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Echo Buzz: Not All Men but Every Single Woman
Trigger warning: Mention of R*pe and Sexual Violence
Posted inCreative Hall Lifestyle Short Stories
Short Story: Muse
The pale skinny boy in the photo looked foreign; dark curls, hard brown eyes, features etched into what seemed to be a permanent frown. Max sneaked a glance at the vanity mirror facing him; same physical traits and yet an entirely different person.
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Colourism: Modern Society’s Plague
Described by Lupita Nyong’o as the “daughter of racism”, colourism has been plaguing societies for decades with its jarring prominence and its blatant inclination towards belittling darker skin to glorify whiter skin. The seemingly positive effects from the influx of recent self-acceptance and self-love related media is ruled out by colourism, which consistently undermines these self-acceptance messages by alluding that only certain types of skin tones are worthy of being accepted. This can’t help but make us wonder: why is darker skin still seen as an unprepossessing physical trait?
March 2021 Video
The month of March means commemorating International women’s day, The Sunway Echo Media’s guys are tasked to guess the feminine products and prices. How confident are the guys and do they know their stuff well? Will the guys be able to prove themselves? Tune in to see the dudes comical and humorous reactions.
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Real Talk: The Caste System
What Is A Caste System?
The term caste is described as a hereditary and endogamous community restricted to people of the same economic or occupational, spiritual, and social class. The concept stemmed from the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese words casta and casto, which hold the meaning of “race and lineage” and “pure or chaste”, respectively. In Latin, casto also holds the meaning “chaste”, which originated from the term castus, suggesting “clean, pure and separated”.
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Time is Timeless | A Concept
For centuries, the basic concepts of time have been determined by numbers – as we all know it, we live and breathe through 365 days in a year. This can be broken down into a universal calendar of 12 months, 52 weeks, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes and 31,536,000 seconds. While the Earth rotates on its axis, the days and nights take turns with their shifts.
Sunway Analytics Society (SAS) Virtual Bonding – Game Slam Night
Sunway Analytics Society (SAS) held a virtual bonding session for their members titled ‘Game Slam Night’ on 5 February, 8.00 pm-9:30 pm on Microsoft Teams. A video introducing Sunway Analytics Society which contained short clips of previous workshops and events was played at the start of the event, followed by a short speech by the Sunway Analytics Society president, Ting Wei Jian.
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Book Review: The Science of Feelings by Eugene Tee
“What is your biggest takeaway from this book?” she asked.
Sunway University Orientation Quadbinars Week 2: Famous For What?
The second webinar of the Sunway University Orientation Quadbinars series was held on Friday, 26th February, from 8-9:00 pm on Zoom. Wei Ting Lim, co-founder and CSO of Quadby, hosted the session. Joined by guest speakers Hubert Lee (@hubertceo), Edward Lauh (@zenlauh), and Moses Wong (@moseswck), Malaysian TikTokers who have made a name for themselves on social media. Also present were Quadby members from other universities, such as UPM, MMU, and the University of Nottingham Malaysia, to discuss the overarching question, “Famous for what?”
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Astrology with Echo: Pisces Season
As we step out of the season of Aquarius, let us dive into the dreamy, mystical, and otherworldly season of Pisces (February 19 – March 20). The Piscean’s symbol of two fishes swimming in opposite directions reflects the constant duality and division of their inner struggle between fantasy and reality. As the twelfth and final constellation in the zodiac, it is an amalgamation of the many characteristics of the prior eleven signs and the lessons they have learned. Hence, this is what makes these fishes so empathetic and compassionate compared to other creatures in the astrological cycle.