AG William, President Amin, Rtn Azalea, Rtn Helmy and DG Joe.

DG Joe delivering his speech.

DISTRICT GOVERNOR VISIT.

The highest post in any Rotary District is The District Governor post. One of the job that is expected of Distinct Governor is to visit each club in his district at least once during his tenure ship. That is quite an incredible task considering an average district has more than 70 clubs. So it was indeed an auspicious occasion for members of Rotary Club of Kampong Baharu when District Governor Dr.Joseph Rejendran (Joe) visited them on the 12Th of March 2008.
DG Joe arrived early for the function accompanied by Assistant Governor Group 5, Dr.William Lau. The venue for the meeting was moved to Maju Restaurant, Maju Junction in order to accommodate the bigger crowd expected. DG Joe gave a rousing speech how to keep Rotary movement relevant to the society. The Rotarymission to eradicate polio on this earth received a boost by US100M contribution from Bill Gates of Microsoft. He challenged all Rotarian to raise another US100M to match his contribution. A challenge that was gladly accepted by Rotarian and will receive major focus in the next few years. In conjunction with the visit RCKB inducted another new Rotarian, Puan Azalea Abdul Wahab, who become RCKB 15th member.

Steel bucket for tin dredging.

The younger generation may think these two bucket could be part of transformer monster that had fallen off after a fierce battle some where in the galactic. I do not blame them as the museum authority do not make any effort to identify these items to the visitors.
At one time these manganese steel bucket played an important role in Malaysian economy when tin provide major income to the country. Weighing more than five tonne each, 155 of these bucket connected by chain, formed part of tin dredge that dug out tin ore from the ground. The bucket chain can go as deep as 40 metres into the ground.
The tin dredge itself could weigh as much as 4500 tonne and cost about 5 millions ringgit in 1920. As many as 40 of these monsters can be seen at one time in Perak state alone during the time when Malaysia was producing about 55% of world tin.
To day one of the three tin dredge left in the country can be seen at Tanjung Tualang Ipoh which has remain as part of our heritage.

Standard Five pupil of Sultan Idris Primary School Kuala Kangsar 1964.

I was doing spring cleaning and stumble across this old photo taken in 1964. It bring back my childhood memories. I was only eleven years old then. I wonder how many of may classmates still alive. What happened to them? Where are they now. Do I still remember their names?

Rtn.Ruzman and Rtn Azlan at MAS Hangar 05 KLIA.
Rtn Azlan on the Right hand seat.
Smile you are on candid camera!

Friends came visiting.
It was indeed a pleasant surprise when two of my friend from Rotary Club Kampong Baharu called to inform that they happened to be in the vicinity. Actually they had an appointment to see some guy in the in flight services department which is located on the same floor as my office. I took them to the maintenance hangar since they had not been there before. They had a good look at the Boeing 777-200 aircraft, shich was undergoing a maintenance check.