The Legend

Good Day April,
guess who is this boy? hehehehee..

come on man...

Old Edwardians (OE) launch website

Some 80 Edwardians, old boys and girls of the King Edward VII School in Taiping, launched an interactive website today to bring together former students around the world.The group of old boys and girls, who call themselves "Old Tigers" or "OE", gave a grand welcome to a Grand Old Tiger, Datuk Dr. Abdul Shukor Abdullah, president of the Kuala Lumpur OE Association.Shukor said the website would tap into what was happening to the association and provide an avenue where fond memories could be shared.

"We want our members to own this site and actively contribute to its content so that it will truly be built by Tigers for Tigers," Shukor said.Among the VIP alumni present were Media Prima Berhad chairman Datuk Abdul Mutalib Datuk Seri Mohamed Razak, New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd chairman Jen (R) Tan Sri Mohd Ghazali Che Mat, and retired Sarawak police commissioner Datuk Seri Yuen Yuet Leng.Ghazali said the school had given him many fond memories."During my service in the army, the ‘Tiger spirit’ lived on in me and the lessons learnt such as mixing with different races and working together as a team helped in my career and made me who I am today," he said.

Ghazali hoped more Tigers would come together and continue their "journey of friendship"."Many of us have stuck together till today. Some have left us, but they will always be in our memory."Other prominent old Edwardians include former Olympic hurdler Ishtiaq Mubarak, Asian track queen Junaidah Aman, former Transport Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ling Liong Sik, and director-general of Education Tan Sri Wan Mohamed Zahid Noordin.The school will celebrate its 125th anniversary in 2008.The Edwardians’ 39th annual reunion dinner will be held at the Legend Inn in Taiping on June 24.Old Edwardians can contact S.A.M. Mohaideen Mohd Ishack, President of Edwardian Old Boys Association Taiping at 05-807 3616 or 019-578 4786 for more information. MAGNI NOMINIS UMBRA...Once a tiger is always a tiger.

Source: New Straits Times

Lake Garden of the Town of Everlasting Peace

Located near to Malaysia oldest town and being the most beautiful lake garden in Malaysia, Taiping Lake Garden always becomes the centre of photography activities and favoured by wedding couples as dramatic backdrop of wedding photos. The tranquility, beautiful lake view and misty mountain scenery are something that you will never forget. Taiping Lake is easily accessible from North-South Highway of Peninsula Malaysia and can be reached by following the road signs exiting before Ipoh town if you are coming from north.

Source: Ooi Ping Chuin

CONSAL X - 1996

CONSAL X Theme: " Libraries in National Development " Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Date: 21-25 May 1996 Officiated by DS Anwar Ibrahim, Deputy Prime Minister, Malaysia Synopsis: This was a special event as the conference was held in 1996, and 1995 marked the twenty -five anniversary years of CONSAL. This conference had also indicated the focus on the attention of policy markers on the role of librarians and libraries in national developments. CONSAL X objective is to conceptualize this vision for Southeast Asian librarians and promote the drawing up of strategic plans towards its realization. It also highlighted the need for guidelines, policies and client charters in the light of paradigm shift in library services as well as to establish strategic linkages and network among Southeast Asian communities. Source: https://www.consal.org/conference/consalvix.html

William Wallace, the Freedom fighter

William Wallace is one of Scotland's greatest national heroes, undisputed leader of the Scottish resistance forces during the first years of the long and ultimately successful struggle to free Scotland from English rule at the end of the 13th Century.
Records of Wallace's life are patchy and often inaccurate. This is partly because early accounts of his heroic deeds are speculative, and partly because he inspired such fear in the minds of English writers at the time, that they demonised him, his achievements, and his motives.

Many of the stories surrounding Wallace have been traced to a late-15th Century romance "The Wallace", ascribed to Henry the minstrel, or "Blind Harry". This epic is vehemently anti-English in language and tone. The most popular tales about Wallace are not supported by documentary evidence, but they show his firm hold on the imagination of his people. He represented the spirit of the common man striving for freedom against oppression, and exposed the Scottish nobility of the time as a group of unprincipled opportunists.

Wallace's place as a hero in Scottish history is assured. There can be little doubt that he has always been revered as a self-effacing and passionate patriot by later generations of Scots. Unlike the conniving Scottish nobles who had collaborated with the English in return for financial benefits, Wallace had never sought personal fame nor benefited from it. He had accrued neither wealth nor land....

Click here for more: http://www.electricscotland.com/history/wallace.htm

Strawberry Fields Forever - A new year song

Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hungabout.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Living is easy with eyes closed,
misunderstanding all you see.
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out,
it doesn't matter much to me.
Let me take you down,
'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hungabout.
Strawberry Fields forever.
No one I think is in my tree,
I mean it must be high or low.
That is you can't you know tune in but it's all right,
that is I think it's not too bad.
Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hungabout.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Always, no sometimes, think it's me, but you know
I know when it's a dream.
I think I know I mean a 'Yes' but it's all wrong,
that is I think I disagree.Let me take you down,
'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hungabout.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Happy belated new year 2006....

The White Album

The Beatles is a double album, released by The Beatles in 1968. It is often referred to as The White Album, with reference to its predominantly plain white sleeve, which was designed by pop artist Richard Hamilton. The album was released at the height of the Beatles' popularity, and is often hailed as one of the major accomplishments in popular music.

This album, called simply "The Beatles," and known as the "White Album," is surely The Beatles' most disparate album. It came at a time in 1968 when The Beatles were in their "psychedelic" phase, and going through enormous tensions among themselves.

The White Album is the Beatles' best-selling album at 19-times platinum and the ninth-best-selling album of all time in the United States. With this album, each of the four band members began to showcase the range and depth of their own individual songwriting talents and styles that would be carried over to their eventual solo careers. Many of the songs here are personal and self-referencing. In fact, many songs on the "White Album" were originally conceived during the group's ill-fated visit to India (http://www.thebeatlesinrishikesh.com/gallery/main_gallery.html)

The Beatles was the last Beatles album to be released with a unique, alternate mono mix, albeit one issued only in the UK. The album's cover was designed by Richard Hamilton, a notable pop artist who had organised a Duchamp retrospective at the Tate Gallery the previous year. The White Album's album cover has been very influential.

In 1997 The White Album was named the 10th greatest album of all time in a 'Music of the Millennium' poll conducted by HMV, Channel 4, The Guardian and Classic FM. In Q magazine readers placed it at number 17, while in 2003 the TV network VH1 placed it at number 11. In 2003 it was named #10 in the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

This is some of the Obladi-Oblada's lyrics,

"...Obladi oblada life goes on braLala how the life goes onObladi Oblada life goes on braLala how the life goes on..." - Lennon/McCartney (http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/7821/white.html)