My study table at Nobreck

Ini gambar meja belajar saya kat rumah di Nobreck. Berterabur!

Biasala tu. Bukan apa, saja nak bagi nampak sibuk dan rajin belajar sebab nak tangkap gambar nak pos balik kat Emak. Biar Emak hati sejuk dan kata "amboi.....rajinnya budak Ji ni belajar".

You will notice a few things quite familiar. Ada buku teks Positive Economics. Dave Swan lecturer kita masa tu. Good teacher. At least sekarang dah faham apa maksud "status quo". Hehe ingat lagi dak?

And of course yang penuh atas meja tu adalah buku Physics. Ni kes tengah buat homework Mr. Speight la ni. Many will recall Mr Speight adalah cikgu yang sangat garang. "You must be daft" adalah favourite words dia.

Ramai orang geram kat dia tetapi tak boleh nak kutuk-kutuk dalam Bahasa Melayu sebab orang tua tu pandai B.M. He was a soldier kat Malaya dulu. Camana boleh end up ajar Fiziks pun tak tau la.

Bila time nak kena hand in homework dia, semua pulun nak kena bagi siap. Kekadang bila tak dapat solve soalan tu panic juga la dibuatnya. Thus the sign "Don't panic!" kat tepi kiri meja tu.

Tapi sekali sekala ada juga saya dapat 'A' from Mr Speight. Satunya bagus dia ni ialah dia tak lokek nak puji kalau kita bagus.So kembang hidung la sekejap bila kena puji melambung.

Blackpool Reunion - 16 April 2011

just look at the transformations...

 Dari kiri: Saad Abas, Mohd Halimi Abdul Hamid, Mohd Nor Aizudin Mansor, Ahmad Mohd Said, Dato' Dr Roslan Taha

 Abdul Ghani Shaaban

 Mohd Noor Azudin Mansor

 Mohd Halimi Abdul Hamid

 Saad Abas

 Dari kiri: Saad Abas, Mohd Halimi Abdul Hamid, Ahmad Mohd Said, Abdul Ghani Shaaban, Mohd Noor Azudin Mansor, Dato' Dr Roslan Taha

 Mejar Khalid Hamzah

 Jamilol Nasir Saad

 Dari kiri: Dr Salwani Mohd Daud, Nor Azizan aka Intan

 Dr Zaha Rina Zahari

Zaidi Deris

Prof Dr Arip Kasmo

Azizi Ahmad Termizi

 Mat Noji

 Zainil Fadzillah

 Amaran Abu Bakar

 Engku Azman Tuan Mat

 Noraida Nordin dan Zainil Fadzillah

 Ahmad Mohd Said

 Khairol Bariyah

 Belakang - Berdiri dari kiri:Mohd Noor Azudin,Dato' Dr Roslan Taha,Mat Noji,Abd Ghani,Ahmad Mohd Said, Zaidi, Tuan Yaacob, Mejar Khalid

Tengah-Berdiri dari kiri: Saad Abas, Amaran, Azizi, Mohd Halimi, Engku Azman,Jamilol, Prof Dr Arip Kasmo

Duduk dari kiri: Dr Salwani, Dr Zaha Rina, Noraida, Zainil, Khairol Bariyah

Waah! Its our own blog la.. :D



The Northern Pier. Closed for the winter break. Photo taken during the peak of the winter season last December. So you can imagine the coldness, kan?



Salam to all Blackpooleans (or is it Blackpoodlians, or Blackpudlians?). Whatever.

Syukur alhamdulillah kita telah dapat bertemu kembali di Hospital Bersalin Pusrawi Hotel Putra last weekend.

Tujuan utama reunion pastinya untuk rekindle our friendship dan mengeratkan lagi silaturrahim antara kita – malah, mungkin sampai berbesan?

Besides reunions (can be costly, dan sesat nak cari hotel!) dan FB (its free tapi kena buka selalu) Alumni Blackpool Tech ini merupakan satu lagi wadah untuk kita mengeratkan lagi persahabatan through sharing of experiences of our Blackpool days.

Remember: this is our blog. So feel free to write and contribute. Kalau boleh, do attach some photos (so get those old photos out and scan them now!).

Nak tulis apa? Anything and everything pun boleh (but don’t publish your thesis here la..).

You may want to share with us:

·         your college/class experience

·         Blackpool home experience

·         stories of travels in UK & Europe

·         usrah & gatherings stories

·         your thoughts & experience of the Blackpool town

·         university life

·         or, even your current professional life etc.

Life becomes richer and fuller because of our experiences and memories of them.

So let’s freshen our memories of the good old days and share our stories.

Terima kasih.

P.S.

Invitations will be sent to all Brothers  & Sisters via email to become contributors/authors for this blog. Bila terima invitation, just follow the instructions that come with it. Then you can start writing.

( T. Yaacob, cepat email me the full email address list. Ramai dah nak start mencoret cerita masing-masing nih)
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Our first reunion after 30 years!!!

After much cajoling, persuasion, and FB-ing, finally a group  of grey-haired and fast-ageing ex-students of Blackpool College of Technology and Art had their first reunion after leaving Blackpool. In fact, its been thirty years since most of them last met.

The first few minutes were spent coyly surveying and scanning their long-lost friends for signs of wrinkles and grey hair. Next, they started comparing the size of their ever-growing belly paunches. Once the ice was broken, there were jokes and laughter all around as people reminisce and chatted to catch up on lost time.

My, how time flies!

It seemed like it was just a short time ago when I used to take the tram from Norbreck to  the Gynn Square to visit Khalid and Hasni at 34 Hodgson Road. And, whenever I think about it, I can still feel the tiredness of the laborious but necessary trip to Preston to buy ayam, daging and coconut creams.

Sedar tak sedar, all of us who turned up at the reunion were well into our fifties.  Well, almost all of us. Me, I'm still fourty-nine until this coming May. So I guess I can stake my claim to be the youngest : )

Thank you to Tuan Yaacob and Salwa for initiating the meeting.

We are a lucky group of people to have been chosen to go to UK and ended up in glitzy Blackpool. All the memories and experience - yang pahit dan yang manis - helped to turn us into what we are today.

And we are even luckier for the fact that we are able to have the reunion and to continue sharing our experiences and memories with like-minded friends.

Semoga hubungan sillaturrahim terus kukuh, insyaAllah.

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