Desserts have always been my Achilles heel, so when asked to cover the winners of Top Chef Monash, I immediately jumped at the chance to interview Ranjanidevi Kannan’s (@randeedeeeeee) winning plate, aptly named: The Decadent Trio, which, as the name suggests consists of a beautiful brownie trio of the following flavours: salted maple brownie, white…
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Ridma, Winner of Top Chef (Veg and Non-Veg)
On 25th september, MUSA announced the “Top” chef event which was one of the few virtual events in Monash. Students from all schools were encouraged to participate in the 4 day event. I had the privilege of being able to interview Ridma who was one of the participants and the winner for not one but…
Amanda, Winner of Top Chef Appetizer
One of the contestants for this year’s Top Chef Competition is Amanda Tan, a first year first semester student pursuing Psychological Science. For this competition, she had prepared an extraordinary four course meal for the judges. However, the main focus of this interview is on her scrumptious appetiser. Her dish is a mini 3-way egg…
Midnight Memoirs: Wonder
We can sail away tonight On a sea of pure moonlight We can navigate the stars To bring us back home In a place so far away We’ll be young, that’s how we’ll stay -Neverland, Finding Neverland-Broadway recording, 2015 To all the outcasts, the dreamers, the journeymen, and the wanderers. We are all searching the…
Midnight Memoirs: On The Shore
It was new year’s, I was a fledgling to drinking and yeah.. You can guess how it ended. My face firmly planted on the ground but the weird shit didn’t happen when I was awake, it happened in my dreams and I have never been filled with such existential dread as I was after that…
Midnight Memoirs: As Long As You Do It Well
Wow, so blue. I’ve never seen such a pristine sky. The floating white cotton-candy clouds scattered in the bright blue looked like islands where angels belonged. Standing in a 35-degree weather with a crop top and denim shorts, I waited for my boyfriend to pick me up. In just a day, I was flying off…
MONCH @ Halab KL
Right in the heart of KL, stood Halab, a Middle-Eastern restaurant that offered a whole host of Syrian, Yemeni, and Arabian-inspired dishes. We visited Halab during the afternoon, and given the long queues, we had seen just a while away, for Halab KL’s famous shawarma, it was clear we were at the right place. In…
Humans of Monash: Nic
When I was in primary school, I really wanted to impress this girl. So, I was like ‘Wouldn’t it be sick if I wrote a song for her?’ But turns out I did not sing her a song, in fact, I showed no one that song but I was like you know what? It’s kinda…
ESCAPISM: Turbulence
Taking in the fresh air and the coolness of the evening breeze, it seemed cruel that, in the midst of admiring the beauty in nature, I am reminded of the bitter reality I can’t seem to escape. What is reality, if you ask? I don’t know: you tell me. As if the world only asks…
Thematic Month: Midnight Memoirs (Sep- Nov 2022) Open to submissions!
They say that as you age, you always regret the things you didn’t do over the things that you have done. We’re taught to think before we act, to go through every possible scenario before hesitantly taking the plunge. And for what? So that we can be like everyone else? This is our last chance…
LGBTQ Corner: The Gift
“I have a gift for you.” I couldn’t quite tell if I was happy or scared. She refused to tell me what this gift that was chained and secured with the most sophisticated lock was as if it was caging a yet-to-be-known creature. Even I, the greatest locksmith of the heart, wasn’t able to crack…
LGBTQ Corner: Yes, sex is cool but…
I worry sometimes that I would never receive the love they write about in books, the one’s they make movies about, because everything I’ve ever seen has always revolved around the aspect of sex. Sex has been a topic rarely discussed in my neck of the woods, and when it was brought up, I found…
Hello, Future
“Hello, future.” The words echo into oblivion. The silence was loud and deafening, but I know someone, or something out there, is listening to me. “It was rather impolite of me, isn’t it? if i don’t offer you a greeting.” Again, no response. Fair enough. “I’m aware of my. . . lack of manners in…
Hello Future: Struggling
An anxious anecdote of mine. We all have big dreams and big thrills. Get all As Get into a good university Graduate with all HDs Get a good job, 5 figure salary and above only Marry before they call you an old maid Have a family I’m now 20 and I’ve just barely ticked off…
Stacks of History
You whisper in my ear about the rumours. It’s no surprise you’ve heard them “Some of the kids have sex in the stacks.” You glance over at me, a devilish smirk on a perfect face I suppose it’s no coincidence you tell me this when we’re searching for history books Your tongue darts out to…
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