Seminar Keselamatan Kampus

          On the 30^th of April 2016, Sakura College’s Exco of Discipline and Safety organized a seminar known as ‘Seminar Keselamatan Kampus’ or Campus Safety Seminar. The guest speaker for this event is Mr. Rajan Thangaveloo. This event was held at Center of Teaching Facilities 1 (CTF1).

          The seminar started with the arrival of the guest speaker, around 9.30 a.m, followed by the usual singing of UNIMAS’s and Sakura College anthem. After everyone was seated, the MC began a short introduction of the guest speaker. Mr Rajan Thangaveloo is a lecturer of the Faculty of Resource Science and Technology (FRST) since 2008. He is also the Deputy Superintendant of Police (DSP) of the Kor Suksis Unimas since 2014. Known for his friendliness and charm, he was immediately recognized by some of his students during the event.

          He was then invited up to the stage to give his talk. He began his talk by expressing his wish to organize a similar kind of talk to the whole of UNIMAS rather than to just individual residential colleges as he felt that the topic of safety is important to everyone. He explained that due to the large campus size and the huge population of people residing in the university, awareness for personal safety should be further emphasized as there are many kinds of threat present be it physically, subversively, or due to natural disasters.

           Mr Rajan stressed that if students remain ignorant in regards of their own personal safety, there are many negative consequences, one of which that their very own lives might be in grave danger. He then proceeded to tell personal stories and cases that have occurred in real life in UNIMAS. One of them is about two students who were attacked on their way home to their college, in which several unidentified men tailed them using their motorcycles and threatened them to hand over their phones. Fearing for their safety, the students were forced to give up their belongings, and the men were not caught until this day.

         He also told stories of how the Royal Malaysian Police were not only in service to their own country, but also to neighbouring ones, such as Thailand. He mentioned how he is now in process of introducing a new safety program to UNIMAS, known as 3K (Kepolisan, Komuniti dan Kampus). The project is now in pipeline and it involves the cooperation of the Student Affairs Division, Kor Suksis UNIMAS, and the local police in order to maintain the safety of the campus and its surrounding areas.

         After a short Q&A session, the event came to a close around 11.15 a.m. with the head of Sakura College’s Student Council, Wan Nur Azliza, handing over a small souvenir to the guest speaker.

Prepared by,

Imelia Kyra binti Mohamad Iskandar

   

Brain Twister (Day 1)

Saturday on 23rd of April 2016 marked another date for another anticipated programme of the semester for Sakura residents. As the name of the programme has it, various activities that branched out of it were all required the participants to work more to solve such tasks and games using their way of thinking and how creative they are to get everything done in time.

The morning of the first day witnessed the participants rushing around Sakura College as to complete the IQ Trail Hunt. A total of 7 groups with 5 members in each group were given hints (one hint per group) at the beginning of the game. The hint was in a form of a picture which tells the venue of the first station that they had to head up to. There were 6 stations altogether which located at or in Seminar Room, FIT car park, in front of FIT/FRST building, walkway that connects Sakura and Allamanda, sports court and Block C car park. For each station, all groups had to complete two set of games, and punishment had to be made if they failed to complete the game on the given time.

In the afternoon around 1:30 PM, Spell It Right Jawi has taken its place in Seminar Room. A lecturer from FLSCS (formerly and still known as CLS), Mr Fairuz Ali had been the judge for the competition. Of about 33 contestants competed in the spelling competition. For the first round, all contestants were given 3 words to spell. The rule of the competition was – once the word spelt, it is considered as the final decision. Another round was made for the contestants with all three correct spellings from the previous round, and they were given 3 words to spell as of the second round. The next round was for searching the third placer of which the contestants were given 2 words to spell. For the final round, it was when the first and second placers were decided with which the 2 contestants given 5 words to spell.

Around 4:00 in the evening, the Seminar Room again being the chosen venue to conduct Spell It Right English. The judges of the competition were students from FENG’s Chemical Engineering. Of about 22 contestants dared to be challenged to spell the English words that given. For the first round, each contestant had been given 1 word to spell, and there were 2 cycles for the first round. The top 5 contestants were qualified to be next round, the second round with 3 cycles with 1 word each cycle. The third round, which was the final round, saw 2 contestants compete among each other to grab the first or second place.

The programme proceeded even at the night of the Saturday around 8:00 PM as the Sudoku game has taken its place in Seminar Room. Each 7 groups with 5 members in each group had been given 7 sets of Sudoku to be completed. And the duration time to finish the brain-engaging game was only an hour.

Prepared by: Dayang Nadila F. D. 

Kembara Muallaf

Kembara Muallaf

Kampung Meranek: Exco Pembangunan Jawatankuasa Kolej Sakura sesi 2015/16, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) telah mengadakan Program Kembara Muallaf yang berlansung selama tiga hari dua malam dari 14 hingga 16 April 2016 di Kampung Meranek, Kota Samarahan. Program ini telah dijalankan dengan kerjasama Harakah Islamiah (HIKMAH) Sarawak dan Tabung Baitulmal Sarawak (MIS). Program Kembara Muallaf ini merupakan cetusan idea dan usaha pengarah program, Saudari Puteri Azira Azmin untuk membawa para muallaf dari Sri Aman untuk mengembara ke Kota Samarahan.

            Program ini telah melibatkan 10 orang muallaf dari Kg. Punggu dan Kg Jaong di Sri Aman, penduduk Kg Meranek, Kota Samarahan dan ahli jawatankuasa dari 28 orang mahasiswa mahasiswi dari UNIMAS.

           Konsep keluarga angkat yang telah diterapkan dalam program ini menjadikan program ini lebih menarik. Hal ini demikian kerana para muallaf dan pelajar dari UNIMAS dapat beramah mesra dan menjalinkan silaturrahim dengan penduduk Kg Meranek yang menjadi keluarga angkat mereka sepanjang program ini dijalankan.

            Pelbagai slot ibadah asas disediakan sepanjang program ini termasuklah slot solat, puasa, aurat dan ikhtilat dan kewajipan seorang Muslim. Slot-slot yang digarap sepanjang program ini diharap dapat membantu dan membimbing para muallaf yang masih baru untuk lebih mengenali dan mendalami ilmu Islam. Selain itu, program ini juga bertujuan untuk menyemai sikap dah sahsiah Muslim yang mantap dalam kalangan peserta muallaf. Sifat cakna ummah juga dapat dipupuk dalam kalangan penduduk Kg Meranek dan mahasiswa mahasiswi UNIMAS.

            Majlis perasmian telah berlansung pada 14 April 2016 dengan jayanya dan dirasmikan oleh Puan Norzahan Bahani, Ketua Cawangan Tabung Baitulmal Kota Samarahan. Majlis penutupan pula telah dirasmikan oleh Prof Siti Raudzah Ghazali, Dekan Pusat Pembangunan Pelajar, UNIMAS.

            “Program yang sangat menarik. Saya gembira dapat belajar pelbagai ilmu baru. Slot paling menarik adalah lawatan ke UNIMAS. Saya berharap semoga anak saya juga akan berpeluang menyambung pelajaran di sana,” kata salah seorang dari peserta muallaf Kg Jaong, Serina Jetik.

            Diharap organisasi dan persatuan lain mengambil peluang untuk mengadakan program seperti ini demi menjamin kelansungan dakwah dan syiar Islam di bumi kenyalang ini. Masih ramai lagi saudara baru kita atau para muallaf yang menantikan program-program seperti ini.

         

   “Selain daripada rasa tanggungjawab untuk membantu golongan asnaf muallaf, saya juga mengharapkan agar program ini mampu meningkatkan motivasi, sifat amanah dan semangat kerja berpasukan yang tinggi dalam kalangan mahasiswa UNIMAS khususnya dalam kerja dakwah kepada saudara baru Muslim di negeri Sarawak ini,” kata pengarah program Kembara Muallaf, Saudari Puteri Azira Azmin ketika majlis penutupan program ini.

By: Marjana Darus

SAKURA GOT TALENTS: Ladies Night

Sunday- 3rd April 2016, It was the closing ceremony for Sakura Got Talents: Ladies Night. This event started at 7.30 pm and ended at 10 pm.

 Speech by program director, Farhana

Around 8.15 pm, the arrival of VIP guess and followed by singing of UNIMAS Gemilang and Tekad Sakura. Next, program director, Farhana gave her speech and followed by our pengetua kolej sakura, Cik Siti Nur Ain binti Musa. She hoped that this program can be continued in order to unearth the hidden talents of each students.

 Contemporary Nasyeed from Nawal Najjah

Next, was a showcase from Expresso Club. The showcase was started by contemporary nasyeed by Nawal Najjah. They won second place for BRC Week. The second performance was a drama entitle 'Puteri Santubung' followed by acoustic singing by Sumandak and modern dance.

'Puteri Santubung' drama

The fifth performance was a choir conducted by Stacy. This choir group won the first place at CEmpaka College.The final performance was by Anak Seni Sakura. Their performance was energetic and all Sukurarians enjoed the performance. 

Choir

 

Next was the giving prizes to the winners. For individual and group performance the winner are as below.

 

Individual:

• Nur Asyikin binti Meddin ( First Place)
• Nur Sabrina binti Ramli (Second Place)
• Mitchelle Leonard ( Third Place)
• Nur Fatin Shahirah bt Mat Noor ( Fourth Place)
• Fatin Fakhira binti Azmain (Fifth Place) 

Group:

• De easy (First Place)
• Nora Shahirah & Dayang Nur Liyana (Second Place)
• Wis Troopers (Third Place)
• Sisterhood (Fourth Place)
• NU (Fifth Place)

Nur Asyikin binti Meddin, won the first place for individual performance.

 

The event ended at 10 pm and all the students signed out to get their merit :)


By: Nor Afikah Binti Mazlan

Sakura Got Talents: Ladies Night

Sakura Ladies Night. From the name of the event itself we could knew how spectacular it was. This event was organized by sakura ekspreso club. It was lasted for 2 nights in a row. The programme was held especially for sakurian to show their hidden talent in singing, dancing and others.
    The first night was the battle night. There were 22 contestant who took part in the contest. It was an open contest so that there were  9 participants included 3 groups which sang nicely. In fashion show contest, there were 4 contestant. Besides, there were 4 groups took part in dancing and the remaining contestant took part poetry.
     The judges of the event were our felo, Mdm Nor Aliah, representative from MPP, Nur Nabihah and former JPK of Bunga Raya College, Ruzlin Salamat. The result of the winner was told on the other night. Before the show end, the judges were given gifts as a sign of gratitude from Miss Ain.