MITSSS

Hey everyone,

RSVP for Singaporean-Malaysian Mixer
Just a quick reminder to go sign up for the Singapore-Malaysian Pizza Mixer tomorrow (Saturday) night at 6pm at the Kilian Court if you still have not done so http://www.socializr.com/event/247970838 You get to enjoy free food and great company so please stop by if you are free and RSVP by tonight so that we can order enough food.

BBQ Photographs
Photographs of the BBQ are up at http://mitsss.scripts.mit.edu/home/?p=25 Thanks to Peiying and Gerard for providing the pictures. Let me know if you have additional ones that you would like to share on the site as well. I forgot to thank a few people in my previous email, namely Jiamin, Kong-Jie, Lynette and Wuisiew for preparing the amazing cheese and durian pastries as well as Zachary and Manfred for volunteering with the barbecuing (and there probably were a lot more of you that help too so thanks too!)

Recipe Box
At the request of some of our members, we have added a new recipe box onto our website. You can visit it at http://scripts.mit.edu/~mitsss/recipes/index.php?title=Main_Page otherwise there’s also a link to it from our main page. Basically, feel free to edit and add any recipes which you would like to share with others and you can always go and visit the page and try out some of the great recipes. Chef Kong-Jie will be co-ordinating it and he has already uploaded a few of his recipes there.

Wrentham Factory Outlet Trip
Lastly, the Wrentham Factory Outlet Trip is still tentatively scheduled for October 5th, more details will be provided shortly.

Have a great weekend ahead!

cheers,
Kwan Chong

Hi Everyone,

I hope that you enjoyed yourself at the New Students Welcome and Mid Autumn Festival event. We had a great time organizing the event and I would like to take the opportunity to thank the following people for their help:

Committee - Jit Hin, Alice, Charmaine
Grocery Shopping - Kah Keng, Sarah, Gerard, Michael, Jeremy
Food Preparation - Jonathan, Chun Yang, Wenxian
BBQ & Miscellaneous - Guo-Liang, Christian, Peiying, Shirleen, Yoong Keok,

And of course many of the others who helped out at some point in time, please pardon me if I have left your name out. We will be posting up pictures of the event on our website soon (http://mitsss.scripts.mit.edu/home/) Please let me know if you have any pictures that you have taken and would like to share with us.

Upcoming Events:
(1) Pizza Makan for Malaysians and Singaporeans @ MIT on Saturday Sep 20th 6-8pm at Killian Court (http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=killian+court&mapsearch=go)

We will be organizing a joint event with the Malaysian Students this Saturday at the Killian Court. It promises to be an enjoyable evening and a great opportunity to meet friends from our neighboring country. It is our first event this year with the Malaysian Students Society and they have put in a lot of effort in coordinating the event so please do drop by to lend your support. Non-MIT students are most welcome to attend the event as well.

Please RSVP at http://www.socializr.com/event/247970838 by Friday Sep 19th

(2) Basketball Sat Sep 20th 10am at Rockwell

Henry (hkoh@mit.edu) is organizing a pick up basketball session this Saturday. Check our activities wiki (http://scripts.mit.edu/~mitsss/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page) for more details and to sign up or email Henry if you have any additional questions.

(3) Wrentham Factory Outlet Trip Oct 5th

The Wrentham Factory Outlet trip is tentatively scheduled on the 5th of October. It is jointly organizing by the MIT and Harvard Student Societies. More details and confirmation will follow. Let us know if you have any conflicts or issues with the date.

(4) SIMTech Recruitment

Short snippet from SIMTech who are interested in hiring students for research opportunities back in Singapore. Visit their website for more details or let me know if you want Teck Siong’s contact.

Good day to you! My name is Teck Siong, and I am with the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), which is a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). We are planning a recruitment campaign for both undergraduate and postgraduate students who are in the Engineering faculties and wish to seek your assistance in inviting interested students to apply for our research positions.

Our delegation is visiting selected universities in the eastern part of United States of America sometime in November. We are especially keen to attract final year Singaporeans back home to embark on a research career in the science and engineering field. We are also open to recruiting other nationalities if they possess the right experience and qualifications. For full details of the vacancies, please visit: http://www.simtech.a-star.edu.sg/.

Kwan Chong

I hope that everyone is having an enjoyable start to the new semester. This is a reminder that the MITSSS will be organizing its first event of the fall semester, the New Students Welcome and Mid Autumn Festival Celebrations this Sunday, 14th September from 6pm at the Kresge BBQ Pits (http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=G9) Sumptuous BBQ food will be prepared including chicken wings, sambal stingray, satay, hot dogs and more. In addition, mooncakes will be provided after dinner and traditional Mid Autumn lanterns will be available for your enjoyment.

We are still looking for volunteers to help out with the preparation of food and setting up of the BBQ pits. We will begin food preparation at 2pm at the Sidney Pacific Dorm and move over to the pits at around 5pm. Do drop me an email if you are interested in helping with the preparation work. You are most welcome to drop by to help at any time. In addition, if you have BBQ equipment such as tongs, aluminium trays, skewers etc. let me know if you are willing to contribute or loan them for the event.

A final reminder is to come on time or even early for the event as food supplies are limited while stocks last! Looking forward to seeing you all on Sunday!

cheers,
Kwan Chong

From New Students Welcome and Mid Autumn Festival

Hello everyone! Hope that you have had a great summer and are looking forward to the new semester ahead. We will be hosting our annual BBQ cum Mid Autumn Festival on September 14th (Sunday) from 6pm onwards at the Kresge BBQ Pits in MIT. Come join us for a night of good food and fun and relive your childhood moments of carrying around lanterns and eating mooncakes. We will be needing a couple of volunteers to help purchase and prepare the food as well as grilling the food on the day itself. Let us know if you are interested to help out. It won’t take more than a couple of hours of your time and we assure you will have loads of fun too. In addition, if you have a car and maybe a Costco membership, let us know if you could help with purchasing and transporting the food. We will update you with more details regarding the event closer to the actual date, but keep your schedule free meanwhile and we look forward to seeing you at the event!

Kwan Chong