林怡慧报导

张丘艳摄影

    (金宝11日讯) 由霹雳金宝拉曼大学华乐团经过大约三个月的精心策划与筹备盛行举办五周年团庆《音迹》音乐晚会。《音迹》音乐晚会演奏员们使用超过10种乐器演奏出首首悦耳动听的歌曲，带领500余听众们穿梭于各个国家，从德国，韩国到台湾等国家，陪伴大家度过不一样的蓝色星期一。
      

    当晚的开场嘉宾包括, 拉曼大学副校长郑志成博士，DSA Club Officer Mr. Heng Wei Xiang，霹雳金宝拉曼大学华乐团顾问老师Ms. Christina Ong Sook Beng及Ms. Gan Pei Lee，还有各个赞助商的代表人物。《音迹》在众嘉宾的开幕下，正式进入晚会的正题。

“台上三分钟，台下十年功”

    首先， 由拉曼大学副校长郑志成博士上台为大家致词。他由衷感谢观众们的热烈响应，令当晚的音乐会座无虚席。《音迹》筹委会主席，李菀榆在开幕致词表示，《音迹》音乐会不仅诉说着音乐带给团员们的奇迹，还述说着这些年来所有人在华乐路上努力的痕迹。《音迹》以蓝色为主，代表着欢乐与和平。“台上三分钟，台下十年功，台上将近50位演奏员们的平均乐龄为五年，有些甚至已达十一年。一直以来走来的路崎岖不平，虽然这条路不好走，但他们一直努力地奋斗着维持着传统，不让传统随着时间而消失。”她最后强调，透过《音迹》，希望能够发扬华乐这个文化艺术及推广出去让大家对华乐有更深一沉的认识，并借此机会希望能够改善乐团设施问题等。

       《音迹》音乐晚会分成上半场与下半场；上半场主要以轻快的乐曲呈现出庆典的气氛，下半场则以抒情乐曲为主。上半场以《庆典序曲》揭开序幕。《庆典序曲》主要以热烈快速的乐句和唢呐，锣鼓产生共鸣，以勾画出一幅节日庆典的场面，中段则以如歌的慢板展现出一派盛世祥的气氛，与前段的乐曲产生出极大的对比。最后，演奏员们再将喜庆的节日气氛推向高潮，全曲在欢腾激昂中完美落幕。

指挥秦智康(中)带领演奏者们演奏《庆典序曲》。

    继《庆典序曲》后，《音迹》演奏员们一一呈现《丰年祭 》，《Canon in D》，《木棉花开》，《喜讯传来乐开怀》，及《载歌载舞庆佳节》。表演进行时，观众们全神贯注地享受着演奏员们的演出。上半场的曲目在接近尾声时，演奏员们全场的卖力演出，令全场气氛达到最沸点，鼓掌声连绵不断。

心理系三年级学生张敏慧(上)与宋弘正讲师（下）联手演奏《木槿花开》。

    当天晚会备受全场瞩目莫过于张敏慧同学。张敏慧同学于2005年参与太平华联国中华乐团，并学习柳琴。她除了精通柳琴以外，中阮也是她的拿手乐器。张同学于2009年通过北京中央音乐学院第六级中阮考级，拿下《乐浪》马来西亚全国华乐独奏比赛学生组第七名。后来于2010年加入拉曼大学华乐团，以弹奏柳琴为主。张敏慧同学现为拉曼大学心理学系三年级学生。在表演当晚，张同学的柳琴独奏与宋弘正讲师的钢琴演奏巧妙地谱出一曲结合中西元素的动听旋律，让在场的观众个个陶醉其中。

左起为秦智康（琵琶），Praba（琵琶）， 蔡幸薇（柳琴），陈佳柔（柳琴）和谭国民（柳琴）。

    下半场由华乐团新生代们演奏台湾天王周杰伦的《千里之外》拉开序幕。此曲由小型乐队的形式来演绎浓浓中国风的经典之作。紧接下的曲目是由大提琴与钢琴齐奏的韩国热门电视剧《拥抱太阳的月亮》主题曲，《时光倒流》。在大提琴及钢琴双管齐下，观众们仿佛回到了戏剧里的情节，通过歌曲的旋律感受到剧里凄美的爱情故事。

    《风居住的街道》是2003年矶村由纪子与日本著名演奏家家坂下正夫共同合作的经典曲目，这首经典之作由张静宜同学担当二胡独奏，洪薇姗同学钢琴伴奏。张同学的二胡与洪同学的钢琴演奏相互交织一起，相互映衬，二胡与钢琴的完美对话，让全场观众耳目一新。正当观众们正在回味方才令人动容的曲子时，由弹拨乐合奏清新别致，充满欢乐情调的《驼铃响叮当》带给观众不一样的听觉享受。

          大约十点左右，《音迹》音乐晚会在众演奏员们的齐力演奏《瑶族舞曲》及《台湾追想曲》下，画下完美的句点。          

周俐妤     报导

林小彤     摄影

还记得那位敢怒敢言的NTV7全方位华文女主播李晓蕙吗？如今的她已卸下新闻主播的光环，回归老本行，成为律师。在她离开主播界的第二天，她来到拉曼大学金宝校园与学生进行分享会。

李晓蕙来自雪州巴生。当她还是中学生时，她常常在周末一边温习功课，一边收听电台节目。她认为电台DJ 的影响力很大，所以她就立志要当新闻工作者。在STPM 成绩出炉后，虽曾考虑要不要念媒体，但最后还是进入了马大法律系。当她在马大念书时，她是一位活跃于全国大专辩论赛的参与者。之后才开始她的主播生涯。

“主播好不好当？是看你自己能不能为自己找到定位，要当怎样的新闻主播。那么当主播的压力会大吗？其实每个新闻工作者的压力都蛮大的；因为这是一份分秒必争的工作，尤其是电视新闻。”

主播生涯

“主播分为两种，第一种是全职主播，另一种就是兼职主播。以NTV7为基准，前者必须在每天下午两点之前到达电视台，以便有充足的时间去预录五点半的华语新闻时段播出的新闻稿，而后者只需要在当班前的两个小时到达电视台读旁白就可以了，而我就是全职主播”。

她說，在新闻工作者的职业生涯中，令她留下深刻印象的是四年前赵明福的案件。由于她拥有法律背景，于是她的上司就安排她去法庭采访这宗案件。

“由于很多记者的到来使得位子不够，所以我们必须每天早上六点就要到验尸庭排队找位子。按常规，验尸庭会审讯到下午四点，但由於我必須赶五点半的新闻，所以我不能够等到验尸庭结束审问后才回电视台，在两点之间就必须离开法庭回电视台”。

当时赵明福的案件轰动全国。法庭审讯期间不允许錄影，因此她必须要在从法庭回电视台的路途中开始赶稿，到了电视台后她就得马上交待同事制作画面，然后才去念旁白和剪接。一直忙到五点半华语新闻播出后，她才能松一口气。

她认为，当新闻工作者不只写稿能力要快，临场反应也要快。

她引述，“几年前霹州大臣闹双胞事件，当時无论谁胜了都是大新闻。到最后高庭下判尼查胜了，现场传来支持者的欢呼声。尼查也准备在法庭外发表谈话，我就在法庭外做現場直播报导(Stand Upper)，以便能在五点半华语新闻时段播出这个片段，让电视机前的观众们能感受现场的气氛，在录影期间被人推撞也必須装着若无其事般的继续录影，因为每一分每一秒都很重要。”

她说，写稿与临场反应是属于技术程面，是可以训练出来，只要看自己能不能克服惰性。

媒体界的挑战

李晓蕙认为，媒体工作者应该为了热忱而进入媒体界；而不是为了钱。

她披露，新闻工作者尤其是中文媒体，都在面臨三大问题，就是薪金调幅度，阴盛阳衰（女新闻工作者多过男新闻工作者）和媒体垄断。

“中文媒体工作者的薪金不变，薪金調幅高，一年只加一百零吉，导致薪金数目跟不上价物上涨，相比之下，英文媒体工作者的福利会比较好。”

所以她奉劝，想进入新闻行业的新新人类必须先做好心理准备，得多做兼职来赚外快，如翻译等等。

她也表示，新闻界是以女人为多的行业。她打趣地说：“如果单身者进入这一行，都很难找到同行来当伴侣，所以我到现在还是单身”。

她说，大集团或政府操控公司垄断媒体是个不好的现象。这就是造成大马新闻自由度低的主要原因。

大马新闻自由度还很低

她披露，无可否认，首要媒体（Media Prima ）是党营媒体。在《非谈不可》时事清谈电视节目中，他们曾邀请朝野双方包括时任副教育部长拿督魏家祥博士，行动党太平区国会议员倪可敏律师，隆雪华堂执行长陈亚才以及著名时评人唐南发，一同为《国阵vs民联KPI 大比拼》这个主题进行辩论。

当时的情况是如果节目中提及民联的新闻，就会被列为是在支持民联。而当时那档节目中某些内容正涉及民联，所以遭到一些不明人士向国政政府打小报告。

被打压时所能做的就只是在内容上先收敛，等事情沉澱了一阵再去报导这些涉及民联的课题。

 “新”路旅程  遇上伯乐

不仅如此，李晓蕙也与学生们分享她的入行过程。

“资深电台主持人，黄丽儿小姐是我入行的启蒙老师。在我未入行时，我曾在全国大专辩论赛与她接洽。之后当我加入RTM成为新闻主播，很巧得又遇见了她。由于我的声音是属于残音型，声音不悦耳，所以一开始时观众并不大接受我。她对我说，脑袋比声音重要，因为媒体人与政治人物对民众的影响力是不容小絮的。”

李晓蕙表示，在NTV 7前主播方若琪被当时的副新闻部长(拿督谢宽泰，拿督陈莲花)邀请当副部长助理 （简称新闻官）之后，国营电视台首个华语时事清谈节目《你怎么说》就诞生了。她被选中为第一季的主持人，原因是她曾在律师楼当实习律师，说起话来较有想法。她指出，报新闻与主持节目的差别在于报新闻时有稿可念，而主持节目则是无稿的，必须能和现场的嘉宾互动，同时也要会找谈话有趣的地方加以铺叙内容与看法。她还自嘲说自己的声音不好听，样子也不好看，只能以脑袋与迅速掌握主持技巧为自身优势。

过了一段时间，李晓蕙便到NTV 7 当新闻主播。对她来说，报新闻不是个问题。“相信大家都还记得我在去年曾与白健名（NTV 7的另一位华语新闻男主播）搭档主持《李白体坛》这个体育节目。别看我在主持时对各项体育都了如指掌，其实我在还未投入这个体育节目的拍摄之前只懂羽球这项运动。虽然我有时会在报新闻时报导一些羽球之外的体育新闻，但是我只是在念新闻，对新闻背景其实并不了解。为了《李白体坛》这个节目，我一共花了两天的时间去准备体育新闻。无论它是F1一级方程式赛车, 足球，篮球, 我都必须去了解关于这些运动的一些背景和历史并勤做笔记。正因如此，当我在做节目时，大家才看不出我对体育新闻的不了解。以前的我根本分不清什么是足球里的球会和国家队。”

李晓蕙坦言此刻的她在《非谈不可》节目中已能够游刃有余，在此刻的停下令她有点不舍。

“由于我先天不足 – 残音很重，我惟有靠后天补上；我非常感谢父母和老师的教导。勤能补拙就是我的个人名言。我要有自己的想法，对各个课题都要能了解，才能表现得专业”。

《非谈不可》与拿督李宗伟婚礼事件

当学生提及曾经荣获过第二届《金视奖》的《最佳时事清谈节目》- 《非谈不可》会不会做下去时，她指出，该节目还是会做下去但是会失去原来的宗旨。“《非谈不可》这个时事节目不能说被腰斩，每一季一共有13集，由于种种的压力，高层认为做起来有点麻烦，所以趁季休就停了”。

对于去年十一月发生的羽球国手拿督李宗伟婚礼事件所引起的争议，她认为她只是在个人面子书账户和粉丝专页发表个人意见，并不代表电视台的主场。她不觉得有问题，因为她不是以管理员的身份在电视台或华语新闻面子书官方专页发表她的个人意见。

分享会的出席者包括拉曼大学文学院之新闻系主任董盈盈讲师，陈慧萍讲师和郑文德讲师。

 

By Cheong Chiew Yen

Photographed by Pritha Sukumaran

International Friendship Society organized the Cultural Night - We Are Together as the closing of the Cultural Fiesta 2013, which was held from the 2^nd of August until the 16th. The event was held in Heritage Hall on August 18^th at 8pm. The event serves as a platform to bring the international students together to learn about each other’s culture.

“The concept of We Are Together was born because we think that no matter what culture you are, we are all together,” said Deon, the Chairperson of Cultural Night. “After six months of grueling preparation, today is finally the day. All the committees are very excited and looking forward to it,” Deon added.

“The Cultural Fiesta was initiated by the idea of the Cultural Exhibition. In order to make the event more interesting, we came out with the idea of Cultural Fiesta, which branched out into music, game, food, clothes and dance,” said Rosemary Xavier, the Executive Director of the Cultural Fiesta.

After going through four events, she said that she was glad to see every event ending successfully and thanked the committee members and helpers in making those events a success although they faced hardships in monitoring the working progress of different events.

Mr. Khor Chien Yen, officer of DSA and Mr. Lam Yoong Chuen, officer of Department of International Student Affairs thanked the committee members in putting their efforts into the Cultural Fiesta event since 6 months ago in their speech. 

The performance of the night included Western, Chinese, Malay, Indian, Japanese, Korean and African culture. Dream Guardians, which consisted of UTAR Setapak campus students started the ball rolling by singing “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” by Taylor Swift. A Hip-hop rap performance by African students followed by B-boy dance from UTAR Dance Club brought the first session of performance to a climax.

The second session of performances started with the Chinese Orchestra. The special program of this event was the Best Attire Competition. All the attendants who wore traditional costume or special attire that contained traditional elements were qualified to participate in the competition. One final winner will be chosen based on the roaring of the audience. In the end, Jilo who donned her African costume took the final win.

The event came to the end after the ending speech of Rosemary Xavier. Once again, she thanked the committees for their hard work and also thanked the helpers in making the event a success.

By Cheah Yuen Yuen

Photographed by Dillon Chong

UTAR’s first ever live runway fashion show, LUC: The Classic Vogue closed its blinds to an admiring crowd on August 16^th, 2013 at UTAR Perak Campus Heritage Hall.

Aimed to showcase the different classical costumes of different cultures from all around the world, LUC (acronym for Legendary Uniqueness of Culture): The Classic Vogue, is the fourth of a circle of events organized by the UTAR International Friendship Society’s for the Cultural Festival.

“We’ve been preparing for the show for almost a year.” said Simranjit Kaur, Chairperson of the fashion show event.

Simranjit Kaur, Chairperson of LUC: The Classic Vogue giving her opening speech.

Mr Balasubramaniam Kuppusamy, Senior Lecturer of Centre of Foundation Studies and advisor of International Friendship Society and Mrs Pushparani Thilaganathan, founder of Miss Malaysian Indian Global both took to the stage to provide words of encouragement and applaud the hard work of the committee after the Chairperson’s brief opening speech. Rosemary Xavier, Executive Director of the Cultural Fiesta and the Chairperson of International Friendship Society was also amongst the VIPs invited.

The guest of honor, Ms Harnesh Kaur, Miss Malaysian Indian Global 2012 & 2013 launched the opening of the show after addressing the audience.

Mrs Pushparani Thilaganathan, founder of Miss Malaysian Indian Global giving her encouraging speech.

Ms Harnesh Kaur, Miss Malaysian Indian Global 2012 & 2013 addressing the audience with a short speech.

Phanukaphan Opart and Prishalini as Phanuk (far right) and Prisha (third from right) respectively, acting as siblings who took a tour to 6 different countries.

Traditional Indian attires by Nate Kwan (left) and Ruan YiLi (right)

Classical Roman attires by Gan Tsai Wee (left) and Tan Shi Yong (right)

Classical African attires by Lai Wai Seng (left) and Scereen Priscilla (right)

Classical Hawaiian attires by Kalvin Chia (left) and Lee Hae Lyn (right)

Classical British attires by Lim Kai Xian (left) and Chin Huey Yen (right)

Traditional Chinese attires by Ng Ming Aeng (left) and Saw Khai Ning (right)

Traditional Malaysian attires by Law Eng Chong (left) and Carmen Ong (right)

Vanessa Chong modeling the dress designed by Ong Joe Lyn

Designer Ong Joe Lyn

“The fashion show at the end was my favourite part of the event.” said Lee Ai Lian, Year 2 Semester 2 Psychology Student.

“I hope that the idea and the message we want to bring to the audience is portrayed and understood by the audience at the end of the show.” said Simranjit in her closing address.

By Cheah Yuen Yuen
Photographed by Melvin Chow

From 12^th to 15^th August 2013, UTAR Heritage Hall beckoned those who dared to die to challenge this semester’s haunted house event. Said to be the largest scale ever in the history of UTAR’s haunted house events, Dare To Die attracted more than 800 participants in its four day run.

“We were worried about the turnout because the event coincided with the Ghost Festival month of the Chinese Lunar Calendar. But the response was so overwhelming that we had to turn people away.” said Adrian Lee, Chairperson of the Dare To Die event.

“The event was supposedly to be held from 10am to 4pm. But the hall was too bright during the day, so we decided to extend it to 10pm to make it more scary.” said Lee.

The participants were asked to find 6 keys and also locate the exit of the haunted maze in under 10 minutes. The fastest challenger stands to win RM200 worth of cash.

“I’m curious to see what the haunted house is like.” said Liew Shy Teng from Foundation in Science.

“It wasn’t very scary. And the keys were really hard to find because the ghost were holding onto it and covering it up.” said Vashantaan after his experience in the haunted maze.

“Many people turned up more than once just to participate in both the daytime experience and the nighttime experience as well.” said Christine Chua, Publicist Head.

“We have around 100 helpers playing ghosts in the maze everyday. But we were still quite shorthanded on helpers because people didn’t turn up when they were supposed to.” said Chua.

The Dare To Die event was the second of a circle of events organized by the UTAR International Friendship Society’s for the Cultural Festival and sponsored by Super Star International Beauty School and Bright and Sound.