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Coffee destinations for RMITers

p. 7

MOVIE REVIEWChange begins with a

whisper: The Help p. 9-10

CLUB PUBJapanese Culture Day p.15Accounting CFO series p.12-13

SUCCESSFUL ALUMNI STORYNgo Huy Anh fromStandard Chartered p.5-6

AROUND US

The Voice of Vietnam

p.2

SMALL TIPS, BIG CHANGESGreen Living p.3-4

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CONTENTS

2.

Around us

The Voice of Vietnam

3-4.

Small tips, big changes

Green living

5-6.

Successful alumni story

Ngo Huy Anh from Standard

Chartered

7.

The List

5 Coffee destinations for RMITers

8.

The Scence

Looking for date ??? Let’s do a

cupcakes date <3

9-10.

Movie review

Change begins with a whisper:

The Help

11-12.

Sport Report

English Premier League: The

Downfall of an Emperor ?

12-13

Club Pub

Japanese Culture Day p.16

Accounting CFO series

13-14

Research Corner

What is Real Art?

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EDITORIAL TEAMDo Thanh NhanPhan Anh QuanTran Anh VuCao Tuan Hiep

SALES, PR & FINANCE

DESIGNERCao Tuan HiepCao Hoang YenNguyen Nhat Hoang

PHOTOGRAPHERSNguyen Vu Nhat AnhPham Viet CuongNguyen Doan Thanh Thuy

WRITERS/CONTRIBUTORS

from the editorTrần Anh Vũ- editor in chief

After the publication of the 1st is-sue, we have received many posi-tive feedbacks and helps from SLAM, Culture, Accounting Club and also the readers. Current Magazine is the brainchild of the whole RMIT Hanoi campus; therefore, we appre-ciate your helps very much.I would like to thank Mr. Luu Duc Minh and the Student Council for your helpful support in processing the magazine. And, I also would like to show my appreciation to Quan, Mai Anh, Hiep,Nhan, Nhat Anh & every Current Magazine’s members for staying with us through all the struggles. With you all by my side, I believe we can be the next best thing in RMIT soon, without doubt.

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* Please note that the views expressed in these pages are the personal views of the au-thors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of RMIT management.

Current Magazine is a free, student-run publication for the RMIT Hanoi community.Copyright © 2012 currentmedia

Nguyen Hong NgocBach Ngoc Lan AnhLe Ngoc TramTran Minh Trang

Nguyen Tri (Accounting club)Cao Tuan Hiep

An Thu TrangNguyen Tran Mai Anh

To Phuong LinhBui Xuan Duong

The Voice, originally from Holland, is a reality TV show aimed to search for beautiful, special voices and has been produced in 47 countries. Now adopted by Vietnam, only the second Asian country after South Korea, The Voice of Vietnam, or “Giong Hat Viet”, will be coming this 2012 with the winning prize of up to 5oo mil VND. The contestants also have the chance to learn and work with Dam Vinh Hung, Ho Ngoc Ha, Thu Minh and rocker Tran Lap (four expected judges of the show).

Different from other singing competitions such as Idol, “Giong Hat Viet” is designed just for real singing talents. Why? Firstly the candidates who perform in the first phase – the blind audition are selected strictly by experienced singers and only max 70 of them are chosen (Compared to Idol’s 500). Secondly, during the blind audition, all judges cannot see the performances, only hear. The selected candidates may not be those who present a song in a stylish way or perform successfully, but must be those who are able to show their voice impressively.

No pretty faces, no cool tricks, no swags, just Voice.

After the first phase of the show, singers can be selected by, or select a judge to work

with. They will be mentored and supported by their coach to prepare for the battle phase. Therefore, being able to choose a suitable coach is very important. However, since in this phase they also have to compete against other members within the same team, so they could consider avoiding joining a team with lots of good singers.

Finally, in the final phase-the live performance shows, the coach continues to support their contestants. However, their fate is relied on public vote. In the end, both the coaches and the people decide who has the most amazing voice in the show.

The preliminary will be held on May 24th and June 1st in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City respectively. Let us all look forward to the surprises it will bring.

Huy Col

Remember what makes music so incredible? And what connects you to those songs that you love?It’s the voice.

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The voice of

Vietnam

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AROUND US

Green Living

Green

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Have you ever thought about changing yourself for the better? Changing your way of living may sound hard but it’s actually just about some small changes you’ll

have in your daily actions to make your life “GREEN”. Follow these easy steps and see how your life will improve!

Step 1: Consume wisely, or bet-ter yet, eco-wisely!

- Choose eco friendly covers such as paper or leaf instead of plastic (E.g: Choose leaf-covered “xoi” in-stead of plastic-covered ones). Moreover, try to use reusable shopping bags instead of plastic ones.- Plan your shopping, or have a to-buy list. Never put yourself in a dilemma where you are stuck with undesired items. Be smart and your money will stay with you.

Step 2: Home safe home

- Grow vegetables on roof /balcony. I bet you have once tried to grow a small black pea plant when you are studying Agriculture Technology in primary school. It was fun and easy! You can do the same with small tomato or red chili trees. They don’t take much space but can be useful when you need some spices or a slice of tomato for your salad. It’s surely healthy because it is your own product.

What is “green living”? Green Living actually is a way that helps reducing natural resources con-sumption and negative environmental effects by re-acting your living habits. Green Living means to meet the present demand without damaging re-sources for future generations. It can be seen as the most viable aspect of Sustainability Develop-

ment.

Lan-Anh Ngoc Bach

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Step 3: Take out the garbage!!!

- Classify garbage to reuse and recycle. Recycling not only helps to reduce the amount of raw materials tak-en from natural resources for manufacturing but also helps to decrease the garbage on our planet.- Everyone should consider using fabric handkerchiefs instead of paper ones. Saving paper means saving trees. Additionally, remember to use both sides of paper. This simple action can help us save tons of trees.

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Step 4: Save your energy

- Use energy saving electric appliances and turn off electric appliances when not in use. Duh. Your mom had said it. The TV had said it. It’s also been promoted during Earth hour campaign as well. Do it.- Participating in Green Transport. Even though nowa-days we cannot avoid using transportations which pro-duce a lot of emissions to the atmosphere, we can still minimize their impact on the environment. What we can do in fact is to turn off your motorbike when you stop for more than 25 seconds to wait for the traffic red light, for example- Slow food. Don’t depend too much on fast-food. Pro-vide yourself with enough nutrition. More fresh veg-etables and fruits in your daily meals.

Step 5: Stay healthy, be happy

- Keep a good posture while working at the desk, daily exercise helps too. Students like us spend most of the time reading, writing or sitting in front of the computer screen. If you are not in a good position, your neck or your backbone will hurt badly.- Surround yourself with good music and arts. Living green means that you have not only a strong physical body but also a good spirit for your daily work and ac-tivities. Keep a healthy mind! Good luck!

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Indeed. But how do you communicate at work? Imagine yourself as a bank officer. Now imagine you have a staff of dozen. You also meet hundreds of people per month. For business. VIPs watch your every single movement. No. Mistake. Allowed.Admittedly, how should you communicate at work?

Ngô Huy Anh, an RMIT alumnus, knows the right answer. He does them all on regular ba-sis. “In every situation, keep calm and be for-mal to seize the customer’s trust”, he advises.

After graduating from RMIT Saigon in the late 2010, friends invited him to start as a trainee in Standard Chartered Bank* in January 2011. 10 months later he got promoted to be the leader of Sales Department. To progress this far in less than a year, especially in such a big international bank, only a few people are capable of.

Fact is: he is NOT a born - genius, he was just like us, mostly. He used to be a normal high school student just like we were. But what impressed Huy Anh and made him give up his University Conventions to go to RMIT

uccessful Alumni StoryS“Communication: key to success”

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is neither its facility nor education but its active envi-ronment. Unlike other university, where the students rarely participate in any events, “RMIT students are really proactive and sociable” – said Huy Anh – “this environment suits me in every way”. Thus, Huy Anh enjoyed his univer-sity life with many new friends dur-ing university time.

He is also close with most profes-sors, “Till now, I still keep in touch with them and some have even become my clients”. Exchang-ing ideas with the professors helps Huy Anh to ex-pand his knowledge much further than the textbooks could. Especially when he goes to work and actu-ally implement his knowledge into practice, the pro-fessors’ suggestions become even more valuable. In his interview, Huy Anh shares one of the main rea-sons for his early success: his perfected communi-cation skill. It was only until he took Business Com-munication class had he realized the importance of communication in future career. Unfortunately, most current RMIT students underestimate Business Com-munication because of its lack in practical application.“BCom (business communication class) is very impor-tant, it teaches us the very basic principles of how to do business with people from various backgrounds, when your attitude and etiquette mean more than

your words“, he continues, “A misunderstanding in a conversation, which frequently happens, might lead to the worst scenario: end of partnership.” He also noted that, in the real world, small behaviors are being observed even harsher than the normal ones. This ex-

plains why Business C o m m u n i cat i o n was his most favor-ite subject at RMIT.

Now all the effort he spent has re-warded him with confidence to stand tall in the hottest

yet challenging industry, banking. “Only when we seem confident, will the customer trust us”. Well, Mr Ngô Huy Anh, good luck with your future career path!

T.Vu

uccessful Alumni Story

Standard Chartered Bank: which is one of the world’s leading banks, has been working in the most dynamic market for over 150 years with world-wide customers comes from over 60 countries. In 2010-2011, Standard Chartered Bank is one of a few banks that earn profit during the economic crisis. In Hanoi, it is well-known for employee service and salary. The cent-er office located in 49 Hai Ba Trung street, the other is in 25 Le Dai Hanh street. Also according to Huy Anh, there are about 8 or 9 RMIT alumnus

there so good luck to all who’s interested in working for SCB.

Standard Chartereds’ Ngô Huy Anh, the guest speaker of Accounting Club’s Junior CFO Event talks about his early success and experience in Banking Industry – the Leader of

Sales Department.

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Coffee destinations for RMITers

Chillout 89A Ly Nam De

Specialty: Free style piano and guitar Location: No parking space.Price: 20k – 60k for a drink.

Vintage but clever interior design with theme colors of yellow, green and blue very suitable for teenagers. With 3 different floors with distinctive styles: luxurious, warm and dynamic, Chillout has attracted many engaged couples to take pictures for their wedding albums.

Score:

Dinh coffee

13 Dinh Tien Hoang

Specialty: Live rock for old avid rock fans Location: Small but cozy Price: only 6k – 15k

No fancy souvenir, no sweet love song, no table, just the atmosphere and the peacefulness of a 30 year old coffee shop. And forget about all those love songs you hear over and over again, rock is the main genre at Dinh and no surprise when Dinh’s owner is the fan of Pink Floyd.

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Giang coffee

39 Nguyen Huu Huan

Specialty: Egg coffee Location: Now bigger and cleaner than old Hang Gai venuePrice: 6k-15k

Giang is actually the father of Dinh’s owner so like father like daughter, there might even be some similarities in the flavors. Dinh is al-ready old but Giang is the oldest coffee bar in Hanoi so you‘ll definitely enjoy the peace, good coffee and memories of old Hanoi the bar brings.

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Avalon Level 5 73 Cau Go

Specialty: Best view, overlooking the Old Quarter and Ho Guom. Price: 50k– 70k for a drink

I have to confess many times I go to Avalon just to enjoy the fresh air at here and to watch Ho Guom in the morn-ing. The interior is also very classy, dec-orated with delicate artworks and fine lamps and furniture. Very suitable for of-fice staff, couples or partners. Score:

Align 1B Ma May

Specialty: exquisite 3D paintingsLocation: In the heart of Hanoi town Price: 20k– 50k

Align is very popu-lar among coffee lovers because of its unique style. With its “Align 3D”, Align also attracts many 3D designers in Hanoi. We can find in here a new vision of the old tree, pictures of old Hanoi with tilting poles, old roofs of Hanoi houses… all in 3D. Score:

5

CTH-Gorilla

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Dear readers, I bet most of you are thinking about a romantic date with your boyfriend or girlfriend right now. But have you ever tried a date with your friends? It is great fun, especially when you can bake and chit chat with your BFFs at the same time.

Are you curious? Let me tell you all the fun that my friends and I had. We, RMIT students, were enjoying the rest of the semester break. But how come, we felt so lonely when there’s no one home. We were also so bored of the sleep late days. As a result, our gang decided that we had

to organize a meet-ing, simply because we were bored and we missed each other. Hey! Don’t laugh just yet? The feeling of missing someone can exist between friends too, not just between lovers, right?

After considering some options, we finally decided on the loca-tion, which was my house, and the main activity, which is baking cupcakes.

When the day came, before the main activity, we gathered atanother friend’s house from early in the morning to try some Kinect battles - motion sensing device by Microsoft. We played with many different games such as: volley-ball, boxing, bowling and even

some games which I found pretty similar to Songoku’s tricks in “The Dragon Balls” comic series. You should try it someday if you have never heard of it. It’s extremely fun to play with and to exercise as well!

After lunch, we hurriedly headed back to my home sweet home for some more fun.

I know how to bake, am I talent-ed? Yes, of course I am. Out of all the recipes in my special baking techniques notebook, my friends chose cupcakes.

The ingredients for our cupcakes included only eggs, sugar and flour. There are two must-have items if you want to be successful at baking cupcakes are egg mixer and oven. First, the eggs had to be beaten together with sugar until it

is hard and puffy. Then, flour was poured into the

mixture little by little. Finally, the little uncooked cupcakes were put in the oven at about 180oC.

When we were waiting for the miracles to happen inside the oven, we played some games. One is Scrable, is a very academic game. It is the best game if you want to improve your English vo-cabulary. Another game is Poker, which I guess, is already familiar with all Vietnamese. Poker is not allowed at university, so we played it at home.

“Ding dong”. The oven’s clock alert that the baking time is up. Our

cupcakes were baked nicely and

tastefully.We ended our day with a huge dinner. It is also my

best dinner ever.

Would you like to join our gang and have a date with us? >:D<You’re welcome!

Your lovely writerRuby Nguyen

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Being fired for using the employer’s toilet was one of the main reasons why many African American housemaids lost their jobs back in the early 1960’s, when racial discrimination was a disturbing issue at its most controversial level. Based on Kathryn Stockett’s novel ‘The Help’, the movie of the same name, directed by Tate Tay-lor, has succeeded to portray American society in the South during the Civil Rights era, especially in Jackson, Mississippi. ‘The Help’ with the combination of irony amuse-ment and painful paradoxes, which can only be caused by racial hatred, can make you both laugh, and cry.

‘The Help’ is about the relationships between three women, one white – Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan (Emma Stone) – who works as a writer, and two colored – Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) and Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) – who are housemaids work-ing for white people, and their stories of pursuing their dreams. ‘The Help’ takes us back to the 60’s when such dreams are constrained by the law of discrimination, and that’s where all the featured details making this movie stand out differ-ently start to come in.

The interview

It was a world where all African American girls already know their future jobs when they are only six – to be servants working for elite ‘white’ families. The maids have to do all the housework such as cooking, clean-ing, doing the laundry, even raising the children for the white ladies. A moment of silence when an innocent baby girl kisses on the cheek of the maid and says, “You’re my real mother, Aibileen!”, which has us thinking about how good in nature these maids are but how badly they are treated by the host families. ‘The Help’ begins by the interview with Aibileen Clark about how hard it is to work as a maid in a white family, where she gets no respect because of her race. Aibileen is a middle-aged black woman who has spent her life raising white children, but her true desire is to do something else, something that her lost son has always wanted them to do. Her best friend, Minny Jackson, is known as the best cook in Mis-sissippi, but her outspokenness has put her in situations of being fired several times, all she ever dreams of is to get her children away from Leroy, her brutal and domineering husband. The interviews with these women, done by Eugenia Phelan, are all carried out in secret and served to the completion of a book called ‘The Help’, which tells stories of the colored women when working as housemaids – the experiences that they would never have shared. It is the idea of Eugenia, and her burning ambition is to have it published. Three fates, three dreams, one purpose – the book.

However, it is not an easy job as all media products discussing about race equality are forbidden in the law in the recent time; the maids are also afraid to cooperate and share their thoughts due to fear of unemployment. Many obstacles are facing them along the way, even when things are in the most darkness, a small light of hope

Change begins with a whisper

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can still bring changes. ‘The Help’ tells an amazing story of how these three women overcome difficulties to fulfill their wishs, even though they are “illegal”.

And for that, it takes them more than just efforts to achieve such dreams, especially when society is pointing their swords against them. A maid is threatened with death just because she steps on a beautiful garden on theway to work; another is literally willed to her host’s daughter and granddaughter, like they own her. The hatred even

reaches its pitch when “Home Help Sanitation Initiative”, a bill whose content is an obvious insult to the African American community, is reviewed by the Surgeon General and passed to the State Governor. Plenty of such heartbroken and inhumane stories combining alto-gether have formed a complete picture of the time, best left for the viewers to discover.

The movie was nominated for Best Picture in over ten reliable movie awards including the 84th Academy Awards 2012. Viola Davis andOctavia Spencer also won a number of awards for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.

Change begins with a whisper Director: Tate TaylorStarring : Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Al-lison Janney, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain

A typical shop in Jackson with separate entrance for colored citizens

Octavia Spencer Wins Best Supporting Actress Oscar For ‘The Help’

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ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE The Downfall of an Emperor ?

Are you a football fan? (As in using “foot” to play the “ball”, not the stupid American football where you use “hand” to play with an “egg”). If you are, then which country’s football league do you find most thrilling and intriguing? I bet about 90% of your answers would be “English Premier League” (EPL).

The fact that EPL has long taken a respected place around the world is not surprising. One of the reasons is that EPL invests a lot of money and efforts to help fans everywhere “experience” not just “watch” games. The stadiums stands are built close to the fields so that some lucky fans can literally touch the players, others shout at the players, express their emotions to the fin-est to their heroes on the fields. And if some fans are really lucky, maybe even a ball to the face.

For fans watching on TV, it is without a doubt that the EPL’s camera system is the world’s best. Unlike many other leagues including V-League, EPL have perfected their camera setting and placements providing replays from every angle possible for the fans to see things that the referees and the players do not. Hence fans have the chance to be unprofessional critics, raise their voice and enjoy cursing the incompetence of the people in-volved. In other words, EPL has long managed to let all football fans “live” every moment of the game. Result? EPL occupies a very special place in the fans’ hearts.

But just the flashy look and lively views cannot build up EPL’s image that successfully without high quality standard of the English football clubs themselves. Al-most every clubs plays with high tempo, very physical football style. That creates a very enthralling atmos-phere for the watchers. Their best teams – Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool… are loved all over the worlds for their styles.

English clubs also win trophies with style as well. Statis-tically, in recent years, EPL’s teams have proved to be in complete dominance compared to other leagues in Eu-rope in UEFA Champions League (UCL). From 2005 until now, there was only one UCL final featuring both non-English teams. During that period, three seasons 3 out of 4 teams in the semi-finals were English and 2008 title was the domestic matter between Manchester United and Chelsea.

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But things seem to have changed. Even Chelsea’s mi-raculous semi-final win against Barca cannot mask an obvious decline of English football. Their domestic Champion – Manchester United failed to make it out of an easy group stage against Benfica, Basel and Otelul Galati (don’t blame me if I get this anonymous team’s name wrong) whose class and skill can-not compare to that of the English champion. Man United put on a very weak, dispirited show and lost out to Basel, humili-ated right at their home “Theatre of Dreams”.

Another team just as disappointing was Manchester City. Despite spending nearly a billion dollar over the years upgrading the team, Man City still proves to be so naïve in European competition. Their fans can blame their failure on that they were in a tough table with Napoli, Bayern Munich and Villarreal, but their perfor-mance still did not live up to the money they’ve spent, it’s a fact. They lost to Napoli who spent no more than 15mil each year. Even worse, after going down to the lower competi-tion – Europa League, the two Manchester teams to-tally showed what an embarrassment they were. The

English Champions were outplayed in both legs against a 7th-place team in La Liga- Atheletic Bilbao and went out in the most terrible fashion. Meanwhile, Man City showed more spirit with a 3-2 win against Sporting Lis-

bon at Etihad after losing 2-1 in Portugal but still got K.O. What a shame! Two leaders of the EPL got toyed in a sec-ond-rate league!

That makes you wonder what have become of the prestigious EPL we used to know. In the next few years, if EPL clubs do not try to im-prove and continue to play like they did this season, maybe football fans around the world will turn to La Liga

instead, with two giants Barcelona and Real Madrid dominating, or even Bundesliga, where Dortmund and Bayern Munich are showing great intensity and flair with their styles. Wake up, now or never, English foot-ball!

One-winged Angel

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CLUB PUB

“Think globally, work locally”, April 14th, RMIT 7th floor

Attendance: 200Guest speakers: -Ms. Le Nhat Vuong (KPMG Manager) on “Interna-tional Accounting Standard and Vietnamese Ac-counting Standard”- Mrs. Nguyen Thuy Duong (KPMG Partner) on her extensive work experience and professional advices.

“Business etiquette” April 14th, RMIT 7th floor

Attendance: 250Guest Speakers:- Mr. Trieu Long (a wine expert from ADT Ltd.) on wine tasting etiqu-ettes- Mr. Nguyen Minh Hieu (KPMG Director) on the art of persuasionNote: Attendees had the chance of practicing drink-ing white and red wine

Accounting Club

In the last few years, Photography has emerged as a popular trend among the Vi-etnamese youth. People love taking photos, capturing and sharing memoriable moments of their life with friends and family, however, not many of us know much about Photog-raphy. A lot of people have been thinking that in order to have an outstanding pic-ture, a photographer would need an excellent skill in Pho-toshop (PS) to retouch and change the original picture into any way he wants. It is totally a misunderstanding. As a freelance photographer with some experience collect-

ed from experts, I would like to share a few opinions about this topic.

I bet Photoshop is so familiar with everyone who is interested in photos. This God-given software could help make amazing pictures. However, be careful, it might ruin your photography tech-nique if you overuse it. Using Photoshop is not a bad thing, but knowing how to use it ad-equately is very important. In fact, most experts have a deep understanding about their cameras and photogra-phy. They use Photoshop only to make minor retouch to their photos and please their

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“A Pro Photographer or a Pro Photoshoper ? “

What is Real Art?

Photo 2: Original photo by Nhat Anh, Focal length: 50mm, 1/400 sec, f/1.6, iso 200, +1EV

CLUB PUB

“Business networking event”,Arpil 20th , Bao Son Hotel’s Grand Ballroom

Attendance: 300Note: As a networking event, students from RMIT as well as from top universities in Hanoi had the op-portunity of meeting CFOs, HR Managers of Big 4 and many renowned firms in person.

Junior CFO Series ended with many compliments from lec-turers and students as compelling and innovative. It also attracted many students from RMIT and other Universities

to RMIT Accounting Club. Even more, the editor of kenh14.vn proposed to work with Accounting Club on the upcoming events. This success has affirmed the ability of RMIT Account-ing students; moreover it enforces the relationship between RMIT and Big 4.It was the enthusiasm, strong will and unity of the RMIT Accounting club members that made Junior CFO Series an amazing success. Let’s congratulate Accounting Club on their achievement and wish them every success in their future events.What’s next this semester?Induction day |Introductory Accounting | Trial test | Mentoring Program

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customers. If you have a pro-found understanding about your cameras and know how to take best advantages of every functions, you can pro-fessionally produce beautiful photos that can amaze your friends and people with just a little help of Photoshop.

First of all, try to take as many photos as you can, use as many functions as you could find on your cameras, and also try to shoot in as many dif-ferent lights as possible. It helps you learn about your gears, consequently you know how to use each func-tion appropriately in different circumstances and give nice raw photos. Using PS makes you become less responsible with your photos. It leads you to focus on how to retouch your photos rather than how to per-form you photography ability.

I’m a realistic man and a perfectionist, for me the reality is per-fect. Personally, I like the scars, the winkles on a model’s skin, or I would let rubbish on the street appear on my photos, so I don’t use PS to take those details out. However for some who does not want to have these things on their work and long to improve, you could use PS to make your frame perfect but remember that’s all, you have nothing to do with the colour and the lighting.

As you can easily see on those two pictures included in the

article, you can relies which one is the real work. Do you want to be an arrogant PRO with a range of retouched pho-tos ? I bet you will prefer to in-troduce original, un-retouched but outstanding photos to your

friends, right ? To have a bril-liant art work requires passion

and patient. Please do not cut out the step while tak-ing you pictures. I do not want to convince you PS is completely negative, but I want to remind you to use it carefully and suf-ficiently. Hopefully, you guys enjoy my article, I’m looking forward to chat with you next time.

NhatAnh.

Photo 3 : Retouched photo, Focal length : 43mm, 1/250 sec, f/2.8,

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Don’t forget which one you wanna be: a Pro Photographer or a Pro Photoshoper !

Photo 1: Original photo by Nhat Anh, Focal length: 50mm, 1/30 sec, f/2, -1/3EV, Film: Ilford Delta iso 400

Nearly 300 people were attracted to Japanese Culture Day on Thursday 19 April, 2012 at Recreation room Hanoi Campus. Japanese Culture Day has successfully created an opportunity for RMIT students to get closer to Japan and its culture, one of the oldest cultures of the world. During the events, students got chance to take part in many interesting activities in-cluding yosakoi dance, serving Japanese cuisine, writing wishing cards and playing traditional games. Information about the country, culture, tourism of Japan as well as studying opportunity there was also shared by guest speakers from Yuki center, a well-known Japanese learning center in Hanoi.

Japanese Culture Day is one of the series of cultural events that will be held by Culture Club.

In the near future, Culture Club plans to organize events about French, Ko-rean, Chinese, etc. cultures in cooperation with other RMIT Hanoi clubs.

Japanese Culture Day

Hosted by Culture club and Yuki Centre

“Together we grow”

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