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…
Tag: 2017
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 …
My Dream World – May’s Thematic Competition Winner!
By Kaylie Tan
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…
The School of Business’ x MEC Fair: Monash’s Boothiful Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship is a skill everyone wants to have, but no one’s really sure on how to get it. Sure, there’s a thousand and one “How to be an Entrepreneur” books on the market with varying levels of quality, but reading a book isn’t going to transform you into the next Jack Ma in a fortnight….
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…
“The motion is to allow the killing of children?” – would you agree with it? Yes? No? | The Argumentative Skills Workshop
“The motion is to allow the killing of children?” – would you agree with it? Yes? No? Okay, now that it has captured your attention, what if I say I have a lot to specify on, things like “allowing parents to kill their children within the span of 30 days post-birth when they’re diagnosed…
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…
Only MUSA members and subcomms to be buddies & the resignation of the Activities Chairperson – The 4th MUSA Meeting
It was a Friday, with a long weekend ahead – a well-deserved one that is for every single person in 6303 that evening but before any one of us could embark on that much anticipated journey back home, there was a meeting we all had to deal with, at 9.30 p.m. with almost little to…