Credits to Hua Hong Gan for Photography.
It was quite a blast. I did not expect this many guests last night. When I was helping out at the ticketing, I questioned the seniors whether the previous M'sian Nitghts were huge, they said most of the guest are walked in guests. I finally see it. I remembered only 100++ tickets were sold on before the event starts. On the day itself, walk in guests takes up another 50% of the whole ticket sale.
I helped out as a volunteer doing miscellaneous works. I was there the night before to help with the preparation, decorations and cutting some paper crafts. The next morning, I was summoned by the MSA chair to practice the Bamboo dance (I was holding the bamboo, lol, not dancing). Then, I never left the ballroom since 1030am till the end of the show, at 10 something.
Overall, I can see the effort put in by the M'sian students and also the volunteers. There were on 30 plus M'sian and some were not participating in this event. However, the seniors never got too disappointed with the manpower we had. I really salute them for most of the performances were presented by themselves. Each one of them were at least involved in 2 performances. Kudos, seniors!
I helped putting up the flags. Hua Hong and I had a fun time guessing the famous food in each state. One of the lamest one was: "...stop hanging the flag, I can smell Laksa already.." And we were under the Penang state flag.
We served M'sian food last night! I only remembered curry chicken as I don't have a chance to enjoy the food very much.
Event started with a traditional costume fashion show.
Senior - TaZhi Ong. This was stunning. We never saw him up the stage during the practice! Elegant-nyaa.
Emcees of the night. We had non-Malaysian as our hosts.
Lighting ceremony. It was in conjunction with the Deepavali festival.
Left to Right: Mr. Potter (SCSU President), Yong Heng Lee (MSA Chair), MSA Acting advisor, Rep from Chicago Malaysian Student Department.
Indian Dance by Karthiga.
Modern dance by the seniors, all boys.
Not bad!
Chinese Fan dance.
Kak YiLing! Malay Traditional Dance.
Ong is on stage again! Never expected. He made the audiences high.
Final performance, 24 season drums. Very dramatic, though.
So this is it. My experience of Malaysian Night.
Unfortunately, a lot of the seniors are graduating. I am very afraid that we will have to take up this task on our own next year. Hope that more M'sian will come to SCSU! Haha, FYI, Malaysian Nights are held annually during the Fall semester.
