Dear friends, sorry this is a bit late, but with some prompting from Stephen and Eric, I decided to launch the planning for the 2008 reunion gathering.
For the 2008 gathering, I propose to have it in 3 parts:-
1. Gathering at Hotel in Sibu on 8th February 2008 (2nd day of Chinese New Year)
2. Compilation of Friendship Contact Book 2nd Edition and distribution during the gathering
3. Collection of donation for SHS and presentation to current SHS principal
For Part 1, I propose to break the preparation in 2 phases:-
Phase 1 :
a. Get commitment from 30 ex-schoolmates to come to the gathering
-- The reason for this is to ensure we will have the minimum number of persons to cover the function room expenses.
-- I propose for myself, Stephen Yii and Eric to target and contact the following persons to achieve the 30 person target:--
1. Patrick Ling
2. Stephen Yii
3. Stephen Chung
4. Liu Chuan Ming
5. Eric Phang
6. Kong Lieng Tee
7. Tiong Kuong Siong
8. John Fam
9. Martin Wong
10. Lau Ngi Chuong
11. Wong Yii Chiong
12. Paul Ting
13. Jimmy Ting
14. Peter Yii
15. Pui Eng Soon
16. David Kuok
17. Ngu Ker Ung
18. Lee Chieng Ming
19. David Hii
20. Lim Ching Chai
21. Ngieng Sii Jing
22. Bartholomew Wong
23. Anthony Ting
24. Thadeus Ling
25. Joseph Sia
26. Liu Chuan Yew
27. Daniel Kong
28. Anthony Lai
29. Lau Tee Too
30. Sii How Hui
31. Ngu Sia Hook
32. Simon Chan
33. Hanafi Ali
b. Survey the hotels in Sibu for suitable venue and to get pricing. We will need a place where we can get wi-fi.
Phase 2 :
a. Contact all the rest of the SHS 88-90 gang, target to get 80 to 100 to come.
b. Make preparations for the gathering. For the gathering, I would like to propose the following -- light snacks and bar (to make it light and easy, so that everyone can mingle), a section for friends who are overseas to participate via webcam and Internet (online chat and video-conferencing), a section containing old photos collected from friends, a section where a projector is showing presentations of friends, photos, etc, music from the 80's.
-- invite Bro. Albinus and as many teachers as we can.
-- the idea is to make the gathering an opportunity to rekindle old friendships and to catch up with friends, instead of just eat and go off.
For Part 2, I need someone to send me the soft copy of the 1st edition book. If that is not available, I need a volunteer to key in all the info from the 1st edition into a Word document. I will elaborate more on the preparation for this later.
For Part 3, once we get the confirmed participants, we will inform them of the donation and get a pledge from them on the amount they wish to donate. We will then prepare a mock cheque for the presentation based on the total pledged amount. During the gathering, we will collect from all those who have pledged.
These my initial ideas, please feedback and contribute more :)
Update by Pat:-
Forgot to mention - music theme for the night will be the 80's, we will be playing the top hits from the golden era of pop on loop the whole night :)
3 comments:
Never too late and it must start somewhere...thank you pat for your first move...
Your plan sounds great and i would love to see it with all of our friends' participation.
I don't think the venue for the gathering will not be an issue if we manage to book it earlier.
Participation is always an issue for our gathering especially for the past few years. This part we need to put a lot of effort to achieve it and it needs support from our classmates. My suggestion to overcome this issue is to ask a few friends at one location as a contact point to tell our classmates that we are going to have a big reunion next year. The areas could be divided into West Malaysia like KL, JB, Penang etc and East Malaysia like Kuching, Sibu, Bintulu, Miri etc... I and Stephen Yii can be Kuching contact point. From each contact point, we spread the news of our gathering.
As for the contact book, we need to start doing it now as it needs time to compile it..I would suggest the same method again...by using the contact point. Here we need to decide what infor we need to put in the contact book? After gathered all the info of our friends, then pat, stephen and me will compile it and get it print.
I dont have the 1st Edition contact book soft copy but I have the hard copy with me...I would compile it into word documents as soon as possible.
The third part of the donation is something new and it depends on the response of everybody. Its not a bad idea and we need to gather feedback from others.
Pat, the internet conferencing and photos section are a great ideas. Then we have to start collecting old photos from friends now.
Dear Patrick,
Glad to look forwards a hi-tech gathering in Sibu, but sad that I had bought 2008 CNY air ticket for March as Feb tickets were sold out during my purchase. Please count me in for the contribution part ( RM 200 ).
John Fam
019-7118831
Students of Sacred Heart, a voice is resounding
Promptly respond to your duty sweet call
Answer you all for the trumpet is sounding
- excerpts, SHS rally
Good start, Pat. Is this limited to the class of 88? I dun see the girls...erm...ladies side.
WH
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