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COMBINED VIOB REUNION DINNER
1962 - 1964: Form V - VI
Date: Friday, 13th June 2008
Venue: Holiday Villa Subang
Immediate Reservations & Payment Essential
(as the number of places at the venue is limited)
Ex-Victorians and Partners Welcome!
Enquiries:
Dr Y S Yim: 012-2933560 email: ys_yim@hotmail.com
Kenneth: 014-6422882
Chee Teh: 016-2333183 email: ctchan45@gmail.com
Khajar: 017-8892128
Wong Fook Seng: 012-3392070
COMBINED VIOB REUNION DINNER
Upper 6B 1962 and Form 5B 1960
Date: June 30 - July 2, '08
Tentative Programme:
30/6/08 - Golf at Saujana Golf & Country Club (12 noon - 6 pm)
01/7/08 - Dinner at Hilton Sentral or Mandarin Oriental 7.30 pm
onwards. Venue to be decided.
02/7/08 - Lunch, then visit to VI and drinks at VIOBA or
elsewhere.
Enquiries:
Peter Koh Tong Bak email: petsnake.cool@gmail.com
Mac Ngan Boon: email: mac@muhibbah.com.my
The next Reunion Dinners of the VIOS branches of Sydney and Melbourne are
scheduled for two consecutive Fridays - 26 September for Sydney and Friday, 3
October for Melbourne. At this time, the Organising Committee will appreciate
an indication of interest to attend, to enable us to estimate the number of
participants. One of the keepers of the VI Web site will be attending both
dinners and will be making a slide presentation on VI: The Golden Years.
This promises to be a nostalgic occasion as most of us hail from that era.
In addition, each Victorian will receive a mystery "V.I." gift. Details
for each city are listed below:
Bookings: Contact Daniel Chan -
danielchan45@gmail.com
VIOS MELBOURNE REUNION DINNER Date: Friday, 3rd October, 2008 Location: Treasure Restaurant, 482 Springvale Road, Forrest Hill Cost: $45.00 per head Bookings: Contact Kuan Beng Teik -
teikuan@gmail.com
VIOS from other parts of the world are also welcome to
join in the dinner if they are in Melbourne during this period.
Calling ex-Victorians in Malaysia and Singapore: The Hari Raya
holidays fall on 01-02 October 08. So, wanna take a break Down
Under and catch up with lots of old schoolmates?
Legacy by Old Victorian Shahriza Hussein
now on sale!
Following the murder of Perak Resident James Birch in 1875, his pocket watch
came into the possession of Mastura, member of the Perak royal family. An intimate
friend of the lare Resident, Mastura was devastated by his death and decided
to keep the watch as a talisman against the uncertain times ahead. She vowed to
return it one day.
This is the story of Mastura and her descendants, as she and her family made
their way through 80 tumultuous years of colonised Malaya until, with Merdeka,
the talisman could finally be returned with honour. It is a story of fortitude
and faith. And love. Victorians will be delighted to know that characters and
settings related to the V.I. have been worked into the novel!
Click here and
here for sample pages of Shahriza's Legacy.
Shariza Hussein was a Victorian from 1956 to 1962.
He participated with the VI contingent at the opening ceremony drill at the Merdeka
Stadium on 30 August 1957. After his H.S.C., Shahriza was awarded a Colombo Plan
scholarship and read for his B.A. Hons and Dip. Ed. at Monash University, Melbourne.
He taught at Alam Shah Secondary School for four years. He served the Education
Ministry as Exams Specialist and Curriculum Designer. In 1977, Shahriza left for
the private sector to set up a publishing firm which he operated until his
retirement in 2005. This is his first novel and he is working on his second
literary effort. Resident in Petaling Jaya, he is married to a Thai academic and
has two daughters and four grandchildren.
POIETICS: Disquisitions on the Art of Creation Allahabad: Cyberwit.net, 2008,214p.
by T. Wignesan. Check out at:
http://stateless.freehosting.net/CoverPoietics%20Disquisitions%20on%20the%20Art%20of%20Creation.jpg
What is poietics? The subject of "poietics" deals with the science and/or art or
philosophy of creation. In this book, the author attempts to lay the foundation
either of the formulation of a theory or, contrariwise, for the impossibility at
arriving at any such formulaic circumscription on poietics. His "Disquisitions on
Poietics" serves as a theoretical inquiry into the subject at large without, however,
limiting itself to the fine arts. the author adopts an open-ended approach to the
concept of creation. To him, the preparation of an elaborate dish in the kitchen
is as worthy of attention as the Big bang itself. As for tools, he does not exclude
the methodology of experimentation in the laboratory or the theoretical calculations
and observations of the exact sciences as perfectly valid means by which to unravel
the mysteries of creation.
T. Wignesan was a pupil of the V.I. from 1947 to 1950. He was an assistant
librarian and a member of the Hepponstall House cricket and hockey teams as
well as a member of the V.I. Cricket XI in 1949-51. His working life in his
teens and twenties had included stints as a manual labourer, clerk, journalist
(Malay Mail & Malayan Times) and/or as a school teacher in
the following towns/cities: Sungei Rengam, Seremban, Kuala Lumpur, London, and
Heidelberg. For a brief period, 1964-65, he was the London Correspondent of the
Straits Times Press Group. Later he taught English at the school and faculty
level in Madrid and literatures in English at the European Division of the
University of Maryland and at the University of Sorbonne-Nouvelle. He has also
lectured for the Commonwealth Institute, London, on South and Southeast Asia.
He has now retired as a Research Fellow in comparative literature (English,
Spanish, Malay and Tamil) and in poietics/aesthetics (the science and philosophy
of creation) with the French National Centre for Scientific Research, having
been attached variously at the Sorbonne and at the School for Higher Studies in
Social Sciences in Paris, from 1973 to 1998.
regularly
The next Reunion Dinners of the VIOS branches of Sydney and Melbourne are
scheduled for two consecutive Fridays - 26 September for Sydney and Friday, 3
October for Melbourne. At this time, the Organising Committee will appreciate
an indication of interest to attend, to enable us to estimate the number of
participants. One of the keepers of the VI Web site will be attending both
dinners and will be making a slide presentation on VI: The Golden Years.
This promises to be a nostalgic occasion as most of us hail from that era.
In addition, each Victorian will receive a mystery "V.I." gift. Details
for each city are listed below:
He participated with the VI contingent at the opening ceremony drill at the Merdeka
Stadium on 30 August 1957. After his H.S.C., Shahriza was awarded a Colombo Plan
scholarship and read for his B.A. Hons and Dip. Ed. at Monash University, Melbourne.
He taught at Alam Shah Secondary School for four years. He served the Education
Ministry as Exams Specialist and Curriculum Designer. In 1977, Shahriza left for
the private sector to set up a publishing firm which he operated until his
retirement in 2005. This is his first novel and he is working on his second
literary effort. Resident in Petaling Jaya, he is married to a Thai academic and
has two daughters and four grandchildren.
librarian and a member of the Hepponstall House cricket and hockey teams as
well as a member of the V.I. Cricket XI in 1949-51. His working life in his
teens and twenties had included stints as a manual labourer, clerk, journalist
(Malay Mail & Malayan Times) and/or as a school teacher in
the following towns/cities: Sungei Rengam, Seremban, Kuala Lumpur, London, and
Heidelberg. For a brief period, 1964-65, he was the London Correspondent of the
Straits Times Press Group. Later he taught English at the school and faculty
level in Madrid and literatures in English at the European Division of the
University of Maryland and at the University of Sorbonne-Nouvelle. He has also
lectured for the Commonwealth Institute, London, on South and Southeast Asia.
He has now retired as a Research Fellow in comparative literature (English,
Spanish, Malay and Tamil) and in poietics/aesthetics (the science and philosophy
of creation) with the French National Centre for Scientific Research, having
been attached variously at the Sorbonne and at the School for Higher Studies in
Social Sciences in Paris, from 1973 to 1998.