The journey of a thousand miles begins with but one step. And so it was on the afternoon of Saturday, 1 October 2006 that a band of brothers from the class of 1986 assembled at the Kelab Golf Negara Subang for some food, reminiscing, and most importantly, to kick off preparations for STAR's Old Boys Weekend 2006.
The group of STAR boys who sat for their SPM in 1986 have been tasked with organising next year's annual celebratory reunion of ex-students that is known as the Old Boys Weekend (OBW for short). "Hang on, it's hardly been a month since OBW 2005 was held", some of you may say. To that, we say, there's nothing like striking when the iron is still hot. In fact, some previous batches had begun collecting funds a couple years before their turn came.
The meeting started with lunch at the Golfer's Terrace at 1.00 pm. Yours truly came slightly late at around 2.00 pm, and wasn't surprised to find out everyone had straggled in at different times anyway. After a hearty meal of local hawker delights (how much do we owe you, Atan?), we adjourned to one of the seminar rooms to commence the meeting proper.
I shan't go into the details of what were discussed - that's what the Committee's Secretary is for, isn't it Zahir? Suffice it to say that plans were laid out, funding strategies drwan up and sub-committees formed. Representatives were appointed from the group who attended the meeting as well those who were absent - keep checking the Yahoogroups to find out your duties!
What struck me personally was how committed and enthusiastic everyone was about the forthcoming event. Monen drove down, alone, all the way from Kuale Kangsor for gosh's sake.
Zahir made full use of the meeting room's sliding whiteboards and flipcharts to create a multi-tiered, multi-layered battle plan. Nadzif set up a mini I.T. communications hub, complete with 2.6 MBps wifi hookup (as well as free ringtone and photo download service, to boot). If we can keep up the energy, lads, OBW 2006 is sure to be a blast.
The meeting ended at around 5.30 pm when most of the attendees had to adjourn to attend to various personal matters. All in all, we had a very fruitful discussion indeed.
2 comments:
Hey.. the hawker food is on me. I better take the opportunity to mass belanja cheap food and seem generous when I can. The meeting room is sponsored by The Firm.
Don,
My friend, thanks for d update. It's wonderful to see 'old' friends coming together for stg truly meaningful, not to mention the 86 batch's rep is at stake as well. Dont get ahead of yourself though Don. The meeting was not on October 1, 2006 rite?
Anyway keep up d good work. Let me know if I can help, from Penang. Yazit has my no.
BTW, it was great to see few of d guys at the recent STAR prize-giving/sports day.
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