The following blog post is from current OSU student Stanley Yu. Excellent work, Stanley, and thanks for the report!
— mko
Gung Hei Fat Choy everybody! My name is Stanley Yu and I am one of the student workers in the Office of Admissions at Oregon State University. Currently, I am a senior majoring in Pre-Pharmacy with a minor in Biology and Chemistry. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii and being raised in a Chinese family, I speak Cantonese very well and serve as the technical support for the newly formed Hong Kong Student Association here at OSU.
On January 28, 2009, we held our 1st Hong Kong Night here at OSU! With multiple booths, we were able to display a wide variety of culture in Hong Kong whether it being the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) game, fortune telling, red envelope art workshop (lantern making), Chinese gambling games, and more! Some of my favorite games held there was the gambling one called the fish, crab, and shrimp game where there are 6 squares showing a fish, shrimp, crab, coin, chicken, and calabash. With dices that represent those 6 figures, basically people just bet coins on one or more of the figures and if the dices (three dices are used) rolls and shows that figure, you win double the amount that you put in!
I was in charge of the fortune telling booth where we used old Buddhist doctrines to tell peoples’ fortunes by shaking a bundle of sticks with numbers on them, until one of the sticks fall out. With that number, I had to locate the number in the book and tell them their fortune. Being my first time telling peoples’ fortunes, it didn’t turn out all that bad since the fortunes given weren’t always good fortunes and was very realistic to their lives. A few people even told me that their fortune was very accurate! Hence, many positive feedbacks were given to the fortune telling booth. Thank you guys!
The event was planned about 3 months ago with officers holding weekly meetings. Even though we were rushing it the last second of the week it was being held, it managed to be very successful. Being the 1st annual Hong Kong Night, it was definitely mind-blowing to hear people give positive feedback about the event. Thus, we will try and make it even better and more organized next year.
If you haven’t gone to the Hong Kong Night this year, please come next year! If you are interested in finding out more about the club, events, or have any questions, please feel free to post a comment below or email me at yust@onid.orst.edu.
Being a new organization as of now, we are currently not funded so if you wish to donate, please email yust@onid.orst.edu.
way to go Stanley!
Nice work Stanley!
Stanley rocks! Nice post, buddy!!
Looks like that was fun.
it seems a nice day Stanley! It’s a shame you can’t tell me my fortunes via Internet!!
Hi, i am a Chinese student planning to go to the OSU as a freshman. My scores are high enough for a foreign student, but i havn’t recieved any message form this university yet. I don’t known whether is ok for me to go there this September. And I am wandering what should I do now, keep on waiting or ask the OSU to check out the result.
I went to HongKong last year and love there really much. It’s a fantastic place for everyone!
Cheers Stanley! It was very nice work.
Stay with pharmacy, can not go wrong,congtrats!
Cheers Stanley! This is a good initiative.
I don’t usually reply to posts but I will in this case. WoW
sounds great stanley
I love visiting Hong Kong. It’s such a fun and different culture that is a one of a kind experience.
Great to know that Chinese new year is celebrated here well at OSU.
Thanks for posting this Matt. Stanley’s a great guy!
Great job guys! I’m going to look into one of these myself at school next year!
Nice work. Wish this coming Chinese New Year will be better.
I graduated from OSU in ’91 and we didn’t have these types of events. I think from a cultural diversity perspective, my beloved OSU should have done something like this in the past, and going forward, should do more of them.
Great work stanley.
In 2010, the date of Chinese New Year is coincident the same as Valentine’s Day. I am so happy to see that some people are still working hard on keeping Chinese traditions. Good luck to Stanley and wish your activities become more and more prosperous.
By the way, this year is Tiger Year in Chinese culture, if you are interested in why it’s Tiger rather than other animals, please visit my blog for more information. Thanks.
I hope to be able to visit Hong Kong one day, great report Stanley.
The year of the Tiger has just be celebrated. Here in Australia it was huge with such strong links to China.
Cheers Stanley! really great !
Great work Stanley! Youtube video is really cool.
Enjoyed reading Stanley, hope to see more from you in the future.
I’m taking a career break from telecoms to go back to Uni and that got me all fired up. Thanks for adding to my motivation to return to education.
Congrats Stan! Great work! I do really hope i can visit Hongkong or China soon.