Last Saturday (9.2.08), the Hindu Society of UPM (PHUPM) organized the most anticipated annual event, MKSP 2008. This is the 8th MKSP for UPM, and the 4th one I attended. Previously known as Malam Kebudayaan Sempena Ponggal (and now Malam Kebudayaan & Kesenian Putra), MKSP’s main agenda is to collect funding for PHUPM’s annual activities. Each IPTA has their own cultural night, and MKSP is ours to show not only our talent, but also our commitment towards helping the community which is obviously why MKSP is being held in the first place.

Being an alumni of UPM, MSKP is not something I wish to miss. This year’s event may not be the best show UPM has put up (yes, the previous MKSPs were brilliant!) but considering the dwindling number of Indian students in UPM, I think PHUPM and the organizing commitee of MKSP 2008 deserves a huge applause. Congrats!

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Indian Graduates Association Universiti Putra Malaysia (IGAUPM) will be organising a Higher Education Workshop and Forum titled "CareerOptions : Untapped Potentials" Details are as follows.

Date: 16th February 2008 (Saturday)
Time: 8.00 am to 2.30 pm
Venue: Faculty of Agriculture 2, Universiti Putra Malaysia
Admission: Free
Target Group: High School students and leavers with their parents

The objectives of this programme are:
-To create awareness among school leavers (and also their parents) on the various career options available and helping them choose the right career path based on their ability and talents.
-To make the participants aware of the various education programmes available in the market as per their career aspirations and how to extract those information from the media and education fairs about this programmes.
-To feed information to participants on various loans available for education.

The programme will include a C3G (Centre for Career Counselling and Guidance) Career Guidance Workshop by EWRF (Education, Welfare and Research Foundation Malaysia) followed by a forum by a panel of
educationist. Participation is on first-come-first-serve basis as places are limited so please indicate your interest by emailing  at secretary@igaupm.org.my For more details and the brochure, visit http://www.igaupm.org.my/careertalk.htm

The Video was shot in Hamilton, Niagra and Toronto, while they were touring Canada last year. 

Video Link: HERE

Blame me. Me Me Me and me Its my fault for not updating this blog for the Thaipusam report that we promised to bring 2 weeks ago! My fault and a slight technical misstake =p So here we go..

This year Thaipusam was a special one as it first time the Federal Territories was given public holiday. The Prime Minister thought that it would help ease traffic jam. Clever. Pandainya anak mami~

Let us see how the celebration was from North to South of Malaysia.

Penang : Waterfall Temple ( reporters : Raaja and Mohan )

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Pongal is one celebration celebrated grandly in UPM year in year out. As the matter of fact, it’s the one time of the year where one would witness Indian students burning the midnight oil in their plans to plan, design and coordinate the whole event. Danau Pongal is the much awaited event and is based on a competition between residential colleges in UPM to battle out in various areas on a specific theme selected annually.

This year around the theme revolved around the main theme of " Traditional Dance Forms” and specific themes assigned to colleges included “ Kuchipudi, Bommalattam and Karakattam”. The key activity that would focus on the theme would be the development of the traditional tent-like set up or “panthals” by residential colleges that would incorporate all elements related to the specific theme assigned.

As the Danau pongal event generally takes place on a Saturday morning, students would be awake the whole night rushing out to set up their structures on a huge field with all their decos intact. The next morning would witness many students with black circles and sleepy faces but yet with gargantuan spirits to uphold the integrity of their colleges.

Check out some of the pics from the event

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