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Entitle, the electronic magazine
Of Faculty of Creative Multimedia
Multimedia University
No. 04, Vol. 01, October 2010
What Is It Like
To Work In A
Google Project?
A Cup Of Brewed Coffee With Mr. Avijit Pual
The Man We Call Avi
From MMU to Oman, a interview with
Munawarruzzaman bin Mokhtar
My Next Goal Is
To Be A Student Once Again
The 4th Annual Creative Multimedia Awards
The Fabulous Night Out
Front and Back cover photos
by Pouyan Mohseninia
Front cover:
Google event at FCM, MMU
“Word Of Mouth”
CONTENTS
Back cover:
Malaysian Book of records
The longest live painting
Entitle, the electronic magazine
Of Faculty of Creative Multimedia
Multimedia University
No. 04, Vol. 01, October 2010
p22
Artist’s Diary
Vincent Van Gogh
The Life and Times of Him
Vincent Van Gogh is generally
considered the greatest Dutch
painter after Rembrandt,
though he had little success
during his lifetime.
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The lost testimony
of Rashomon
Nyoba Kan Buto Festival 2010
“BU” means dance,
“TÔ” means stamp on the ground.
Butô, the original Japanese
contribution to modern dance,
arose during the 1960s.
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A Cup Of Brewed Coffee
With Mr. Avijit Paul
The Man We Call Avi
Once a Film and Animation
student in Multimedia
University; now,
Avijit Paul is an academician
by profession and
entrepreneur by passion.
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CREDITS:
Pouyan Mohseninia
Grace Lai Choo Ern
Tan Ming Jie
Avijit Paul
Ahmad Edrees
Mohd Hadiy Syakir
Bahare Darvish
Ezreen Delaila Taib
Fazri Nuha Yusof
Dr. Lim Yan Peng
Mohammad Shirani
Hazim Bin Abd Halim
Syarifah Nurizni Wafa
Syafiqah Alyani Shamsudin
Chor Cheun Koong
Muhammad Adib Abu Bakar
Muhammad Syfiq ‘Izzat
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Sharifah Sarah bt. Syed Idros
(President of Creative
Mulimedia Club)
and to all whom made efforts
through publishing this issue.
Director Perspective
“Google, Word Of Mouth”
What is it like to work
in a Google project?
During the first two days I was
waiting for them to tell me what
to do next.
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Team Member Perspective
“Google, Word Of Mouth”
What is it like to work
in a Google project?
We were honoured to be
selected by Google for Google
Day at MMU Cyberjaya! Google
Day is mostly about lectures
from Googlers and Google
Technology User Group about
the latest “cool” development of
technology...
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Malaysian Book of records
The longest live painting
Page 20
From MMU to Oman,
a interview with
Munawarruzzaman bin Mokhtar
My Next Goal Is To Be
A Student Once Again
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The 4th Annual
Creative Multimedia Awards
The Fabulous Night Out
Page 28
An Observation
of Jahai Modesty
The air was still, quiet and cool.
The bright midday sun shone
high in the sky,
but our lively conversations
were nicely shaded under the
leaves of a huge jackfruit tree.
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Next Issue
An Interview with
Professor Dr. Jon Baggaley
Professor of Education Technology
Athabasca University, Canada
Time, Knowledge
Realization
11th MMU Convocation 2010
Grace Lai Choo Ern
Best Creative Multimedia
Student 2010
The city’s all day
Creative art festivals
Urban Scape 2010
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Welcome
To Entitle
Magazine
Dear readers of the
Entitle Magazine,
Now that I am honored to speak
with you as my very first time,
I would like to thank all of the
lecturers and the Students of
FCM who have made an effort
and supported the magazine.
So far, we have published four
issues. During time, we have
made efforts to improve the
magazine and to be a better
representative, although, I
personally believe as a new born
child we still need to be advised.
and is published in this issue.
Although two contributors from
the Entitle Magazine, sponsored
by our dean Prof Harold Thwaites
were to cover the event, but we
still had difficulties to finalize
the article. Unfortunately, the
award winning students weren’t
available during the event as
some were absent. So, later
emails were sent to the winners
to interview them, however, some
didn’t respond at all. During this
process, the Entitle Magazine
was pleased by the Creative
Multimedia Club president Ms.
Sharifah Sarah bt. Syed Idros and
her collaboration and support to
finalize the 4th annual creative
multimedia award article.
First of all, I would like to invite
all of the FCM students, and
especially our lecturers who
are interested to share their
knowledge and get involved with
the magazine.
In the middle of our first
trimester of 2010, an outstanding
effort was made by the FCM
students. A new record was
registered in the Malaysian books
of record, “The live painting”.
It was held during this year’s
convocation ceremony in MMU
broke the records as the longest
live painting in Malaysia.
Congratulations on this success.
In this issue of the Entitle
Magazine, our major theme is
“Google, word of mouth”, the
event which was held back in July
14th to 16th, featuring Mr. Avijit
Pual, the assistant lecturer of FCM
and the director of the event. It is
followed by his article regarding
his perspective on how it is to work
with Google. Also, from the MMU
students who had the opportunity
to work with Google, Ms. Tan
Ming Jai a FCM alumni and one
of the members of the event wrote
about her perspective as well.
As this trimester was getting
close to its last days, career of a
FCM lecturer was as well. One of
the very first FCM alumni, Mr.
Munawarruzzaman bin Mokhtar,
was moving out from FCM to
continue his career in Oman.
Therefore, a team from the Entitle
Magazine prepared themselves
to interview him before his
departure. A farewell goodbye to
him was also organized by the DM
department. We wish him good
luck and the best. “Salamat Jalan”
Mr. Muna!
Finally, one of our major
articles “The 4th annual creative
multimedia award” was finalized
Starting from this issue, I want
to have a closer contact with our
readers; hence, I have started
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this column by giving a brief
introduction to this current issue.
Once again, I would like to
ask for your contribution and
collaboration with the magazine.
As mostly asked, I will highlight
that this magazine is neither for
a particular group of students
nor a group of special lecturers.
So, please feel free to help the
magazine grow.
Please send your articles,
pictures and news to the
magazine’s email at
[email protected]
You can always find the
electronic version of the
magazine on the FCM website at
http://creative.mmu.edu.
my/2010/entitle.html
Also, you can join us on
Facebook and get informed of the
latest news at
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I hope this magazine can open a
new horizon toward education
in FCM as I also hope you enjoy
reading this issue.
Sincerely,
Pouyan Mohseninia
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Artist’s Diary
Vincent Van Gogh
The Life and
Times of Him
By Mohd Hadiy Syakir
1081105685
Digital Media, Gamma
[email protected]
Vincent Van Gogh is generally
considered the greatest Dutch
painter after Rembrandt, though
he had little success during his
lifetime. Van Gogh produced all
of his work which some says it is
estimated 900 paintings and 1100
drawings during a period of only
10 years before he succumbed to
mental illness which is possibly
bipolar disorder and committed
suicide. His fame grew rapidly
after his death especially following a showing of 71 of van Gogh’s
paintings in Paris on March 17,
1901, just 11 years after his death.
Color, for him, was the chief symbol of expression. Van Gogh’s influence on expressionism, fauvism
and early abstraction was enormous, and can be seen in many
other aspects of 20th-century art.
A son of a pastor, brought up in a
religious and cultured atmosphere,
Vincent was highly emotional and
lacked self-confidence. Between
1860 and 1880, when he finally
decided to become an artist, van
Gogh had had two unsuitable
and unhappy romances and had
worked unsuccessfully as a clerk in
a bookstore, an art salesman, and a
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Van Gogh’s
influence
on expressionism,
fauvism
and early
abstraction
was
enormous,
and can
be seen in
many other
aspects of
20thcentury art.
preacher in the Borinage (a dreary
mining district in Belgium), where
he was dismissed for overzealousness. He remained in Belgium
to study art, determined to give
happiness by creating beauty. The
works of his early Dutch period
are somber-toned, sharply lit,
genre paintings of which the most
famous is “The Potato Eaters”
(1885). In that year van Gogh went
to Antwerp where he discovered
the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints.
In 1886 he went to Paris to join
his brother Théo, the manager
of Goupil’s gallery. In Paris, van
Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pisarro, Monet, and
Gauguin, and began to lighten
his very dark palette and to paint
in the short brushstrokes of the
Impressionists. His nervous
temperament made him a difficult
companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all
day undermined his health. He
decided to go south to Arles where
he hoped his friends would join
him and help found a school of
art. Gauguin did join him but with
disastrous results. Near the end
of 1888, an incident led Gauguin
to ultimately leave Arles. Van
Gogh pursued him with an open
razor, was stopped by Gauguin,
but 1888, when city life and living with his brothers proved too
much, Van Gogh left Paris and
went to Arles, Bouches-du-Rh,
France. He was impressed with
the local landscape and hoped to
found an art colony. He decorated
a “yellow house” and created a celebrated series of yellow sunflower
paintings for this purpose. Only
Paul Gauguin, whose simplified
colour schemes and forms (known
as synthetism) attracted van Gogh,
followed his invitation. The admiration was mutual, and Gauguin
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painted van Gogh painting sunflowers. However their encounter
ended in a quarrel. Van Gogh
suffered a mental breakdown and
cut ended up cutting a portion
of his own ear lobe off, which he
gave to a startled prostitute friend.
Gauguin left in December 1888.
Van Gogh then began to alternate
between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in
Saint-Remy for treatment.
In May of 1890, he seemed much
better and went to live in Auverssur-Oise under the watchful eye of
Dr. Gachet. Two months later he
was dead, having shot himself
In May 1890 Vincent van Gogh
left the clinic and went to the
physician Paul Gachet, in Auverssur-Oise near Paris, where he was
closer to his brother Theo, who
had recently married. Gachet had
been recommended to him by
Pissarro; he had treated several
artists before. Here van Gogh created his only etching: a portrait
of the melancholic doctor Gachet.
His depression aggravated. On
July 27 of the same year, at the
age of 37, after a fit of painting
activity, van Gogh having shot
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71.8 x 90.8 cm (28 1/4 x
35 3/4 in); Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum,
New York
The Starry Night
June 1889, Oil on Canvas,
72 x 92 cm (29 x 36 1/4 in);
The Museum of Modern
Art, New York
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himself in the chest “for the good
of all.” He died two days later,
with Theo at his side, who reported his last words as “La tristesse
durera toujours” (French: “The
sadness will last forever”). He was
buried at the cemetery of Auverssur-Oise; Theo unable to come
to terms with his brother’s death
died 6 months later and was buried next to him. It would not take
long before his fame grew higher
and higher. Large exhibitions
were organized soon: Paris 1901,
Amsterdam 1905, Cologne 1912,
New York 1913 and Berlin 1914.
Today, The Van Gogh Museum
in Amsterdam is dedicated to
Van Gogh’s work and that of his
contemporaries. Among of the
famous painting that is still on
display today is The Red Vineyard, was created in 1888. It is
on display at Pushkin Museum in
Moscow and is the only painting
that he sold during his lifetime.
Even though his mother threw
away quite a number of his paintings during Vincent’s life and even
after his death, but she would live
long enough to see her son become a world famous painter.
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By Bahare Darvish
1081108022
Film & Animation, Beta
[email protected]
The lost testimony
of Rashomon
Nyoba Kan Buto Festival 2010
“BU” means dance, “TÔ” means stamp on the ground. Butô, the original
Japanese contribution to modern dance, arose during the 1960s. Today,
Butô enjoys an extraordinarily high level of popularity worldwide.
Founded by Tatsumi Hijikata, this innovative genre is currently being
preserved and evolved by dance groups like Sankai Juku and Byakkosha
and by soloists like Kazuo Ono. In the traditional sense, butô is a ritual
dance performed by farmers when they celebrate the harvest. On the
other hand, butô is also a revolutionary movement in the dance world
of the 1960s.... Butô is the cycle between birth and death, life and death.
Buto is not only dance but drama and performance. It has a spiritual
dimension and has to do with life itself. It’s a living sign in space.
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The lost testimony of Rashomon
was performed on Saturday,
7th of August. It was held in
the actors’ studio theatre at lot
10 shopping centre. At first,
everywhere was dark while the
projector was showing flashlikes
and electrical sounds. So, it
showed Japanese style, because
these kinds of styles in Japanese
video art exchange performances
had been seen. Then, three
persons entered to the stage; their
clothes were all in white. Even,
their bodies were transferred
into white and as Lee Swee
Keong once said; the buto dancer
should transfer his/her body
into white color. So, White color
is the most important color in
buto dance. The other interesting
thing was using red hair color
for the devil who was one of the
main characters. When the devil
entered the stage, the other three
dancers tried to escape. When the
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lights were focused on the evil’s
movements, the projector was
showing some abstract pictures
of taking a small girl. Suddenly,
a girl was entered to the stage.
She was very anxious and her
eyes were filled with tears. It
was obvious that she is scared
of something. Moreover, she
touched her body like something
is inside of her body. This may
refer that her soul had been
taken. It also can be said that
buto can be scary dance too. The
conclusion of the story is that
the evil is also alone like all the
people around the world. Despite
the fact, that he has conquered a
lot of people’s soul but I believe
he himself has been conquered
by a powerful person! The overall
massage of the lost testimony
of Rashmon was who the main
person who runs everything and
everybody is.
As it has been written about buto
dance, there is no set style at all.
However, the director had used
some props. The props also were
easy to handle. It is better to
say that the director used them
cleverly. For instance, chairs
were carried by actresses and
actors. However mostly, there
were no props and dancers filled
the stage with their movements.
The actresses had very good and
flexible bodies. However, one of
the actors’ performing was also
nice. He physically was a man, but
his personality was like women.
He really could perform well.
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A Cup Of Brewed Coffee
With Mr. Avijit Paul
The Man We Call Avi
Avi has worked on a broad range of projects that involved industry
leaders such as Google, Maxis, Suzuki, Danone, Shin Etsu, PETRONAS
and many more. He has also participated in various extracurricular
activities that involved Malaysian Think Tanks; such as ASLI for World
Islamic Economic Forum and Perdana Foundation for Peace Forum by
the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad.
Besides that, he has volunteered for many charity events such as Tsunami Fund raising and Orphanage programs.
For the fourth issue of ENTITLE magazine, we have invited Avi to share
a little more about himself as well as his experiences working with
Google in this interview.
Photos by
Chor Cheun Koong
I worked
on couple
of projects
namely
Spectrum
Based Voice
Learning
and HDRI
for 3D
environment.
I came up
with the
idea of the
research
and
proposal
for the fund
and was
awarded
RM70,000
for funding
of the
project.
By Grace Lai Choo Ern
1061105381
Media Innovation, Alumni
[email protected]
Let’s begin with a simple
introduction about you.
How would you describe
yourself as a person?
Well, I would say that I’m a
simple person. I like to help solve
problems and usually have a difficulty in saying “no” to people. I
am practicing now though.
What kind of problems do
you like to help solve? All
kind of problems or those
that are technology related?
Actually I’m interested in solving
any kind of problem, but I guess
I tend to solve more technology
related problems since I’m more
of a technology person.
When did you come to
Malaysia and Why did you
choose Malaysia?
I came to Malaysia in April 2002.
Malaysia was actually one of the
few countries I could go to due
to problems in obtaining a visa.
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It was easier to come to Malaysia
at that moment. Coming here
was also cheaper. When I did my
studies in Singapore, one of my
lecturers recommended me to go
to US, Canada or Malaysia. Then
we found out that the best option for me was to go to Malaysia
since I wanted to do animation
and film. So she made all the arrangements for me to come.
We are also interested to
know why you picked MMU.
Well, no other place in Malaysia
was giving a degree in animation
or film.
You have worked with Google a couple of times so far.
We would like to know what
you have done before that.
Prior to Google, I was doing
many things. During my studies
in MMU I was always freelancing. I did TV Commercials for
Suzuki and Maxis and a whole
lot of websites for other companies. I also worked on couple of
projects namely Spectrum Based
Voice Learning and HDRI for 3D
environment. I came up with the
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idea of the research and proposal
for the fund and was awarded
RM70,000 for funding of the
project. After graduation I joined
a local company in Cyberjaya and
then joined MMU as a teaching staff. Then there are the two
startups that you already know
about; Enveluv and Friendly
Rabbit Media.
What happened with the
Spectrum Based Voice
Learning project?
I think not many people
have heard about it.
It worked as a prototype, but
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later on we found out that what
we did was wrong. If the project
was to extend further, it will start
giving the wrong outputs. Unfortunately, our team did not have
the time to reprogram it.
I think most of the students
will be interested to hear
about your freelancing experience. You were so active; how did you manage
to find time for studies and
freelancing? How did you
manage to balance all your
activities?
Since I was surviving on my own
I had no choice but to work. To
me at that time, making money
was extremely important as I
figured if I could pay my tuition
fees, I could at least pass my
degree. I mean, I had the confidence to pass. What I needed
was the money. Working as a
freelancer, I could make more
money than if I were working
at McDonalds. Plus, it would be
illegal for me to work there since
I am a foreigner. I could make
more money as a freelancer and
the projects I receive relate back
to multimedia. Instead of taking
away my time for assignments,
freelancing actually helped me to
do them a lot faster than the other students. So I had no problems
in finishing my assignments.
Let’s go back to talking
about Google.
How did you get the Google
Stimulus Project?
Well, when I started Enveluv, we
wanted to advertise Google. So
I called Jeff Ooi who is a wellknown political blogger and he
gave me Hanson Toh’s number.
Hanson is the representative for
Google in Malaysia. So I emailed
Hanson and we had a talking session that lasted for 4 hours. We
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met a couple of other times, like
when Google wanted to introduce
their Google Apps to universities.
So two years after that meeting about Google Apps, Hanson
called me and asked which university would be the best to work
on their Google Stimulus Project.
Naturally, I said MMU. Hanson
also found out from recruitment
agencies that employers preferred graduates from MMU and
UTAR. So that was how we got
the project.
What about the “Word
of Mouth” Google project?
Was it through
Hanson again?
Actually, I felt very bad about
the previous project as we did
pretty badly. So I asked Hanson
to inform me in future if there
were any other projects available so that we could make up
for it. Hanson was too busy for
this project but he did contact me
to find out which university has
the best ratio of Malay, Chinese
and Indian students. I told him
that MMU had a ratio of about
40 40 10 10; Malays, Chinese,
Indians and foreigners accordingly. Google initially went to
UM, but it didn’t work out there
so Hanson emailed Seyoung my
particulars and she got in touch
with me. Seyoung was the project
manager for Southeast Asia. At
first, I thought it was some kind
of research project; I wasn’t really
clear on the details of the project
but decided to go ahead with it
anyway. I called Eric Ho from
the president’s office who was all
up for bringing this to MMU and
since it sounded like a research
project, he asked me to contact
Dr Tang from R&D. We actually
wanted to get the IT faculty to
host it as it sounded more of an
IT project. But the Dean of IT was
too busy at that time so I went
to FCM instead. I contacted Mr
Khong who is in charge of R&D
in FCM and he gave me his full
support. He got the venue and approval from the Dean of FCM and
we started advertising. I also got
support from Dr Saravannan, the
Associate Dean of FOM to spread
the words in bulletin board etc
regarding this project.
There was another Google
project before these two?
What was it about?
Oh, that was the Google Online
Marketing Challenge. Basically
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nice despite the failure. They
understood that there might be
many reasons for the failure so
they were just trying to figure out
why it happened.
Avi’s Fun Fact
Working with Google has its
advantages. What about disadvantages? Are there any?
Since we’ve all heard what a
good place it is to work in.
Well, you’ve got to be really
proactive. It’s not a disadvantage,
but you’ve just got to be really
really proactive.
- Learnt how to speak English
fluently in 3 months because
of a dedicated roommate in
Singapore.
- Not fussy about food but says a
big NO to bitter gourd.
- Used to talk to the wall when
he was a kid.
- Makes friends very easily and
is a natural PR person.
- Is the only child in his family.
- Wanted to do animation
because of the ‘Tom and Jerry’
cartoon show.
- Knows how to fly a plane.
Are there any other
qualifications needed to be
working in Google?
You’ve got to be pretty smart;
you need a really high CGPA
from one of the top universities
of the world.
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it’s about students coming up
with effective online marketing
campaigns for a company of their
choice. I signed up with Google
to become a trainer and taught 8
groups altogether. Unfortunately,
none qualified. This was actually a
competition, not a collaboration.
So, so far you have had two
experiences working with
Google, one failure and one
success. Were there any
differences in the way they
treated you?
No, there was no difference in
their treatment. They were really
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What are you working on
right now?
Currently I am working on more
game related projects both for
mobile and desktops. I have also
been teaching Unity 3D for two
semesters now. Besides that my
startup, FRM (Friendly Rabbit
Media) is actually acting as a
technology provider for the Tun
Mahathir Musical that will be
held in Istana Budaya from 24th
September to 4th October. We
will be combining Augmented
Reality with the live theater performance. Basically we are trying
to do a 3D projection mapping
along with live actor tracking. We
have set certain gestures to act as
a marker which will then be captured by our AR. For example,
we program the AR to detect a
gesture of the opening of hands.
Then when an actor opens up his
hands; a 3D model of KLCC pops
up on the screen. Our part is to
fuse 3D models of Mahathir’s
development successes such as
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PICC, KLCC, Putrajaya Mosque
and others with the live acting.
How did your company land
this project?
Kino-i Studios, a production
studio in Malaysia connected us
with CTRA Production which is
presenting the musical.
They just said they wanted AR
with live acting so we searched
for options and came across projection mapping.
How did your past working experiences affect your
current job(s)? And how did
they affect your teaching?
My past working experiences
in Enveluv and as a freelancer
made me more mature in terms
of making decisions. I am able
to understand people more as in
what they want and how to sell
it to them. Knowing how to get
things done helped me to teach
better and influenced my teaching topics.
Do you have any advice for
students who want to become entrepreneurs?
Just do it, especially when you
have no money. Then you have
nothing to lose.
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Director Perspective
“Google, Word Of Mouth”
What Is It Like
To Work In A
Google Project?
By Avijit Paul
Assistant Lecturer FCM, MMU
[email protected]
During the first two days I was
waiting for them to tell me what
to do next. After all, it was the
first time I was working on a
Google project and although I
knew that the registrant data
from SME’s are getting uploaded
in some database, I was expecting them to tell me once they
send it to us.
After two days of no emails and
no calls, I was shocked to see my
Google spreadsheet was filled
with SME details when I opened
it to work on another document
and since I was not doing anything for past two days someone
else started to take charge and
do my portion of the work. I
was surprised, frustrated and
ashamed at the same time and
at that moment I realized that in
an organization like Google once
you are assigned to a job you
take all responsibility and drive
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the project. There is no point of
waiting for someone to guide or
order you what to do. It was all
so different than the way I have
worked in any other places.
This whole thing happened during the first time FCM worked
with Google for their Blogger for
business program. The program
was known as Google Stimulus
project as first 200 businesses
who signs up with Google gets
a free website done based on
Blogger. Students from FCM,
MMU and IT faculty of UTAR
were selected to join this project.
There was a website where SME
(Small and Medium businesses)
to sign up and all their data was
gathered in a Google spreadsheet
which automatically fills up data
in my spreadsheet. My job was to
distribute them to student groups
and monitor the progress.
However, what the description does not tell is that, at any
time anyone from Google who is
involved in the project can see
how we are doing. It is just so
transparent that there is no way
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I realized
if you are
to work
in a fast
company
like Google
where
everything
is very
open to all
internal
parties you
just cant
wait and
procrastinate,
you have
to be really
proactive,
very quick
and just do
it no matter
what
date were posted as well to keep
everyone in check.
Eventually our first experience
has helped a lot in the second
project as we managed to get all
the confirmation from all parties,
booked our venues, confirmed
lecture slots, got our posters
designed and sent for reviews
before other universities replied
saying that they are interested to
organize this project and wanted
to know more about it.
we can do a last minute work or
lie about the condition, as everything is online and extremely
transparent.
And since from the beginning
we were too slow, Google Singapore felt that they cant rely on us
much. Eventually we really were
not up to the mark and did badly
in our first project. We were
really in very FCM mindset of
working last minute and not being very proactive. We managed
to do only 25% of the project. So
when we got the second chance
to organize “Word of Mouth”
project we ensured everything is
up to the speed. From the moment we got the email asking
if we want to organize this, we
have immediately emailed all
possible parties involved and
create Google docs to update the
progress and shared the data
between all the Googlers involved
in the project.
We have also created the primary
website to collect the visitors, put
up notice in the bulletin board,
hired related data specialists and
all the activities were updated
twice daily in the spreadsheet. At
the same time expected ending
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Needless to say, working in a
project like this means you have
to be on top of the information
flow at all time and ready to act
on backup plans immediately
if the original did not succeed.
You also need to be very well
informed (to identify what is really important and trendy), well
connected (to ensure you talk to
the people who has the power to
decide) and be extremely quick.
There is really no time to delay
because most people will not
reply on time and this will constantly add on delay time. So if
you are late as well or used to do
things last minute, it just adds on
more time and eventually makes
the whole project delayed.
Halfway during the project I was
looking at the, to do list for this
event and found that all are done
long before the due date. I remembered the first project again
when I was waiting for something to happen. I realized if you
are to work in a fast company like
Google where everything is very
open to all internal parties you
just cant wait and procrastinate,
you have to be really proactive,
very quick and just do it no matter what. Makes a lot of sense
why they only hire from top universities of the world and don’t
even look at your resume if your
university is out of top 100.
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Team Member Perspective
“Google, Word Of Mouth”
What Is It Like
To Work In A
Google Project?
The event
has been a
successful
one.
We had
good
response
from both
organizers
and people
from the
industries.
It has given
Malaysian,
the MMU
community
a very good
exposure of
the latest
technology
and we
are very
proud of
this collaboration work
Training
Afterwards I found that there
were not more than 20 people
who got selected for the job. We
attended a training session with
some appointed Googlers from
Korea and Singapore who were in
charge of the project, understanding our job scope and everything
we needed to know about.
Promotion
In order to make the event a
success, all of us put tremendous
effort to promote the event. We
had created an event in Facebook, spread the news through
their walls and invited our
friends to the 3-day event, told
them through the word of mouth,
got approvals from MMU admin
to paste posters around. We’ve
been literally trying our best to
promote the event in whatever
method we can think of. Few
days later, some friends told me
that “I can see the Google posters everywhere in campus! at the
bank, classrooms and etc.” It’s
great that people has been really
paying attention to the posters.
By Tan Ming Jie
1061104081
Digital Media, Alumni
[email protected]
What this is?
We were honoured to be selected by Google for Google Day
at MMU Cyberjaya! Google Day
is mostly about lectures from
Googlers and Google Technology User Group about the latest
“cool” development of technology
and how to create fantastic cutting edge work with that. The rest
was voice recording which gives
MMU students / staff an exclu-
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sive Google T-shirt in appreciation for their participation.
How did I join?
Many must have questioned what
I have gone through in order to
be selected to be a team member
for the project.
Actually an announcement had
been made on the MMU bulletin
board. Anyone who was interested to get involved in this could
send their resume to apply for
the job. So did me. A few days
later, I received a call from Google
informing me the good news that
I was selected for the job.
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Event days
Google Day started off as pleasant as we expected with the overwhelming participation of the
volunteers for the voice recording as well as the first session of
the lecture series “Open Social”
by Timothy Jordan. The recording sessions were carried out in
two different spots; indoor and
outdoor of FCM building.
Besides this, the other topic covered that day were “Maps API”
by Daniel Lee. It was an amazing
lecture where he built a whole
map application while talking.
Next day Nazrul Kamaruddin
(GTUG organizer) talked about
“Best Practices of developers on
Google technologies”. The most
popular lecture was followed next
- “HTML 5” by Patrick Chanezon
and the lecture was equally jaw
dropping and informative. The
last one was “Google AdSense”
by Ruth Beattie, an Irish lady in
Singapore who heads Southeast
Asia Adsense team. Most of these
speakers are invited from the
Google office around the world
and one was local professionals.
The event has been a successful one. We had good response
from both organizers and people
from the industries. It has given
Malaysian, the MMU community a very good exposure of the
latest technology and we are very
proud of this collaboration work.
I hope there will be more opportunities for collaboration work
between MMU and Google in the
near future.
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I hope
there will
be more
opportunities
for collaboration
work
between
MMU and
Google
in the
near
future.
Malaysian Book of records
sian Book of Records. The record
for the longest mural painting.
The length of the mural painting
had to be at least 650 meters to
break the current record. If the
mural did not exceed that length,
our record will not be accepted.
That was one of the risks we
had to take note of when trying
to attempt this record breaking
event. Thankfully once everyone
put their best foot forward, we
managed to paint a mural painting with a whopping 659.2meters
The longest live painting
By Syarifah Nurizni Wafa binti
Syed Naguib Wafa*
1071120336
Media Innovation, Gamma
[email protected]
Live painting is a form of improvisational performance art in
which artists complete a visual
art piece in a public performance.
usually public event, accompanied by a DJ or live music. The
form is often contrasted with
more studied fine art compositions from the same artists,
which are generally executed in
an artist studio or other private
spaces (Wikipedia). This programme was held from 29th July
2010 until 1st August 2010, along
the road in Multimedia University Cyberjaya.
MMU Live Painting was a side
project for Convofest 2010. The
theme of this event was “1 Malaysia Go Green”. The reason this
theme was chosen was because
we wanted to support the prime
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ministers campaign, which is “1
Malaysia”. We also wanted to
encourage participants to build
the sense of being the same
despite the differences between
religion, cultures and background. Go Green came from
the increasing awareness of the
community towards our environment and Mother Nature. So
we incorporated both to create
a more interesting concept.Our
participants were students and
staffs of MMU, the public, local professional artists and even
young children as below as 4 year
olds. We opened this event to
everyone. The reason behind this
is that we wanted to foster closer
relations among students and
staff of MMU, the public, students from other neighbouring
universities and industry players
who will attend this event.
We wanted to make this event an
exciting event for participants to
be enthused to join, so we decided to try and break the Malay-
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Photos by
Hazim Bin Abd Halim
long exceeding the current record
and at the same time we managed to break the record.
During the event we had another side attraction, we had
invited local DJ’s to come and
play some good music at this
event. It was called Save the
Tree. Over 20 DJ’s came for the
four days to show their support
and they managed to make the
event an entertaining one with
their music. At the end of the
event we managed to achieve our
goals and over 250 participants
came to paint and support the
event. It was a big success. A big
thank you to the Students’ Representative Council 09/10, Student
Affairs Division, Multimedia
University, Cyberjaya, staffs and
students of Multimedia University, the public, everyone who
participated, Save the Tree Dj’s
and a special thank you to my
working committees for MMU
Live Painting 2010. Without all
of you, this event would not have
become a reality.
*Director, Live Painting
“1 Malaysia Go Green”
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At the end
of the event
we
managed
to achieve
our goals
and
over 250
participants came
to paint
and
support
the event
From MMU to Oman, a interview with
Munawarruzzaman bin Mokhtar
My Next Goal Is To Be
A Student Once Again
Munnawarrozaman Bin Mokhtar is one the very first students as well
lecturers in faculty of creative multimedia, he is mostly known as Mr.
Muna. Recently we were informed, Muna will be leaving FCM, MMU
for good. He has had shown green lights to one of his offers from Oman
to continue his career in Middle East, Asia. The entitle magazine with
the collaboration of the DM students whom basically were his previous and current students coordinated an interview to get to know more
about him.
Muna was raised in rural areas of Perak. In a quite small town,
were works hours are small and people stop working after 8
o’clock. His family didn’t have a TV in the house until the late
2000 and it only had one channel that only aired shows a few
hours a day. He started receiving early education in a school back
in his hometown a pretty normal childhood life like any other kid
in a small town, with no computer, internet or any other modern
facilities.
After his diploma in engineering in ITTM he felt engineering
was too heavy, he couldn’t cope with advance mathematic, and
C++ and all the programming subjects. So, after his diploma he
entered Multimedia University. It was there that I finally found
interest in FCM. He joined the 1st batch of 1997 and in 2000 he
started working here as a specialist to not only teach but also
work with them. Several other students from his batch decided to
take this job as well, not as lecturers but as part time-designers
and part-time tutors.
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Photo by
Pouyan Mohseninia
By Pouyan Mohseninia, Ezreen
Delaila Taib, Fazri Nuha Yusof,
Muhammad Adib Abu Bakar,
and Dr. Lim Yang Peng
Voice transition by Ahmad Edrees
Why did you choose FCM,
MMU and started working in
this field suddenly after your
graduation and currently
what degree are you holding?
I took the offer because it’s under
Telekom Malaysia. I don’t want
to work in corporation environment that’s why it’s much more
flexible here. In 2003 I started
my masters in visual communication. The psychology of visual
design it’s a social psychology
subject, while still working here
of course and after my masters I
was accepted as a full time lecturer here in Multimedia University
for the moment.
How were you treated when
you were a specialist and
then accepted as a lecturer?
Actually before I was a lecturer
in 2008 I had some experience
in tutoring classes, helping other
lecturers in their classes and
after receiving my master degree
I had the responsibility to
handle classes.
Actually more of beta and gamma
classes. Which is more towards
skill based subjects where every
student is in the same level because not everybody is having the
design background, so during the
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The
student
from
earlier
batches,
from my
observation choose
to study in
this faculty
meaning
they
weren’t
forced to
study here,
it was
them who
decided to
study here,
even some
student
had
argument’s
with their
parents
on why
they chose
to study
in FCM
beta years we were treating the
student the same.
How was your first
working day?
In the early days if FCM we
didn’t have much majors only
FA, MI and DM around 200 student mostly. So we knew most of
the students and what was being
taught in every class.
One other thing, the student
from earlier batches, from my
observation choose to study in
this faculty meaning they weren’t
forced to study here, it was them
who decided to study here, even
some student had argument s
with their parents on why they
chose to study in FCM.
10 years ago the design industry
wasn’t anything like now. Even
TV had some restrictions on the
shows like which ad or TV series
even the Internet was just starting to be explored by Malaysia.
Eventually,
one day
I might
come back
to FCM,
but my next
goal is to be
a student
once again.
What was the difference
between the earlier and the
current time of FCM?
I can say that back then there were
limited resource, we didn’t have
many references or such. We needed to find or learn by ourselves.
Adobe Flash was newly released
and it was hard to master.
Until right now most of the syllabus has been listed down when
you enter Beta or Beta 2. It restricts student’s interest, it’s not
free to explore, or do anything
they like. If you are a student
you receive student brief, which
you have to follow and do exactly
that. Most students won’t do
more than what’s their told to. In
the earlier times the lecturer told
the objectives and what needed
to be done and students would
freely and easily do and explore
their options in designing and
finishing their works.
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Photos by
Ezreen Delaila Taib
You mentioned about the
intentions the assignment
brief and students had to follow it? Can you explain that?
It limits the student’s creativity,
assignment brief is just a guide,
help for the students to develop
their ideas. The restriction won’t
let the creativity be nourished.
Tell us about your goals.
My goals are always changing depending on my situation.
Before, I was doing my Masters,
game design and so on. But currently my goals are not related to
my work but it is more personal
like soul searching. What I mean
is to reflect on what I have done
from the past 10 years or so of
my work life, it’s what I want to
continue to do. That’s why I want
to see if it’s benefitting me or others to have me as a lecturer. But
for now I want to continue my
working life.
Actually working life doesn’t end
when your 50 or 60 but you will
carry it until your dead, in the
definition of work, working is
not actually about the salary but
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The
experience
that I have
in teaching
had some
influences
in my life.
It means
if the
teacher is
not good
at his job
it will have
a negative
effect on the
students
and society.
more of what you contribute to
others and yourself. It doesn’t
end there.
Eventually, one day I might come
back to FCM, but my next goal is
to be a student once again. Let say
as some financial support I would
like to go to countries like Syria or
Saudi Arabia, because I want to be
a student once again but this time
in a different field of studies.
Do you have any intentions
of leaving the academic life?
I don’t have the intention of
leaving this and work for the
corporate sector. But I have the
intention of being a student once
more, towards religious matters,
that’s what I will probably do in
another 5-10 years.
For me it will be more of an inner searching to be close to my
religion and to be able to learn
things that make me more peaceful in my life. The experience
that I have in teaching had some
influences in my life. It means if
the teacher is not good at his job
it will have a negative effect on
the students and society.
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Did you have any good
memories/feel happy during
work?
I was always happy when my students pass, even if my students
learn something new if they don’t
know about it. If they don’t know
about action script and after
a few classes they learn it that
makes me happy.
After sometime when the studetns start to learn more in
design and preparing produce
product, that’s the most happiest
moment of my lecture time it’s
not a specific thing or time.
You are very quite as a lecturer but after this trimester the students were more
confitable with you and you
were more involved with
them as well specially during group works and tutorial
sessions. Are you happy with
the work you do with your
students?
I’m always happy to do anything.
If I’ve been given a responsibility
to lecture a class or something
that I’ve been asked to do so I
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Muna’s Fun Fact
Do you do any outside
activities from MMU like
sporting or any hobbies?
My hobbies are basically
playing games, which I won
some awards from games
competitions, e-sports.
The best place that I scored was
runners-up.
I also play card games. I went to
Asia pacific games back in 2001,
the magic gathering. I’m also a
fan of blizzard entertainment
and I’m looking forward to
Diablo 3. In fact during my
younger times secondary school
I was curious to know how they
make games so now I know
how to make games and I teach
students how to make games,
and now I know it’s not that fun,
playing it is much more fun.
Favorite leisure spot?
Home
Do you have any favorite
music band?
Not any in particularly, I stop
listening to music 10 years ago,
last time I listen was during my
studies I remember the popular
band was Green Day.
Favorite food?
Tempoyak
Photos by
Ezreen Delaila Taib
will try to handle it, although if
not happy at the beginning ill try
to be happy with it, and for the
second question yes I’m happy
with my students.
I’m also learning allot specially
every time the batch is changing
I learn something new about the
behavior of my students, even
if there is some quite students I
always like to observe them and
how they behave.
I really loved this trimester
because we went to a trip with
the class and my students, and I
don’t really like calling my students, students but rather friends
or colleagues.
If I feel like I don’t have any complain, if people’s actions doesn’t
harm anyone. I always like
everyone to make their choices
themselves even if I teach a student and he/she asked about my
opinion, I’ll say what’s your own
opinion about it or what does
your heart say about your design
aesthetically, even in working life
I tend to be the same, if I think
everything will be ok then let
them choose what they want.
Why did you decide to go
abroad for your career?
Well like I mentioned before I
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always have different goals, my
goal right now its whether I’m
doing the right things called it
mid life crises or not but I like to
think whether my contribution
has made my students do the
right thing or the wrong thing.
But the reason I decide to go for
that position is because I need to
be in a different environment, I’ve
been here for too long a part of
this institution, if I want to make
a difference here I can’t afford to
do it here, so I think a reason for
going abroad is to escape from
this environment, I need to get
out to correct myself, to be able
to experience a different environment, step out of my comfort zone
because the longer I stay in one
place I don’t think I’ll be able to
do anything food here.
How would you envision
FCM in a few years time?
What would you see as
change here?
I think FCM is in the right track
compared to 10 years ago. Not
much improvement in the facilities, but more to the organizational structure of it. I believe
if it follows everything it will be
accredited and it will be sufficient
for the years to come. The things
that need improvements are the
facilities need to update the labs
software’s and so on.
But regarding the teaching stuff,
I believe most of the FCM staff
is more than 3 years or 12-13
years of experience so they know
what they are teaching according to the majoring so it won’t
be a problem but they need to
maintain the standard, no need
to be complacent. Regarding the
syllabus it’s being solidified since
the accreditation.
Regarding the places I think the
students and teachers ratio is
quite balance, maybe if FCM want
to take lecturers from industries
because we need outside opinion,
industry workers. We need more
talks from outside to share their
knowledge whether we like it or
not in MMU we don’t go outside
so if we invite guests it’s much
more beneficial to everybody and
gain knowledge. Other stuff are
according to the plan, our president has a plan for FCM they have
a new majoring in 2012.
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We need
more
talks from
outside to
share
their
knowledge
whether we
like it
or not
in MMU
we don’t
go outside
so if we
invite
guests it’s
much more
beneficial to
everybody
and gain
knowledge.
The 4th Annual
Creative Multimedia Awards
The Fabulous
Night Out
The 4th Annual Creative
Multimedia Awards (ACMA)
is an event organized by the
Creative Multimedia Club (CMC)
to honor the best students
and lecturers in Faculty of
Creative Multimedia, and also to
encourage students and lecturers
to unleash their creativity.
This year’s theme was
“The Fabulous Night Out” which
was launched on 2nd April
2010 at Dewan Seri Siantan,
Perbadanan in Putrajaya.
The organizational committee
were Farah Shasheera
Rosli, Nordiana binti Ludin,
Muhammad Ikhwan Affandi,
Norlisa Soraya Ruslan, Siti Fatin
Sherrina Shaikh Zainal Abidin,
Wan Noor Maheran, Nurul
Nadia Zulkifli, Syarifah Nurizni
Wafa bt Syed Naguib Wafa,
Mohamad Izzuddin Asyraf bin
Ismail, Mohammad Tarmidzi
Noraini, Nur Ainina Fauzan,
Norlisa Soraya Ruslan, Shalini
Bala Chandran, Helmi Zuhdi bin
Mohd Salamun, Hazwan Hisyam
bin Ahmad Supian,
Rubinden Kumar A/L Balbir
Singh, Kamil Hafidz bin Adnan,
Faizah binti Fahmi.
The Faculty
of Creative
Multimedia
integrates
academic
study with
extensive
creative
digital
technology
production
work.
This proven
approach
has
established
Multimedia
University
at the
forefront of
Malaysian
creative
multimedia
education.
A team from Entitle Magazine,
under the sponsorship of the
Dean of Faculty of Creative
Multimedia, was to cover this
fabulous night out. One of the
most important aspects was to
promote the winners and be the
voice for them, especially for
the fresh students of Alpha and
Beta years respectively. Most
importantly, this also served as an
outlet to capture the memories of
the night. We had interviews with
the winners, and although a few
of them refused to be interviewed,
most were quite happy to
participate in this issue of Entitle.
Photo by
Pouyan Mohseninia
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Photo by
Mohammad Shirani
Could you please introduce
yourself?
What was your feeling
when they announced your
name as the winner for this
category?
Did you think of being
the winner? Were you
expecting it?
What would be the
objective for you in receiving
this award?
Do you have any comments
which you would like to
share with the faculty,
students and lecturers?
If you could have the chance
to give simple speech after
receiving the award, what
would you say?
Any other last words that
you would like to share with
the readers?
We hope all of you had a great
night for this year’s ACMA!
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Nor Hasif Bin
Abdul Hamid
Best Music Video
2009 - 2010
Haireey Hashnan
Best Alpha Year
Student
2009 - 2010
I am Film and Animation
student in my delta year majoring Visual Effects. During
my Media Production Process
assignment we won the title of
the best music video.
My positive point of view due
to FCM is basically most of
our lecturers are talented, so
they could help us and give us
good guide through. But as for
the negatives and commenting
them I think the way we want
to consult with them, they
mostly respond late and other
than that mostly lecturers are
not fluent in English. Generally I think professionalism is
just for some of them.
Best ALPHA year,
Student Nominees
- ESHAN FATEHIGHAHFAROKHI
- LEE AI LIN
- HAIREEY HASHNAN
- LIM SHU GI
- HAIZEEL HASHNAN
Project title:
Now Why Two
Artist: OAG
Group members: Ahmad
Ghazi Maslan, Nor Hasib
Ab. Hamid, Hazwan
Hisyam, Abdul Hafiz, Fara
Nur Izzati, Rahayu Ramly
You can also find the video
in the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=C7kEUo1EHGg
I was like asking to myself “is this
really happening?”. I mean there is
a lot greater student out there, like
Fazren, Haizeel my brother, Maya,
Hilmi and many more.
Honestly no. It’s not like I don’t
have faith in myself, it’s just that
it’s really a great honor even just
to be nominated.
Well, I really worked hard in my
studies, keep reminding myself
how much my parents paid for
me to be here and how much
I want to be involve and what
more furthering my study in
creative multimedia.
As I previously mentioned
most of the lecturers do have
enough experience but there
are some lecturers whom have
just graduated from MMU and
don’t have much experience
and I personally think this is
not good, they are just like us.
This university is supported by
TM, but the internet’s speed is
very slow.
I really like the lecturers here, I
really do. They helped me especially during the important consultations and give me the spirit
to work harder & produce better
work. But I do find the faculty
building a bit dull, it just need to
be more creative and lively.
Dewan Seri Siantan, Perbadanan in Putrajaya
Guests are ushered into the hall and
to their seats and the Dinner performance
Photos by Pouyan Mohseninia
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I really hope this event can be
bigger, to be known by whole
FCM staff, students and all.
It’ll be really great if it’s being
held in MMU itself for
transportation purpose and all.
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Work hard,
never
do your
assignment
last minute
unless you
can produce
a flawless
work.
Siti Sarah Ameera
B. Sarban
Best Gamma year
student majoring
Digital Media
2009 - 2010
Pouyan Mohseninia
Best Beta year
student majoring
Digital Media
2009 - 2010
Well actually we (entitle magazine team) were here for covering
the event and I wasn’t thinking
of being honored and entitled as
the best digital media student for
beta year. Honestly I think there
are lots of hard working and patient students who also deserve
this honor as well.
I believe from now on I have to
work even harder than before.
Best BETA year
DIGITAL MEDIA
Student Nominees
- AZIANA NORAZLEEN
BINTI ABD. WAHAB
- POUYAN MOHSENINIA
- LEE KAI WEN
- YON SIN YI
- AINA AZRIN
- BINTI ZULKIFLI
Hard work is the key to success,
I try to work diligently on my
assignments. I truly want to be
successful, therefore mostly I am
prepared to give up my leisure
time and is hard, but as I do enjoy every second of it I don’t feel
that much pain. So, this might be
the reason.
I think some lecturers are not fluent in their English.
I also want to ask from my lecturers, when “there is no classes for
today, because of an emergency
leave” there will be no substitute
classes at all, why?
“Expect the worst, hope for the
best, and capitalize on what
comes” Honestly I am not satisfied with mostly everything here,
but instead of complain I think
as a student it would be more
appropriate to help work things
out, by bringing ideas and solutions.
I do really appreciate and respect
all the efforts made, but due to
my expectations as a student to
what I have in this faculty, I see a
huge gap.
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Drum circle, is a group of
people playing hand-drums
and percussion.
Photos by
Mohammad Shirani
I truly
want to be
successful,
therefore
mostly I am
prepared to
give up my
leisure time
and that
is hard,
but as I do
enjoy every
second of it
I do not feel
that
much pain
Best GAMMA year
DIGITAL MEDIA
Student Nominees
- FARAH LIANA B. ABU BAKAR
- SITI SARAH AMEERA
B. SARBAN
- WAN LIYANA NAZNIM BT.
WAN OMAR SHUKRI
- MUHAMMAD FAIZ B. YUNUS
- NORDIANA BT. LUDIN
Actually to be honest, I think the
competition is very high because
most of my classmate are very
hard working and their designs
are very good, and pretty much it
could have been them, so I guess
it was my luck.
I should be the one to expect
from myself from now on more
than expecting my lecturers. I
should advice myself little bit
more to meet my own expectations. I have no negative issues
to my faculty nor lecturers and
I want to say this is all for them
because there is not much difference between me and my
friends/classmate.
I would like the thank you my
lecturers, family and friends and
classmate and off course my love
ones they are all very supportive.
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I have no
negative
issues
to my
faculty nor
lecturers
and I want
to say
this is all
for them
Norman
Chee Chung Ye
Best Delta year
Student majoring
Digital Media
2009 - 2010
Best DELTA year
DIGITAL MEDIA
Students Nominees
- LIU JIA WEN
- KHAIRUL ANWAR OTHMAN
- NORMAN CHEE CHUNG YE
- MUHAMMAD
KHAIRU JOHARI
- TAN MING JIE
students’ work but couldn’t find
any trace of FCM.
I would like to take this opportunity to share some words to my
juniors. 80% of the computer/
software skills I’ve learn during
first few years in the faculty has
now become outdated for me
now. So, if you want to be better than others in this field, you
have to be more self-motivation
in gaining exposure of other
people works, learn more skills in
field that you are interested and
take up freelance jobs if you can
so that you push yourself to do
more and learn more.
I was surprised when they announced, but I am totally
shocked and unprepared for the
FCM Best Favourite Student
award, I didn’t take the stage at
first as they might be mistaking.
But after their second announcement, I walked to the stage with
no idea why this is happening.
I am always motivated to learn
more, although at the end what
I’ve actually learned is less than
what I intended to learn,
but the process of keep on learning and exploring might have
slowing bring me towards receiving this honor.
Best BETA year
FILM & ANIMATION
Student Nominees
- SHAHIN GHAREMANI
- ARDHIRAH
ANUGERAH PUTRA
- CHATHRA WEERAMAN
- CHIN SHI QING
- LOKE HUI CHING
Ashraf Bin Azlan
Best Gamma Year
Student Majoring
Film & Animation
2009 - 2010
Best GAMMA year
FILM & ANIMATION
Students Nominees
- AHMAD GHAZI
BIN MASLAN
- ASHRAF BIN AZLAN
- ATHIRAH BINTI
MOHAMED ZAINI
- LIEW CHEN YI
- LIM KEAN CHEOK
I do character modelling as a
freelancer for game designers.
Live performance
Photos by Mohammad Shirani
I wish that our faculty will let
our students have more exposure
to the industry outside and also
let the outside industry have an
exposure of our student’s works.
Some other art university/colleges have a lot of exhibitions all
year round either at their campus
or public places.
It is kind of disappointing whenever I visit some exhibition
showcasing various art schools
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Find
something
to motivate
you, for me
“Money”
motivates
more
knowledge
and skills
will makes
me become
better
and get
some
freelance
jobs
Shahin Ghahremani
Best Beta Year
Student Majoring
Film & Animation
2009 - 2010
About this event I think it will
help to recognize the good students in our faculty. So, this is
the first step to promoting students.
I think the event was a bit rush,
hopefully the next year a lot
more preparation could be done.
The lecturers want you to be an
independent, they will point you
in the right direction and you
have to go alone and improve
your skills. Therefore one of the
best ways to develop your skills
is to join the forums because they
give you instance feedback and
will teach you your needs.
As my negative point of view for
basically FA students is the lack
of hardware’s and as a positive
feedback I have been noticed
that FA has recently collaborated
with a lot of studios, I think this
will be a good step to provide the
industry, excellent artists.
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Don’t
be shy
take
the risk
and put
yourself
forward,
in the end
it is going
to be
good
for you.
Lim Hoong Yau
Best Beta year
Student majoring
Media Innovation
2009 - 2010
Charukphong
Anuvong
Best Delta year
student majoring
Film & Animation
2009 - 2010
Best DELTA year
FILM & ANIMATION
Students Nominees
- VICTORIA MUTHU
- CHARUKPHONG ANUVONG
- WILLIAM GALLYOT
- ANSARUL IKMAL
- AZALIL AIZAT
Actually I don’t really expect this
to be the winner. I just tried to
enjoy my work and finish my
final year project in it is best way.
I don’t have much to say but
once you come to the delta year
you will start appreciating every
small and little thing. FCM is the
best if you enjoy your own work.
We should all start to enjoy doing our works and once you start
enjoying the road will show up
no matter how you are and what
you do.
Start to
appreciate
and enjoy!
Best BETA year
MEDIA INNOVATION
Students Nominees
- LIM HOONG YAU
- MUHAMMAD RISWIN
HARDI ANSYAH
- ANG SIEW YUN
- MUHAMMAD
GALIH RAKASIWI
- CHUA WEI KANG
I was feeling happy, of course
and nervous too.
no picture
avaliable
Rachel Hoo
Best Gamma year
Student majoring
Media Innovation
2009 - 2010
Best GAMMA year
MEDIA INNOVATION
Student Nominees
-RACHEL HOO
-NORLISA SORAYA
-ANJANI MIRANTI PUTRI
-KOH KIM HWA
- AIFA AMALINA MOHD NOR
Best DELTA year
MEDIA INNOVATION
student Nominees
-GRACE LAI
-ESHAN ABASSI
-NORLIYANA JALAI
-RAZLAN HANAFIAH
-FERARI TIOARBI
Dichi Michi is a five piece band from Kajang. A
Pop Punk, Powerpop, Happy Hardcore type of
band. They have played many shows around KL
and also outside of KL.
Photos by Pouyan Mohseninia
Just have to be sure of where
you are now and where you want
to be, and work for it and yet
manage your time and efforts
well on your dream, your health
and your family.
I will be taking this chance to
show appreciation by thanking
my lecturer, Mr. Fauzan as I do
learn a lot of things from him and
also thanking my family for supporting my financially. I hope I
can see my mom see this on that
day from above the sky.
I had not heard about ACMA till
the last few days to the event.
And I was not looking forward to
the event itself, but I can’t say I
wouldn’t expect that.
My objective to reach the award!
I can say I had not any objective
for it. I was just doing what I like
to do, which is my assignments,
in the best way I can, because I
really care about my field, Media
Innovation. And besides that, I
feel responsible when I am assigned to do something.
Thanks for recognizing me suitable for this award even when
I haven’t asked or filled up any
application form for it.
Hope the next year this event will
have tastier warm food.
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Ehsan Abbasi
Best Delta year
Student majoring
Media Innovation
2009 - 2010
Actually, I was not at the ceremony when they called my name,
but two friends of mine called me
and informed me about that. For
sure they made me happy.
On that day, I did thought of
wanting to be the winner but my
mind is telling me too good to be
true at the same time.
Receiving this honor means a lot
to me, it proves my efforts that
I put in Beta year is worthy and
shows affirmation from lecturers
to assure that what I have been
working on the path is right.
no picture
avaliable
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Ooi Chen Chon
Best Beta year
Student majoring
Interface Design
2009 - 2010
Best BETA year
INTERFACE DESIGN
Student Nominees
- LIM WEI CHIE
- OOI CHEN CHON
- TAN QI MEI
- VIVIAN YONG MEI WEN
- CHAI JET MING
I was happy and surprised when
they announced my name as out
lecturer said we were not up to
standard.
I was not expecting it because I
am not a really hardworking one
in class but.
I would like to thank my
lecturers for being so hard on
us, without their constant
pressure we would never
make it till this very day.
Like I always say, Pressure
makes Diamond.
Be brave and be bold, never
fear to accept comments and
critic. Embrace them and perfect them.
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no picture
avaliable
Be brave
and be
bold,
never fear
to accept
comments
and critic.
Embrace
them and
perfect
them.
Ong See Yin
Best Gamma year
Student majoring
Interface Design
2009 - 2010
Best GAMMA year
INTERFACE DESIGN
Student Nominees
- FRANKLIN DWI
SAPUTRA GUNARTO
- MUAMMAR GADDAFI
BIN A KADIR
- VEERAJUTH
THEIP AKSORN
- ONG SEE YIN
- LOH CHEE KHOON
Drawing is my hobby since my
pre-primary school. People
always say that I have the drawing and art talents as I won many
honors and prizes in my pre-primary school, primary school and
secondary school period. That’s
why I decide to further my study
in MMU with taking Interface
Design Majoring. I am not from
a rich family. I have no much
financial support from my parents. You might be wonder why
I choose MMU, a private university (that means need to pay
higher education fees), I can say
that 50% is I am lucky. I gain The
Star Education Fund, a scholarship that will fully sponsor for my
bachelor degree of 4 years. To be
honest, my English standard is
not very good. Among the students who attend for the scholarship interview, I know my English was the worst among them
as my mother tongue is Mandarin since my younger ages. That’s
why when I was informed by the
Star, I am so surprise and happy.
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This is one of the reasons for me
to working and study harder than
others.
Well, I was not attending to the
event as I still need to spend
my time on my design project. I
know the result from my friend
on the next day. I feel thankful to
my lecturers as they know how
much effort I put in my study and
works. I feel happy at the same
time and will continue to work
harder in my study.
no picture
avaliable
Enjoy
your
university
life
enjoy
your
works
Actually I am not very care about
winning any honour because for
me, I am not doing works in order
to gain any prizes or praise from
others. I do my best and putting
100% concentrate in every work
to gain more knowledge and also,
design is my interested and I enjoy when doing design works.
Best DELTA year
INTERFACE DESIGN
Student Nominees
-JANET CHOO CHEN HUEY
-ROY TAN ZHAO YONG
-NUR AINA AZMI
-LOW AIK HUI
-TAN PEI LING
A surprise gift for my hard work
and my working attitude.
Just like any star or singer, when
they gain the big prize and get
to the stage, thanks to everyone
that supported me in my life. My
parents, my family members, my
lecturers who give me this honor,
CMC who held this event, my
friends and my dearest computer. Without my lovely computer
I can’t do anything for my study.
If there are more interactive
games with the audiences, it will
be fun.
Caprice is a Malaysian artist/performer who
has worked and performed with Malaysia’s
very own Dayang Nurfaizah, DJ Uno, Joe
Flizzow, Touchess and Ruffedge to name a few.
Photos by Mohammad Shirani
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Nur Aina Azmi
Best Delta year
Student majoring
Interface Design
2009 - 2010
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Koroush
Ghahremani
Best Beta year
Student majoring
Virtual Reality
2009 - 2010
Best BETA year
VIRTUAL REALITY
Students Nominees
- NGYUEN THANH LAM
- ALIREZAEI
SALMAN JALAL
- ALIREZAEI
DAVOOD JALAL
- KOUROSH GHAHREMANI
- TAN WEN SHENG
Thomas Hay
Ching Chann
Best Gamma year
Student majoring
Virtual Reality
2009 - 2010
Well rather feeling certain of
being the winner I always doubt
that is what makes it interesting.
Everybody doubts till the last
moment.
However the honor of being
chosen as the best student is
the appreciation of my past efforts, it also pushes me toward
future. Personally I prefer to be
detached of marks and awards,
since it sets my mind free and
allows me to enjoy what I do. If
what I do worth it, I’m even happier. That’s the true value of this
honor to me.
I like the idea of appreciating
students and giving them chance
to be known. That brings motivation in an academic environment, and the repetition of these
kinds of events will help to have
a friendlier and more enjoyable
place to study.
At the end, I would say I believe
in everybody’s passion, concentration, and energy when is
directed to a work with a valuable purpose, it brings the most
satisfactory feeling one could
achieve. And I admire all my
mighty friends and classmates
whom I learn from everyday.
I admire
all my
mighty
friends
and
classmates
whom
I learn
from
everyday
Thomas Hey Ching Chann,
receiving his award.
Photos by
Mohammad Shirani
Best DELTA year
VIRTUAL REALITY
Students Nominees
- LANCE EE ULI
- NASRUNNIZAR BIN NADZRI
- THOMAS HAY CHING HANN
- SRIVIKNESH THIRUNYANAM
- AHMAD ARIF HAKIMI
BIN JUMALI
My name is Thomas Hay majoring in Virtual Reality. I am
currently having my internship
program. Well, I am 21 years old
and my hometown is Ipoh, Perak.
My hobby is play archery and
computer games.
I felt happy at that time and in
the same time I felt lucky because
there are many competitors in my
class. At first, I would not expect
that I will be the selected as the
best student. I was expecting my
friend to get it as I believe he is
better than me. I am glad that I
had the chance to prove to my parents that I did not let them down.
Honestly, I do not think of being
the winner. As I mention before,
there are many people that perform better than me in the class
in terms of skills. I still could not
believe that I am the winner.
Having this chance, to receive
this honor means a lot to me, and
my parents. At the very least, I
could prove to my parents that I
did not let them down.
At the same time, I felt satisfied
with all the obstacles that I had
been through.
There are always pros and cons
within everything. I would only
wish that everything will be well
planned and go smoothly in
every aspect.
I will thank everyone that support and guide me all these while.
I will definitely work hard and
try my best to push myself and to
excel further.
I hope that I would have the
privilege to hold on the honor
again. So, I would not give up so
easily and I will put up a good
fight for it.
Everyone have the chance to get
the best student award. For those
who did not manage to get it, do
try harder next time and do not
give up.
Wish all the best for everyone.
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Try to be
as creative
as possible
and
have fun
challenging
each other
for this title
on your
own for the
next year
I admire
all my
mighty
friends
and
classmates
whom
I learn
from
everyday
Mohammad Satria
Wahab (Rio)
Best Delta year
Student majoring
Virtual Reality
2009 - 2010
Dr Koo Ah Choo
Deputy Dean, Lecturer
Best DELTA year
VIRTUAL REALITY
Students Nominees
- ALIREZA REZEIAN
- YAP E RAINE
- MOH SATRIA WAHAB
- KOW WOOI PENG
- SYAZANI SUHAIFI
Study more and explore more
and do your best.
Lecturers always want more, even
the students can’t do it they still
want more. The faculty should
provide the latest technology and
also upgrade their hardware’s,
usually I have to bring my own PC
for every presentation I have.
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Ramlan b. Mohd Sa’ad, Specialist
Favourite lecturer of
Faculty Creative Multimedia,
Che Ahmad Azhar bin Fadzil
Program Coordinator Foundation Studies
From left: Mohd Hafizuddin Mohd Yusof,
Lecturer & Anuar Hassan, Tutor
Sharifah Nur Anthasha bt. Syed, Lecturer
From left: Lim Kok Yoong, Lecturer &
Che Ahmad Azhar b. Fadzil, Specialist
Khairul Anuar & Khairul Johari, FCM
Students, visual installation performance
Ling Siew Woei, Lecturer
The 4th Annual
Creative Multimedia Awards (ACMA)
From left: Nor Rofeah bt. Abdullah Sani,
Specialist, Sh. Nurleyana Wafa Sy. Naguib
Wafa, Lecturer & Vimala Perumal, Lecturer
Ending ceremony,
taking memorial pictures as groups
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Favourite Student of
Faculty Creative Multimedia,
Norman Chee Chung Ye
Delta year Digital Media Student
Photos by Mohammad Shirani
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An Observation
of Jahai Modesty
A trip to Belum Rainforest
By Fazri Nuha Yusof
1031147511
Digital Media, Gamma
[email protected]
The air was still, quiet and cool.
The bright midday sun shone
high in the sky, but our lively
conversations were nicely shaded
under the leaves of a huge jackfruit tree. That was the day I met
and spoke to the Jahai, one of
the eleven Orang Asli tribes, the
indigenous peoples of Malaysia.
The expedition took us north,
way up the Titwangsa Mountain
range into Lake Temenggor, a
huge lake that was formed by
collecting the waters of the great
Perak River at the Temenggor
Hydroelectric Dam. It has been
designated as a national forest
reserve, and is currently home
to two tribes of Orang Asli, the
Jahai and the Temiar.
new locations, but some chose
to stay and made new homes in
other parts of the forest. Many
of which can be found today,
separated from cities and roads,
accesible only by boat.
Even so, this does not imply that
the Orang Asli are completely
isolated from the world.
The Malaysian government has
continued to recognise them as
the earliest settlers of the land,
and has since mounted various
efforts to meet their needs by
providing education, running
water, and electricity.
Our research group was split in
two, and my group was assigned
to interview the Jahai people. We
took a motorboat ride across the
lake to visit one of many non-descript islands - formerly hills and
mountains that have since been
drowned by the lake. Many Jahai
and Temiar villages are set up on
these hilltop islands.
Ezreen Delaila Taib
At Temiar settlement, Pos Chiong, Gerik
Before the Temenggor Dam was
built, many villages - natives and
otherwise - once existed at the
foot of the hills. When construction of the dam begun, most of
the villagers were displaced to
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Freedom from
Modern Desires
While they have access to
present-day utilities, many Orang
Asli still prefer to live by their
natural traditions. Most modern
folk today would be rendered
helpless in case of blackouts or
interruption of water supply,
whereas people like the Jahai
simply view them as an extra
conveniece - they can still do
quite well without any power
supply or running water.
The Jahai folk were once seminomadic. The difference between
them and nomads from other
parts of the world is that their
relocation frequency is very low.
If regular nomads never settle in
any one location for too long, the
semi-nomadic Jahai would settle in one place for several years
before moving to a new area.
This is perhaps due to their philosophy of living. They have very
little desire for luxury or wealth.
One might say that they simply
live, and let live. They would
spend their days searching for
food, mending to their homes,
tend to children, and socialise
with each other. Whatever happens in the outside is of very
little concern to them - unless it
involves any politician trying to
buy favors from them.
Speaking to Roslan, one of the
Jahai elders, he shared with us a
story of how a member of parliament (MP) came to visit their
village. As always, politicians
will occasionally do a PR show
by visiting ‘less fortunate’ folks
and promising various things in
an effort to ‘gain support at the
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grassroot level’. Roslan related,
with much amusement at how
the MP’s parade of escorts came
to visit with their crisp white
shirts and shiny black shoes, only
to be received by unimpressed
villagers, some who chuckled at
the amount of mud stuck under
the visitors’ shoes.
Roslan recalled how they promised to provide proper utilities
and healthcare, among various other things. Some of those
promises were fulfilled, the most
useful one being regular visits
by medical teams to do health
check ups and vaccination. At
one point, they were promised
‘rows of brick houses’ at a newly
developed area, and Roslan told
of how they politely declined the
offer, preferring instead to live in
their bamboo houses.
“Brick houses are rigid, heavy
and hot. Bamboo houses are flexible, light and cool. We like these
better.” he said.
Their lifestyle demands very little
from what modern facilities can
provide. The Jahai live is small
groups, each village housing
between eight to ten families. If
the village population reaches
over 100 people, they would split
up and form new villages. As
such, they maintain small groups
which are mobile and require
very little to sustain.
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Muhammad Syfiq ‘Izzat B. Mohd Faudzi
A Jahai women carrying her baby in their own traditional way.
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The Simple Life
Recently, in one Jahai village the
Perak state government granted
them a generator set, which is
powered by petrol. This provides
enough electricity to light up 10
homes at any given time. Even
then, the Jahai folk have very little use for electricity. One village
would own one television set,
which is shared by everyone and
only used to watch the news or a
last resort to cure boredom.
Diah, younger brother to the
village chief, shared with us his
daily routine. After breakfast, he
would go and check the fish traps
he laid out the night before. If
there are any catches, he would
keep some to eat, and sell the rest
at the lake jetty. Diah is a craftsman by profession, he makes
bracelets, baskets, blowpipes and
various other handicrafts to be
sold as souvenir. These too would
be sold at the jetty, or to any visitors who happen to come to his
village. Occasionally, he would
venture into forest to gather materials for his work.
The Jahai are traditionally
hunter-gatherers. Before tourism
became a source of income, they
used to harvest rattan, bamboo,
camphor and various herbs to be
sold to city folk. Some of them
would gather wild fruits and pea
pods such as petai. Petai grows
on very tall trees, and harvesting them can be a daunting task,
which is why they are often sold
for a very high price.
stealthily to track their prey.
Each Jahai was taught from
a very young age to read read
footprints, dropping and tracks
at watering holes. Like other indigenous folk, the Jahai are very
skilled with blowpipes.
The blowpipes are made from
bamboo, and the darts are made
from sharpened bamboo strips.
The darts themselves do not penetrate very deep into flesh, so the
Jahai tip the darts with a deadly
poison made from the wax of the
Ipoh tree. The wax is heated dry,
powdered and mixed with water
to make a black paste. The poison
is so potent that is causes general
muscle paralysis, first affecting
chest muscles, making the victim
unable to breathe then causing
heart muscles to fail. It can killan
adult man in one minute, and
there has been no antidote so far.
Diah says that on lucky days,
they might get to hunt deer or
boar, on other days, they might
just return with wild fowl or
squirrels. The Jahai diet consists
mostly of rice, fish and vegetables
- red meat is considered a very
rare luxury, often reserved only
for special occasions.
Muhammad Syfiq ‘Izzat B. Mohd Faudzi
Lest we forget the ‘hunter’ part
of the term ‘hunter-gatherer’,
the Jahai are also adept at hunting wild game. They can move
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A Spiritual Link
Spiritually, the Orang Asli do not
subscribe to any kind of organised religion. They have hundreds of years living by animistic
practices, taking great care to
observe and respect the elements
of Nature. Over the years, many
missionaries, mostly Muslim and
Christians, have preached their
faith to the Orang Asli, some
even promising various benefits
in exchange for conversion.
Today, several Jahai settlements
claim to be Muslims or Christians, but a careful observation
would quickly reveal that their
faith is in name only. Organised
religion means very little to lifestyles of the Jahai. Outside of the
occasional donations of money
and supplies, religion provides
nothing for them. They have very
little attachment and observance
to religious practices, and still
defer to old animistic practices.
move out, leaving the deceased to
guard the place it once lived.
The Jahai Today
Above all else, Orang Asli folk
value peace, family and full stomach - perhaps in that order. They
desire very little from what modern society provides, and they
gain very little from what organised religion promises. They live
an active, yet carefree lifestyle
that is in perfect harmony with
Mother Nature.
It was a brief encounter, but a
mere 2 days has given me much
insight into the lives of people
I’ve only ever heard of, or read in
books. Given the opportunity, I
would love to meet them again,
and understand them deeper.
Who knows what else we could
learn from them?
Orang Asli folk like the Jahai
have a profound connection
to nature. Nature gives them
shelter, food, water, things to
sell. Nature provides almost
everything they need. It is this
dependence that brought on their
great reverence the spirits that
live around them. Which is also
connected to their semi-nomadic
nature.
Pouyan Mohseninia
Old women from Jahai tibe whom loves smoking
The Jahai have an interesting
funeral practice back in the old
days. Whenever a Jahai dies, the
villagers would leave wrap the
body and leave it at the person’s
favorite spot. Sometimes its a
riverbank, under a tree, or even
a favourite tree branch. After the
funeral, the entire village would
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Ezreen Delaila Taib
SK Sungai Raba, Air Banun, Gerik
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Smiles can light up joy in anyone,
and just seeing these children from the Jahai tribe smile,
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Muhammad Syfiq ‘Izzat B. Mohd Faudzi
Pouyan Mohseninia
Roslan he has 14 childern and is around 60 years old
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Malaysian Book of records
The longest live painting
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