Swiss Hotel Management School

I think.. I'm the same as most of the other students in the world... Criticizing their school/university most of the time but adores them still deep inside..

I would say I could find a lot of flaws of this school that I was attending, but was I happy when I was there? yes. Was I satisfied with my school? Maybe not really.. but yes I do as well. It is one of the greatest chapter in my life, and I had learn so many things in that place. So many things that I doubted I would get in other places, or even if I do.. it wouldn't be the same. It is the place that had shaped the 'me' right now. The place that I learned a new perspective in life and where my 'young' personality developed to a more mature personality that I had now.

Anyway, I read this article about the top 10 Hospitality schools in the world, and I was shocked... I knew that my school, SHMS, is in it.. But that it will be on the second place??? WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!!

I had no other words... I am just... PROUD :)

Top 10 international hotel schools favoured for use by the International hospitality industry

1. Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne

2. Swiss Hotel Management School

3. Les Roches International School of Hotel Management

4. Cesar Ritz Colleges Switzerland

4. Glion Institute of Higher Education

6. Hotel Institute Montreux

7. Ecole Hôtelière de Genève

8. IHTTI, School of Hotel Management in Neuchâtel

9. The Hague Hotel School International University of Hospitality Management The Hague

10. Zurich Belvoir Park

GfK Switzerland july 2011

The kind of conversation you have on your last weeks of university

Here's one piece of conversation that we had during lunch today.....

Oh, here's some piece of information you'll need to understand the conversation below:

• skip 3 times: verbal warning
• skip 5 times: kicked out of the subject (you DON'T want this to happen)
• next week is the last week of our university, and it means classes are over :D but.. also the deadline for all those monstrous reports..........
  

A: I don't want to come to class today..
B: No one wants to go to that class...
A: I think I'll skip.
C: Ugh.. I can't skip anymore, I already skip 2 times and I'm planning to skip next week. So...
B: Yea A, come for today and we'll skip all of the classes for next week.
A: But I don't think going to that class will give me anything useful..
B: No, we'll go to class today and we'll skip for the last week... c'mon A..
C: Yea, go to class today and we'll skip next week.
A: But I want to skip today AND next week as well
D: But then you'll miss too many classes
B: Yea, and xxx (censored for everyone's peacefulness) for sure will do the absences without fail.
A: I only skip xxx class once, so I can skip now, and the 2 classes next week as well. Coz that means I only skipped 4 times, and verbal warning at the end of semester is totally useless.
D: oh... wow... you only skipped once?
A: yup..
B: I already skipped twice... so.. c'mon A, go to class today and we'll skip all of next week classes together!!
A:..... I don't want to... it's useless......
C: oh there's xxx!! Now A.. you can't skip anymore
B: yup, xxx knows that you're here!!!
A: %^(*&%$#$%^&&*

In the class before it starts...

E: someone please tell me what are we doing here??
A: that's exactly what I'm thinking about!!!
E: yea.. what's this gathering about???
A: I just hope it's going to be something useful...... really.....
E: nah... we're going to waste our time.. again..

Multi Cultural Diversity Problems in Movies

Few days ago, when I was "trying" to do my reports, like always, I ended up doing something else. This time.. I ran to youtube and found this old videos of The King and I that was produced half a century ago. It's about a widowed English woman who went to Siam Kingdom (Thailand at present) to teach the King's son. She ended up teaching all of his children and some of his wives and concubines.

I have watched the new version of the movie (Anna and The King) a few times before, but it was long time ago and I don't remember it well anymore. But the original version is interesting as well. I took me time to find the original movie, but then I managed it. It's a cute black & white movie, I love the children of the king, they left a big impression when they first appear. There are some differences from the plot of the story with the new one, but both are interesting. I like the King in the original version better though, maybe he looks like my old crush hahahahaha.

Something that I realized when I watched the movie is that unconsciously I was analyzing them!!! Thanks to the Multi Cultural Diversity subject at school I believe.. It's not really obvious in the original movie, maybe because it's more to the musical and drama side rather than giving a little bit more authenticity of the situations while the newer version is more to drama and action but in a more realistic side.

It's incredible how I notice things without actually want to notice it. Like the way they bow in the western society and the eastern society, like her head must never be higher than the king's and how the Thai's custom to put touch their forehead to the floor when they saw the king or no one is allowed to stand in the presence of the king.

The funny part is also when they called her 'Sir', since in their culture no woman could get a formal audience with the important people, therefore they called her 'Sir'. lol
She was also angry when the prime minister asked personal questions to her when she first arrived and she just want to get it done to the 'business' and the prime minister doesn't like it coz it is a custom to know the person personally before going down to 'business'.

The part that the son of Anna confused about why the king has so many wives were also interesting. Since in the west, they only accept monogamy while it is very common for the kings in the east to have hundreds of wives. Anna herself found it uncomfortable to answer that.

There are also lots of other topics that were in the movie such as slavery, torture of the prisoners, the degradation of women, the table manners, dancing, way of dress, cultural beliefs and other things that I don't remember now or even unnoticed by me.



Funny Quotes from The King and I (the way I remember it anyway):

King: "Oh you come to apologize"
Anna: "I'm sorry your majesty but...
King: "Do it and apologize!!"
Anna: "Your Majesty.. I.....
King: "I accept!"
Anna: "Your Majesty, nothing had been said and all the fact that...
King: "Sileeeeennceee....."

King: "I only have 10* children I know it's not much compared to the Emperor of China cause I only have 2* wives and 5* concubines. You see, I spent half of my life in the monastery and I've been trying to make it up. And oh, 10 children is coming"

King: "A girl must be.. like a blossom with honey.. for just 1 man. A man must live like honey bee... and gather all he can.. To fly from blossom to blossom.... A honeybee must be free... But blossom must not ever fly..... from bee.. to bee.. to bee.."

King: "1 2 3, 1 2 3..... something wrong. Oh I forgot and!!! 1 2 3 and 1 2 3 and.."



Anna and The King:

Prime Minister: "If this thing is going on, she would be the equal of a man"
King: "Not the equal of a man, prime minister, but the equal of the king"

BA life is Starting...

My first week of BA has past now.

So.. how's my impression? It would be a very exciting semester I guess. Lots of my friends had gone because they have finished their BA while I'm doing the optional internship. I was afraid that I won't have much friends this semester but I was wrong. I made a lot of new friends :)

Though it's very different with the past few years of education, but I feel very excited and challenged now. Yes, it is harder. Yes I would need to put lots of efforts for this semester. But yes, I am excited as well. We need to read so many things just by the first week!! Well, the motto of the year is read, read, read and more reading. No joking, that's all the teacher was saying in the class. It seems that by the end of the term I would be falling in love deeply with those books.

But why am I so excited?
At last I felt that I'm really in a university and no longer in high school. I decided to live outside the school with one of my best friends, so we actually had to walk up and down every single day, which most of the normal university people need to do. We had a lot of independent studies now. More individual reports too. So... I think I'm going to enjoy this last semester :D

Things to do:
- buy the Lebara mobile number
- upload holiday pictures in Facebook
- read the article and book for MCD
- read the article for ACB
- make the power point for ACB
- read and do the test for CI
- sign up for IRF & the workshop
- update CV
- make the dissertation topic
- contact Royal Caribbean for primary research permission

The Objective and Operational Plan of My Life

Objective:

Become an owner of an event company worth CHF 35000 by the age of 30

Operational plan:

Short term:

• finished third year by January 2010
• Do my third internship as receptionist/SPA at SHMS at the end of January-July 2010
• Save CHF 1000 during the internship
  
• Back to my home country on August 2010
• Do my BA term in SHMS from September 2010-March 2011
  
• Do managerial training in a five star Hotel 2011-2012
• Save CHF 2000 during the managerial training
  

Long term:

• 2012 - 2016 work in at least 3 star hotel that relates to events
• Save CHF 40000 during the work in hotel
  
• 2016-2019 work in an event company
• Save CHF 36000 during work in event company
  
• 2019 started my own event company with the asset worth CHF 35000
  

Note:
Plans and objective could be revised and updated anytime without any prior notice.

Ps: Believe it or not, this is a task for Managerial Accounting in my university, and we have to present it!!!!!! Exciting isn't it?
(reading instruction: with a sarcastic intonation)