Graduation

23 June 2010P.Ramachandra

Suzhou

Dignitaries, colleagues and dearest Students,

Very pleasant to see you all very happy,

relieved and smiling!

After two years of hardship and patience,

the day which you were working for

has finally arrived.

Besides accomplishing A-Level,

you have hit the best apples

By Best Apples …. I mean best universities.

Apples

All apples

When each has an apple,

some apples do appear more bright and colorful.

Do not think too much..

All apples are plucked from the same tree and are all equally fresh.

Enjoy the fruit.

Soon will discover,

your apple too

is very sweet.

Suzhou

In fact, I havealmost finishedmy apple here…

It Was very sweet.. indeed!

My years in Suzhou were very satisfying.

A teacher’s success is

… the students.

You were all so good…

Good contributors tomy life

Have learnt a lot from you

How can I forget Shane?

Shane’s – Left hand rule

Ben’s – Recent Coke can Punch!

My skills were sharpened by …

Kelly, Iris, Dobby, Fred

April, Chris, Eve, Thomas

Ron, Catherine, Tracy

Margaret and Shirley sisters.

Have been very good Facilitators

Neil, Gladys, Amy, Summer, Fiona

Joyce, Lofrenz, Allen, Chen

and many more

Bright future in business and politics

Stage and Screen

Carl, James and Ringol

So handsome and talented.

Many girls are after you!

Hope to see you on screen some day

How about Hollywood and Bollywood?

The Best of the Best Pansy, Ellie, Amanda, Cathy

Cherry, Franck, Jack, Jason

Ken, Melody, Elaine, Jane, John

Kevin, Lucy, Sally, Wendy

and many others

University and Life

University prepares

you for a career.

Which is the best

university?

Cambridge….. Oxford ….. Stanford…..?

No. None !

We often do not

understand life

Life … The life is the biggest university. Keep your life living.

Life gives equal opportunity to all.

Life

Whole world today …

is converging to Kǒng zǐ (Confucious)

Modern businesses

Microsoft, Pepsico, …..

are all run on his principles.

Kǒng zǐ 孔子

Mandate of Heaven

“Succession of power On Moral Merits … Not on any lineage”

Today’s businesses are not run directly by investors

by a CEO – the chief executive

best picked from the community

is suggested by Kǒng zǐ

almost 1500 years ago

on this land.

Some one asked him once…

whether there is

any simple rule to follow in life

He suggested Shu

Golden Rule – Shu

What you donot wish for yourself,

do not do to others

Golden Rule

有一言而可以終身行之者乎？

子曰：“其恕乎！

己所不欲、勿施於人。

His temple is right here …

Attached…. to our school.

Let us all follow his GOLDEN RULE

and make this earth a heaven

a better place

On Foreign Land

You are all going to foreign universities.

Spread your Good

Bring their Good

Make the World a better Place

Better City

Better life

Good Luck

and

All the best !

Thank You