   : HKD$350 for registration and payment before December 15,
            HKD$400 for payment at the door
Kindly make your payment to HSBC account 002-834125-001 “Friends of LSE In Hong Kong”

Please note that the dress code is formal/ business casual. The Hong Kong Club has a strict no denim, sandals and trainers policy. Mobile phones must be kept on silent or switched off within the premises.

On 26th October 2012, the Executive Committee of ICAAHK organized a drink and dinner session for our Founding Chairman, Dr Chen Shou-Lum, who is the new Patron of the IC Alumni Association of Hong Kong and was in town for a short stay. Dr Paul Cheung, Dr Richard Lee, Mr Peter Pun and Professor Chan Hon-Chuen also joined the dinner and we discussed matters relating to the running and development of the Alumni Committee, with good advice given by Dr Chen Shou-Lum.

As a prelude to a more diversified programme of activities, we have held our first Heritage Talk this year.  We have successfully invited the founder of a local history website, Gwulo.com, to give us a “talk and walk” presentation.

Mr David Bellis founded this dedicated website as he was spurred on by his enthusiasm in historic Hong Kong photographs and maps.  As his collection grew, he picked some of the more interesting stories to share with us.

David took us through his presentation in 3 parts.  Firstly, he showed us techniques to extract key information, e.g. locations and dates, from some of these old photographs.  Secondly, he took us on a historic photographic tour of Central, the Western District and the Wan Chai & Happy Valley areas.  The “talk” part of the session was concluded as he guided us through the daily school trip of a schoolgirl in the 1910s, through a series of photographs, as she makes her way from home at the Peak, to school in Kowloon.

As our audience dwelled on Hong Kong’s historic grandeur towards the end, David guided us through a brief walking tour around Happy Valley and Wan Chai.  We stopped over at several monumental locations and historically significant features in the area, including an old city boundary stone and air raid shelters.  Of course, the end of the tour does not imply the end of our enthusiasm in Hong Kong’s history – Gwulo.com is ever expanding, and welcomes contributions from all members of the ICAAHK too.

Have you ever wondered what Central used to look like, or how the Happy Valley Racecourse was built, in the old days?  Mr Bellis, the founder of the popular website Gwulo.com, will be sharing with us a glimpse of how Hong Kong used to look in its earlier days.

Gwulo.com was profiled in a recent Apple Daily article

Read the full article at:
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/supplement/culture/art/20120915/18016673

Since the founding of Gwulo.com in February 2006, Mr Bellis’ brainchild website has grown to its present size, which by August 2012 comprised 11,000 pages. They include 6,000 photographs, 1,800 places, 800 people and 1,300 wartime diary pages. Popular topics included in Gwulo are old photographs of Hong Kong and researching family history.

Date: 2pm-4pm, Saturday, 24th  November, 2012
Venue: The Leighton Room, Craigengower Cricket Club
Speaker: Mr David Bellis, Local History Enthusiast and Founder of Gwulo.com
Fee: $30 (members) and $50 (non-members) to cover the rent of the room and tea (pay at the door)

For interested alumni, please send email to icaahk@gmail.com and register ASAP as seats are limited and assigned on a first-come-first-served basis.