Caption this!

UKEC's online publication, CEKU (http://www.ceku.org) has recently launched a bookmark caption competition. The details can be found below. On behalf of UKEC and CEKU, I would like to request that you disseminate this information amongst the members of your respective Malaysian societies - we would greatly appreciate this, and would like to thank you very much for your support.

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Have Something to Say? – CEKU’s Bookmark Caption Competition

If you’ve picked up one of the newly designed CEKU bookmarks, you’ll notice an interesting fact on one side of thebookmark, and an invitation to voice your opinion on our website, www.ceku.org. We at CEKU have decided to take this to another level!

Do you have something to share – an interesting thought or fact about Malaysia and all things related to her? Then share it with us in no more than 15 words, together with a 300 to 700 word essay explaining why you think what you want to share is interesting. You can be creative as you like in your explanation. If you choose to share a fact, please cite your source as well.

The winner of the Grand Prize will win a Kindle Wireless Reading Device with Wi-fi. Also, the top 3 winning entries will be printed as bookmarks to as promotional material for CEKU for 2011 and 2012, and will be premiered at the 5th Annual Malaysian Student Leaders Summit 2011 that will be happening over summer! This conference takes place over a two day period, and sees 800 young Malaysians come together to listen and debate issues with prominent speakers from various industries.

So what are you waiting for? Submit your entry (or entries – you can send in asmany as you like) by 1st July to ceku@ukeconline.com. If you have any enquiries, you can contact Natasha at natasha@ukeconline.com.

Blurb!

Blurb! is a publication produced annually by UKECares, the Community and Welfare Development Committee of UKEC. It is essentially a guide book for Malaysian students coming to the United Kingdom or Ireland for the first time, so as to give them guidance on what to expect, what to do, where the best deals are, etc. On behalf of the committee, I would like to invite you to send any articles that you feel would be appropriate for Blurb! to me at melissa@ukeconline.com. If you would like to contribute as a writer, layout and graphics designer, or photographer, feel free to contact me as well. The closing date for applying to be part of the team for Blurb! is 1 May 2011.

If you would like to help out with marketing Blurb!, please send an email to Kit Weng at yapkitweng@ukeconline.com - we will be distributing Blurb! at pre-departure briefings conducted by the British Council. Blurb! is printed and available at no charge - hence if you would like to have some copies of Blurb! for your own Malaysian Society pre-departure events, please send an email to Kit Weng with your contact details in Malaysia, as well as the number of copies of Blurb! you would like to have, and we will accommodate your request accordingly. About 800 copies of Blurb! will be published - depending on the volume of requests, we will adjust the number of copies of Blurb! to be printed accordingly.

Thank you very much!

Unity and Living as a Big Family

On the 20th of March, UPMY held a short education seminar. We had a talk by our guest from Warwick, En Ahmad Johari Mohamad. The speech was divided into two sessions with different titles: UNITY and LIVING IN A BIG FAMILY. The main content of the talks was to incorporate unity among Malaysians, disregarding the little things such as race and religion.

Our speaker looking at his notes on his netbook.

MC for the day, Tavamani.

An introduction of the speaker.

Audience cracking up at a joke.

The speaker giving his speech.

Time for a break!

Home-made sandwiches

Yummy!

Picture time!

Pouring water for the audience.

A token of appreciation.

Thank you En Ahmad Johari! We hope to hold more events like this in the future. Look forward to it!