Planning for the final 70th. anniversary.

Fri Nov 3, 2023.

Tuesday, 31.10.2023,  Nawawi got about a dozen of  us, class representatives for the 1952-1961 PD Budak Boys  group, together at the pool-side building of KGNS. The ostensible purpose was to finalise plans for our 70th anniversary "do" on 17.12.2023 at PD, but we covered more ground in the end.

This was the first time for BB Wahab, ex Navy No.1, who agreed to the offer to take over as President from BB Radzi. Radzi had asked for relief, because he has some plans in his home-state Perlis. Time would be a constraint.

Incidentally, Mat Sham also requested for temporary relief as the Treasurer. He's having some legal problems with his bank because of a 160K scam involving his credit card. So, Nor Shaari came, because he had also gallantly agreed to assume "the account-keeper" post in the meantime.

Let me see, so there was Wahab, Nawai, Mat Sham, Nor Shaari, Rahman, Halim, Raymond, Hank, Danker, Ismail, Tajuddin and me - 12 of us. That was for meeting. At lunch later BB Ghani and OP Khamis joined us for lunch at the Chinese restaurant. Ghani is the current President of KGNS. Khamis paid for the lunch, I was told. I've been in touch with "Early Thursday" (Khamis Awal lah!) on the whatsapp, but haven't seen him in years. He said he has had to lay off golf for almost a year now because of some problems with his left arm, and it showed.

Nawawi greeted me with "where's the durian?" just like I said would happen to Hank in the car earlier. Anyway, 17th December is a long way away, but I approached Mat. Sham and Nawawi during lunch to confirm the order, verbally. It's set. I'll arrange for delivery, and Mat Sham will sponsor the fruits. 100 seems a nice round figure, but Mat Sham asked to make certain the number coming.

Nawawi displayed all the figures on screen, noting our continuous activities. But as Nor Shaari, Mat Sham and Danker commented, this group is "fading fast". By definition it is what it is - the 1952-1961 people. Not like the OPA, which is on-going. So many BB's are not around now. Too many have passed away. Many have migrated. Very many are in physical decline. And many simply don't maintain contact. That's life, I guess. But the BB had striven to go on as a group, and that's where we are today, and thank God for it. And Nawawi is very much the catalyst.

I left home at 8.30 am to hitch a ride with Hank. It was supposed to be 9 sharp at S2 Mydin. Of course Hank was late. But we made it on time to KGNS, in spite of some strange turns despite the "waze". Returning to Seremban, we stopped at Amcorp Mall and visited the second-hand book corner. I bought 5 books for RM 50, and gave Hank RM 10 for a golf instruction book for his grandson. We put on "waze" again but promptly lost our way because we were turning and turning in the Balakong area until finally Hank asked to shut down "waze" and he somehow got us to the recognizable Mines area and on to the "Lekas" to Seremban. I finally reached home at 8.30 pm. That's a full 12 hours.

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