Shed The Cheese

On 28^th September, the second edition of the program Shed the Cheese, a recurring event held on Wednesday at 4.30pm was conducted. Sign in and sign out was conducted in front of the Seminar Room, Block A. The event was then moved to the Sakura College’s Volleyball court where a warm-up session was done which consists of a series of movements to relax the muscles, laps around the court and jumping jacks, also known as, star jumps before moving on to the main activity which is dodgeball with a little modification by the organisers.

         

         Participants were divided into 15 smaller groups. The rules and conditions are as follows:

1. Two groups on each side of the court

2. 4 balls in the middle which is up for grabs as soon as the game was started 

3. Players whom were hit by the opposite team has to move to the other side of the court whereby should they received or stole a ball may hit the opposite team. Meaning that the players have to be aware of attacks from two ends.

 

5. Winner is decided when all players of a team is eliminated. The team which still has players wins.

6. An additional rule was added at final few games due to time constraint in which a single player from each team is selected by the team to be the Queen. Should the Queen be eliminated, the entire team loses.

The pace of the first game began rather slow as the players were still adjusting to the modified rules of the game. It is clear that the participants had fun as even though there is a slight, very slight drizzle, they still continued with the game.

By: Pliny Narong

Note: Any mistakes or errors is accidental and do inform us, so that the report can be edited.

Night of The Star

On the 23^rd of September 2016, Kolej Sakura organized “Night of the Stars”, an event held to showcase the talents of the student residents of the college. This event took place at the lecture hall of Centre of Teaching Facilities 1 (CTF1). Registration began at 8 p.m.

The event kick-started at 8.30 p.m. with the arrival of Cik Ain, the college’s principal. The MC cheerfully began the night by introducing the participants of the showcase. She also joked that the residents of the college are very talented because she would hear singing every night. She then proceeded to explain that marks are given based on the audience applause.

The line-up of the performances are as followed:

·         - A contemporary dance to Maroon 5’s Payphone by a group called “The Stars”.

·         - A beautiful rendition of Adele’s All I Ask by Nurul Yasmin.

·         - An-Nur’s nasyid performance.

·         - Amira’s emotional poetry about mothers.

·         - “Satu Malaysia” choir team’s rendition of “Satu Malaysia.”

·         - A duo,who dubbed themselves as “Dandelion”, cover of Nana Sheeme’s Hantu or Buaya.

·         - Amira Najihah’s cover of Bruno Mars’ When I was Your Man.

·         -Three song mashups performances by Melody, Joy, as well as Sisterhood, who competed the previous year.

·         - Nur Sabrina’s beautiful poetry recitation.

·         - Silky Girl’s cover of Secret Love Song by Little Mix feat Jason Derulo.

·         - A graceful traditional Sarawakian dance performance.

·         - An amazing Chinese poetry recitation by Malissa Kamaruddin.

·         - A duet by “The Alphabet”.

·         - Stephanie’s solo performance.

·         - Dorashin’s musical about being good to your parents.

The audience thoroughly enjoyed every performance and gave endless support to everyone who was on stage. Before the event ended, Cik Ain was presented with an appreciation souvenir for attending the showcase. The night came to a close at 10.30 p.m.

The event was then continued for the next day. On the 24^th of September, the event, Night of The Star came to the end. The event started at 8.30 pm with UNIMAS Gemilang and Tekad Sakura song. Sang along by all the college residents present.

College principal, Cik Ain continued the event with some speech. She congratulated all 17 participants who have shown their talent in the night before. She was so proud that Sakura ladies were very brave and talented to show up to the audiences.  

Every event will be incomplete without a montage from Sakura Editorial Board. After the montage presentation, the events continued with traditional dance performance from Anak Seni Sakura. Next, college felo, Cik Farida with the event manager given away the prizes for the Individual Category. The winner for the category was Amirah Najihah.

After that, all the audiences were presented with the more performances from Anak Seni Sakura which includes modern dance and acoustic performances. Next, Cik Ain with the event manager given away the prizes for Group Category. The winner of the category was Melody. Congratulations to all the winners!

Prepared by,

Imelia Kyra binti Mohamad Iskandar & Marjana Darus

Shed the Cheese

September 21, 2016 marked yet another programme which fired up the Seminar Room of Sakura College with sweat-it-out activity. 

The first session was saved for warming-up and then proceeded to the main activity. The activity of the Wednesday’s evening consisted of workout routines such as planking, star jump, sit-up, push-up and plunges; which compatibly adapted to the named of the activity that dubbed as ‘Shed the Cheese’ of which aiming to burn up fats off of body by performing the fitness motions.

All the types of workout were conducted in multiples sets with uniform counts. Shed the Cheese is an activity that will be conducted in series. 

The activity of the evening was finished by 5:30 PM.

Prepared by: Dayang Nadila F. D. 

Will you save me?

Saturday, 17^th September 2016 – The day was clear and bright. The perfect weather for an explorace. Before the activities started, the participants were provided a bit of breakfast. A short briefing was held and the participants were released to their explorace. The activities for the explorace were areas nearby or within Sakura College. The group were to receive a signed paper from the facilitators of the activities which they have completed. There were five groups with ten members each.

       Among the activities held was describing the participants’ response when given a question or confronted with a situation by way of a picture such as recognising the types of injury and their treatment. Other questions include how many types of burns and what items are present in a first aid kit.

       There is also an activity similar to a hidden object game where the members of a group are to search for ten pictures of items available in a first aid kit with only one member searching at a time. Once a member have found one, the picture is shown to the facilitators in charge of that particular activity. The group member was then replaced with another. Each group have a time limit of ten minutes to search.

        One of the activities is a demonstration by the facilitators of three types of injuries which are a wounded arm, a broken arm and a stabbed arm. After the demonstration, the group members have the opportunity to demonstrate the first aid that they were shown on each other. The facilitators also made the group members do an action of their preference such as singing.

       Another activity had the group divided into two with a member of the smaller group becoming the hostage of the other. The smaller groups were told to tie the hands and legs of their hostage. Once the hostages are tied, the smaller groups then moved to their members whom have been taken hostage and released them as quickly as they can.

          

        There was one other activity which was a crossword puzzle. That particular activity ended very swiftly. In fact, all activities were completed by all the groups far ahead of schedule. The organising committee were rather surprised. To paraphrase one of them, “The participants were very enthusiastic that all activities ended earlier than expected.”

        Prize-giving ceremony were conducted by the Vice President I of Sakura Student Representative Committee, Nor Atikah Bt Ahmad Sayuti. All were the groups received a prize with the top three spots went to Group 4, Group 3, Group 5 respectively and the fourth place going to Group 2 and the fifth to Group 1. A small gift of appreciation were given to the Vice President I for conducting the prize giving ceremony. A group photo was then held to commemorate the program.

By: Pliny Narong

MIFTAH AL-BAIT 6.0

Miftah Al-Bait 6.0 ini merupakan sambungan Miftah AL-Bait 5.0 yang telah dianjurkan pada semester lepas. Program ini dilaksanakan oleh Jawatankuasa Kolej Sakura (JASSA) sendiri. Program ini terbuka kepada semua penghuni Sakura Islam dan bukan Islam. 

Program miftah ini dimulakan dengan bacaan Mathurat beramai-ramai sebelum menunaikan solat Magrib berjemaah. Sesudah selesai solat Magrib, dengan iringan imam, semua hadirin menunaikan solat Hajat diikuti dengan bacaan Yassin. Selepas itu, semua hadirin berjemaah menunaikan solat Isya' sebelum acara seterusnya.

Hadirin mengaminkan doa setelah selesai solat Hajat.

Bacaan Yassin berjemaah.


Miftah Al-Bait 6.0 ini diteruskan dengan  forum yang bertajuk "Perjuangan menuju Cinta". Antara panel jemputan pada malam itu ialah Pengetua Kolej Sakura, Cik Siti Nor Ain dan mahasiswi UNIMAS, Cik Siti Nurul Ainani. Perjuangan merupakan kesungguhan untuk kita mencapai sesuatu, menuju adalah matlamat dan cinta ialah kejayaan seorang pelajar.  "Perjuangan menuju Cinta" bagi seorang pelajar ialah akademik yang dimanfaatkan dengan baik seperti menggunakan ilmu yang kita ada untuk membantu orang lain. 

Cinta yang lahir dalam diri setiap orang adalah berbeza-beza mengikut zaman. Menurut Imam Al-" Ghazali, "cinta ialah perkara yang membahagiakan kepada diri seseorang". Memetik kata-kata Cik Ain, "Be the best believer, no matter what religion you are". Bukan itu sahaja, cinta yang hakiki adalah cinta kepada Allah kerana hati itu milik Allah dan perasaan kasih sayang itu merupakan cinta.
Jarak dapat menguatkan rasa cinta dengan datangnya perasaan rindu terutamanya kepada keluarga. Kita hendaklah menjadikan jarak ini sebagai penguat dan daya penolak untuk kita memajukan diri. 

Akhir kata, semua yang kita lakukan mestilah berladaskan niat yang betul. Pilihan kita adalah tanggungjawab diri kita sendiri. Jangan mudah putus asa dengan dugaan dan cabaran. Majlis diakhiri dengan penyampaian cenderahati kepada Cik Ain dan Cik Ainani.

Showcase Anak Seni Sakura

Pada 17 September 2016, Exco Kesenian & Kebudayaan 15/16 telah menganjurkan Showcase Anak Seni Sakura yang bertempat dihadapan Mini Mart Kolej Sakura. Program ini  diadakan bertujuan untuk memperkenalkan  Kelab Kesenian & Kebudayaan Kolej Sakura. 

Semua pelajar  berkumpul dihadapan Mini Mart bagi melakukan pendaftaran sebelum program bermula pada pukul 8:30 malam.Tidak lupa juga tetamu yang setia bersama Kolej Sakura iaitu Pengetua Kolej Sakura , Cik Siti Nor Ain turut hadir ke program ini.

Pelbagai persembahan menarik dan memukau mata para pelajar  yang telah dipersembahkan oleh ahli-ahli Kelab Anak Seni Sakura. Antara persembahan yang menjadi tumpuan para pelajar ialah persembahan Nasyid, Tarian etnik, Modern dance, Tarian tradisional, dan Akustik. 

Program ini diakhiri dengan sebuah persembahan Tarian retro yang menghiburkan dan berakhir pada pukul 9:30 malam.

Disediakan oleh,

Ain Syahidah Binti Ismail ;)