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CARNIVALE DANCE PARTY

Space, Liverpool Street.

The annual 1st semester dance party is jointly organised by the Sydney University Association of Malaysian Students (SUAMS), the Malaysian Students Organisation of the University of New South Wales (MSO),  the Malaysian Students Association of the University of Technology Sydney (MASA), and Malaysian Students Association of Macquarie University (MSA). The planning and execution of this event was handled by Logann and Ee Shan. About 800 people attended and SPACE was full.

This Dance Party is deemed to be one of the most successful events of the semester. It’s also a good chance for members to mingle around, trust us on that!*winks*

By EeWing Ng

Dinner and Movie Night was held by SUAMS as a little "loosening up"  for all of us in the midst of mid-semester exams and assignments frenzy! Dinner was held at Cafe Kasturi and movies at Hoyts Cinema, Broadway. The event was led by TzeXian Young and EeWing Ng.

The event kicked off with dinner at CK (as many affectionately refer it as ) at 7 p.m. with a wide range of authentic Malaysian food such as Beef Rendang, Chicken Curry, Gado-gado, Cincao Bandong, etc. At approximately 8.45p.m., we headed to Hoyts Cinema in Broadway.

The event was originally planned for 50 people, however due to the overwhelming response from members and friends from other societies, we increased the capacity up to 86 people!!! Due to the astounding support, the event was a major success.

SUAMS would like to thank all who attended or voiced your interest in this event. (unfortunately we had to turn quite a few members down due to limited spots!)

By Idzani Johar and EeWing Ng.

SUAMS held a social sporting event which was the Bowling Nite on 24th of March 2009. It was an event lead by Stefanie Chew and Mohamad Idzani Johar. The details of the event are as below:

·         Date: 24th March 2009, Thursday

·         Time:  8.00 PM – 11.00 PM

·         Venue: AMF Randwick Bowling, Randwick

·         No. of Participants: 33 people including SUAMS committee members

·         Price: $10 for Members; $13 for Access Holders; $15 for Neither

During Event

Pick up points were provided for members as we took bus number 372 from Central Station heading towards Randwick and arrived at approximately 7.30PM. Registration booth was set up by committee members by collecting payments and registering their names which were then given to the Bowling Counter for name registry on alleys. Games begun at  8PM.

Post-Event

Total numbers of participants were 33 people, including committee members from MSO and MASA. The event was generally successful and most importantly fun for those who attended the event. SUAMS would like to thank all for their support on that day! 

Everyone had similar shoes!

It was our Miss Publisher's pre-birthday surprise! Yes, we do that in SUAMS

Everyone getting their bit of action!

Group Pic!

Photo credits :  Azlan Rashid, Yen Tink, Idzani Johar.

By Solihin Roslie (Bhozai) 

Soccer on Sunday

Special thanks to Christine and Bhozai for making sure things were running smoothly the whole day. And to Logann and Vivien,thanks for helping out throughout the whole event!

1st game (vs. MSO, 0-0 )

Everything was looking good as Hanif the team captain took all the players for warm up session. Everybody was very spirited for the upcoming games as MSO is the reigning champion for the tournament and we lost to them 2-0 last year. Therefore this game is the perfect time for revenge.  The team started the game brilliantly with a couple of good chances to score unfortunately we were denied by good goalkeeping from Jason, the MSO goalkeeper and a few missed chances. The defenders of our team were solid as rocks with all of them working very hard to deny the threat from the MSO’s strikers led by former Kuala Lumpur junior team player Hemman.  Again in the second half, certainly lady luck didn’t smile on us as shots were brilliantly saved and the most glorious chance of all being with only goal post to beat, but the ball went wide instead. In the end we were satisfied with the nil-nil draw.

2nd game (vs. MSA, 1-2)

The next game against MSA didn’t start well as we conceded an early goal but the team started to build up the game play and 2 minutes before half time we manage to get the much awaited equalizer through Viral. During the second half, the team created heaps of chances to score but it was just not our day. In the end, MSA counter-attacked once and scored. We lost 2 1. Everybody was disappointed as we knew we can beat MSA but it was just not going to happen this year.

3rd game (vs. MASA, 3-2)

We won the final game against MASA with the score of 3-2 hoping that MSA would beat MSO in order for us to be the runner up for the tournament. Unfortunately MSA line-up their second team and were thrashed 7-0.

Overall: 3rd place

Again this year we end up in the third position of the overall standing but the team looked better and more organized.  No serious injury occurred during the tournament thanks to our very committed first aid girl Vivien. The opportunity to win the tournament next year will be brighter if the junior players continue to play together and train hard. Therefore, we urge junior players to participate actively in our sports events!!

The SUAMS team

Discovery Sydney was our first major event of the semester. It was held during the first week of the semester.

SUAMS worked hand-in-hand with fellow USU societies in this event, e.g. SSS, ChocSoc, Wasabi, and Chopstick. Discovery Sydney was inspired by Amazing Race and we had checkpoints all over Sydney - Darling Harbour, Circular Quay, Railway Suare, Glebe Market, Newtown, just to name a few. 

DS had an overwhelming turnout, thanks to Kuan Yuen (our former Treasurer)  who captained this event. This event was indeed encouraging and was a perfect kick-start for SUAMS in Semester 1, 2009!

The night before

Yes, this is how you got your egg sandwiches!

SUAMS committee members - EeWing, Stefanie, Idzani, Vivien

The games!

We met up in the Sunken Lawns for price presentation and a pizza wrap up party! 

Thanks to all participants for your tremendous effort!