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December 1994, which saw participation from Universities all over Asia. This
pic was taken just before our first formal dinner: dress code was National
Dress, and that's why we had all the lady debaters dressed up in their
National best. I was close to the teams from Thailand on this occasion, and
this picture perhaps best shows the diversity of their cultural, particularly in
their dresses.
The original intention was that the Thai team wanted to take the picture with
me, but Prof. Piya roped in the entire contingent of Asian debaters- and
before I discovered what I'd got into, I was surrounded!
2. Asians
3. Australasians
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nothing to do with it! None of the Singaporean debaters on that occasion wore
the batik shirt, so we wore suits instead. That's Asst. Professor Piyanart
Faktorngpan on the rightmost, my very good friend, and also coach for the
Prince Chulalongkorn University.
Next: the below is a more recent picture, taken during the 4th Asian University
Debates, in July 1997. That's me with the speakers from the University of
Philippines, the eventual runner ups to the whole tournament. Diane Desierto
(whose guest entry you can find in my logbook) is the second person from the
left of the picture. The tournament was hosted in Singapore, and was the
second international tournament that I was adjudicated in.
Professor Piyanart from the Prince Chulalongkorn University in the picture
below. We first met in 1994 at the 1st Asians when I was still debating for the
University; in the 1997 tournament, Tarn was debating as a final year student,
whereas I was an adjudicator with Prof. Piya.
taken during the 4th Asians in 1997 too. That's Roy Puar and Teo Kwee Bin
from the School of Accountancy and Business in the picture below. Kwee Bin
represented NTU at the World Debates at Princeton in 1995 (if I remember
correctly), and emerged as one of the top twenty speakers of that tournament.
