關於 passion project for high school ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

I get asked this question a lot, but I didn’t go to school for art or photography. Although photography’s always been something I loved, it started as a passion project. I would post all my work on Tumblr and Flickr (anyone else?) and spend hours and hours browsing others' work as well.

I was in my high school photography team (where I met my partner, Tim, who was then the director of the team), covering school events and all. Back then, DSLRs were expensive, a real investment just for a hobby. As my interest grew, my dad bought me my first camera and I will forever be grateful for his support. This “hobby” continued throughout my university years. I would photograph for modelling agencies, fashion brands, friends, events and celebrations, and sometimes just for the fun of it.

One day, I had a sudden thought that I wanted to be a photographer, for real. And from then on I never looked back. I poured everything and all my time into growing my business- constantly learning, refining my craft, practising how to shoot in any and every type of situation and lighting, etc. It’s been full of ups and downs, but gosh I still can’t imagine doing anything else other than this.

It’s been close to a decade now since I ventured into photography. I owe it all to my dad and Tim for their endless support throughout my journey. Now I’ll give myself some credit too—I’ve learned to constantly grow and adapt in this ever-changing industry. Running a photography business is hard work. I’ve learned what it means to have conviction, to be unrelenting, and have the determination to reach my goals despite all else. I’m only just getting started! ✨

越來越多人問：點解我在一間愛國愛港人士為董事的研究所，都可以咁立場鮮明？
#咁靠什麼能力？ #我靠魅力
#其實主因是老闆們海量胸襟够開明 #老細萬歲
#招本科生實習(有津貼）

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Work Placement: Research Assistant (Education & Youth Affairs)

Responsibilities
⚫ Work with and provide support to educators, scholars and experts from various sectors in organizing seminars and conferences, and execute experimental projects related to education and youth issues;
⚫ Assist in our research project, including data collection and organization, writing and editing tasks as
assigned;
⚫ Assist in policy advocacy and liaison with government officials, academics, school management,
education or youth organizations.;

Requirements
⚫ Currently achieving Bachelor degree in Humanities, Education, Social Sciences or Arts;
⚫ High standard of written and spoken Chinese and English;
⚫ With passion for and knowledge of local education and youth affairs;
⚫ Good skills in communication, writing, analysis, organization and team work;
⚫ Self-motivated and capable of delivering quality work within tight schedule.

We offer competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applicants should send full resume with current and expected salary by email to kelvinleong@hkpri.org.hk, or by post to Mr. Jacky Fung, Hong Kong Policy Research Institute. The envelop should state “Application –Work Placement: Research Assistant (Education & Youth Affairs)”. Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Hong Kong Policy Research Institute
The Institute set up in 1995, is a leading public policy think tank in Hong Kong and is internationally recognized.

Our mission is to conduct quality research and provide effective recommendations by polling together local, mainland and international minds, and to create social impact by collaborating with stakeholders to form policy communities. By this we hope to contribute to the continued success of One Country Two Systems and High Degree of Autonomy in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).

MASA DEPAN TN50 DI TANGAN ANAK MUDA.

Sejak kebelakangan ini dan untuk minggu-minggu mendatang, dada akhbar dan media sosial bakal didominasi oleh cerita pilihan raya. Parti-parti politik kini berusaha keras dalam usaha untuk memenangi hati dan minda pengundi sebelum mereka memilih siapa yang mampu memberikan mereka kehidupan terbaik untuk hari ini. Inilah lumrah politik dan demokrasi - pilihan raya akan datang ini akan menentukan masa depan Malaysia untuk lima tahun akan datang.

Namun sebagai seorang bapa, perkara yang lebih penting bagi saya adalah masa depan yang akan diwariskan kepada anak-anak saya nanti. Amat mudah untuk kita hanyut dalam memikirkan isu dan keadaan hari ini namun sebagai manusia, naluri semula jadi sentiasa menginginkan anak dan cucu kita mempunyai kehidupan yang lebih baik daripada kehidupan kita hari ini. Inilah yang mendorong dan membakar semangat saya sepanjang perjalanan Transformasi Nasional 2050 (TN50) tahun lepas.

Secara jujurnya, semasa YAB Perdana Menteri memberi mandat memulakan TN50 dengan segmen belia, saya tidak pasti apa yang akan berlaku. Ramai yang cukup skeptik - ada yang mengatakan Generasi Y ini terlalu bersifat individualistik serta sibuk "selfie" maka tidak akan ambil peduli tentang masa depan masyarakat. Ada juga yang persoalkan mengapa kita melihat jauh 30 tahun ke hadapan - begitu jauh, tatkala masih ada cabaran pada hari ini yang masih perlu didepani.

Namun selepas setahun perjalanan TN50 ini, sebuah eksperimen wacana baharu yang bermula di Universiti Malaya kini menjadi gerakan massa belia Malaysia - daripada Belia, untuk Belia. Hampir dua juta rakyat didekati melalui pelbagai platform dengan lebih 60,000 aspirasi unik diterima melalui dialog, perbincangan kecil dan kumpulan fokus serta media sosial. Persoalan yang dilontarkan cukup mudah - apakah aspirasi anda untuk Malaysia di tahun 2050? Dan satu demi satu aspirasi disuarakan yang akhirnya membina sebuah Kanvas Belia sebagai dokumen impian anak muda untuk TN50.

Namun angka-angka ini sahaja tidak memadai untuk menggambarkan semangat yang ditunjukkan oleh belia untuk membina masa depan negara. Ketika saya menjelajah ke seluruh pelosok tanah air untuk dialog TN50, saya melihat bagaimana anak-anak muda Malaysia cukup bersemangat untuk berdebat dan melontarkan aspirasi-aspirasi yang cukup berkualiti. Ribuan daripada mereka menzahirkan cita-cita 2050 mereka - baik daripada aspek pendidikan berkualiti kepada identiti kebangsaan dan pembangunan yang saksama - baik di bandar mahupun di luar bandar. Mereka yang hadir ke sesi-sesi perbincangan kecil juga berdebat dengan fakta secara berhemah - mencerminkan rakyat muda Malaysia yang beraspirasi untuk menjadi masyarakat dengan mentaliti kelas pertama. Melalui media sosial, ramai daripada mereka yang memberi sumbangan idea dan aspirasi untuk masa depan kita semua - tanpa menghiraukan budaya negatif dan "bashing" yang mendominasi garis masa kita kebelakangan ini.

Namun mereka bukan hanya berbual kosong sahaja. Saya juga berkesempatan berjumpa dengan Ganesh Muren dan Nadhirah Rifai yang menggunakan masa muda mereka untuk membantu anak muda di luar bandar mempunyai akses kepada teknologi dan persekitaran yang lebih baik. Firdaus Ali yang baru berusia 17 tahun dan masih belajar, datang jauh dari jauh untuk memastikan generasi belia dipelihara - beliau cukup bersungguh-sunguh ingin memastikan TN50 mengambil kira kemahiran insaniah dan digital yang terkini demi menjamin pekerjaan di masa hadapan. June Yap, Faisal Ariff dan Dzameer Dzulkifli kini menjadi perintis kepada industri penjagaan awal kanak-kanak, sistem imigresen baru dan pendidikan.

Ini hanyalah beberapa contoh anak muda Malaysia yang memilih untuk melakukan sesuatu yang positif untuk Malaysia - banyak lagi anak muda dengan semangat sebegini yang saya temui semasa proses TN50 ini. Mereke menidakkan persepsi masyarakat kepada belia Malaysia - persepsi di mana anak muda hanya pandai mengkritik dan mementingkan diri sendiri sahaja. Mereka membuktikan bahawa anak muda Malaysia bersedia melaksanakan perubahan yang mereka inginkan.

Itulah pengakhiran perjalanan TN50 saya secara peribadi - setahun yang penuh bermakna dan semuanya kerana semangat dan kesungguhan yang ditonjolkan oleh anak muda Malaysia, dalam menyatakan aspirasi mereka, yang saya lihat dan dengar sendiri. Setelah setahun, anak muda Malaysia akan menyerahkan aspirasi TN50 kolektif mereka malam ini sekaligus melambangkan permulaan sebuah perjalanan baharu yang cukup menarik untuk kita semua.

Masa depan sudah tiba, masa depan bermula hari ini dan ia milik semua anak muda Malaysia - mereka sudah bersedia untuk memimpin kita menempuh apa jua rintangan menuju ke tahun 2050. Dan melihatkan semangat dan kesungguhan anak muda kita kini, saya yakin, masa depan kita akan lebih baik dari hari ini - bahawa TN50 bukan hanya aspirasi tetapi bakal menjadi realiti.

Saya lahir sebagai generasi Wawasan 2020 - sebuah visi yang direka kerajaan dengan sasaran makroekonomi berpaksikan Malaysia berpendapatan tinggi - sama seperti ibu dan ayah saya yang membesar dalam era Dasar Ekonomi Baharu yang bertujuan untuk membina Malaysia yang lebih saksama.

Bermula esok, anak-anak saya akan mempunyai visi kolektif mereka sendiri. TN50 - sebuah visi nasional oleh anak muda yang membawa Malaysia ke hadapan sambil memastikan tiada siapa yang akan ketinggalan. Kesinambungan inilah yang telah membawa Malaysia melangkah jauh selama ini - apa jua yang melanda, Malaysia terus melangkah ke hadapan, mendepani apa jua cabaran. Dan Malaysia akan melangkah dan terus melangkah - dengan satu mata tertacap hari ini dan satu lagi tertacap nun jauh hadapan.

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THE TN50 JOURNEY: MALAYSIA'S FUTURE LIES IN OUR YOUTH

For the last few months and for weeks to come, the discourse in Malaysia will be dominated by the General Election. Political parties from all sides will make our last attempts to win the hearts and minds of the voters. Come D-Day, Malaysians will decide who they think can give them a better life today, and for the foreseeable future.

This is a moment which will shape Malaysia for the next five years and make or break politicians. Yet as a father to three young children, what is most important to me is the future we leave for them. It is easy to get lost in the here and now but surely the thing that should matter most is the innate human desire to want a life that is better for our children than the one we have right now. That drove me as I embarked on the TN50 journey last year.

When the Prime Minister first came up with the TN50 initiative and gave me the mandate to reach out to young Malaysians, I did not know what to expect. And scepticism was abound - some said that the millennial are too individualistic or self-centred to care about the fate of country. Gen Y’s who are too busy with selfies to see what was going on around them. Others pointed out that it would be too difficult to project ahead by three decades; why are we looking so far ahead when we are still debating on what we’re going to do today. What started in University Malaya as a thought experiment in crafting public policy has turned into a national movement of young Malaysians, by young Malaysians, and for young Malaysians.

In just a year, young Malaysians from all over the country came together to collectively aspire for the Malaysia that they want. Almost 2 million people engaged with more than 60,000 distinct aspirations collected through dialogues, online platform, small-group discussions and many more. These numbers go on and on.

But the sheer magnitude of these numbers does not do justice to young Malaysians. When I travelled the width and breadth of the country week in week out for TN50, and saw the quality and the passion of these debates that they had, I was truly inspired. Thousands of Malaysians spoke about what they want in 2050 Malaysia - from quality education to a stronger national identity to equitable development across the urban-rural divide. Those who attended the smaller discussions did their homework and debated contentious topics in depth, passionately yet in a civil manner befitting of the developed society we are poised to be. Through online platforms, young Malaysians contribute to various discussions on our future, overcoming the negative quick-to-judge, bullying and poisonous culture that our social media scene has been known for.

It was during this journey that I met young Malaysians who chose to do something positive for the country. I met Ganesh Muren and Nadhirah Rifai, who decided to spend their youth helping those in rural areas to have access to better infrastructure and a higher quality of life. I met Firdaus Ali, a 17-year-old student from Johor who travelled to KL in between his school terms to push for digital skills in schools so that his generation will be ready for jobs of the future. June Yap, Faisal Ariff and Dzameer Dzulkifli who are pioneering improvements in early childcare, immigration and education respectively.

These are just some examples of young Malaysians who are doing something positive for the country. They break the mould in how we tend to (unfairly) view young Malaysians; - they are not armchair critics or self-centred. They are stepping up to be the change they want to see.

TN50 was a meaningful journey for me. Last year, young Malaysians were asked one simple question - "What is your aspiration for Malaysia in 2050?" Tonight, the youth of Malaysia will present their collective aspirations. It marks the end of an exciting journey for me but more importantly, it will start a more important journey for all Malaysians. The future is now, and it belongs to all young Malaysians- our youth is ready to lead us into this journey towards 2050.

I grew up looking forward to Vision 2020 - a Government-led vision focusing on macroeconomic targets anchored around a high-income Malaysia, just as my parents grew up in the era of New Economic Policy which strived to build a more equitable Malaysia. Now, my children will grow up looking forward to TN50 - a youth-led vision shaping Malaysia which aims to leave no one behind. This continuity is what drives us as a nation - beyond our imperfections, we continuously strive to punch above our weight with one eye on the present and one eye on the future.

(NSTP file pix)