By Yaowanart  Chatchaidamrong, BBA#14

?Friendship will never get along well with business.?  If that is the quote we commonly must listen to in our everyday life, I would like to express my disagreement.  My 9 days and 8 nights trip to the ASES Summit 2007 in Taiwan changed my outlook  forever!

Really early on the morning of August 28th at Suvarnabhumi Airport, Miss Ruksawaan (Gift) Yanyongkasemsuk, BBA#13 and I, Yaowanart (Ling Ling) Chatchaidamrong, BBA#14, began our journey to the ASES summit in Taipei.  We coincidentally took the same flight with the delegates from the ASES India chapter.  They were sitting in the same row with us, though I did not realize it until we reached Taoyuan, Taiwan International Airport.  As my first step touched the ground, I knew right away that something wonderful was waiting for me to discover.  We were warmly welcomed by the ASES Taiwan staff and surrounded by delegates from other chapters such as Canada, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Stanford.

Our first task was to present a10-minute Power Point slide show about ASES Thailand?s recent performance.  Throughout the whole week, we attended lectures by a great number of influential guest speakers and CEOs from famous Taiwanese  companies such as the CEO of Crystal Ventures and the CEO of BIONET.  In the middle of the week, we were divided into groups to have a business competition.  The task was to create a website for the ASES global network.  We were sitting at a roundtable, talking and working on the project until 2 A.M. I was so keen to listen to the ideas and share mine with the bright future entrepreneurs from around the world.