MSA Annual Newsletter 2009 Correction

MQMSA Blog Update!

As most of you who have received the 12 paged awesomeness of a newsletter, i guess it is appropriate for me, as a publisher, to take this time out and apologize for a mistake i've made in one of the newsletter's pages (ew.. public apologies.. hate em). Now if you can just flip over the pages to the Annual General Meeting page, you might have realized the faces of the MSA committees newbies.. i mean.. newly electeds at the bottom. Well, if you can just skim over to the faces of the new cultural directors, you might notice the mistake there... No? Of course, coz there is no cultural directors!! lolololololzomgwtfbbq. Yep, we do have cultural directors but the typo i've made was that the cultural directors has been confuzzled with social directors. Yep, Florinta Edward and Danny Hussain is our cultural directors - not social directors. So, what of the real line of social directors? Well, we're still contemplating on that and that will be announced in the not too distant future.

Pfft.. not entirely my fault. Danny and Flo talks non-stop. Who wouldnt confuse them with being social directors?

Yours humbly,
Adnin
-Publisher who've made the mistake (coz he was on ICE!)

2012

MSAMQ Blog Movie Review: 2012

I stumbled upon the idea of world's end when i was seven and found the theory of world's end to be on 12.12.2012 just a few years back. As much as everyone claim that everything is in God's work, one, obviously, cant help to imagine how this God's work will be like. So yep, i have some odds and ends here and there put together and thus, i have my own imaginative version of world's end and it was sick. But not being able to exactly explain to anyone what i visualize, i was pretty glad that 2012 (the movie) came out. But, does the director's depiction of world's end is as horrific and insane as i have imagine, or is it just a natural-disaster flick?

Storyline:

As if the idea of world's end at 2012 not enough to scare us senseless, the movie began with the first sightings of possible end of the world evidences in 2009. Apparently, an indian scientist, monitoring the earth crust in a copper mine found out that the earth core is getting more and more imbalanced due to a high heat wave from the sun. Fast forward 3 years later, the story takes position from behind Jackson Curtis, author of bad-seller Farewell Atlantis and full-time father who neglects his family coz of his manuscript. With his family tearing apart (and not to mention, the world as well), Jackson will have one last chance to prove that he is a worthy father who does care about his family - by trying to escape the end of the world.

The Review:

The storyline may be a turn-off to few and trust me, it is a turn off. This may be a spoiler but if you're a true blue catastrophe savvy guy, you might figure out that the sypnosis above already suggested that it is not the end of the world. It is just another natural disaster; earthquake on a global scale. Yes, you can say it is the end of the world but nothing much out-of the ordinary considering the fact that the Mayans saw it coming first, the Bible and Quran already prophesize an armageddon, and yet the movie done nothing in 'answering' to any mythological or biblical stuff. I can say that the depiction of world's end in 2012 do fit in some prophecy in the holy scriptures but there is too many loop holes and gaps that it turned out to be entirely a scientifical, natural disaster movie. Also, you may feel that the movie's storyline is made via tracing the exact storyline from Day After Tomorrow on a sheet of transparent paper, retyping it in Microsoft Word with a few tweaks here and there, and projected with an OHP via Microsoft Powerpoint with very fancy animation and graphical images. It is that much of an exact copy.

But you may wonder why i mention that long winded analogy beforehand. Well, the storyline, while of an exact copy, is presented in a way that we all love - with very, very fancy animation and graphical images. Yes, the graphic is insane and the size of the destruction is phenomenal. For a guy behind Independence Day, Deep Impact and Day After Tomorrow, this, of course, is nothing of a surprise. But with an added twist, the movie can be considered a mix of all the previous three movies. There's fire and explosion like in Independence Day, massive tsunamis ala Deep Impact, and gigantic cracks and quakes of in Day After Tomorrow. Needless to say, graphical depiction of a natural disaster putting humanity at the brink of extinction (again) in 2012 is the best one yet!

The Verdict:

For the most part; the movie is exactly as is shown in its trailers. The storyline is predictable (and not too mention, almost 3 hours duration) and it does get draggy at some part, especially the 'intermission' between escape scenes where the characters start talking to one another. The director obviously attempt to build up the characters here but with the distraction of the catastrophic eye-candy beforehand and the future ones to expect, i found out that this is the time, i observed, that the audience in the cinema took out their phones and start replying text messages. In a way, the intermission give you a good time-out from mayhem but by imposing boring dialogues between characters, it's not really a good strategy. But when the end begins (pun joke intended), things get really really hot - and i mean, molten-lava-spewing-from-the-earth's-core hot. There's plenty of narrow escape scenes in which is both heart stopping but makes the storyline even more predictable. Narrow escapes makes Jackson seems almost immortal and those that stick with him lives. But a moment someone strays away like a lamb, they die. It's good heart pumping plot but those who can see the pattern will find this who-lives-and-who-dies game very predictable. The only unpredictable element in the movie is the funny moments. The movie does feature aplenty and the fact that it popped out at the most intense-most moments, the funny moments and catchy jokes are simply brilliant.

I give this movie a 6.7/10 - Good: The graphics and unfitting humour, Bad: The predictability, And The Ugly: The draggy part of storyline. While there's nothing beyond awesome in the movie,the movie is indeed entertaining and i still recommend you to watch this movie in the cinema with big screens and super loud surrounds, that you can actually feel the vibration in the room. Downloading and watching this movie in a laptop will not do justice for this gorgeous movie but on the upside, you can fast forward the boring, predictable storyline. So yep, feel free to leave a comment on the movie under the comment section and tell us what you think!

-Adnin

Escaping the end of the humanity immortally, one narrow misses at a time

TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS

MSAMQ Blog Random Events Highlight!!!
TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS

There's always those time back in Malaysia before when Valentine's Day kicks in and everyone go all hyped out loving each other like they never been loved before. Well, call me The Grinch of Valentine but i find it annoying. I mean, seriously, if you really love someone like they have never been loved before and you show that only on four days in a year (Valentine, your birthday, your partner's birthday, you and your partner's anniversary), dude, you're not loving enough. why not love her/him a lil bit more on this oncoming NOVEMBER 13th?

Uh yeah.. it's Friday the 13th this November but i'm not referring to that. I'm talking about
TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS DAY!!!! (TWLOHA)



If you're among those who will go "what's that?", do yourself a favor and slap yourself silly. Go on. But not that silly coz you need to read on!

To Write Love on Her Arms is based on a romance novel (if i'm not mistaken). It's a love novel so lovely that people love the phrase "To write love on her arms". I'm not too keen to put the sypnosis of the novel here but the main idea of that novel is that everyone deserve to be loved - no one gets left behind, no one should be left alone and no one dont deserve to be not loved (wait... what?). So yeah, in remembrance to that message the novel brought up, Aussies marked November the 13th as TWLOHA day, a non-profit, charitable event where, what you can do, is show your loved ones that they are loved - your girl/boyfriend, your kids, your parents, your pets, your friends buy writing LOVE on their arms.

There's nothing to attend to on that day so you have no excuse to miss this out. No punctured tire crap, no forgot coz you're too busy watching the grass grow, and definitely, no i'm-busy-studying-to-see-you bull either. What you can do is simple. First, take a pen (preferably permanent markers will be the best as you want this to be as permanent as possible), walk up to the ones you love, ask them for their hand, and write/draw/tattoo "LOVE" on it. Why? Just let them know that you're taking five minutes of your time that you want to tell that that you do love them. Easy peezy, lemon squeezy, cherry berry, go to 7 Eleven and steal a slurpee. It's THAT easy! Oh, and if you feel like joining the millions of people doing the same, you can upload the picture of LOVE on your arms on TWLOHA official website; http://www.twloha.com/
or the Facebook group page; http://www.facebook.com/towriteloveonherarms

So go ahead. Spread the love, literally, on your loved ones' arms and who knows, a lil ink on their skin encrypting the word love might actually change a whole lot of things in their life. Trust me.
And as a side note here, i'll be writing LOVE on her arms for sure =)

-Adnin
MSA Publisher High on LOVE

Deepavali Gear up BBQ Review

MQMSA Blog Review: Deepavali Gear Up BBQ!

For a first event handled by the brand new-ly elected MSA committee members, the outcome of the event is awesome! Somehow, at first, it seems like a whole lot of things weren’t going our way – the weather forecast for the event day predicted rain, the committee members were all sleep deprived, the marinating sauce for the satay couldn’t seem to be able to get sweet enough, the cuttings of veggies for the acar caused bleeding fingers and cramped hands, and, yes, the weather on that day of the event did rained! As a matter of fact, we had to change the venue of the event from MUV greens to Mardhiah’s house. But, alas, as the fire from the BBQ-cum-satay-and-chapatti pit lit up, and the MSA committees take their position behind the counter, we immediately beckoned every attendees to hold out their paper plates out for us and, catching them totally off-guard, piled up all manners of delicacies of the day into their paper plates, screaming out at the top of our lungs, “U GOT SERVED!”

Yeah, they got served with a menu of rice, Danny’s chicken curry, Jason’s microwave-baked pappadums (no oil, no fat, just 100% pure microwave radiation – unbelievable? Believe it!), veggie acar, chicken satays and groundnut gravy, chapattis, kiwis, oranges and… wait for it… wait for it… chicken sausages!! (well, it is a BBQ event after all). The event started at 12pm and ended at 3pm with almost 100 turnouts and 100% satisfaction guaranteed, new committees, same great awesomeness, MSA Deepavali Gear up BBQ 2009!

U g0ts s3rv'd! LOLOLOLOLZ!!!!111
-Adnin
(Your friendly neighborhood, web-slinging, Deepavali celebrating, MSA publisher!)

Review: AGM 2009

hi everyone

MSA held its Annual General Meeting this year a bit late due to clashes with some other events. On Wednesday, October the 7th, 2009 at Lindsay Room, U@MQ, around 50 people congregated to witness the making of a new history (duh, I'm so good at exaggerating). Well, it started off with around 30 people and them as more people showed up, the room began to get full. The AGM was divided into two sessions:report and nomination. In the report part, Mr President delivered his farewell speech which was quite touching, followed by a financial report by Mr Treasurer (which was even more touching because MSA made so much this year and it was quite regretful that we did not spend all of them tsk) and the session was concluded by an activity report (accompanied by a slideshow presentation speciallu prepared by the IT Director). After 15 minutes break, the second session was commenced. It was the part which we all looked forward too; it's not like everyday we get to bombard people with questions and glare at them as theynervously truing to retrieve stuffs from their memoru. Though it was quite frustrating that onluy one person ran for the Secretary's post (ah well, Secretary is quite unpopularI we still received encourging nominations for other posts. Results were announced on ADND. COngratulation to those who wona nd may the Force be with you.

say good bye to old committees and hello to the new faces of MSA.

President: Jason Foo
Vice President: Wei Wern Ooi
Secretary: Yong Kar Wei
Treasurer: Victor Yeoh
Cultural Directors: Khairudin Hussain, Florinta Edward
Sports Directors: Low Han Yang, Sarah Rusof
Welfare Director: Tuan Nina
IT Director: Lee Kok Lian
Publisher: Muhammad Adnin

from
Lawrence
Ex-MSA Publisher

Review: ADND 2009

Glamor: Full Length and Fabulous (9^th Oct 2009)

Around this time every year, committees and respective members of the affiliated Malaysian society namely MSA, MSO, MASA and SUAMS will come together dressed in their best suits and gowns for a night of fine dining and stellar performance. Glamor - Annual dinner and dance 2009 marks its 10^th anniversary and is held at Star Room overseeing the jaw-dropping night view of darling harbour.

As the guests get settled onto their seats, the night started off with an amusing introduction video produced by the organizing committee, followed by the welcoming speech of the chief executive producer. The night went along with the serving of three course meals while talented musicians were scheduled to entertain guests with their stunning instrument playing accompanied by singers with their voice of angels, not forgetting the mystery performance by president of the four societies. Two hours went passed and it was time for the committee slideshow and announcement of committee of the year for each of the four Malaysian societies. Our lovely secretary, Mardhiah was presented with the award for all her dedication and contribution that MSA could not have survived without.

Then, the center stage was taken over by the heads of MASCA National and some oldies as they presented a gift after sharing their great moments with one of our Malaysian Consulate, Ustaz Zuhir who will be leaving Sydney back to Malaysia at the end of November. Next, the heart-throbbing atmosphere kicked in with the recognition of outgoing committee and induction of incoming committee for each society. Finally, the ADND 2009 committees finish off the gaudy starting with five pairs of couply ballroom dance, followed by the “Nobody” tango dance which has caused the audience to react frantically, before letting the stage filled with guests, dancing off to a great night…

(article from Vimalraj)


From
Lawrence
Ex-MSA Publisber.

Review: InterClub Game (ICG)

HI Everyone,

On the 16^th of October 2009, MSA, in collaboration with SSA, TSA, and CSS, organized the first ever ICG ( inter-club games ) in Macquarie. The purpose of the event was to bring the societies of different cultures together to further strengthen the bonds between the different societies. The sports that were played were basketball, squash, badminton, futsal and volleyball all held within the vicinity of the Macquarie University Sports and Aquatic center. The beginning of the event was dull but eventually picked up the pace as more and more members from each society showed up to lend their support to their given teams.

The weather on the day was perfect as there was no rain as speculated by the weather forecast. At the end of the day, it was not a day of competition but rather a social event as all the players put their competitiveness aside and just had fun. In conjunction with the event, a BBQ was held at the side of the gym to feed the hungry players and further present time for members from each society to socialise. The event started at 9am and came to a close at approximately 4pm, with players from each society going home contented and satisfied. The event ran pretty well for its first time and I certainly hope that the following committee and the next would make this event an annual event and maybe even get more societies to join in the fun.

From
Lawrence
Ex-MSA Publisher