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The MV Screamer Feb 2016
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Dear MVs, The Year of the Monkey starts in just a few days! May Yau has very helpfully taught us to say these auspicious phrases (in Cantonese) when you toss your yee sang!
Kong Hei Fatt Choi! Gong Xi Fa Cai!
Kon Cze Yan
What has been happening lately?
Major Renovations of Muzium Negara: A decision about the renovations is expected any day! MVs are waiting with bated breath as the consequence may be exile to JMM’s outer galaxies like the Textile Museum or Muzium DiRaja. Leng Wai Mun: We are very pleased to report that our MV secretary had a successful heart bypass operation and is now recuperating at home. What to do in an Emergency: In case of any emergency in the museum, please contact a Muzium Negara staff or call 999! MV Library: This will be closed for the month of February. From March, a Librarian will be on duty once a week on Tuesdays 9.30-11.30am. Sat 23/1/16: (1) Dennis de Witt’s talk on “The 375th Anniversary of the beginning of the Dutch Era” & (2) Antoni Mandemaker, Deputy Head of Mission, Head of Economic Department, Royal Netherlands Embassy – talk on what the Netherlands Embassy does & relations with Malaysia Dennis’ new talk presented interesting theories of intrigue & betrayals to a packed room. He was followed by Mr Mandemaker’s enlightening talk on the small & big issues dealt with by his tiny Embassy in KL.
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Thu 28/1/16: Asian Law Students Association visit 250 delegates from ALSA visited and tested the capabilities of MV to the limits! The conclusion of this is 160 visitors should be the maximum. Well done to the guides who volunteered!
Fri 29/1/16: MV book “A Malaysian Tapestry” is finally out! It will be on sale at the JMM Library soon. Karen will email an alert when the books are available.
Sat 30/1/16: Billy Woo’s talk on “The Selangor Wars” Billy’s talk was the Dummies Guide to the Selangor Wars. He has distilled a very complicated war and presented it in simple diagrams, charts and comics. The complexity remains in trying to remember the long names of most of the people involved in the war. All I remember is the Blue Team won!
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Sat 30/1/16: MV Annual Pot Luck About 60 people turned up. The best food selection ever!
A particularly enchanting dish was the "Filigree Rice Pancake accompanied with chicken cubes, sauteed potatoes in a gravy” ……
Tue 2/2/16: MV committee meeting, Royal Selangor Club, Kiara Annexe In case you may not know, these are the fortunate souls who usually attend the MV committee meetings… when they can…
NAME DESIGNATION
Karen Loh President
Leng Wai Mun Secretary
Kon Cze Yan Treasurer & Statistics
Maganjeet Kaur Research & Webmistress
Mariana Isa Focus Event
Lim Cheng Kian Focus Event
Yong Khee Chong Administrator - Google groups, new members
Dany Picot French Liaison
Nahoko Nakanishi Japanese Group Liaison
Junko Hayamizu Japanese Group Liaison
Marie-Andree French Group Liaison & Schools Programme
Jacky Wong Focus
May Yau Library
V Jegatheesan Weekday trainer
Douglas Hale Weekday trainer
Jean Marie Metzger Weekday trainer
Jo Anna Jurczyga Weekend Trainer
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Lim Ee Lin Weekend Trainer
Chen Poh Leng Weekend Trainer
Yong Khee Chong Weekend Trainer
Ching Yook Ling Weekend Trainer The meeting on 2/2/16 was held at the Royal Selangor Club so that we could have a “lou hei” together. Elizabeth Khoo was persuaded to help with Focus Events. Hurray!
Front row from left: Karen Loh, Junko Hayamizu, Jegatheesan, Douglas Hale, Elizabeth Khoo Back row from left: May Yau, Dany Picot, Kon Cze Yan, CK Lim, Marie Andree, Jean Marie Metzger, Edmund
What is happening in February and beyond?
Date Time Event/Speaker Details
2-Feb-16 Tue 10.00 MV Committee meeting All welcome
4-Feb-16 Thu 10.00 Regards Croises: Jerome Bouchaud
Myths & Stories of Langkawi (in French)
22-Feb-16 Mon 14.00 School visit from ISKL 97 students expected
23-Feb-16 Tue 14.00 School visit from ISKL 44 students expected
27-Feb-16 Sat (tbc)
10.00 Graduation of Batches 22, 23, 24
We are still trying to fix this date with JMM!
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Course completion certificate presentation for Batches 25, 26, 27
Launch of MV book
1-Mar-16 Tue 10.00 MV Committee meeting All welcome
17-Mar-16 Thu 19.00 French MV: Night at the Museum
25-Mar-16 Fri 10.00 Dr Masatoshi Sone Dinosaurs in Malaysia
Mar (tbc) Visit to RTM
12-15 Apr Visit to Kuala Terengganu (4d/3n)
27-Apr-16 Wed 9.00 University of Manitoba to visit
25 MBA students. Guided tour & sirih presentation
Apr (tbc) 10.00 Visit to Chinese Assembly Hall
Exhibition on Yap Ah Loy
New Pieces on the Blog @ museumvolunteersjmm.com
“When we first came to Malaysia” by Susan Haveman, 1/2/16
Interesting Non-MV Events
Islamic Arts Museum The Chulia in Penang Photography Exhibition 28th January 2016 – 28th March 2016 The exhibition celebrates the history of the Chulias and their contributions in arts, culinary, religion and socio-economy in Malaysia particularly in Penang.
Misc
SCHOOL VISITS: Please contact Marie Andree [email protected] if you would like to help with the school visits. BLOG: Please do contribute to our MV blog. Send your articles to Magan at [email protected] FACEBOOK: If you like taking photos, please upload your photos of MV events to “Museum Volunteers, Department of Museums Malaysia” Facebook. http://museumvolunteersjmm.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Museum-Volunteers-Department-of-Museums-Malaysia http://www.jmm.gov.my/en/museum/muzium-negara http://www.muziumnegara.gov.my/