mY PrEsenTation LAy PeNg Tan [e-mail]

1
mY PrEsenTation LAy PeNg Tanlaypeng_at_interchange
.ubc.ca

• LIBR 500 FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION
• Mary Sue Stephenson

2
Content

• Part One
• Family Genealogy and early childhood
• Part Two
• College years/travel/hobbies
• Part Three
• Early Adult hood/secret ambition/conclusion

3
Tans Family Genealogy
4
Early childhood

• I was eight when we left Malaysia for Singapore.
• My parents thought it would be better for our
  education.
• I would visit Malaysia during the school
  holidays, spending time with my cousins playing
  childish games.

5
College years

• I went to a small liberal arts college in
  Frederick, Maryland in the US.
• While at Hood College, I made many good friends.
• I was an art history major with a passion for
  Gothic cathedrals.

6
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue
dome that hangs over everything is better.

-Thomas Carlyle
7
In addition to old cathedrals, I like almost
anything that is old .. I mean really old
8
Including paintings by old masters like this one
by Filippo Lippi.
9
The other simple pleasures in my life ..

• Going for walks, road trips
• Spending time with family and friends
• Watching a movie
• Sleeping !

10
Early Adult hood also means financial
responsibility

• Working experience included ...
• Counsellor
• Social worker
• Arts administrator

11
But what I would really like to be

• A jazz musician ..

12
But LIFE

• is unpredictable and full of surprises. In just
  over a month ago, I find myself packing my bags
  and heading to beautiful British Columbia.

13
So for the next year and a half, Ill be at the
School of Library, Archival and Information
Studies at UBC.
14
Acknowledgements

• Jeux denfants sur une plague, vers 1910.
  Published by Graphique de France, Boston,
  USA/Paris, France.
• Hereford. The Cathedral, St Peters Church, and
  Town Hall from the Churchill Gardens at sunset.
  Photograph by Derek Foxton. Publisher B.D.S
  U.Lond., L.D.S.R.C.Eng.
• Dusk, Stonehenge. Photograph by Rob Cousins.
  Published by Chapter Verse.
• La Madonna che adore il Bambino. Filippo Lippi.
  Firenze Galleria Uffizi.
• France. Erwitt/ Magnum Photos, Inc. Published
  by Graphique de France, Boston, USA/Paris,
  France.
• Girl playing music instrument.
  Painting/photograph by Margaret Slade Kelley.