President: Brenda Cheah
Vice President: Khairul Nadzrin
Secretary: Sim Li Tjen
Treasurer: Thum Wei Wen
Cultural Officer 1: Arif Zahlan
Sports Officer 1: Mohd. Firdouse
Events Coordinator 1: Ng Jun Yang
Events Coordinator 2: Lim Eu Lynn
Events Coordinator 3: Asyraf Syahmi
Marketing Officer: Goh Jun Yi
Communications Officer: Tee Tze Li
Assistant Treasurer: Yvonne Goh
Cultural Officer 2: Illya Syuhadah
Sports Officer 2: Lee Nyeok Kit

Congratulations to the newly elected committee members and thank you to everyone who ran for posts, your contribution to MSA remains invaluable! We look forward to bringing you an outstanding year ahead with MSA!

Credits to Doug Chung for the picture

Here are some updates in case you missed a few of our October events!

Freshers’ Campus and Coventry Tour
The Freshers’ Tour was held on October  8th where 39 freshers were shown around our beautiful Warwick campus, including places like the Cryfield Pavilion, Tocil Woods, Cannon Park, University House, Westwood Games Hall and many others. A giant thank you to the seniors who volunteered to help guide the freshers around.
Everyone then adjourned to Cosmo Restaurant in Coventry for a buffet lunch before the Coventry city tour commenced!
 Thank you to everyone for participating, we hope you thoroughly enjoyed yourselves!

Traffic Light Welcome Party
As the first Meet & Greet social of the academic year, MSA held a Traffic Light Party on the 12th of October in MS.02 to officially welcome all the freshers and also to welcome back all the returning seniors. It was free for all members as well as Malaysian, Singaporean and Bruneian freshers. On the menu were Nasi Briyani, Rendang, Mee Goreng and Banana Cake that (we trust) kept everyone happy! It was so nice to see all 250 attendees dressed in traffic light colours and mingling. Thank you to everyone who came, with MSA you know there are more free food socials to come! :)

Credits to Doug Chung for the picture

We hope you had an unforgettable fun-filled weekend, meeting other Warwick freshers, getting to know your seniors, learning about life at Warwick and the UK, while sweating it out in the various (sometimes seemingly impossible) outdoor activities held!

Congratulations to the winning team ‘Char Kuey Teow’, consisting of Chew Pei Shen, Tee Tze Li, Chan Yi Sze, Lu Sher Wen and Ding Ju Shuen!

Thank you seniors, for taking the time to help out and share your knowledge and experiences through the information sessions!

And of course, thank you freshers, for taking the initiative to attend the camp and for having an open mind throughout. We sincerely hope you learnt a lot from that weekend and we very much look forward to seeing you in Warwick! :)

Group pic atop Broga Hill while waiting for the sunrise

Pictures will be up soon! :)

Emceed by ex-Accenture intern Chan Zhong Yang, the event kicked off with a video presentation and an introduction to the company by Senior Manager Johan Khoo, who leads the Strategy service line in Malaysia. He touched briefly on the various service lines available at Accenture and growth opportunities back home. This was followed by a sharing session by Josie Kang, a Manager in the Talent & Organisational Performance (T&OP) service line at Accenture Singapore. She showed various interesting photos and recalled personal anecdotes about what it is like working in Accenture, as well as elaborating on the  learning and development programmes available to the staff. Also present were also Accenture Malaysia HR Recruiters Lysha Teh and Puteri Azureen, who were both on hand to answer any questions pertaining to Human Resources.

Johan Khoo

Josie Kang

The event ended with an informal networking session and some light refreshments being served by Warwick MSA. For more information about Accenture’s Return Home Campaign and graduate/internship applications, please visit www.accenture.com/returnhome. Alternatively you can also submit your applications or direct your questions to:

Malaysia: Lysha Teh – ly.sha.teh@accenture.com

Singapore: Ash Ang – ash.ang@accenture.com

Thailand: Lalida – lalida.techapanuwat@accenture.com

Indonesia: Anggri – anggri.g.restyanti@accenture.com

For applications, please attach to your e-mails:

- Cover letter

- Resume

- Academic transcripts

Graduate/Internship applications are open all year round but positions fill up quickly so apply early to avoid disappointment!

Natasha Kamaluddin

The topic of the presentation was “Tipping Into Obscurity: Can Malaysia Break Free of the Middle-Income Trap?” and the speaker was Natasha Kamaluddin, partner and director of Ethos & Company. Also present was Nik Ibrahim Nik Mohamed Din, manager at Ethos & Company.

Natasha, who graduated from Cambridge University where she obtained a First Class Honours degree in Economics, began with an informal introduction about herself and the company, which is based in Jalan Semantan, Kuala Lumpur. She subsequently moved on to explain the current economic state of Malaysia and the strategies being deployed to propel the economy. Other subjects that were examined during the talk include Key Economic Areas of Malaysia and also job prospects for future graduates. The night concluded with the ever-handy Q&A session.

Overall, it was an intriguing, thought-provoking talk and we hope that everyone effectively gained more awareness, insight and knowledge about the Malaysian economy. Thank you Ethos & Co for taking the time to come to Warwick!

Ethos & Company website: http://www.ethos.com.my/

An award presentation for our Nottingham Games winners was also held in conjunction with the celebration of two of Malaysia’s most important festivals – Deepavali and Hari Raya Haji!

After the presentation, there were games, there was food, and there was fun!

The event was a huge success thanks to YOUR support and we do look forward to seeing all of you in the next food social (hopefully another one before the term ends)!

For more pictures click here to go to our MSA photo gallery! =)

The session began with a detailed analysis and feedback on Malaysia’s Budget 2011 which was presented by Farquar Haqqani (UKEC President 2010/11 from the University of Warwick).

This is then followed by a critical analysis of the budget by our guest speaker, Y.B. Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad (a prominent Malaysian politician who is the Communications Director of PKR and State Assemblyman for Seri Setia in Selangor).

After the speeches given by both of the speakers, the forum ended with lots of burning questions from the floor which were tackled eloquently by both Haqqa and Nik Nazmi.

Again, thank you for taking time to attend this forum and we look forward to seeing you all again in future forums! Yes, hopefully we’ll be able to get more speakers for the next one!

Visit our gallery for more pictures of this event!

Basketball: Edmund, Zulkarnain, Keef, Vincent, Afak, Wayne, Felix, Tze Xuan, Tony, Ming Yi, Syahir

We are thrilled to have sent players for every single sport at NMG 2010 (football, basketball, netball, volleyball, badminton, tennis, squash, table tennis, lightning snooker, lightning chess, scrabble, congkak and batu seremban). A big thank you to each player for representing Warwick, your efforts are immensely appreciated!

Our tireless Warwick supporters also definitely made an impression as we (in our red attires) were one of the loudest contingents there continually chanting and spurring on our teams by the sideline. On top of that, we had a huge red Team Warwick banner which undeniably stuck out in a crowd.

We would like to congratulate our winners for their well-deserved success:

Volleyball – Champion

Cyrus Lim, Cyrus Mok, Kenshi, Jay Ho, Jerry Zhu, Shoko, Karen Lam, Thum Wei Wen

Squash – 1st Runner Up

Edvin Lim Geok Chin

Netball – 2nd Runner Up

Farah Mat Husin, Tan Sze Yin, Cho Wen Jing, Mok Xin Ling, Germaine Kok, Nurul Izzas Mohd, Nurain Farhanah Badioezaman, Fairuz Hashim, Irina Lim

Snooker – 3rd & 4th Placing

Mohd Khairi Ab Karim & Chuah Kee Wei

Once again, thank you to all the players for your hard work and resilience, the supporters for your never-ending encouragement and participation, and Nottingham for playing host to such a great event!

Daniel (Chess), Wei Nie (Scrabble), Brenda (Scrabble)

Our Warwick contingent successfully emerged 3rd overall and we were also awarded ‘Most Enthusiastic Contingent’ to boot!

We hope everyone fully enjoyed the experience, see you next year! :)

A big thank you goes out to all seniors for making this possible and all participants for their awesome participation.

We had an awesome time building our own rafts, jungle trekking, cooking our own lunch, and so much more and I’m sure that through these 3 days 2 nights, we have formed very strong bonds which will last for a very long time.

On top of that, the seniors have also shared their invaluable experience and knowledge with the freshers. Touching on topics such as accommodation, what to expect, weather, packing, and the list goes on.

Overall, I’m sure everyone who attended the camp will agree that we have achieved our objective of the camp which is to form bonds from right here in Malaysia to better prepare everyone for Warwick, because it is a jungle out there ^^

With this, I proudly welcome 24 new members into our MSA family!

P.S. The Champion team for the First Ever MSA Freshers Camp is Team Water!

Senior : Shidi

Team Members:

• Li Tjen
• Thomas
• Kingston
• Daniel
• Sha

For pictures of the camp please click here. Be sure to visit our MSA photo gallery too!

Added: Slideshow!

Do look forward to a term full of exciting events =)

What went on last term:

End of term social: Dessert party!

Members and non-members meet up to have some light dessert and chocolates before leaving for holidays.

Learn how to make keropok lekor

A keropok lekor work shop was held in Liberty Park. Thank you, Liberty Park residents for hosting us and Kak Su for teaching us!

Other events include a day trip  to Bicester Village for a shopping spree. We also had the honour to host once again a Career Talk by our own alumni, Joshua Ting. We are grateful for the effort and time spent in giving us insight about tips on getting internships and we take this opportunity to congratulate him on getting married later this year.

more updates coming soon!

We are proud to have sent players for football, netball, basketball, badminton, squash, snooker, tennis, pingpong, chess, batu seremban and even congkak!

Effort, teamwork and time well-spent training was rewarded by the victories of our netball team and squash for girls by Ng Hui Mei – both champs. Our footballers also did a great job by going into the quarter finals against Manchester Metropolitan University. On top of it all, we are awarded for being the most sporting contingent of all MSAs in the UK. Well done everyone!

Nothing could have beat the sight of red-clad Warwick supporters cheering their hearts out for our teams all the way through.

The day in Nottingham was perfected by the presence of Malaysian food, and, as anticipated, everyone  indeed succumbed to the irresistible food. A stall opened by our own MSA members definitely was one of the most popular stalls around!

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We would like to congratulate our players for their participation and extend one big BIG thank you to everyone who attended or supported, in any way, the Warwick MSA contingent to Nottingham Games 2009!

See you guys on the bus next year!