Sunday, November 11, 2007

Kondi & Anbo make their debut...

As usual, I think for the next 10 months, most of the Saturday nights would be the time to discuss, plan, and execute our OBW 2008 plan. We had one yesterday and Kondi & Anbo made their appearances.

First, I am grateful because several of us turned up at Sipot's residence. We had:
1. Sipot, the host
2. Mat
3. Kondi @ Kokdiang
4. Anbo

5. Jebat
6. Zul

We had hours of discussion. Here are what I can remember. I'm getting old you know and my memory is 8K only.

1. Fund. We talk about SK's proposal that each one of us to contri
bute RM300 to RM500. Mat proposed RM500 contribution. I second to that. It can be an installment or lump sum. To do so, we prefer to have a designated account, preferably MBB, so that people can easily contribute online. BTW, Halim & Mat are supposed to open the account, but Halim is away on his business trip right now. So, what do you guys say about forking out RM500?

2. Sipot talks about goodies. He wants to give out "fisherman's hat" like this. He plans to have several colors (house colors - green, blue, black, red, white, yellow). T-Shirts/Shirts is tricky because of the size, since everybody seems to have expanded. BTW, letih aku cari/google fishermen hat, rupa2nya "bucket hat". Cool, I pick up new words here. Thanks Sipot.

3. We talk about the dinner for OBW. We tried to rationalize the venue (STAR vs External Hall). It seems that it is cheaper to hold the dinner outside STAR because we don't have to rent tents, stage, audio, genset. We think RM20 will give us a decent dinner. Zul asked us to redefined the purpose of the dinner. So everybody chips in
a. for oldboys to mingle around
b. to appreciate teachers, students, workers
c. to show case our activities in organizing the event

4. I suggest we participate in next year's school activities so that we can build the relationship and flourish it. Not everybody has to go. May be 2, 3 people for Sports Day. Lagi better, sportsman pergi. Kalau Long John boleh turun lagi canggih. Dari jauh dah nampak. School's Speech Day, best student ke turun. Ni Sam Gila pulak.

5. Mat says Lepak Corner is important because many oldboys go back to STAR to meet up with friends. It is our melting bowl, I guess. Nothing fancy to this, may be some tents + tables + chairs + water based fan. Like mamak stall.

6. Mat plans to have a convention or dialog on Sunday of OBW. Topic is "Program Melahirkan Insan Bijaksana". He was thrilled when one of the HM (Datuk Husin) brought out Falsafah Pendidikan Negara. Well, to me it is something like "School Smart" vs "Street Smart". I personally thinks this requires continuous effort and I think we can initiate it but as usual money rules. We'll see. Normally, if the job doesn't strengthen one's financial standing, one tends not to focus on that job. I dont believe we practice that, do we?

7. Mat wants something to be remembered after the OBW. He wants to start some debate. Cool. It's revolutionize if we do cricket! Halim was a cricket player. Jangan la main full game. Main 20 run ke, 6 a side ke. Memang orang ingat punya lah. He he he...

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kodiang & Anbo, welcome aboard. Guys, sorry could not make it last Sat at Sipots' hse, ada hal..kerja, kerja..

rustycoder said...

Tak datang tak pe, janji masyuk...

Bagan said...

i was thrilled because i thought they never thouhgt of it before. it was in since independance!!!
and i havent see any program dedicated/formulated to achieve such a target.all this while, the achievement was only "side effects" of the system.tak sengaja???

Salih said...

hello guys,

nice to know that some of us do keep in touch. i'm very supportive of the idea just that i'm permanently based in Jakarta for work and my contribution might not be as much, so please let me know the account number.

wassalam dr seberang
Salih

Anonymous said...

salih, it's great to hear you from 'seberang'. We are going to call for contributors in our prog book soon. I shall reserve a nice page for you (your co.)...thanks bro. We will keep you informed on the details.