(There’s more to us than just assignments!) Words and Photos – The Editors  Day 1 of auditions, and after being shuttled around a couple of venues by the facilities department, we finally settled down at the Plenary Theatre. Day 1 was dominated by contestants singing a variety of English and Chinese songs; with some accompanied…

Written by Number Thirteen | Photos by Tan Wen Jie The setting: Fifty guys and fifty girls. 50 tables draped in red cloth arranged in rows. 2 chairs were faced opposites at each table. The twist? All the participants were blindfolded. To preserve anonymity, the organizers decided that it was best to carry out the “speed…

By Lestari Hairul Photos by Eugene Chia It’s the middle of summer break and you’ve been working as an intern surfing 9Gag and/or Tumblr daily, wondering if this was the best way to spend the 3 months for a paltry 800 bucks or experience points. Then you watch, or are reminded of, the film The…

Words by Achugovind Kumar Photos by Lee Weng Kent On the 7th of December 2013, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Malaysia and IMechE Monash University Malaysia (MUM) Student Chapter jointly organized one of the most prestigious public speaking competitions in the engineering industry, Speak Out for Engineering (SOfE) Malaysia National Finals 2013. Speak Out…

By Lestari Hairul Photos by Brian Soong The 9th MSC meeting, also the final meeting for MUSA 2013, began at 12.31pm on Friday 22nd November 2013. Aside from the usual suspects, the meeting was also attended by the incoming MUSA 2014 office-bearers and Mobashsher Fahad, the ex-President of the now-defunct Comic Club. Incumbent President, Melvin…

Words By AA and Naadia Buhary Photos by Ai Lin Soh and Yiow See Yeng It was the 19th of October, a Saturday and it was 8am. That’s right, you heard us. 8am MOTHAF*****. Why were we in Monash at 8 am, you might ask? Well, the Monash Sports Carnival was being held that very…

By Hanny Kee  *All photos taken from their respective Facebook groups.* Two parties: Team Transcend (represented in purple) and Team Sapientia (represented in blue), are currently vying to fill the 38 MUSA positions for 2014. The highlight of the elections was of course the debates of the office-bearers (with the exception of General Secretary), namely…

By Lestari Hairul “Oooh fancy!” We’d just rolled into the driveway of the Majestic Hotel and were treated to a sight seldom seen on the KL streets. Doormen and valets, all dressed up in colonial livery, were greeting the owners of the expensive cars driving up just ahead of us. Since we are but broke…

Theatrical Release Poster (Photo credit here) By Anushiya Suresh Recently, the Monash University Film Society had their first movie screening for the semester, which was the movie Brazil. In my opinion it was a suitable film, which sadly lacked the audience of students, as it was not a typical movie. I attended the screening of the…

By Lestari Hairul The 7th MSC Meeting started at 6.17pm on Thursday,  5th September 2013 and for that evening, a few members of each party contesting for the upcoming MUSA Elections were present. At the advice of the MUSA President during a Q & A session earlier in the week, party members of both Transcend and Sapientia sat in…

By Lestari Hairul The best part about being in Editors is behind-the-scenes access to MUSA events and thus, through the pretext of informing the student populace of Monash Annual Ball (MAB) 2013, we managed to wheedle some exclusive insider passes into the prep-work that goes into creating what is set to be the best ball…