Recently, I had been participating in Education Week of International Petroleum Technical Conference held in Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) from 1^st to 5^th December 2008. It is a lifetime opportunity that comes once in a blue moon since KL has never host an enormous event like this before. And exciting part is, I was able to meet hundred of students from all continents of the world and work together with them on a project assignment given to us prior our arrival to KL.

My group consisted of 10 group members (that I would not forget!) Let me introduce you to them.

Photo courtesy of Jason

Front row: Maria (group leader) from Russia, Umi from Nigeria

Second row: Me, Taufiq (Indonesia), Pedro (Venezuela), Ilkin (Azerbaijan), Tausif (India), Jason (Malaysia), Juan Diego (Colombia), Elise (USA)

Working with them and having a chat with other teams is a priceless experience. Not that it will broaden my mind and knowledge, but also expanding the horizon of networking to another level, where I would not expected to have a network with Pedro that live at GMT-8 time zone or Maria in Alaska with temperature of -40 degC (below freezing temperature!!).

I hope they do enjoy their “holiday” in Malaysia even we did not manage to get into Petronas twin tower.