Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Earth Day Celebrations

We celebrate it for the whole year and it intensifies in April. We did Save Our River Run on 22/4 plus more tree planting at Tasik Mariam. Then picnic mcm biasa. My watermelons were gone sekelip mata. It's so good being out in open space.

Then we were busy for our big event on 24/4.Rector changed her mind about joining us. Maybe the Istac talk with Esposito.A bit of a rush. I tried Deputy Rector Prof Rahmah who initially said OK then found out that she too had a long line of meetings that day. Then we thought just let it belah. takkan kita mcm begging pulak. Any other orgs' CEOs would have at least come down and support anak buah mereka kan but then again, I guess they were really tight. Dato Wan Helmi came so we asked him je to officiate. Afterall, he's the Chairman of the uni's Green Initiatives. So he lepaskan anak2 puyu tu (Prof Fauzan pun had a set and gave me as the SoR Director  another set to lepaskan.Kita ajak our guests join sekali. Everyone had fun).

Then we planted pokok gombak to strengthen the riverbanks before the kids terjun sungai kutip sampah. Lepas tu we went to see Dr Gee's river competition and bdk2 canoe did their 'don't litter in the river' stunts. My songwriting competition started at 12 at Richiamo Cafe. 14 entries - semua mmg pandai nyanyi and the winner deserved that RM1K win. Alhamdulillah, I think things went well cos'we were set to have fun regardless of any setbacks (bdk canoe were delayed 1 hour cos' kereta yang angkut canoe mrk tayarnya pecah tengah jalan.My sound system team terpaksa terkejar sana-sini cos' alat tu ran out of batteries. Pasal lah techie tu tak bagi extension letrik).

Adam who teaches music composition at UiTM came all the way to be our Chief Judge. I'm ever grateful to him and Prof Tazul for their kindness.

Ir Azman of LA21 Sungai Bunus came and what a big help he was..inspiring both our students and colleagues. And also to En. Mohamad who stayed back and helped give away the songwriting prizes.I hope KoE people will work with him on his upcoming projects. Dia ni pun very resourceful.Glad he and Ir Azman came.

We keep doing this yearly despite financial constraints cos' it's fun. I'm grateful that we have more people who have expressed their willingness to join us next year. I'd like to take a backseat now.

literally mencuci sungai

Pitch Your river product
Canoe Club
sponsored drinks from Mamma Mia
Suhaila, lead of songwriting competition comm 

songwriting competition
breakfast by the river
menanam pokok gombak

won by a lady

First prize winner for the run
 (under 12)
 My team dah terjun sungai

Proud of our sampah

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