MASA’s Pho Night and 1st GBM!

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MASA’s Pho Night and 1st GBM!

Helloooo MASA!! Wow, what huge turn out for our first two events of the year!

Last Thursday, MASA held our annual Pho Night at Phuong Trang. More than 100 people showed up this year! The restaurant was gracious enough to reserve almost half of the restaurant for MASA <3. It was great seeing a lot of familiar and old faces (GBMers from last year, alumni who came out to support MASA :]), and also a lot of new faces (yay for new GBMers!). We all had a chance to catch up with old friends and a chance to meet someone new It seemed like everyone had a lot of fun bonding over good Vietnamese food.

We also had our first GBM (general body meeting) tonight! A whole bunch of people showed up to this event as well, and I saw a lot of people who also went to Pho Night there Our first GBM was a big success! We had an introductory video to MASA, “First Hello,” starring our very own Hao Wang and the MASA 5 and set to Big Bang’s “Last Farewell.” Good job to MASA’s media team for doing a great job Dan from SDAFF (San Diego Asian Film Festival) also came to tell us about what’s going on in this 10th year of the festival. SDAFF is an organization that focuses on Asian American and Asian international cinema. He told showed us clips from so many films that sound interesting and funny – good thing MASA is going to watch “People I’ve Slept With” in a couple weeks! The world premiere of this film co-presented by MASA is on October 23, and MASA is going as a group to watch it! More to come later

We had our aftersocial at Tapioca Express on campus, and got a chance to bond some more. Yay! A bunch of people stayed long after everyone else had left and played Ultimate Ninja. It was pretty epic to watch them try to hit each others’ hands, and end up frozen in slightly awkward positions

Here are some photos from these events:

MASA folks gathering at Peterson for an exciting ride to Phuong Trang: