My dearest friends,

Sorry for the delayed update on the minutes of our first meeting @Padi Cyberjaya on the 12th of March 2010. Atie had emailed me a couple of weeks ago but I couldn’t find time to logged in to our dot com and update it. Works are piling up as always, but thank Allah today I managed to find time to update. Anyway, here’s the minutes and should you guys have any inquiries, feel free to leave a note in the comment box, and we’ll try to answer a.s.a.p. And to dearest Atie, I really (x100000) appreciate your effort; taking down notes during the meeting, and then typing them out nicely in a document. Next time we’ll paksa Firah to do that ok. Hehe. (Peace, Firrrrr!! ♥ ♥ ♥)

Minutes of 1st Meeting (view on Google Docs)

Another info guys, please register yourself in this site so that you’re eligible to vote for the poll. By registering and voting in the poll, you’re helping us to get the headcount PLUS the name list simultaneously. That’s actually going to save us a lot of time.

Lastly, to our dearest Shambie, thanks for this NEW LOOK of our dot com!! It’s REALLY nice and clean and neat. Don’t you think so, 9600??

(p/s: sorry ya, gambar di atas TIADA kaitan dengan entri ini. hehe)

An official [sort of/hope so!] meeting will be held @Padi House Cyberjaya on Friday, 12th March 2010.
Please RSVP to my or Atie’s FB of mobile phone if you’re coming.
Details will be added later!

Alhamdulillah, discussions were quite active both in tkc9600.com and Facebook. As per requested, and as promised by yours truly, now I’ll update on the not-yet-final conclusions from the discussions. I will also share with you the information that I got from OGA. But for today, we’re going to focus on only the date. And I hope we can come to a decision.

Date…

I think we have to cross out 10.10.10 from our list. It’s unanimous that everyone thinks the date is a HOT one. Hot as in hot foe weddings,engagements,attending weddings,attending engagements et cetera. Even though it means A LOT if we can do it on that date, but we’re gonna go for practicality instead. Afraid that there won’t be many turnouts on the day of the anniversary. But a small get together,an informal one can be arranged if we want to meet up on this date. That is, if we don’t have any weddings/ engagements to attend to that day (aku sanggup ambik cuti to come down to KL if anyone nak get together on 10.10.10).

Atie suggested 5.Nov.10 since it’s a public holiday (Deepavali) and seconded by Inamadz and Fozz. Ina suggested the theme "Colors of Rangoli" if we were to have the anniversary on that date. Though I can’t imangine myself wearing a sari (I dare not imagine!! Hahahah), but the idea is good too. It’s on Friday, so no one needs to apply for leave, except for the Doctors of our batch (Marr, Pau Ahmad tak cuti jugak ke on Deepavali? ).

Idya suggested 10.July.10. It’s on Saturday. And those in Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu need to apply for leave at least for Sunday,the day after. Unless, you can bear it, then go ahead and work the next day. Hehehe. I know I can’t. LOL. I will be busy with preparations for UPSR during this time,though.  Not that the show can’t go on without me, but I’d be extremely devastated if I can’t join in the celebration. TT_TT

The last one is 6.Dec.10. To be honest, I REALLLLLLY agree if we go on with this date. It is so SIGNIFICANT with our batch since 6.Dec.95 was officially the day most of us first stepped on Bukit Merbah as TKC9600 (those yang ada visit kakak-kakak tak kira ok?). It will be on Sunday Monday,so those in Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu, imho, definitely need to apply for leave, but the day after is a public holiday (Awal Muharam). It is the 10th anniversary, so I personally think it should have some significance to our batch,no?

Can we have a poll then? And can I officially CLOSE the suggestions for dates? If not, we might end up with other suggestions and in the end won’t come to a decision. So, only these three dates,ok? Cast your votes now. This poll will end on 13 Feb 2010.

A few days back, Firah has messaged me and a few others in Facebook. So for a few days, we have been discussing roughly on the committees and what to do during the reunion. But before I proceed to the point, I’d like to apologize for not updating our blog. I’m not going to give any excuses because for sure it’s going to be cliché and lame,so I’m hoping you guys would accept my apology. ♥ ♥ ♥ InsyaAllah, God willing, I’ll update this blog as frequent as I can.

In part 3 of our 10th Anniversary entry, I wrote about the committees for the reunion. A few have suggested me as the Director in that entry. And again in the Facebook message. Accepting it comes with a big burden of duties, so I’m hoping we can all work together to make the reunion a successful and memorable event. Here’s the list of the committees that we’ve roughly discussed. Kindly voice out your comment if you think this committee needs amendment.

1. Director – Fizzy
2. Assistant Director – Atie
3. Secretary – Firah
4. Assistant Secretary – Shambie
5. Treasurer – Kiau
6. Assistant Treasurer -Ninie
7. Accommodation – ??
8. Food – Idya,Marr
9. Sponsorship – ??
10. Programs/Events – Fozz, Nadiah,Jaja Farizan
11. Souvenirs – Shazu, Inamadz, Idya

As you can see we still have a few posts empty. I’d like to nominate Nana, but don’t know for 7,8, or 9.. Nana please volunteer for one! Hehehehe.. And if anyone thinks she’s up to the challenge, please nominate yourself. No need to be shy or whatnot, because this is for the benefit of our batch. Plus, time is running out!! We have to have the committee a.s.a.p so that we can work on the plans.

For now, we kind of decided to have a “mini gathering” during OGA Day on the 1st of May 2010. Nothing specific has been planned, for now it’s just like a normal visit to Bukit Merbah. But if a number of us gather in one place, you know it won’t be NORMAL anymore,right? It’ll be LOUD. EXTREMELY LOUD!! Hehehehe. And the date for the reunion I assume it’s decided on Sunday, 10.10.10? Unless Shambie decided to tie the knot that day [jeng jeng jeng], I think for now we’ll be using that date as our benchmark. Am I right?

So girls, I think that’s all for now. Will update more once I get your feedback.
Take care. ♥ ♥ ♥

frankly, i’m not really comfortable writing about this since i knew about mida’s condition. it seems rather inappropriate to be talking/discussing about this thing when mida is fighting her pain. but i do hope everyone will be understanding. any news regarding mida will be updated as soon as we hear anything. so in the meantime, let’s continue our discussion on the 10th year anniversary plan now, shall we?

let me start off with the reasons WHY i would like/prefer the anniversary be held in october [yes, the school is STILL in session at that time] and WHY the celebration should be in college.

• as we would be turning 27 next year, it will be appropriate for us to have a sort of “give back” session with the present collegians. perhaps we can share some experiences with them about working world or life post-college.
• 2011, college will move to a new location, i.e. Nilai. So 2010 will be the LAST year our beloved college would be on Bukit Merbah.
• one of the itineraries i have in mind [to be explained later], involves EATING in dining hall, so by having the celebration during school holidays, we HAVE to skip that. [as i'm writing suddenly "SAUSAGE MASAK MERAH" came in mind..] *drool*
• i thought of inviting our teachers who currently are no longer teaching in college to the anniversary. at least if they are still in negeri sembilan [like Monsieur Amir-yes Nadz,he's teaching in SMAP Labu now], we won’t intefere their school holidays.

please bear in mind that this comes from a teacher herself.  if you ask me, i would definitely want it to be during school holidays so that i won’t have to apply for cuti, but for the above reasons, i think it should be done somewhere during school session. please don’t worry about getting permission or the place to sleep in college. as this is only the early stage of our plan, i will seek advice from the OGs [batch 8084] regarding the issue.

and like i’ve commented before, the overnight stay is OPTIONAL and is most likely/only applied to single people [like yours truly,firah,atie and shazu..err, shambie pun ke?!!] and the committees that we are going to have later [for persiapan tempat etc]. i understand the difficulties to those with child/children, that’s why the MAIN events will only be on 10.10.10 [sunday] so you won’t have to worry about leaving our anak-anak saudara(s)  and your better halves by themselves.

however, there’s ONE thing that i’m afraid of and the only reason why our anniversary WON’T be on 10.10.10. that is, if it falls during the PMR Week. i know “Bonda” won’t approve it and i also think it’ll be inappropriate [Bonda-that's what collegians call the principle, not like we used to call ours,"Rocky" ]. this can’t be confirmed until next year though, because exam dates are not fixed. but for the time being let’s just stick to the date, can we? the poll is still going. so, place your vote there ok. if you have another date to suggest, i.e. the same date as 2010 OGA Day, please let us know.

alright, now le’ts get to the itinerary of the day. mind you that these are just my suggestions and they are subjected to changes or improvements that you think should be done in order to have a complete one. ideas or other suggestions are most welcome too.

1. solat hajat & yaasin recital for PMR & SPM [if PMR dah lepas then utk SPM je]
2. film show [it would be a dream if we can have the one like we used to have, if not guna LCD je lah..]
3. dinner,supper [091010],breakfast,lunch,tea [101010] @ dining hall
4. basketball/volleyball match – interhouse or tkc9600 vs collegians
5. house meeting
6. college meeting/experience sharing @ Dewan Budiman
7. lunch with teachers [as in no.3]
8. slideshow [of our times in college - can be included in no.6]

please tell me what you think. these are not final. part 3 will be on the committees.

take care, girls!

Please pick/suggest a date for our 10th Anniversary!

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p/s: Zacky, i think you can put up a booth that day to promote/sell your cupcakes. and Nadz, aku akan usahakan Van MILO datang hari tu nanti.

first of all, thanks a lot for ALL the birthday and teachers’ day wishes last week. i had a fantabulous 26th year on earth thanks to all your love, rakan-rakan. and for your info, during the teachers’ day celebration in my school, i was ‘crowned’ the GURU PALING DIGERUNI by the students. sheishhhh.. i guess 5 years with Miss Vicky had some sort of influence to me.

as you all know, next year will be our 10th year graduating from college. alhamdulillah i’ve got positive feedbacks from those i’ve talked to, and it seemed like the BIG anniversary is absolutely a MUST next year. aliza, as our batch leader, has given me and shambie the ‘permission’ to be her representatives in the planning of the anniversary. lol. it’s nothing big really, but since we can get through to you guys easier [via this web and facebook], so she thinks it’s just appropriate to do that. the only problem is that we are working nun jauh di timur semenanjung, so it’s really impossible for us to meet up with all of you face to face and to discuss the itinerary. this is why EACH AND EVERY tkc9600, CLASS OF 2000 plays a MAJOR role in making sure the planning of the anniversary goes on. whenever you have a get together among tkc9600, after all GOSSIPS have been shared,please chip in some discussion regarding the anniversary..hehehe. then, let me or shambie know of any development so that we can put it up in our dotcom.

and just to share something i recently stumbled upon, our friends mckk9600 has begun their 10th year anniversary planning.  i know we can’t be as organized as they are, plus with some of us being Mommies to our anak-anak saudara, the activities to be planned seems a bit limited. but i regard mckk9600′s planning as a motivation and challenge for us to do even better. i have a few ideas in mind, but in the meantime let’s just brainstorm on what we want to have in the itinerary. but the most important thing is to decide when is the best DATE to have the anniversary. aliza had made a STRONG reminder to yours truly that the anniversary should be after September, but it’s not mandatory [cheiss, i'm using law-related word! mentang-mentang tengah cakap pasal aliza!] we’ll try to have it on a day which everyone can make it.

so, let the ideas/opinions/suggestions coming. and for the time being we’ll discuss it online. when everything’s final, we’ll start drafting the paperwork. wow!

take care,rakan-rakan!

{added} Please pick/suggest a date for our 10th Anniversary!