THE FIRST STEP...
How did you found out about AIESEC and when did you start to
get involved in the organization?
Mere coincidence, was chatting with my sister 5 years ago and she
was telling me that she has an appointment with Microsoft, I asked
WHY?! she said she was working for an organization called
AIESEC and they were selling Microsoft something, later realized it
was GIP. I told myself I got to join this organization. The moment I
was back in Malaysia, I contacted the national office to join, they
replied back with an offer. An offer to establish the AIESEC in
Universiti Teknologi Petronas chapter. At that point, one thing led
to the other, and here we are today.
What's the best memory you have during your times in AIESEC?
I'd say it was during my MCVPTM term. I was able to secure a
fund from the AIESEC MALAYSIA Alumni body for LEAD program when it was its first time to be launched. And the program was
launched during MyLDS, and seeing all of the hard work my team
put in to make this dream a reality, was with no doubt incredible.
Tell us about the worst punishment you have ever receive
and your most humiliating/funniest moment.
I'd say both were the same incident. We were in MyLDS, I
was the LCP back then and Chandra Sekhar was the Chief
Delegate. and because the LC members where kinda messy
in their places, the OC punished both me and Chandra to
lick wassabe off each other. It was spicy, disgusting and incredibly funny. :D
What is your X factor (your uniqueness) and do you think
you are born a leader?
For my "uniqueness"s:
I'm very competitive, proactive, and innovative:
Was I born a leader? I used to believe in such a thing. but
with experience I realized that we were all born exactly the
same. The rich, the poor, the leader, the follower. What
really differentiates us is the outcome of series of situations
and events that each one of us lives. Basically what I'm saying is, you can be whatever you want to be, you just have to
put constantly put yourself in the events and situations that
would build up the personality of the person you want.
RULE OF THUMB: Everything in this world is passive,
not active .i.e You gotta keep moving forward to get what
you want, it wont come to you by itself.
The first EB team!
Omer Korshed
NATCON 2010 (First NATCON the EB attended)
The team with their Coach from AIESEC in Malaysia
So Belal, how did you get to know about AIESEC, and what prompted you to found
AIESEC in UTP?
So back in 2009 Omar Khorshed told me there is an organization called AIESEC that can help us go for exchange.
So Omar e-mailed AIESEC Malaysia to see what kind of opportunity we can have with them, and they invited us to
go visit them at their office to see if whether are we interested to start a chapter in UTP. On September 26, 2009 we
went to meet the National Team of AIESEC Malaysia in Selangor. Then the Initiative Group was born and basically
three of us continued on this. Omar, Abdelrahman and I. We took the challenge and we disciplined ourselves to it.
At times it was very challenging but we had loads of fun, experience and a global network. The Experience was really
So at the beginning.. how was the first Executive Board? Tell me a bit about the departments and the reception
At the beginning we were ambitious to build something big more that we know how to do that.
That was a listen I learned, Dream Big then discipline yourself to that dream. Anything would be possible.
At the beginning there was few challenges:
1. Get UTP to approve the Chapter.
2. Recruiting the first team. We wanted to recruit mainly local students as this is the major pool of students in Universiti Teknologi
Petronas.
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