2007

Have A Good 2007

Photos of 2006 (click here) inter-alumni bowling competition

PLease Help Flood Victims

Note

Please scroll down to read updates. Please pass this message to as many people as possible or just link me. Tq.

I know, one does not need to highlight the hardship faced when one is left with just the clothes on one's back.

We know.


On that note,

Three immediate collection centres have been set up for you to kindlly donate and contribute items for our FLOOD VICTIMS In Johor and Malacca.

Collection centres are open all weekend.

The centres are:

1

Parliament (Dewan Serbaguna) - just go to the guards and they'll show you.

2

Kontena Nasional's office in PJ - guards will assist.
Kontena Nasional Berhad
9th Mile, Old Klang Road
P.O.Box 6503, Seri Setia
47307 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia
Telephone No : + 603 - 7876 1933

3

PUTERI UMNO Malaysia, HQ at Level 5, Menara Dato' Onn, PWTC, there will be ladies on duty
Tel: +603- 40413900 (Rohani/Linda)

WE NEED BLANKETS, TIKAR, DRY FOODS, CANNED FOODS (CAN OPENERS TOO), BISCUITS, CLEAN CLOTHES, UNDERGARMENTS AND MANY ESSENTIAL ITEMS LIKE PAMPERS, AND MORE..

You are welcome to think and suggest and donate whatever essentials that victims need, in times of need we need cohesive help. Every useful thought and suggestion counts.

If you have the time and energy and wish to offer help to sort items at centres please call the above numbers.

It has been made known that victims do not need money for now, they need immediately items of food, clothings (t-shirts, kain batiks, kain pelekats) and essentials mentioned above and perhaps you too can think on their behalf, to alleviate the victims' predicament.

Please help to pass the word.

Thank you.

Latest update:


Flood victims in Johor desperately in need of pillows, blankets, baby food, clean new underwear. Send items to centres above. You can contact YB Dato Halimah Sadique, the Johor state executive councillor for housing and local government, at +607-7721567 (sms from Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir).

Number of evacuees in six flood affected states has gone past 75 000. The bulk of them are in Johor where situation in some districts is worsening. Apart from items listed above please add donating sanitary pads (sms from Dato Zuraidah Atan)

Whatever you do, please keep calm and be patient. If you tried to ring up numbers and numbers were busy, try and try again. There are many options up there, keep trying if you have important necessary queries. Use your intelligence. Please be economical with volunteers' energy. Everyone is trying their best.


23rd Dec, 9.45 pm:

Spoke with someone from BN Backbencher's Club, those who wish to drop items of clothings, they would be grateful if those items could be dropped off at Parliament (Dewan Serbaguna) - just go to the guards and they'll show you. Other items of dried food, pampers, canned food, could be dropped off at the centres (2) Kontena & (3) Putri Umno, contacts as above.

Volunteers are needed to help in sorting donated items. Do go to addresses below from early tomorrow morning, Sun 24th at:

(1) Kontena Nasional's office in PJ - guards will assist.
Kontena Nasional Berhad
9th Mile, Old Klang Road
P.O.Box 6503, Seri Setia
47307 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia
Telephone No : + 603 - 7876 1933

(2) PUTERI UMNO Malaysia, HQ at Level 5, Menara Dato' Onn, PWTC -the
young ladies will assist.
Tel: +603- 40413900 (Rohani/Linda)

24 th Dec, 7.11 pm:

In Pagoh alone 15 000 people (3000 families) were displaced and evacuated. There is acute shortage of clean water. Need water urgently. Please send to Kontena National office in PJ. Address and numbers as above. (sms from Dato Zuraidah Atan).

From Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir's blog:

You can also send stuff to the Red Crescent. They have a Bilik Gerakan/ Flood Relief Centre at the Puteri Pacific Hotel, JB. Enquiries and donation Hotlines: 07-219-9995, 07-219-9996.

They need foodstuff, foam mattresses, blankets, disposable nappies, women's underwear, sanitary pads, also cheques and NEW clothes.

4.03 pm, 25th Dec

Please donate MINERAL WATER urgently for Pagoh flood victims. Real acute shortage. A shipment leaving tonight. Please send to:

Kontena Nasional's office in PJ - guards will assist.
Kontena Nasional Berhad
9th Mile, Old Klang Road
P.O.Box 6503, Seri Setia
47307 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia
Telephone No : + 603 - 7876 1933


1.41 pm, 26th Dec

Sms from Dr Shah at Pagoh relief centre: We need more Sardine cans. Please help. The centre estimated they need as much as two lorry-loads of sardines. As much as possible. Hujan masih turun (rain is still pouring). Flood victims need food. Tq and salam.

Please do send the sardine cans (do throw can openers too perhaps) to any centres above that is convenient for you.

27th Dec:

From Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir's blog:

There have been more floods in Johor and people there are still miserable and need help. The Red Crescent is doing the best they can but they need more, and urgent, help. Raja Zarith Sofia, Chair of Community Services for the Malaysian Red Crescent Society is appealing for money so they can buy stuff. Please send cheques to Persatuan Bulan Sabit Merah Malaysia (PBSMM), Cabang Johor Bahru, Public Bank a/c no 3110939317.

You can also send stuff to the Red Crescent. They have a Bilik Gerakan/ Flood Relief Centre at the Puteri Pacific Hotel, JB. Enquiries and donation Hotlines: 07-219-9995, 07-219-9996.


From Walski's blog:

Mercy Malaysia:

Mercy Malaysia, in cooperation with Mercy Relief Singapore, has identified clean water as one of the critical needs that flood victims lack. In many areas, the water supply has been cut off due to the processing facilities themselves being inundated by floodwaters. You can contact Mercy Malaysia at +60 3 4256-9999, to enquire what kind of assistance they need.

News Straits Times:

The New Straits Times Press (NSTP) has set up a fund to assist the flood victims. Those wishing to contribute can send their donations, in the form of checks, bank drafts or postal orders, made payable to NSTP Flood Victims Assistance Fund. You can send in your contributions to:

The New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd,
c/o Finance Department,
5th Floor, Balai Berita, 31, Jalan Riong,
59100 Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur
(Attention: Ms Aidah Nordin).
Tel: 603-2282-3322
Fax: 603-2282-1434

Should you try to call and any of the numbers posted here is incorrect please be so kind as to inform me. I will rectify. Tq.

28th Dec

The 5th and final 40-footer container full of items donated by generous public and NGOs will depart tomorrow (29th) 8am from Kontena Nasional, PJ. (sms from Dato Zuraidah Atan)


2nd Jan 2007,

Dear friends, there are still 6332 flood victims at the flood relief centres in Pagoh. The victims' houses are still covered in thick mud. There is great stench with all the flood deposits and debris and flood victims need help to clean the debris so they can move back into their houses and settle in.

The centres are pleading for water jets to clean the houses. The mud is so thick traditional method of cleaning did not work.

Anyone reading this note and you are in a position to help organise water jets please contact:

Encik Solehan at 019-2217843
Dr Shah at 017-7575029
Dato Bakar at 012-2835553
YB Tahir at 013-7284887

Or you may deliver to Kontena Nasional at address:

Kontena Nasional's office in PJ - guards will assist.
Kontena Nasional Berhad
9th Mile, Old Klang Road
P.O.Box 6503, Seri Setia
47307 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia
Telephone No : + 603 - 7876 1933

If you can send direct, please send to PEKEMBAR RELIEF CENTRE (sms from Dato Zuraidah Atan) or call any above numbers for verification......Tq.

Doa Selamat

A doa selamat was held at Puan Sri Fauzah Darus' residence on 16th December. Puan Sri will be leaving for haj on 17th December.

Our prayers for all OGs performing their Haj, insy all will be well.

Graduation Night 2006

Tunku Kurshiah College Graduation (form five) Night 2006

I have always been proud to be branded as...

'Tu dia budak TKC!' (That is a TKC girl).

Taking this right off Datuk Rafiah Salim's (Vice Chancellor University of Malaya), mouth during her speech at the FormFive Graduation dinner, held on the 17th September, at Allson Klana,
Seremban, that is the sentiment all of us TKCians shared.


That lovely feeling of being able to give back to our alma mater was written all over our faces, Datuk Rafiah Salim (K Ah), Tg Azuan Tg Mohamed (K Tengku, Super principal Tunku Kurshiah college), Puan Sri Akmar Rashid (K Akmar, VP TKCOGA), Puan Noridah Ahmad (Che Nor, Asst Hon
Sec) and yours truly, all the five of us are TKC Old Girls. We congregated into the Vip holding room together with the other guests, En Abdul Ghafar Mahmud (Principal Asst Director Residential Director, Min of Education) and Puan Zaiton (En Ghafar's wife), Dato Hj Lamin Ismail (Deputy Chairman Parents-Teachers Association Tunku Kurshiah
College) and En Baharudin Hj Yusoff (Puan Tg Azuan's husband).



When the five OGs met, we embarassingly lost a bit of our decorum! Ha ha ha! Well, we sort of created a bit of a tiny (read: actually not that tiny, I was just being polite...ha ha ha) din, and somehow the
others understood, when Puan Sri Akmar (K
Akmar) sheepishly tried to explain how we TKCians are always not very quiet, when we get
together. After all, the other guests are used to this trait of TKCIans.



When the Vips were seated in the ballroom, an up-beat music was played by the Dj, as the 'special people' of the night, yes, the FormFive
girls, walked in, with beauty and grace, garbed in their most beautiful evening dress (we call it 'baju lip lap') with all the tasteful blings (clothes adorned with eye dazzling crystals)! The two teachers at my table, Che Gu Hashim (history teacher) and Cik Gu
Naemah (Asst Head Principal), could not recognize their own girls (as they were not in their usual uniform..ha ha ha).


Their girls were all transformed into 'Princesses' that night.

Datuk Rafiah gave a most motivating speech that night. She told the girls to dream BIG! She said they must not just dream to break the glass ceiling, for the seniors have broken that already. Wow! I so loved that statement. She went on telling the already jaw-dropped crowd, to not just desire of becoming mere scientists, but aspire to be Nobel Laureatte who discovered the cures for cancer for example. She also advocated that we should aspire to head a global conglomerate
or be the architect or engineer who will build the next tallest
building in the world or be the inventors and creators of the future.


There you have have it, a special ride of dreaming BIG with this
dynamic and no-nonsense, first female VC of University Malaya.


But before anything, she warned the already, adoring and over-awed crowd, of an anti climax! Datuk Rafiah told the girls that before anything, they must first dream BIG for their SPM and then afterwards decide their other BIG dreams. That drew laughter from the crowd.



To be honest, I was rather motivated as well, about the 'dream BIG' reminder. Funny, only recently I was reminded to dream BIG too by
Elizabeth Carlassare, author of dotcomdivas.net, at the Women's summit officiated by Dato Sharizat Jalil, held at Sime Darby Mont Kiara, on 24th Aug. It is never too late to dream BIG for anyone. After all, I can quote some high achievers who started late in their lives…I M Pei
(architect), Ray Kroc (Mc Donald), Gianni Agnelli (Fiat) and many others.


After the speeches by Puan Tg Azuan (Principal) and the Head Girl, dinner was served.


At dinner we had beautiful performances from the FormFive girls. There were singing, dancing and instrumental renditions. What is it that these girls are not capable of, one might ask? Such
multi-talented young adik2 (young TKCians). You do us proud adik2!

Ssh…there was to be a surprise!

This special surprise was only known amongst the very few of us.

I will let you into the history.

The day before, I had a date with the college debators and cik gu Carolyn Soo (English language teacher) for a photo shoot. When I just got off
the car, there was Puan Tengku Azuan, in front of the office.


It was fated that we should meet. We sat and talked and caught up with one another. Cik Carolyn then joined us too. In the midst of our
conversation, suddenly Puan Tengku was all wide eyed and had this great big idea, as we were chatting! It occurred to her, that very moment, what a great idea it would be, to have a 'Best-Dressed' award as an interesting event during the Graduation Night. 'It would
definitely be exciting for the girls', she said with wide warm smile on her face.

She looked at me long and hard…and I, knowingly, nodded. To be honest, I too shared her zeal and enthusiasm. I, of course, agreed to organize it for the college, even though the dinner was the next day. Hmm...it was a rush, but, what an honour to be part of history, as this was the beginning of yet, a future tradition.



On top of that I found out Puan Tengku had changed a few other things in the last two days as she herself just came back from an outstation
engagement. She felt that this was a special night for the FormFive graduates therefore, they must make a special grand entrance after the Vips were seated. I thought that was most magnanimous of Puan Tengku.

Well, Puan Tengku is not called 'Super Principal' for nothing. She certainly always has the well being of her students foremost on her mind.


That night an Adik that I got to know quite well during my involvement in the PPM debate preparation, Aainaa Kamila Baharuddin, received the Principal's Award for being an all rounder. She's a dynamite!


Raja Aisyah Maryam Raja Mufik Affandi went away with the 'Best Dressed' award. In my short speech on behalf of TKCOGA, before announcing the winner, I mentioned that we felt every girl that night deserved to be 'Best Dressed'. Everyone looked resplendant in their beautiful bajus (dresses). It was really difficult for K Akmar, CheNor and yours truly to pick just the one.


Of course the highlight of the night was when all 142 graduates, received their awaited certificates from Datuk Rafiah.

There were so many other awards, but rather too long to list all of them here.

I would say it is always fulfilling to be able to give back to our alma-mater.

Debate-PPM

The Prime Minister’s Challenge Trophy

Debate Competition

(Written by, Ms Carolyn Soo (English Language teacher), TKC Debate Coordinator 2006)

The annual residential school “Hari Kecemerlangan” is an awaited event for all residential schools in Malaysia. This is not just a time where the principals gather for meetings. It is also the time where wits and muscles meet – the prestigious debate and basketball competitions.

Year in and year out, participants’ reminisce over their beautiful moments of victory and ugly moments of defeat, and the true winners prevail with the glory and knowledge that they may have lost the war but won the battle.

The TKC debaters came with nothing but a dream...

The tear that trickled down her face in the bus ride all the way home, I realize the impact the competition must have had on her. She was silent and fragile for a big bubbly debater… Twenty-nine years ago this day, the Malay language debaters were crowned champions. Since then, the fire and zeal of returning that glory back to TKC has been the burning desire of the Malay language debaters. The agony of returning yet another year without the trophy was a torture beyond the lines of dignity. Nobody can predict the future. Our intentions may have been good, but the trophy is not yet ours to attain…

Although the English language debaters shared the same predicament of the Malay language debaters. At the preliminary, it was clear that our debaters were fully charged with Aainaa Kamila and her witty antics; we were winning and winning and winning… basking in our sweet victory… Nadia Sallehin was truly the anchor who outdid and outwit our opponents…Our Siti Nursaadah was a bulldozer, surviving under all that pressure and pretty little Arina Md Izzudin was smiling from ear to ear. They were confident and convincing and the crowds were cheering…Tuan Sheikh, Dr Sallehin’s family and our most loyal supporter, our beloved principal, YM Tengku Azuan Tengku Mohamed.

The judges were stunned.

These very same set of judges who had ranked them 25th, just a few months back at the secondary school debate held at the International Islamic University, moved them all the way up 8th position!

Behind the scene, weeks before the competition, the debaters were in despair sitting for their midyear examination. It was the last paper Physics two days before their journey to Kuantan for the competition. They slaved for their examination and juggled that with their debate preparations, a marathon with their dear instructor, fondly known as Uncle Jes and their wonderful Kakak Ruby Ahmad as well as at the eleventh hour, the PTA member Datuk Shaifuddin whose forte is debating.


All in all, it was so special for the TKC debaters to have Kakak Ruby by their side, giving them pointers and invaluable advice.

A lady with a mission, she made the debaters feel the magic of being a TKCian.

Kakak Ruby was the much needed 'glue' as she rallied support. TKCians of the past and present blended in a moment in time and even TKCians from all over the world seemed to unite as the emails poured in from Canada, USA, UK and etc. The love of one TKCian to another is truly a wonderful sculpture carved in spirit and in flesh...

“Once a TKCian, Always a TKCian”.

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