All You Need to Know About the Atheist Republic Scandal

Things have reached a point in Malaysia where most of us instinctively cringe when we get mentioned on international news. Tap on the Malaysia section in the BBC app, and the list of recent headlines speaks for itself. So, you’ll be forgiven if you’ve just tuned out the Malaysian news ticker completely. However, you have…

A Beginner’s Guide to Playing A Game of Thrones

Disclaimer: This article is completely spoiler-free; Any spoilers, especially from Season 7, will be met with extreme prejudice. When George R.R. Martin first started A Song of Ice and Fire in 1996, no one expected it to become one of the most universally acclaimed series in television history. With the years of extreme hype and…

Did you manage to join a club or two? C&S week summarised!

The start of a new semester is always a hectic time for Monash Malaysia’s dozens of clubs and societies, as they engage in a mad scramble to snare returning students and freshies. C&S Week is a staple of the semester calendar, with most clubs holding off on their regular activities until the week after the…

Freshman Year for Dummies

Freshman goal #1 : To not look like a freshman on campus. To all freshmen, well you are in luck, because this is your fast guide on how to not look like a freshman during your freshman year at Monash. To all upperclassmen, here are a few fun tips for figuring out if that kid…

MUSA (Engineering) Day – Semester 2 2017

“I go in hard and dry, I come out wet and soft,” was one of the many riddles us, Editors, had set for our MUSA Day station game. The other stations manned by MUSA members were just as creative (read: sick), as they welcomed the new Monash students from different schools with water guns, balls…

Our first magazine in 2017, Fantasy

Hello everyone, our first issue of MONGA themed “Fantasy” IS FINALLY OUT! Unfortunately, we ran out of copies to give away – 750 books were distributed in 20 minutes and we sincerely apologise for the insufficiency as it was honestly unexpected. Fantasy was created to embody the different values of what one hopes and dream for …

Theme Week!

Ever had that overwhelming urge to just roll right out of bed and go to uni in your pyjamas? Or maybe it’s one of those days where you felt lazy to wear a cute outfit because you’d have to change for Frisbee/futsal/badminton/basketball training after classes. Well, I don’t know what MUSA was thinking, but if…

Tropical Paradise Unplugged

Picture yourself slathering on sunscreen while lazing on a perfect white-sand beach covered in coconut palms that gives way to emerald waters and coral gardens. Not forgetting the tropical slopes that surround you, the seemingly endless blue skies and a Bahama Mama in your hand. Vogue material? No, just routine in Bora Bora.  If you…

ONE WEEK+ TO WEEK 12 OH NO

There’s only slightly more than a week left till the end of the semester. That means that there’s only slightly more than a week left to rush the thousands (exaggeration or nah?) of assignments that have been scheduled on Week 12, after which the hustling doesn’t stop as we dive straight into SWOTVAC and then…

Mechanical Might – Are mechanical keyboards really that much better?

Words are important. Words encode knowledge that otherwise would not have been able to be stored and propagated through the generations over land, sea, and time. What could have we ever be as a human species, if it weren’t for the capacity to store and share knowledge for the future generations? Alas, I’m not going…

4 tips on how to be a woman. Like literally

“A woman is quiet and submissive, always gentle. They are like a lamb. Soft and kind, loving and sweet” This is what a girl hears every single time when we sit comfortably, or when we speak loudly, sometimes even when we breathe ………. -_- We’ve been told how to dress, how to behave, how to…