Do you want to sing and feel like a star?
HKSA Karaoke Contest will be a place where you can showcase your stage performance skills!! Our 26th K-Con will be hosted on April, 2nd. So please don’t hesitate to register and become one of our 15 contestants!!

If you are interested in participating in our K-Con, please drop by our table from Tuesday-Friday 11:00 to 2:00.

Fee for singers:
Solo:member: $20, non-member: $25
Team: member: $25, non-member: $30

Deadline for signing up is March 12. Also, you need to confirm the names of the song you will sing and send us your videos in either avi or mpeg format by that day!! For late videos, $5 each will be charged.

Feel free to contract us If you have any questions.

E-mail: hksaofficer@gmail.com

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Hi!

到左三月，一個又一個既Mid-terms一定令到大家透唔到氣喇!
就知道大家一定係好忙溫midterm溫到抖唔到氣啦..所以就一定要襯住weekend抖下氣,
係時候由HKSA為大家減減壓喇!
今個星期就等我地HKSA帶你去同我地UC Berkeley 叮噹馬頭既
Stanford University參觀下, 吸收下天地靈氣啦!

今個星期六我地會同Stanford既香港同學會舉行聯校活動，
到時除左會由Stanford既學生做嚮導帶我地去參觀佢地既學校之外，
仲會一齊行上佢地既Dish Loop一覽Palo Alto 同灣區既景色，
鍾意大自然既你一定唔可以錯過啦！

日期: 3/6/10
時間: 10:00
地點: Sproul Fountain
價用: FREE

＊＊記得要自備水同防曬用品＊＊

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Aren’t you cramming for your horrible midterms and studying all night long? …Have no fear! HKSA is here to rescue you from the depths of midterm hell! Come out with us this Saturday and let yourself free from the reigns of midterms at Stanford University.

This Saturday, March 6th, come join us for a beautiful and relaxing afternoon at Palo Alto. Relieve some stress by walking around the Stanford campus and challenge yourself by hiking at Dish Loop of Stanford. Enjoy some quality time under the sun with the entire San Francisco Bay at sight. This will also be a great opportunity for you to capture the scenic nature.

Date: 3/6/10
Time: 10:00
Location: Sproul Fountain
Fee: FREE

* Note: Please prepare drinks and sunscreen according to your own preferences.

Check out more via Facebook Event!

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=329106454190

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每逢佳節倍思親，一直以為呢度無咩新年氣氛
一直都無諗過係美國可以行年宵,　更加無諗過會搞手之一 ，但係今年終於做到了　＝）
２月１９日係Spring Semester’s Night Market, 亦都係我所講的年宵~

我地HKSA今次決定令Night Market 更加有新年氣氛，　所以我地決定賣一啲中國傳統食品
例如年榚，蘿蔔糕，茶葉蛋同埋腐竹糖水　xpp”

真係超好彩，本來以為會落雨
一路都驚更，
「希望在明天」呢句野真係真的！！

night market５點開始，　客人都越黎越多
而我覺得最開心同埋得意ge係，唔同國家ge人都黎幫襯，
所以我覺得今個night market真係好成功咁promote Chinese culture~

「嘩，JJ, Victor，真係無介紹錯wor, very delicious!!」xpp”

「Joyce, 你D年糕好香呀！！」

咁ge場面，　真係拍得住維園架~

Charlene ge poster 好kawaii 呀！！

這就係傳說中ge「腰馬合一」　？

努力煎糕的側面 xpp”

今次night market, 我地offciers 都落左好多力架＝）

不過我相信都係值得的，因為今年
我地為好多留學生畫上一個外國新年ge美好回憶~

我會記住呢一日，因為過左呢一日，我又會多左一個快樂ge 記憶~

24/2/2010

卓男 ~

HKSA historian

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Hello everybody! It’s the first official event of my life in HKSA because I am the new intern of this semester! Let me bring you back to the previous exciting event of HKSA! 

It was our game night last Friday. To see what happened, just take a look at the pictures!

The Poker Tournament attracted many people to the event, but only the champion could get the prize. Though addiction to gambling is not a good thing, coming to the HKSA Game Night was a great way to reduce the stress from everyone’s study! Besides poker, we played mahjong to celebrate Chinese New Year as well. 

Come on! Let’s become millionaires! Playing Monopoly was so much fun, especially with this special Disney x Pixar version!  

Although you are not majoring in Architecture, you still could’ve built a unique building with your own hands, or just destroyed it!

Uno was a game requiring quick response and intelligence.

   Moving on to the second round of the Poker Tournament, eight people were left and their survival probability was 12.5%!

Finally, our champion got a brand new iPod Touch! Congratulations!

Simon

’10 Spring Historian

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Dear HKSA enthusiasts of this new Spring,

My apologies for the delay of what were supposedly entries for the first three events, but here will be a condensation. :]

Allow me to begin with our WTH Orientation. First and foremost, I must apologize on behalf of HKSA for the mess of a beginning, and for hosting an event on what seemed to be a busy Monday for the many that had to leave early. Upon reviewing my photos of the night, however, I’m convinced by the candid smiles and laughs that it was undoubtedly an enjoyable experience of new friendships, reminiscent snacks, and mind-boggling games.

Perhaps the first game of 心靈相通　wasn’t as challenging as we hoped it would be, what with all those cheating ways.   But here’s props to all of you, with those tricks up your sleeves! But mind you, HKSA will be trickier next time! Then the new element of song in our second game  大電視 was entertaining…when watching those shameless and brazen vary notes of syllables and called them songs! As for our final game of Jeopardy, most of you were probably fighting as hard as you could, attempting to score points by rummaging through your current events and random knowledge! And then…who’d forget SCISSOR SALAD? Congratulations to Angus’s team! :]

That Friday, HKSA had its Hotpot Social at the same venue. Once again, another impressive turn-up, and we hope our food variety and amount were enough to satisfy those taste buds and stomachs craving for hotpot!  And trustfully, the interspersed HKSA-relevant slideshows and videos that filled the night interjected the static that may have overwhelmed had we allowed the night to continue with mere hotpot? Then there was the video of HKSA’s interns of last semester, which was rather difficult to hear (thank you, UCB, for allocating funds to covering vandalism of bathroom stalls, meanwhile increasing our fees and lacking in decent utilities!), but still managed to bring laughter to the scene. :]

And so I hope you walked away from this night warmed to the heart (and stomach) knowing how we are as HKSA, how we are as individuals, and how we are as friends. :]

The most recent of events, K-Night, proved to be an anticipated event once again! With enough attendees to fill up four rooms, it was an entertaining night of singing, games, and catching up. As I made my way through each room, the laughter and smiles that lit up each enjoying face were wonders to see. I recall opening the door to a room in which practically everyone was on his/her feet, all hyped up, singing a couple of lines to a song then passing the microphone along. Although I wasn’t a part of this hype, it was nonetheless a joy to see everyone immersed in such a festive and fun moment, laughing, singing, and delighting in his or her night. Albeit short, I trust that everyone had a great time?

And the atmosphere followed as we sat in Jac’s Bistro for dinner. Each table, making a ruckus and loud as hell, fought their best to grab the attention of the attendants. As the dishes made their ways to the corresponding tables, hunger subsided and the night came to an end.

HKSA so good so far?

Best regards,

/K.

’10 Spring Historian

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.A 4-week winter break and welcome back to Berkeley. 17 weeks to go!

Well, with a new Spring 10 semester comes a new Spring 10 HKSA, and everything kicks off with our Welcome-To-HKSA Orientation. On a Monday night. Yes, we’ve all got school the next day, 8am classes on Tuesdays. So before anything, a million thanks to the bunch who came to support the event! Apologies for the hectic mess with the group assignment but I’m sure eventually you guys got to know your team-mates pretty well! Complimentary refreshments in Hong Kong style set the stage for the night and a series of interactive games and icebreakers followed. Winners went home with, I’d say, the biggest give-away HKSA has ever offered as prizes Check out the photos below and find out how much fun it was that night! Credits to Karen and Captain for the photos~

HKSA

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Time flies. No joke. As the semester approaches its end, so does HKSA. This Friday we had our last event of the semester - the Career Night and Election.

For Career Night,we invited four speakers from different fields, such as engineering and finance, to give our members their perspectives of working in their respective field, as well as providing some general advice on finding jobs and interviews. Here I would like to, once again, thank all the speakers for sparing some of their precious time to share their experience with us. I won’t speak on behalf of our members, but for me, I did learn a lot about different career paths and know I can expand my options. And I’m definitely not changing my major. Go Berkeley engineering! XD (I know chemE is not in CoE, but, mehh, whatever)

Last night was also a really significant day, because Joyce and Nelson are finally retiring as P and VP! Kudos to them for leading out team throughout the semester. And it was also time for us to elect the president and vice president for the next semester. Now I won’t bore you with the details on how the election process goes, because what’s important is the outcome right? And congratulations to Byron and Kirsten for being our president and vice-president of the next semester! I’m sure you guys won’t let us down.

And with this, HKSA was done with its job for this semester. I can’t help feeling a ping of sadness, because HKSA is a huge part of my college life and it’s kinda emotional for me to see it come to an end. Hopefully next semester will be yet another challenge and sweet memories that make my life, and also yours too, more fulfilled.

This is gonna be the last post by me being the Historian of Fall ‘09. I really enjoyed sharing my views and feelings on HKSA with all of you, and until next time, see ya! Goooood luck with your studies and finals!

– [AC]
Fall ‘09 Historian

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Have you ever wonder how things look like when three competing teams, outburst with energy, collided head-on with one another to compete for the fabulous prize? Do you want to witness how teams pushed their creativity to the maximum when they have to finish their assigned task of singing and dancing in a short lapse of time. Welcome to – THE RACE! The mind-bobbling, adrenaline-surging and soul-enriching race around UC Berkeley campus that will guarantee to squeeze the very bit of laughter and tears from you.  Right when the clock at Sather Tower struck six, the search for the ultimate winner began!

The teams must accomplish the assigned task in a given time frame. Every step they take is a race against time, against other teams. With one ultimate aim ahead of them, these teams put forth their best effort to pull through the countless obstacles. While racing with the time, the team tried their very not to succumb any blunder which could put their winning at stake.

After an intense battle between three outstanding teams the event continued with the grand final battle in which HKSA Officers and the participants in a fierce yet exhilarating battle of ‘blind chicken’. Only one team emerged as the final winner. In the misty night of California’s weather, the race was concluded with roars of applause from fellow officers and members.  

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Sorry guys I’ve been so busy with school stuff and midterms and all those other crap that I didn’t really have the time to blog… (and I wonder where the other historians are?!) But hey I’m back now! Updates time

So 9/11 was our K-Night. We went to Music Tunnel in the Pacific East Mall, and apparently what we did was… karaoke. We got ourselves 3 nice, cozy rooms and enjoyed the 2 hours we had a lot. I have to say there were a lot of amazing talents in the crowd that I didn’t know of. And then there were people that you just have to hear him/her sing. Just look at how Kirsten sprang up from her seat and rushed into another room when I told her Byron was about to sing.

We took a break next Friday and on Saturday (9/19) we went to the oyster farm at Tomales Bay. So apparently the spotlight was on OYSTERSSSSSS. LOTS OF THEM. And of course we didn’t only have oysters - we also have regular barbecue food. I don’t suppose you can stuff your stomach with only oysters right? Another good thing about this event was that the weather on that day was perfect. Sunny, but not too cold and the environment there was just really nice. The only downside was the 1-hour drive to the farm. Next time, I’m gonna bring more plastic bags.

FollowingOyster Farm was Game Night. Our highlight of the day - Mahjong! We had a competition with 16 people in the first round and narrowed down to 4 people in the second round. And after 2 hours of competition, we were delighted to announce our winner - Kelby! (Point of interest: He finished 2nd in our MJ competition last time. His friend Ringo, who got 2nd this time, was our winner last semester. Dude those two were just invincible) We also had a mahjong class with our own miss 山吹 (Casey was a really good teacher, honestly. I learned MJ from her). And other than MJ we had tons of other games like monopoly, aeroplane chess, card games, jenga and lots more. If you want to get to know more people and interact with new friends, this is one fo the best chances you have here.

Up next was our intern event - Mid-Autumn Jeopardy goes wild. Our interns really spent a lot of effort to reconcile the idea of jeopardy-ish game and the mid-autumn festival. For the first round, each of the 4 groups had to answer 10 compulsory questions that were 100 points each. Then for the second and third round, each group got to choose questions of different categories that worth 100-400 points. Of course, to emphasize on the festivity, there were questions related to the mid-autumn festival, and they worthed slightly more points than others. And the final round we had the ultimate jeopardy - each group had to decide out of the points they had, how many of the points were they willing to put a bet on. Then each group answer a question and the group that was most accurate won! The question: Name the 5 nuts in a mooncake. Or something like that. T__T Anyway, Wendy’s group was the ultimate winner (Grr), and the winners had wonderful prizes like our HKSA T-shirts or FREE K-CON TICKETS. Think you missed out? Oh well, there are lots of k-cons to come, so you have a lot of chances. (And even if you don’t have free tickets you SHOULD come to our show.)

And finally, last Friday we had a joint-club mixer with 5 other Asian clubs - CSA, CPU, TSA, TASA and SHKCA. We booked the area in Kip’s at Sun Hong Kong and apparently we had a very good DJ who worked in SF and Blakes on Telegraph before (woooot!). It was really nice to see everyone dress up and loosen up a bit (and a lot for some of us ) For those who were attracted by Jason Mraz at the Greek Theater instead, you certainly missed out! Next time we can trade places

*Photo courtesy of Captain*

Whew… So there’s the recap for the events we had for the last 5 weeks. Now I have to get back to homework again. I just don’t understand why I still don’t have a life even though my first wave of midterms has ended. Mehh whatever. Until next time, see ya!

– [AC]
Fall ‘09 Historian

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Told you it would be lots of fun.

Tonight was probably the best night I’ve had since school started. Before I start describing what fun we had, I want to apologize first for the sudden room change. I know many of you had trouble finding the new place, and I’m really sorry about that.

So WTH was just about lots and lots and lots of fun games. Guessing songs was a rather typical game we had, but there was this one group who got like 10 questions consecutively right (out of a total of 20), while one group got like nothing. Maybe the grouping should be adjusted a little…? But anyways it was still nothing but fun. Next we had 20 rounds of mini games in which a member from each group compete for their team, doing random stuff like peeling oranges, blowing up balloons and learning the MJ dance (Kirsten I’m looking forward to seeing your dance on youtube or something XD). Then comes the classic Big TV. A pretty easy one, eh? There was one twist though - we limited your communication with only Cantonese, Mandarin, English or just gestures. Not so easy anymore, huh?

I’m sad to announce that at the end, my team lost :(. But nonetheless all of us really had a GREAT time and the response was really positive. So we decided to carry on the hype and went to eat at Daimo near Ranch 99. People at my table were laughing like crazy because of the jokes overdose (together with some broken ones), and we found Byron’s twin! If you really want to meet his twin, come to our K-Night this Friday. He told me he’d be there

Simply a great night. Regretting you missed so much fun? Just come to our events on Fridays. They’re fun guranteed, so I’m sure you will have a really awesome time.

– [AC]
Fall ‘09 Historian

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