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Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) from the 1st to the 8th July.
This is the fourth time NTU has hosted an International Debating tournament
(other occasions were in 1994 and 1997), and was a great opportunity for
many of the old NTU alumni debaters to return and catch up.
This is Chitra Jenardhanan, who was also an adjudicator for the tournament
like myself. Don't be mistaken by her rather diminutive size! She was ranked
as the overall Best Speaker at the World Debates 1995 in Princeton, beating
speakers from Oxford, Cambridge and the Ivy League. We first encountered
each other at the 1992 Inter-School debates in NTU (it was SAS- my team-
versus NIE). She now teaches General Paper at Anglo-Chinese Junior
College, also where I studied years ago.
2. Asians
3. Australasians
1995
4. Australasians
2001
5. Worlds 2000
University, an adjudicator with the Hong Kong Baptist University. This was
their first tournament, and quite an eye-opener for them, and they had a great
desire to learn. Avis here spoke to as many adjudicators as she could during
the tournament; and we met up after we adjudicated a debate together (round
5, That we should fence Lords, between the University of Cambridge, and
Melbourne University).
between teams A of University of Melbourne and Monash University (the
eventual winners) on the motion that "we should forgive and forget the killing
fields." I didn't have the opportunity to take a lot of pictures during this
tournament, due in great part to that it's pretty tough taking pictures when
you're adjudicating debates, and also it was only boring olde Singapore. :)
us are now working (obviously!), not all of us could actively adjudicate in this
tournament though- only Chitra, myself and Kwee Bin could (though KweeBs
was conspicuously missing from this picture). From left to right; Chitra, Teh
Seng Leong (President of the NTU Debating Society 94-95), Sanford Chee (of
the Worlds Princeton series), Ajit Mohan (Worlds 96, Asians 97), Mrs. Khong
(our mentor, coach, and common focal point for all of us), and myself.
