The Black Hole Podcast Mehershad

Full video: https://youtu.be/bJRN_SGQhng

In this episode I'm joined by Naomi Khor! Naomi and I talk about her experiences being the Vice President of the QUT Malaysian Student association, and a student doing her bachelors degree in Creative industries. Naomi also talks about MC-ing and co-project-managing the event 'Citra' - a one day festival that promotes Malaysian culture in queensland. Naomi also shares her inspiring journey of having an assignment she worked on be taken forward by 'Economic Development of Queensland' as a augmented reality art project to be implemented in Northshore, Brisbane.
We also talk about the importance of authentic food as international students, and Naomi gives us her best Malaysian food hacks!

This podcast was produced by Mehershad Wadia, Yonas Ngaturi, Ameya Deshmukh, Rachel Gloriosa and Atika Dhyah with the support of Paul Smith (UQ School of Communications and Arts) and Study Brisbane.

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In this episode I'm joined by Rohan Das, and we talk about Indians in Kenya, Rohan's involvement in a youth organisation "Stand up Shout out" and making an anti-poaching film, his time in Mumbai and learning acting, as well as his work in Oncology research in Queensland, Australia. We also speak to some of Rohan's fellow YouthLab co-founders, Georgia and Pritesh. YouthLab is a non profit organisation that supports local youth by providing leadership opportunities, promoting higher education and supporting students in embracing one's culture and true identity. Georgia, Pritesh and Rohan also discuss the synergy between the friends turned co-founders, future vision for their project, and Australian slags.

Video: https://youtu.be/lm-nc8eoDj4

In this episode, I'm joined by Timothy Harm, host of Fresh Crew Radio on 4EB 98.1 FM and co-founder of UQ South Pacific Islander Association. Tim and I talk about similarities between himself and international students when it comes to finding an identity and settling into a new culture and environment. We also discuss Climate change in Pacific Islands, Tim's experience as a student, not being able to identify with a specific country (and how MIA's Paper Planes resonates with his experience), challenges that students from Pacific Islands face - and advice that Tim has for transitioning smoothly. Tim also sheds light on how he wants the Pasifika community to be seen on the map, and for Pacific Islanders to be more fairly represented.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmuUZL8Vtc0

Hello hello hello, TBH Beyond Borders #Season2 is here!!

In this episode I am joined by Ocean Cheung, a former Brisbane International Student Ambassador for Hong Kong who was also recently awarded Multicultural Queensland's 2019 Outstanding Young Achiever award. We talk about entrepreneurship, international student community, employability, as well as Ocean's experiences with his own start up, Start-up Interns as well as obtaining a Queensland Government IET fund.

We took our audio-only show we started 3 years ago and made it into a video show, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5sNvQpmWI4

Now for some reason an audio-versio of the video-show which was originally audio-only is uploaded back to Soundcloud. Just in case you are interested in exclusively hearing a video show based on an originally audio-only podcast.