6th MSC Meeting 2013 – highlights

By Lestari Hairul The 6th MSC Meeting began at about 6.42pm on Friday 23rd August with the MUSA President calling on the MCN event organisers and a few members of the current MUISS council to introduce themselves. Both groups were present to give their statements regarding the loss of property, to be mediated in the…

Maou no Café: A Detour of Routines

By Olga Scarlett I just happened to pass by an announcement board when my eyes caught a glimpse of a poster. It was a poster with a white background and a purple-haired girl drawn on it. I was used to scanning posters in my brain, and would leave when nothing caught my interest. But that…

Orientation Bash Semester 2, 2013: Thrills and Spills at Sunway Lagoon!

By Hanny Kee The sun hid itself for most of the morning, providing the perfect weather for approximately 135 students (a mix of first-years and their facilitators) to roam freely in the vast playground before them. The occasion? It’s the Orientation Bash for Semester 2 of course! This time, the Orientation Bash was held in…

MUPhas: From a Kind Heart to Healthier Hearts

By Talitha Rahma On Thursday, 11th of April 2013, MuPha (Monash University Pharmacy Society) held a “Heart Awareness Campaign and Fundraiser for Charity” event at Monash University foyer from 9 AM to 4 PM. Their mission was to raise as much money as possible for Heart Foundation of Malaysia. They did so by selling coupons…

In Search of Iloilo, 2013

by Helen Jambunathan, pictures from In Search of Iloilo From the 19th to the 31st of January this year, sixteen students from the School of Arts and Social Sciences (SASS) were fortunate to travel to the Philippines on the ‘In Search of Iloilo City’ study trip. Yoga on the beach The trip took us on…

Orientation Bash: Sun, sand and each other

By Hanny Kee Photographs by Mr Eng Cheong Meng Beneath the sweltering sun, about twenty undergraduates and 150 first-year students attended the Monash Orientation Bash for Semester 1, and the end result for each person was the same: they all had a smashing good time and the war stripes – er… the tan lines to…

It’s all uphill from here folks

By Vinanie Wijesoma  Photos by Mr Eng Cheong Meng and Brian Soong  After an exhausting first MUSA Council Meeting, which lasted three straight days (totaling more than a whopping 24 hours), the MUSA team packed their bags for a two day one night trip to Outbac Broga for a Team-building Camp adventure. Outbac Broga is…

Ready, set, (not quite ready to) go

By Vinanie Wijesoma Course plan, check. Timetable, check. Textbooks, check. By the end of Orientation you’ve probably got everything sorted for your first week as a University student, but here’ s a spot of advice to equip you mentally for the upcoming semester. Think.  Take time to actually think before you sign up for any…