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Content:
1>About the Society 2>President’s Note 3>RED ALERT:TownHall Meeting-28/09/2011 4>RED ALERT: Murdoch Red in Spirit Day-04/10/2011 5>RED @ EDU:Study@ Murdoch Universtiy Talk-05/10/2011 6>Red for RED: Sport Carnival-08/10/2011 7> RED IN SPIRIT: Committees Team Buildings Session-15/10/2011 8> YES(YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR SERIES) TALK: Branding in Business02/11/2011 9> 3DAYS 2 NIGHTS PENANG TRIP-26-28/11/2011 10>2012 MCS PLAN(FEB TO JUNE)
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President Note:
Hi, Everyone. I am proud and glad that our first issue of MCS Bulletin is out. The Bulletin will be published on a quarterly basis (4 Bulletin in a year). Throughout this few months, there were so many changes added on to the society. 1st is the birth of our society’s Moto. Our journey continues with the registration of society under Student Engagement Centre, Malaysia, marking the first and only society from KDU to be registered under this network. This helps us to link with big society from different local and private campuses, such as AIESEC, SIFE and so on.
Murdoch University’s student, Bachelor of Commerce Major in Professional Accounting,
We are also linking with Myharapan and Grad Malaysia through this arrangement. Therefore it will be an exciting journey for us to continue to grow stronger internally and externally. We will try to update you guys with some career fairs, business talks, seminars in the town.
Year 2 Semesters 2 Apart from that, we are also bringing some of the event to the campus. So stay tune to our Facebook Group for latest events and updates. We are currently on the journey to build strong linkage with Murdoch University Alumni Malaysian Chapter so that there will be more platforms for Alumni and Students to interact with each other. We are currently recruiting new committee members, if you are interested to know more about MCS, and want to develop your interpersonal skills, leadership quality, do feel free to email me on the vacant available: Jinchieh91@gmail.com.
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RED ALERT:Town Hall Meeting- KDU-Murdoch Commerce Society on 28/09/2011
The Town Hall Meeting of KDU-Murdoch Commerce Society (MCS) was held today at LH2 Section 13 Campus with the presence of the programme leader, Ms. Saranjit, society advisor, Ms. Consilz, students of KDU MURDOCH COMMERCE SOCIETY (MCS)
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Murdoch University majoring in accounting, marketing, mass communication, or management. The meeting started at 12.05pm with the welcoming speech, which was delivered by the President of MCS, Jin Chieh. He was glad that many of the members have successfully made it for the meeting. Thereafter, Ms. Saranjit gave her word of advice to all students about the importance of being all rounded, both in academic and extra co curricular activities. She emphasized that involvement in activities in university is a plus point for students in writing their resume when they are looking for jobs upon graduating. Next, Ms. Consilz gave us her word that she will always be there for us in MCS. That she will give her full support in any activities or events the society is eager to carry out for the benefits of both society and members. Then, it was the voting session for the upcoming board of directors. Potential candidates volunteered themselves or were nominated introduced themselves to all members and then were being voted and chosen to be the board members. There are 12 of them now. After having done with the voting session, Jin Chieh proceeded to briefing all members of the upcoming activities and events such as movie day, thanks giving day, and outings. Lastly, it was the Q&A session before the meeting adjourned at 1pm. Jin Chieh thanked all that have attended the AGM.
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RED ALERT: Murdoch Red Day-04/10/2011
On October 4, 2011, Tuesday, Murdoch Red Day was held where all Murdoch staff and students were encouraged to don in red, be it a top, bottom, accessories, shoes or bags. Photography sessions were held in a few selected classes as scheduled: Session 1: 8.00 am -10.00 am - Principle of Management - Ms. Hana - D301 Session 2: 8.00 am - 10 am- Auditing-Ms. Stella- D307 Session 3:.00 am -12.00 pm - Company Law - Ms. Cheah - D306 Session 4: 12.00pm-2.00pm- Introduction to Accounting- D306 Session 5: 12.00 pm - 3.00 pm - Service Marketing - Ms. Loh Huey Chee - D304 Session 6: 1.00 pm – 3.00 pm - Consumer Behavior - Ms. Saranjit - DG03 Session 7: 3.00pm-5.00pm- Workplace Law-Ms. Cheah-DG03
All person-in-charge gathered at block D before starting the photography session from one class to another. The arrangement of lecturers and students for photography sessions in each class were done by the committees of respective classes. This was to ensure that photos were taken with a minimum usage of time and that lectures were not affected. KDU MURDOCH COMMERCE SOCIETY (MCS)
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It can be seen that students were actively participating in the aforementioned event. Students and lecturers in red were shot in classes, cafeteria, library, common areas, and walkways. However, the rate of participation was only 75%. It was hope that the participation percentage would increase to close to 100% during the next similar event.
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RED @ EDU: Study @ Murdoch University, Perth Talk-05/10/2011
On October 5, 2011, Wednesday, a talk entitled Study at Murdoch, Perth was held at Lecture Hall 2 from 12.00pm to 1.00pm. The talk was a collaboration of Admissions and Accreditations Officer of Murdoch University, Ms. Claudine and KDU Murdoch Commerce Society. The speaker was none other than the Marketing Officer South East Asia of Murdoch University, Ms. Cheryl Lee.
Throughout the talk, students were all engrossed in all that Ms. Cheryl had to share. She shared with the students about her experiences there, living far away from Malaysia, and how she had to live independently. KDU MURDOCH COMMERCE SOCIETY (MCS)
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Besides, she also shared some videos about Murdoch University on various courses such as mass communication and business. Through the slides, students were able to have a look on the environment in Murdoch University, Perth apart from listening to the comments and feedbacks of students who went to study at Perth campus. Before Ms. Cheryl ended her talk, Q&A sessions were held where students enquired about all the matters that they would like to know. Lastly, she gave the students a word of advice that it will definitely be a great, money-can’t-buy experience to study abroad at Perth campus, even though it is just for one semester.
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RED for RED: KDU Sports Carnival-08/10/2011
On 8th of October, Murdoch Commerce Society(MCS) participate in the KDU Annual Sports Carnival by selling can drinks and mineral water. The main purpose for us to participate in the sports carnival is to raise fund for the society as well to provide moral and physical support to our Red House (School of Business and Law). We purchased all the stocks on Friday, and started to set up our booth at 8.30a.m on Saturday.
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There are lots of students turn up for the sports carnival. Apart from us, there are other booths selling food,ice-cream and etc. Some of our committees even went around the stadium just to sell drinks.
Overall, the respond for students are good. We manage to raise some fund for our society. I am so proud of all of them that make the effort to join us and walk around in the hot sunny day. We closed our booth at 1pm. Big thanks to all the lecturers, staffs, and students who came to support our booth.
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RED IN SPIRIT: Team Buildings Session for Board of Directors-15/10/2011
On 16th of October, all the committees for Murdoch Commerce Society went for a team building session at 1utama shopping mall. We started at 12.30pm. with team building games. The committees are separated into 3 teams, lead by Nerissa, Amenah and Tino. The tasks given were to take photos at specific shops at 1 Utama as well formed brands name by using alphabets.
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It was fun to see the committees running here and there from old wing to new wing just to finish the task. At 1.45pm, all the team finished the tasks being set. The group that won the task was Tino’s team (Tino, Emmanuel, Roshan and Ian).
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We went for lunch at Food Republic. We chat with each other and build fellowship among the committees. All of us enjoyed the food and get to know each other more. We tried out different food there and Food Republic is definitely a nice place to hang out with friends especially during weekend whereby mall is full of people. At 3pm, we went for bowling session, the committees enjoyed the session, whereby it was the very first time playing bowling for some of the committees. It was a cool experience for some of them, whereby they requested for 2nd round of games. We really enjoyed the games there. The entire team building session ended at 4.30pm. Everyone went home with memorable memory and we plan to have more session for the committees in future.
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RED in YES(Young Entrepreneur Series)Talk: Branding in Business-2/11/2011
On 2nd of November, We have privileges to have Mr. Joescher Chee, founder and CEO of JoesherAdhous, a local 4A+ Advertising Company and his business partner Mr. Tay. Mr. Joescher Chee had worked with different companies namely Neway Karaoke, Prudential Insurance, Station One Leisure Cafe and so on. He is a man who is passionate in sharing his thought with university/college students on his ideology and view on branding in business.
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Mr. Joescher despite his position as a CEO for the company, he is indeed a humor and down to the earth person. At first, He defines brand as an organization/product/services that have their own unique personality. Later, he continues on shares topics on brand strategy, brand identity as well brand communication. He shares on 4 main criteria of business branding which can lead to changes in brand equity: Loyalty, Awareness, Perceptive quality and Associations. Throughout the session, He did share on his passion and the principles he is adopting for the company.
Below are some interesting quote and business ideology he holds on:
A great leader is a great follower and as well a reader Brand is magic but business is logic Life is too short to do something you are not happy with Do it well or don’t do it at all (warriors’ spirit) Give best in passion playground Clarity v Commitment v Responsibility No blame, No Complain, No justification
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We have a number of 12 students who turned up for the talk and they really learnt and enjoyed the business sharing session. At the end of the session, students are being asked of what is the 1 lesson that they can bring home through this session. And here are some of the feedbacks from the students who attended the talk.
Student’s Testimony
Ian Fan-Through this talk, I have gained much insight and experience from someone involved in the marketplace. I learned more about how the marketing theories are applied in reality and business. Thus, I am now able to see marketing and branding in a whole new dimension. Skills and knowledge are not sufficient, but also willpower and attitude.
Roshan Panditji- I found that the speaker was very inspirational as well as his words being educational. Being an accounting student my knowledge about branding is very vague, and this talk was very eye opening as it broadened my overall knowledge about branding and that there are aspects of branding other than price, product, place and promotion. His ideology about how working life should be was very inspirational as he showed that a working environment should be fun and pleasant and that we must enjoy what we do as well as give a hundred percent in everything we do. To conclude this talk was very beneficial as it gave an overall picture of what working life is all about and brought us to realize that we must follow our dreams and enjoy whatever we do.
Amanda Lim-"Branding in Business" talk today was great. I have learnt a lot through this talk. This talk has made my view broader towards business especially in the area of marketing and branding. Besides, I have learnt on the terms “Branding” and “Principles”. Most importantly, I learnt that we have to work with attitude, passion and love towards our job in the near future. Opportunities are available for us in the real world but it is up to us to grab it and also depends on one’s willingness to work and learn. This talk gives confident to me that whenever there is a will, there is a way. Moreover, the speaker’s also mention that he believes that life is short. Therefore, I must start to figure out my way out to survive in reality starting from now on based on the skills being taught by the speaker. For example, I must know what my destination is, starting point, and road map and mile stones in future.
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RED: 3 Days 2 Nights Trip to Penang-26-28/11/2011
Day 1
A group of students from School of Business and Law (Murdoch University Commerce Programme and Keele University Programme) with 5 Murdoch Alumni went for a 3 days 2 nights trip to Penang. We depart from KDU University College Damansara Jaya Campus at 8.30a.m. The trip is lead by 2 lecturers, Ms. Consilz and Ms. Claudine. We stopped for lunch at 12.30pm before we cross the bridge. After lunch, we started our journey with Khoo Kong Si Temple, Myammar Temple and Sleeping Buddha Temple. It was a journey of visiting this few famous temples as they are the famous tourist spots in Penang.
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We toured around the place and we were able to stop in front of KDU Penang Campus(Sad to say that we are not able to visit the campus as the Student Service Centre are all having work at outstation). Following from there, we went to Fort Cornwallis, a historical place to visit. We stopped by little India and Chinatown for a short tour.
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At 6pm, we stopped at Batu Ferenghi and walked around that area as it is the best beach for picnic at Penang. At night, there is a night market here. Students were free to walk on their own and found their own food. Some of us even went to try out massage, fish spa. After the whole day trip, we only managed to check-in the hotel at 11pm. We were staying at a very nice 4 Star resort named Jerejak Island Resort. Jerejak Island is located near to the Penang Island and is accessible through ferry. It was a nice place to stay, feel the sea breeze and chilled.
Day 2
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We woke up at 8 in the morning, nice and delicious breakfast is served by the resort. We started our journey with visiting Batik Factory to see the process of making Batik. This factory is renowned locally and internationally for its handmade Batik. After visiting the Batik Factory, we went to have some snap shot for students at Hard Rock CafĂŠ. (Some America Next Top Model can be found here.)
After this, we went to visit Penang Toy Museum. We were told that this is one of the largest toy museums in the world. There are lots of collections of animation, Cartoon characters can be found in the museum. After visiting Penang Toy Museum, We went to visit one of the Famous Chocolate Shop in Penang. There are so many different flavors available, i.e. curry, durian, pineapple and so on. We went for some souvenirs shop as well following with some local snacks shop. All of us stopped at Gurney Drive and Gurney KDU MURDOCH COMMERCE SOCIETY (MCS)
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Plaza at 4pm. We walked around the places and do some shopping. At night, we stopped at Queensbay Mall, which is one of the newest and most happening shopping complexes in Penang for Dinner. We managed to go back to the resort at 10.30pm. Some of us continue our grandma stories, some of us went to sleep early and some of us continue with monopoly and some even went to see night scene at the beach. And the night went on.
Day 3
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We woke up early to take our breakfast. We checked out from the resort at 9.30a.m. We went to Ipoh for a half day trip. We stopped by to buy salted chicken, some biscuits and the most important was to try out Ipoh White Coffee. Some of us went to the CafĂŠ where Oldtown White Coffees originated from. We stopped by Ipoh Famous Soya Bean.(Famous as there is Drive-Thru Service for Soya Bean).After finishing our lunch, we started our journey back to PJ. It was a packed journey and the students were looking for more trips in future.
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2012 February-June Events Plan
2nd Book Fair G2KU *Subject to Changes without priorities notice.
-Entrepreneurship Talk -Finance Investment Talk -Marketing Strategy Talk -Career Day -Murdoch Family Day -Community Project -Island Trip -Workplace Exposure
*Subject to Changes without Prioritize Notice.
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