The MV Screamer 2019
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September The MV Screamer 2019 What is happening with the MVs? Talk by Prof Dr Sivachandralingam: The Economy of Colonial Malaya, 27/8/19 ASSOCIATE PROF. DR. SIVACHANDRALINGAM SUNDARA RAJA Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya Prof Siva was discovered in the “Revisiting Malaysia’s Colonial Economy” conference held at the University of Malaya in July 2019 and was invited to speak to MV. 60 people attended. The Professor’s talk was surprisingly brief and was followed by a longer Q&A session. Prof Siva explained the method of British rule and the basic structure of the colonial economy. He then presented a few cases of how the colonial administrators were not always helpful and sometimes even hostile to the businessmen of the time…. in contradiction to the purpose of the colony. If you need more details, Prof Siva has written a book “The Economy of Colonial Malaya” which costs more than RM800! Graduation of Batches 31, 32 and 33, 21/9/19 On 21 September 2019, we added 47 new members to our MV family. Apologies from the President Karen Loh who had to miss this event. Treasurer Kon Cze Yan was “acting” for the day. Puan Roslelawati bt Abdullah, the Director of BKK JMM presided over the graduation and did the honours. Afidah Zuliana, our emcee, efficiently steered the event to an early completion. Despite 9 speeches – MVJ President Mrs Mizoguchi, B31 trainee Naoko Hasegawa, B32 trainer Lim Ee Lin, B32 trainee Jean Leong, B33 trainer Anne Deguerry, B33 trainee Anne Berthelot, Kon Cze Yan twice! – we managed to finish ahead of time. 1 | P a g e issued by Kon Cze Yan 23/9/19 September The MV Screamer 2019 The event began at 11.30am with the graduation of MVJ Batch 31. MVJ President Mrs Mizoguchi delivered a speech in 2 languages! Luckily I had googled some key Japanese phrases to inject into my speech. Lastly, trainee Naoko Hasegawa, dressed in a gorgeous kimono and a dazzling smile, spoke. Puan Roslelawati, the Director of BKK JMM (Department of Museums Corporate Communications), then awarded the graduation certificates and tags. A delightful Graduation Cake was then unveiled – pulut kuning decorated with fruits and flowers! All hands (JMM, MV, MVJ, MVF) were on deck to cut the cake which was to be eaten with chicken rendang. After the scrumptious Malay lunch, we continued with the graduation of Batches 32 and 33. More engaging speeches by the trainers and trainees of the 2 batches. For Batch 32, the eloquent Lim Ee Lin spoke off the cuff and Jean Leong recounted the story of her iguana (more about that on pages 8-9!). For Batch 33, to keep things matchy matchy both trainer and trainee speakers were French and both were named Anne – Deguerry and Berthelot. Among the graduates are 7 French. There are also 6 Koreans. The French Invasion and the Hallyu Wave all at the same time. Thank you to all the trainers & trainees for your great work and dedication. Thank you to the trainers for looking after the trainees and bringing them up. Thank you to the graduates for persevering with your studies and graduating! Welcome to the Museum Volunteers family. 2 | P a g e issued by Kon Cze Yan 23/9/19 September The MV Screamer 2019 Batch 31 MVJ (Japanese) Batch 32 (Saturday) Batch 33 (Tuesday) Trainees: 20 Trainees: 16 Trainees: 25 Graduated: 15 Graduated: 11 Graduated: 21 Aya Yamamoto Ana Alvarez Alfia Jouene Kaori Nagaya Eva Puah Suat Moi Alfred Fernandez Kazumi Mori Faridah Robiah Ismail Anne Berthelot Miki Kosaka Fong Mun Hong Benedicte Vassicht Naoko Hasegawa Helen Tee Guat Hiong Caryn Lai Sook Hean Nobutoshi Nakamura Ilani bt Mohd Jamin Celine Ritchie Noriko Asada Jean Leong Hung Sheong Cindy Loo Heng Fong Noriko Omori May Song Chan Hui Daniela Barrier Seiko Oda Michelle Min Yun Ki David Kang Shin Kwang Takashi Oguchi Pamella Lim Yin Yin Diana Daymond Takashi Yosimura Tan Chuan Leng Itrisyia Dayini bt Kamarul Baharin Tomoko Imanishi Jerry Loh Kian Sing Toshiomi Miyazaki Kate Lee Kyung Hee Misako Wada Katia Luccin Noriko Takizawa Lam Lai Meng Marianne Monsacre Mia Seo Hye Jeong Richard Gascoigne Sibilla de Courtils Stephanie Hwang Suna Tilakam Veerasamy Trainers: Trainers: Trainers: Chiami Mizoguchi Chen Poh Leng, B24 Jegatheesan Velupillay, B21 Keiko Ishigami Lim Ee Lin, B21 Rama Ramanathan, B28 Sachiko Kubo Ching Yook Ling, B24 Afidah Zuliana, B28 Makiko Nakao KC Yong, B24 Laurence Maille, B10 Ayako Yada Anne Deguerry, B28 Yuko Yamaura Apologies if your name has been misspelt. Thank you to BKK JMM for organising the nice graduation party. • Puan Roslelawati bt Abdullah - Director • Mohd Jamil bin Haron - Curator • Norfiza (Fiza), Norizan, Zainaszira (Jane) - Assistant Curator • Yusri – Pembantu Muzium • Rizal – Pembantu Operasi More photos on Facebook. 3 | P a g e issued by Kon Cze Yan 23/9/19 September The MV Screamer 2019 Batch 31 Batch 32 Batch 33 4 | P a g e issued by Kon Cze Yan 23/9/19 September The MV Screamer 2019 The State of MV We now have about 166 active members of 15 nationalities. Malaysians make up nearly half with 74, followed by the Japanese 51, French 16, Korean 8. MV started in 2006. In the 13 years since MV started, we have trained about 620 people with more than 430 graduates. That’s a 70% pass rate! Sadly many leave after a few years, but happily quite a lot stay. NATIONALITY Year Batch Malaysian 74 2006/2007 1 0 Japanese 51 2007/2008 2, 3 4 French 16 2008/2009 4, 5, 6 4 Korean 8 2009/2010 7, 8, 9 4 American 4 2010/2011 10, 11, 12 5 British 3 2011/2012 13, 14, 15 4 Canadian 2 2012/2013 16, 17, 18 4 Australian 1 2013/2014 19, 20, 21 15 Chinese 1 2014/2015 22, 23, 24 24 German 1 2015/2016 25, 26, 27 16 Hong Kong 1 2017 28, 29 31 Italian 1 2017/2018 30 8 Kyrgyzstan 1 2018/2019 31,32,33 47 Spanish 1 Total 166 Swiss 1 166 Female 131 Male 35 166 5 | P a g e issued by Kon Cze Yan 23/9/19 September The MV Screamer 2019 The Tale of the MVJ By Junko Mori Our story started about 10 years ago. Museum Volunteers already conducted guided tours in several languages at that time. However, the executive committee of Museum Volunteers realized that number of Japanese visitors increased, and, Japanese School of Kuala Lumpur wants the students to expose Malaysian history and culture. They decided to organize the Japanese group and appointed a Japanese lady, Yuko Inagaki, in English group at that time as the leader. She called for volunteers among Japanese community through community papers. About 15 people were responded, and, we started the Japanese group in May 2008. Yuko Inagaki in action We soon realized that conducting a guided tour in Japanese is not easy. We’ve got to know more about Malaysian culture and history to understand the exhibits in the museum. We decided to split the parts of self- study and made a presentation of what we learnt to each other once a week at least. Not only that, we organized self-tour to experience Malaysian culture and history such as to Lenggong Valley, Perak. We invited a researcher of Japanese Embassy to give us lectures. Beside all this activities, English Group members supported us providing the study materials and captions for the exhibits. However, translated into Japanese itself is a hard work because we are not only familiar with technical terms and words, but their usage is very Malaysian specific. Our learning process was slow but steady. The first trial tour was conducted after 5 months. We invited our families and friends. The tour was successful. We have a good response from our audience. Finally, on 16 October 2008 we have introduced Japanese guided tours for public. We have a limited manpower and our coverage is also limited. We could manage the tour only once a week at the beginning. Our journey to exposing museum exhibits and Malaysian cultures and history continued. Also, we are getting more responses for volunteers. Right now, we have 45 volunteers (increased three times from starting). The number of the guided tour increased to 5 times a week. We are able to provide a tour to not only the Japanese School but other tourist groups. We thank all other MV groups and staffs of Muzium Negara for supporting our group and enhancing our activities from the beginning. We appreciate all visitors who joined the tours and gave us the warmest feedbacks. Thank you very much! MVJ Batch 1 & MVJ Batch 2 Junko Mori and Mrs. Koko Adachi from the first MVJ Batch 1 (MV batch 5) are still active members. 6 | P a g e issued by Kon Cze Yan 23/9/19 September The MV Screamer 2019 MVJ News By Tomoko Imanishi Batch 35 MVJ trainees started on 04/09/2019 Wednesday and has 15 trainees. Training will take 5 months and end next January. Visit by Osaka University of Economics and Law & UKM on Saturday 14/9/19 38 students from Osaka University of Economics and Law and 6 students from UKM Guides- Adachi, Inou, Shimizu, K.Nomura, M.Nomura 7 | P a g e issued by Kon Cze Yan 23/9/19 September The MV Screamer 2019 National Museum@ Check out the reviews! Overall 4 stars, but if you search “tours” you will see 4-5 stars and many glowing reviews of our MV guides.