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AJK Sdara
2005-07
YDP
Datuk
Dr Abdul
Latiff Ahmad
Timbalan
YDP
M Samueil M
Kameil
(Biro Tugas2 Khas)
Naib
YDP
Ibrahim K
Moideen
(Biro Pelajaran)
Setiausaha
Lt Kol (B) Dr
Abdul Razak Abdullah
Timbalan
S/Usaha
Gazali Abdul
Rahman
(Biro IT)
Bendahari
Ruslan Rahman
AJK:
Dr Khairun
Nadzar
(Biro Penerangan)
Radzran Musa
(Biro Kebajikan)
Nik Md Yassin
(Biro Sukan &
Rekreasi)
Hamdan Kamarudin
Hamdan Patong
Haniffia Abd
Ghani
Mahadhir Ayob
Ramly Khairudin
Zahri Sulong
Mohamad Hasni
Ibrahim
Raja Rahiman
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Bila masuk sahaja ke bulan
Ramadhan ini teringat saya ketika mula-mula
kami melaporkan diri di SDAR Tanjong Malim
pada 4 Januari 1962 yang juga
secara kebetulannya jatuh pada bulan Ramadhan.
Semasa berbuka puasa pada petang hari tersebut
kami dihidangkan dengan
pelbagai jenis juadah
yang enak-enak
yang jarang sekali kami temui sewaktu di rumah sendiri.
Setiap pelajar baru (Remove Class) ditempatkan
di meja makan yang telah ditetapkan terlebih dahulu oleh pihak senior.
Setiap
meja menempatkan
sepuluh orang pelajar
mewakili semua kelas dan semua rumah. Di meja saya ada
pelajar Tingkatan Peralihan, 1,2,3,4, dan
5. Ada
pelajar dari Rumah Temenggong, Rumah Laksamana dan Rumah Bendahara. Ada
pelajar dari Pahang, Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan dan Perak. Sebelum makan yang
tentunya dibuat secara
hidangan (bukan secara buffet atau a la carte), doa dibacakan serentak di
bawah pimpinan prefek yang bertugas. Di meja itulah kami berada setiap
kali
maka yang untuk sarapan, makan tengahari, minum petang dan makan malam.
Amalan itu berlaku sepanjang
tempoh kami berada di Tanjung Malim dengan sedikit rombakan keahlian
meja pada
tahun-tahun seterusnya berikutan kedatangan pelajar baru bagi
menggantikan
pelajar-pelajar senior yang telah menamatkan persekolahan. Sesungguhnya itulah antara pelajaran pertama yang
kami perolehi di SDAR
iaitu hidup bermasyarakat merentasi umur, tempat asal dan budaya.
Antara lain
kami diajar oleh senior tentang etika meja iaitu bagaimanan menggunakan
sudu
dan garpu (yang ketika itu merupakan amalan wajib), bagaimana berkongsi
makanan
untuk kepentingan bersama supaya setiap orang memperoleh bahagian
masing-masing. Kami tidak dibenarkan meninggalkan dewan makan sebelum
doa
penutup dibacakan. Dari di situlah terbinanya jambatan persaudaraan
yang kukuh
dan mantap sehingga ke hari ini.
Keadaannya jauh berbeza kini Apabila bertemu semula 45
tahun kemudian di
PICC pada 9 Ogos 2007 yang lepas dalam Majlis
Makan Malam Perdana STAR,
STF dan
SDAR kita duduk di meja secara berkelompok mengikut batch
yang tentunya
berasingan mengikut sekolah, barangkali atas kehendak dan persetujuan
kita
sendiri dan juga untuk keselesaan semua pihak. Maka wujudlah jurang
geografi
dan psikologi antara kita. Secara luarannya kita nampak bersepakat
tetapi hakikatnya
kita terpisah walaupun dilahirkan oleh gagasan yang sama. Walaupun
begitu usaha
menemukan kita semua tempoh hari dalam majlis yang penuh nostalgik dan
bersemangat, sedikit sebanyak telah memberi peluang kepada kita semua
untuk
memperingati zaman remaja yang merupakan asas kepada kemenjadian kita
sebagai
insan yang diberi amanah untuk memakmurkan bumi Allah ini. Di samping
itu, pada
malam itu juga kita memperingati peristiwa suka duka semasa berada di
sebuah
sekolah berasrama penuh terkemuka di negara ini.
Semasa lagu sekolah dinyanyikan, tetamu dari
sekolah berkenaan menyanyi dengan penuh semangat walaupun ramai yang
sudah lupa
seni katanya. Kehadiran
Y.A.B Dato’ Seri
Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak, Timbalan Perdana Menteri pada malam itu
bukan sahaja
mengingatkan kita tentang perjuangan ayahandanya membangunkan negara
tercinta
ini khasnya yang berkaitan dengan Laporan Razak 1956, bahkan nama
sekolah kita
sendiri yang mengambil nama ayahanda beliau.
Sebenarnya Y.A.B. Dato Seri Mohd Najib sendiri
pernah ke SDAR pada 7
Julai 1962 untuk menghadiri Sukan Tahunan Sekolah (School
Annual Wtheletics Sports) bersama ayahanda, bonda serta
adik-adik beliau.
Sesungguhnya malam itu telah
menemukan buat kesekian kalinya anak-anak yang dahulunya berasal dari
kampung,
dari pedalaman dan luar bandar, dari keluarga petani dan nelayan yang
kini
sudah dewasa bahkan sudah ada yang sampai ke usia emas yang
kebanyakannya telah
jauh keluar dari kepompong kemiskinan dan kini menikmati kehidupan yang
serba
canggih, mewah, moden dan terkini.
Ini
jelas terbukti dengan kehadiran bekas-bekas pelajar dari tiga buah SBP
ini yang
kini sedang memimpin pelbagai organisasi, sama ada di peringkat negeri,
kebangsaan mahupun global. Kepada para pengajur majlis tersebut khasnya
ahli-ahli Jawatankuasa Induk dan Jawatankuasa
Kerja yang telah bertungkus lumus secara
sukarela menjadikan pertemuan
kita suatu realiti, kita mengucapkan terima kasih, tahniah dan semoga
mereka
akan meneruskan usaha murni ini pada tahun-tahun akan datang. Satu catatan tentang
majlis tersebut ada
dimuatkan dalam keluaran bulan ini.
Bagi bekas pelajar-pelajar SDAR,
kita percaya pertemuan-pertemuan silatulrahim antara ahli-ahli SDARA
terus
berlaku termasuklah dalam bulan Ramadhan
ini. Kabarnya pada
29 September yang
lepas satu Majlis Berbuka Puasa untuk batch 1992-1996 telah diadakan di
sebuah
hotel di Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur dengan kehadiran yang menggalakkan.
Dalam tahun-tahun sembilan puluhan
pelajar-pelajar SDAR,
yang rata-ratanya kreatif menghasilkan karya seni, seringkali mengambil
kesempatan semasa bulan Ramadhan ini untuk
merekacipta poster-poster atau kad-kad
ucapan gergasi Aidilfitri. Poster-poster atau kad-kad ini biasanya
ditampal di
tempat-tempat laluan umum, contohnya di ‘terowong’
Blok B semasa SDAR berada di
Sikamat, Seremban. Ucapan
demikian tidak
terhenti setakat itu sahaja tetapi sewajarnya diteruskan sampai
bila-bila
pun. Bersempena
bulan Ramadan ini,
marilah kita sama-sama menjalani ibadat Ramadan dengan penuh khusyuk dan semoga amalan kita itu
diterima Allah.
Kita juga sudah dimaklumkan bahawa satu Majlis
Makan Malam Amal
Perdana anjuran bersama PIBG, SDAR dan SDARA akan diadaklan di kampus
SDAR di
Sg Gadut, Seremban pada 27 Oktober 2007.
Majlis tersebut dimulai dengan Mesyuarat Agong
SDARA Ke -29 di sebelah
petangnya. Sama-samalah
kita
menghadirinya demi persahabatan yang telah kita bina sekian lama.
Selamat
Hari Raya Aidil Fitri, Maaf Zahir Batin.
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A
housewife takes home a lover during the day,
while her husband is at work. Unknown to her, her 9 year old son was
hiding in
the closet. Her husband came home nexpectedly, so she hid her lover in
the
closet.
The boy now has company.
Boy: "Dark in here."
Man: "Yes it is."
Boy: "I have a baseball."
Man: "That's nice."
Boy: "Want to buy it?"
Man: "No, thanks."
Boy: "My dad's outside."
Man: "OK, how much?"
Boy: "$250."
In the next few weeks, it happens again and t he mom's lover and son
are again
in the closet together.
Boy: "Dark in here."
Man: "Yes, it is."
Boy: "I have a baseball glove."
Man: "How much?"
Boy: "$750."
Man: "Fine."
A few days later, the father says to the boy, "Grab your glove. Let's
go
outside and toss the baseball."
Son: "I can't. I sold them."
Dad: "How much did you sell them for?"
Son: "$1,000."
Dad: "That's terrible to overcharge your friends like that. That is way
more than those two things cost. I'm going to take you to church and
make you
confess."
They go to church and the father alerts the priest, and makes the
little boy
sit in the confession booth and closes the door.
The boy says, "Dark in here."
The priest says, "Don't start that crap again.!!!"
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Test
for Dementia
B
elow are four ( 4)
questions and a bonus
question. You have to answer them instantly. You can't take your time,
answer
all of them
immediately.
OK?
Let's find out just how clever you really
are....
Ready? GO!!! (scroll down)
First
Question
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Y
ou are participating
in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are
you in?
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Answer
: If you answered that you are first, then you
are absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take
his place,
you are second!
Try not to screw up next time. Now answer the second question, but
don 't take as much time
as you took for the first question, OK?
Second
Question
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I
f you overtake the
last person, then you are...? (scroll down)
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Answer
: If you answered that you are second to last,
then you are wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST person?
You're not very good at this, are you?
Third
Question
:
V
ery tricky
arithmetic! Note: This must be done in your head only.
Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator
. Try it.
Take
1000
and add
40
to it. Now add
another
1000
. Now add
30
. Add another
1000
. Now add
20
. Now add another
1000
. Now add
10
. What is the total?
Scroll down for answer.....
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Did you get
5000
?
The
correct answer is
actually 4100
.
If you don't believe it, check it with a calculator!
Today is definitely not your day, is it
? Maybe you'll get the last question
right... Maybe.
Fourth
Question
:
Mary's
father has five
daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono. What is the name of the
fifth
daughter?
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Did you Answer Nunu?
NO!
Of
course it isn't.
Her name is
Mary
.
Read the question again!
Okay,
now the bonus
round
:
A
mute person goes
into a shop and wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of
brushing
his teeth he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the
purchase
is done.
Next, a blind man comes into the shop who wants to buy a pair of
sunglasses;
how does HE indicate what he wants?
He
just has to open his mouth and ask...
It's really very simple.
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Nandang,
Sle, Tok We & Yahya Pakih trip to Manila, 2 - 5 Feb 2007
Day02 - Part
02: Manila
Bay
and Lost in Manila
(again!)
After my
morning walk, I found
myself at Manila Baywalk area
again for the second time. Unlike in the evenings, the place
was
full of families taking a stroll by the bay or riding on their
bicycles. It seems that the Baywalk is also a popular cycling
route as
even the area's security people were on bicycles. There were
also
quite a few people fishing over the side but I didn't see
anyone
catch
anything that morning. As I made my way southwards towards the
Manila Yacht Club, I noticed that a were a lot of local domestic
tourist
there as well. At least that's what I assumed since they were
also
snapping pictures at the most mundane things like I did but
they
were
speaking the local lingo.
The other
thing I notice was the lack of other foreign
tourist in the area that morning. I guess that it might have
been a little
too early in the morning for some of them. Something else that
I did
not noticed the last time I was at Manila Bay
was the number of portable toilets that they had lining the
path. While I can
appreciate the vital function that they perform, they
unfortunately do mar
the scenery quite a bit especially when you take into
consideration the unpleasant smell wafting from them. It's a
shame really to
not have something like that better planned for such a nice
public
place.
After snapping
a few pictures of children playing around at
the bronze statues that dotted the Manila Baywalk and the tall
flagpole with the huge Philippines
flag, I walked back to
the hotel since our group was suppose to meet up again at 11am
that morning. Having walked the area before, getting to the
hotel was not a
problem and soon enough I found the group already waiting for
me at the
hotel lobby. It was decided that we were going to Quiapo for a
bit
of shopping and to see the Muslim quarter around the Globo de
Oro Mosque. To get to Quiapo from our hotel, we would have to
get on a jeepney from Mabini St
which by the way will be my first jeepney ride ever.
From our
hotel, we walked up the block to the corner of
Pedro Gil and Mabini where all the jeepney seems to stop for
passengers to
get on or off. To get to the destination you want to, you need
to
look for the destination name that is written on the side of
the
jeepney. Since quite a few jeepney would have the same route,
it was
easy for us to find one that was going to Quiapo. Once you get
in the
back, we had to pass the 7 pesos fare up to the driver.
Although the
driver can give back change if he had to, paying with small
change
would be appreciated since he has to drive and count the money
to
return at the same time. Once you reach your intended
destination, you
are suppose to tell the driver that you want him to stop and
let
you off. There was something that the local shouted out to the
driver
when they wanted him to stop but I did not catch what it was.
Riding on a
jeepney was an adventure. Since there was no AC,
closed back door or windows at the side, passengers are fully
exposed to the smoke from the traffic. Being in such close
proximity to the
traffic outside meant that you could clearly see how crazy the
traffic was in Manila.
If KL had motorbikes weaving in and out of traffic, drivers in
Manila
had to watch out for trishaws and jeepneys crossing into their
lanes. It was both chaotic and exhilarating at the
same time. I
loved riding on the jeepney but I would never want to drive
one as I don't think my blood pressure could survive it. One
drawback
of riding in the jeepney was that the passengers seats were
higher that the open side panel so you couldn't really see
where you
were at that moment. Unless you recognize a landmark in the
area, it was
hard to figure out when to tell the driver to stop.
That was
exactly what happen to us since none of us really
knew which landmark to look for to know that we arrived at
Quiapo. It
was fortunate that the driver was good enough to tell us that
we
past Quiapo quite a ways back or else we would have sat there
in
the jeepney for the round trip. Getting off somewhere near
Sampaloc Market, we found ourselves lost in Manila,
the second time for me personally, without a clue of how to
get back to Quiapo.
Since the
road that were just got off from was a one way lane, we
decided to walk down the street in hopes of finding a landmark
that we
could match to the map that we had.
We walked pass
the small hole in the wall shops selling
cooked food and it was interesting to note that unlike the
colors that
you see in Malaysian cooking, Filipino cooking was a bit on
the pale
side. There was also a marked lack of food aroma from these
stalls but I
think it was more due to the excessive smoke coming from the
road
rather than the style of cooking. We also passed what I think
was the
one of the universities in that area. According to our map,
there were
quite a number of universities in the area. Not long after
that, we
saw the Isetann shopping mall and we finally had a landmark to
orient ourselves on the map. We walked on a bit further to the
Recto LRT station before crossing the road into Rizal Avenue.
Rizal Avenue
was a pedestrian only mall underneath the overhead LRT tracks.
There were shops on both sides of the avenue selling
almost everything that you can think of. Not surprisingly,
there
was even an adult entertainment club in the area which tucked
into one
of the shops at the side of the avenue. I was lagging a bit
behind
the group looking at the shops as we walked towards the
station when I
suddenly felt someone's hand garb my behind. At first I
thought that
someone was trying to pick my pocket but when I turned around
to see
who it was the other hand landed on my stomach and started to
rub
it in a suggestive way. Both hands belong to a young girl who
looked
like she was in her early 20's who then started to talk to me
in
Tagalog.
Even without
understanding a single word of Tagalog, I have
a fairly good idea of what the girl was proposing. The funny
thing
was that even though the other people in our group passed her
earlier, she locked on to me right from the start. It was a
bit shocking
to be proposed like this in the middle of the day but I had to
recover quickly since she still had her hand on my rear end in
the
middle of the walkway. A polite smile and slight nod was
enough to
tell her that I was not looking to buy what she was offering.
After that
surreal but interesting incident, we all had to
sit down for a breather to plan our next course of action. We
decided
to get some iced teas at a tea shop near the Carriedo LRT
station
and look at the map to decide which direction Quiapo was from Rizal Avenue.
It turned out that we were already within walking distance
from
Ilalimng Tulay Market which my guide book noted as the place to
get cheap local handicrafts for souvenirs. Since that was the
purpose
for that day's walkabout, it was our next destination.
(to be continued)
Cheers,
Nandang
Abdul Rahman
nandang@tm.net.my
p.s: More photos at
http://travel.webshots.com/album/557535621swXlaM
and
http://travel.webshots.com/album/557571588fTvUpZ
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Kempen Berhenti Hisap Rokok
dalam Bulan Ramadhan
Tahun 1974
Atas keretapi dari Seremban ke Wakaf Baru, balik dari sebuah sekolah
berasrama
sempena cuti hujung tahun. Masa tu baru lepas peperiksaan LCE (form
three).
Kiranya, tahun berikutnya, kalau balik semula ke sekolah tu (SDAR le
tu), akan
jadi senior la.
Tapi atas kereta api, budaya budak-budak Kelantan, tak kira sangat
senior atau
junior. Senior atau junior ni masa kat SDAR je. Bila dah naik kereta
api untuk
balik kampung, senior-junior tak main dah, kira semua dah budak SDAR je.
Atas kereta api tu macam biasa la. Selepas naik kereta api di Seremban,
cerita sana
cerita sini, bual itu
bual ini, lawat koc tu lawat koc ni. Aku tak de la nak lawat-lawat. Tak
gheti
sume tuh. Tidur je le. Bila sampai di Gemas, terjaga. Rasa boring gak
nak
tunggu kereta api tu di 'potong' dan di 'sambung' balik, nak bagi-bagi,
yang pergi
ke Singapura dan yang nak pergi ke Kelantan. Tapi boring-boring tu aku
biasanya
tenggelamkan ke dalam tidur.
Bila sampai di Kuala Lipis, intai nasik
lemak ke, apa ke, asal boleh makan. Penjual-penjual tu datang kat
tingkap, tak
payah turun. Sedap ke tidak ke, tak kisah, sapu habih.
Tetapi setiap kali kereta api lalu Kuala Lipis, memang aku tidak akan
dapat
lupakan peristiwa banjir 1971 dulu. Mesti nak intai masjidnya, kedai
kopi
tempat makan roti canai dan lelain. Intai je le, nak turun boleh kalau
sanggup
tunggu kereta api lain, he he.
Bila kereta api mula bergerak ke arah Kelantan, baru le nampak bebudak
SDAR tu
hidup. Entah apa mereka bualkan tak tahu le. Mungkin ada yang bercerita
pengalaman mereka pergi koc TKC atau STF malamnya, mungkin ada ceghita
pasal
jumpa po-in (awek) mereka. Mungkin ada ceghita lucu. Tapi ada jugak
yang belum
cukup tidur. Nak makan
lebih-lebih, bukan berduit semua tu. Kalau ada pun duit biasiswa atau
duit
'pocket-money' yang berbaki setelah ditolak duit makan, dobi, but (yang
main
bola/ hoki la). Memang tak leh nak 'agah' macam bebudak sekarang ni,
hand phone
mereka masih ramai yang mengalahkan aku kini.
Bila kereta api melepasi setesen Gua Musang, aku macam bebudak lain
gak, termenung,
berbual, dsb. Aku lebih suka pergi ke koc yang dah mula kosong, dok
sorang-sorang, nengok kat luar. Pokok je yang ada pun. Pokok kelapa
sawit masa
tu belum ada lagi. Pokok hutan je, ngan lalang yang liar di tepi
sepanjang
landasan.
Satu ketika, aku balik semula ke koc SDAR. Nampak ada yang main terup
keling,
berbual dan tidur. Tak tahu kenapa, atau aku tak ingat kenapa, aku
pergi kat
Wan Rahim Wan Daud, sdara76, kini pilot ngan Emirates(?) dan tinggal di
Abu
Dhabi (?). Masa tu dia tengah hisap rokok. Well, atas kereta api, siapa
nak
larang. Dah nak jadi senior lagi.
"Rahim, bagi aku rokok sebatang", aku buka mulut, Rahim terkejut. "Bagi
aku rokok sebatang", aku ulang semula. Muka Rahim semacam. Macam tak
percaya. "Eh, tak sah lah. Mu nak jadi prefek, mana bulih hisap
ghokok". Dia tak
bagi.
Aku raba poket baju dia, ada kotak rokok. Dia pegang tangan aku, tak
nak bagi.
Dia ulang lagi kata-kata yang aku akan jadi prefek dan tak nak bagi
rokok tu.
Aku berkeras, rebut keluar kotak rokok dari poket bajunya, keluarkan
sebatang
dan minta mancis. Dia kata lagi, "Heh, mu nak jadi prefek, tok soh isap
ghokok la..."
Aku tak pasti, tak bagi aku hisap rokok kerana nak suruh aku jadi
prefek atau
sebab dia tak nak share rokok tu ngan aku.
Aku beredar, minta mancis dengan budak lain. Tapi aku tak ingat siapa
dia.
Budak yang aku minta mancis tu pun agak terkejut. "Heh, mu pung nak
ghokok
jugak koh?" dia tanya, tapi mancis dia tetap hulur. Aku ambil mancis
dan
terus nyalakan rokok, sedut sekali, lepas tu terus beredar ke koc yang
kosong
tadi. Masa beberapa orang budak lain tengok aku dengan telatah aku,
kenapa, aku tak tahu!
Sampai ke koc kosong, aku pilih kerusi yang membelakangi arah
pergerakan. Pandangan
aku lontarkan keluar tingkap. Tengok lagi lalang yang liar, pokok yang
hijau.
Nyaman. Segar.
Rokok yang baru aku sedut sekali tadi tu masih di tangan. Aku
perhatikan rokok
itu beberapa ketika. Aku tanya diri aku. "Fauzi, apa kau dapat dari
rokok
ini?" Aku sedut sekali, pastu hembuskan asapnya keluar. Aku cuba
cari jawapannya. Tidak ada. Jawapan tu tak nak datang menjengah.
"Fauzi, apa kau dapat dengan hisap rokok ni?" aku tanya diri aku
lagi. Rokok tu aku sedut sekali lagi. Asapnya aku kepulkan keluar.
Sekelip mata
asap tu hilang dihembus angin deru keretapi yang menderu laju. Jawapan
masih
tidak mahu menjengah. Aku biarkan beberapa ketika. Aku jengok keluar
tingkap
lagi. Aku dok sorang-sorang, tak terasa ada tekanan orang. Blank.
"Fauzi, apa kau dapat ngan isap rokok nih?"
Belum ada jawapan.
Aku hulurkan tangan aku yang memegang rokok tersebut keluar, dan
lepaskan ia.
Aku tak tengok ke mana jatuhnya.
"Aku tak akan hisap rokok sampai bila-bila." Itu janji aku pada diriku.
Tetapi aku tahu ada sedapnya rasa hisap rokok tu. Lalu aku terus
bertekad untuk
mengajar diriku, dan pastinya mindaku juga, bahawa bau asap rokok tu
busuk, dan
jangan 'hirup' asap tu kalau ia datang ke arahku dari mana pun.
Mulai saat itu, aku akan sebut 'busuknya' dalam hati aku, bila ada
angin yang
bawa asap rokok kepada aku. Sejak itu, sampai kini, aku tidak pernah
merokok
lagi, dan bau asap rokok bagi hidungku adalah sesuatu yang busuk.
~Abezi
14 Sept 07.
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Makan
Malam Perdana SDAR, STAR & STF
by
drnaz926 (www.drnaz.net)
It was just 2
nights ago when this once in a lifetime event took place at the
prestigious
Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC) on Thursday night, Aug 9th 2007. Nearly
2,000 guests were present at
the event.
The main guest
of honor was our Deputy Prime Minister, Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib
Tun Razak.
This auspicious
event was held to celebrate the 50 years establishment of 3 premier
residential
schools in Malaysia
:
Sekolah
Dato’
Abdul Razak (SDAR) - SDARA
Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman (STAR) -
STAROBA
Sekolah Tun Fatimah (STF) - SriKandi
On a personal note,
I don’t think it was so much of the food or the live band
that brought the
crowd but more of the golden opportunity to meet long lost friends.
This was
because the former students of all three schools at some point in
history had
crossed paths in some way or another.
For example, there was a time when
SDAR did not have form 6 classes so, after form 5, some of these
SDARians went
to continue form 6 in STAR. Thus, they got to be both SDARians and
STARians
which to me is indeed a bonus because they have a wider spectrum of
friends.
If
these students did not meet in school, then there was
always life in
university where STF was not excluded. This
resulted in
SDARians or STARians
marrying SriKandi’s from STF. I can
confidently say
this as not only do I have
clients who originated from these schools and became
soulmates but both my
parents were also from SDAR and STF previously! Its no wonder
why all
my 4
brothers and I ended up as SDARians since 1991 until last
year.
Sheeeesh….
A SDARA
married to a Srikandi
Anyway, for what it was worth, I had
a ball of a time meeting people from all 3 schools who I have come to
know over
the past 15 years or so. Some were juniors, many more were seniors and
super
seniors (the term super here refers to the age factor and has nothing
to do with
Superman.. hehe). And this dinner was not only for students and ex
students but
also teachers and ex teachers, ex principles and ex staff of all 3
schools.
Its kind of
funny though that teachers tend to easily remember if you were
naughty or lazy in school. What more if you were frequently the victim
of the
warden’s ‘golf swing’.
Even though the
dinner was supposed to end around 11PM, I saw many guests
’sneak’ out of the hall for a puff and also to chit
chat with friends. Around
10PM, the exhibition booths and the concourse outside the main entrance
to the
hall was packed with people, laughter and photographers.
All ended safely
around 1am as my team and I were the last ones to leave
the PICC that night and adjourn to after midnight ‘Teh
Tarik’ at a mamak
restaurant just outside of Kajang. Our ‘post
meeting’ ended around 4am as some
of us had to be in the office by 8am.. haha!
Who knows? Some
of us might just be around for the 100
years celebration in 2057….
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SDAR & SDARA was in
the news (Malaysia Hari Ini) on 30th
Aug 2007.
Left Col (R) Abdul Razak, SDARA Secretary has told me earlier about
this
event. He sms to me and other Sdaras. I email to our yahoogroups on
29th Aug, "Lef
Kol (B) Abdul Razak & SDAR HM will be on TV3, 7.30am tomorrow.
Please watch your TV tomorrow morning"
and everybody was eager to view the event .
After sending my daughter
to school on 30th
morning, I straight away came home lest I might miss the event. I sms
to Azam Raslan, asking him to videotape the event and later to upload
it to "you tube" (but he uploaded it to his website). 7.30 . . . 7.45
still no news on SDAR or SDARA, I said to myself "jadi ke tidak
ni". Suddenly SDAR Wind Orchestra appeared playing
a song
before the commercial break.
After that, 8.00 . . .
8.15 . . .
8.35. . SDAR Wind Orchestra played for the second time . .
but
still Left Col (R) Abdul Razak did not appear. I
SMS
to him
asking "jadi ko?" He did not reply because soon after around
8.50
the camera lens zoomed to Fitri the TV3 compere with Left Col &
SDAR
HM at his side. It was one hour & twenty minutes late but worth
waiting.
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MAJLIS
BERBUKA PUASA SDARA 92 - 96
Dengan tema "Keep moving
forward", majlis berbuka puasa 1428 Hijrah untuk batch 926
(SDARA 96)
telah selamat dan berjaya diadakan pada Sabtu 29 September
bertempat di Hotel
Dynasty, Kuala Lumpur. Hotel tersebut, iaitu di
mana majlis perpisahan Fivers
96 telah diadakan 11 tahun yang lalu, ternyata
mengimbau kembali pelbagai
kenangan silam. Majlis bermula pada pukul 6.30
petang dan berakhir sekitar
10.00 malam.
Jumlah tetamu yang hadir adalah 70
orang. Walaupun kurang berbanding dengan 110 orang yang hadir semasa
"Reun10n" pada tahun 2006, majlis tetap berlangsung
meriah dengan pelbagai isu hangat dan agenda yang padat. Kehadiran
sdarina dan anak-anak yang comel juga telah berjaya menyerikan suasana.
Ramai
juga di kalangan SDARA 96 yang mengambil peluang untuk berlatih menjadi
"bapa" dengan mendukung anak rakan-rakan berjalan-jalan.
Antara isu-isu hangat yang dibincangkan
adalah perasaan tidak puas hati sdara Pop terhadap seorang lagi rakan
sejawatan
dalam sektor yang sama tetapi "berjaya" hidup dalam kemewahan, kisah
gadis misteri sdara Mush dan juga perasan ingin tahu sdara Pop (lagi
sekali)
terhadap rahsia kejayaan sdara RG dalam kehidupan ber-rumahtangga.
Agenda yang telah dilangsungkan selepas
majlis berbuka puasa adalah sembahyang maghrib dan isyak berjemaah,
taklimat
tentang situasi terkini SDARA 96 dan majlis makan malam 50 tahun SDAR
oleh
sdara Drnaz, pengumuman perkahwinan sdara Duen (01 Disember 07) dan
sdara
Gorgom (07 Disember 2007) dan juga pesanan tentang Tabung Haji oleh
sdara RG
(yang juga menyebabkan ramai SDARA 96 "keciwa" kerana menantikan
pengumuman yg berbeza) .
Selain itu cabutan bertuah yang
diacarakan oleh sdara Adi juga telah berjaya menarik perhatian ramai
dan kali
ini hadiah utama Rayban (sumbangan sdara Shaza) telah dimenangi oleh
pasangan
sdara Afza.
Sepanjang majlis
tersebut para tetamu juga berpeluang membeli "bahan media" dari sdara
Gorock dan menjamah sample kek sdara Bintang.
Walaupun padat dengan pelbagai aktiviti,
dua tujuan utama majlis berbuka puasa ini diadakan juga telah berjaya
dilaksanakan dengan sempurna iaitu, solat hajat berjemaah untuk
mendoakan
kesihatan sdara Atuk yang telah diimamkan oleh sdara Kamal dan juga
proses
kemaskini maklumat peribadi SDARA 96 yang dikendalikan oleh sdara Wira
dan Tbc.
Akhir sekali, majlis telah diserikan
dengan pengumuman hari ulangtahun kelahiran sdarina Madihah Md Ismail
(isteri
sdara Wok) dan acara meniup lilin. Sebelum bersurai terdapat juga
sebilangan
SDARA 96 yang mengambil peluang untuk membeli cenderamata SDARA
daripada pihak
penganjur iaitu sdara Drnaz. Adalah diharapkan agar majlis sebegini
dapat terus
diadakan pada masa-masa akan datang supaya dapat mengeratkan lagi
ikatan
silaturrahim antara SDARA 96.
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ps: Seperti tahun-tahun
sebelumnya: selepas puas "menjolap" pelbagai hidangan yang enak,
tibalah pula masanya untuk membakar semula kalori dan lemak di badan. SDARA 96 telah meneruskan aktiviti malam
tersebut di Sportsbarn, PJ dengan
berfutsal dari pukul 11.00 sehingga 12.30 tengah malam...
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