Committee 2016-2017

6th Annual General Meeting

6th Annual General Meeting for Persatuan Alumni Sekolah Convent Bukit Mertajam was held on 26th January 2013 (3.00 pm – 5.00 pm) at Pauline’s Residence in Bukit Mertajam.

 

 

 

The agenda:

 

• Speech by Alumni's President

• Discussion and and approval ofthe minutes of 5th Annual General Meeting
• Presentation of 2012 Activities report
• Presentation of 2012 Financial report
• Discussing Agenda and Activities for year 2013
   
• Meeting adjourned
   
• Informal Chit-Chat and TeaTime

 

 The meeting was insightful, as the members were very engaging in the discussions and contribute a lot of great ideas and suggestions for future activities and development. Even during the informal chit-chat session, we talked about the alumni besides some catching up among the members, as well as getting to know each other more for those who have just met.  

 

 

 

 

 

Gopeng White Water Rafting - Outdoor Fun

To strengthen bonds among members , alumni organized  a 2D/1N Adeline's villa stay  among the lush greenery and fresh air in Gopeng, on Oct 20 & 21 2012. Below is the team who joined the trip. the only torn among the roses was Hooi Kean's energetic and fun-to-be-with young son.

Day 1

Rain was pounding heavily and pouring continuously  days before. Some were worried that we have to call off the trip, however  on that  Saturday  morning, the weather  was exceptionally kind. The sun shone and smiled brightly upon us, even allowing some  to take advantage of the extra time we saved (due to good and safe road conditions) to stop along the journey to enjoy  a slow mid-morning tea/kopi and nasi lemak/dim sum!

Our first program upon  arriving was... no prize for guessing correctly....... to MAKAN  ( Malaysian's favourite past-time)

Except for some snacks, one need not bring any other food as breakfast, lunch  & dinner are provided ala local buffet style. all home-cook recipes...freshly caught sea food from wet market,  daily picked vegetables for orang asli's  farms, live poultry from a nearby kampung and more, much more. best of all , the food was prepared , cooked and served hot directly from the woks.

The woman in the picture is Adeline.....yes, the villa is named after her. Read further and discover the touching story behind the founding of the villa.

After  over-filling our stomachs with large spread of deliciously cooked  meal , we changed and were literally TRUCKED  to a waterfall about 20mins away to burn up the added calories....

Memang berat.....kereta tak boleh tolak - hanya lori boleh !!!

When the sun slept, the ladies put on  their dancing shoes (real or imaginary) and began to 'boogie' along with the music which was blasting into the night......... mind you, another group of guests, mainly start-up lawyers in their early/mid twenties just can't stop themselves from 'admiring'......... ahem!.....a group of 'grown-up' ladies, who are 'wise' enough to be their mothers having such a great and fun time.

As the saying goes...if you can't beat them, join them......which the other group did!!!!! Before saying Good Night, we took a group photo to remember  a wonderful night....

For supper, we had red-bean soup , DURIANs and  tons of jokes!!!   Believe us, this supper cocktail was good, real good....

Day 2

After breakfast the next morning, some adventurous ones went for  white water rafting , while the rest extended their breakfast time with 'women yaking'

During practice : rowing the air.........sooooo easy!!

the real stuff..........jaw dropping, heart stopping.....totally different from our practice!!!!!

Wow ! Look at that ! flooded by the rushing water after dropping from a rapid.

Thought all our nerves were paralysed  but luckily still found some  good ones left in our limbs that  enabled  us to 'gangnum' away.....

Alumni CBM memang BOLEH !

While checking out, it started  to rain....those from KL and Sabah proceeded to leave while the rest from BM & Penang stayed behind  listening  to Adeline's touching story.

Once upon a time......ok, to cut a long short, Adeline is a single mother. Her husband left her behind with 2 young children  in Malaysia for another woman when he went to work in United States.

Heart broken and devastated, she almost gave up. Her children gave her hope to live on.... Her perseverance , survival skills, maternal instinct , hard work and support from her mother  molded her into a successful, humble and very jovial entrepreneur.  She shared with us her back-breaking struggle when she began picking up her life and business.

It was an up-lifting and highly motivational story.....a story that tells us not to quit and  that says we woman can succeed on our own.......option is ours.

 

Lets  begin to enjoy our lives  by looking out for  ex-CBM friends ......!!!

Sinar Ceria Home

We have collected some amount of money during our 6th Reunion Dinner for the Sinar Ceria Home.

Here, we visited the Sinar Ceria Home and presented the collected sum together with some dry groceries.

6th Reunion Gathering... Hawaiian Theme Nite

The alumni reunion gathering was held successfully on 12th May 2012, in Ixora Hotel, Prai.

An astonishing number of 130 of people joined us that night, who are mostly the ex students of CBM, some are ex-teachers, ex-staff, and family members/invited guests of them (friends), as well as invited guests, namely the Sisters from Convent Board of Governors, and Madam Pakiam from the Sinar Ceria Home.

Celebrating our octogenarian alumni.

Choir - Sing along... to these songs (FuniciliFunicula and A Happy Wanderer)
Everyone sang along... and the choir was conducted by none other than our dearly Mrs.Szeto (ex teacher of CBM)

Hawaiian Best Theme Dress... Queen of Hawaiian Nite....
Won by contestant number 2 :D

We also have a Game
and not forgetting the Hawaiian Dance Competition, and it's won by the batch 1977.

Announcement: 6th Reunion Dinner

ALUMNI Convent Bukit Mertajam is organising the 6^th Reunion Dinner.  Details are as follow:

Venue            :  Ixora Hotel Prai, Fuction Room 5, Level 1
Date              :  12 May 2012, Saturday
Theme           :  Hawaiian Nite
Ticket price :    RM 78 for non-member, RM 78 for invited guest,
                       RM 39 for Children  above 12 years old.

                       For Alumni Member, Special Price of RM 68 Only!

In conjunction with the 2012 Reunion Dinner, Alumni Committee will be organising a “Giving back to Society” Charity Programme . We have visited and decided to contribute to a shelter-home for under privilege children . Kindly refer to the attached flyer for further information.

For those who wish to contribute, in cash or in donations of canned or dried food stuff, we will be arranging for collection during the Reunion nite. 

All of us are not only encouraged to contribute to this noble cause but to also support in seeking contributions from friends/relatives/neighbours who are willing to donate. Any amount of donation is most welcome! .

Feel free to contact any of the committee members if you need further details regarding the Reunion event and/or Charity programme.

The Organising Committee is putting in special effort to ensure that 12th of May will be a memorable Hawaiian Saturday nite......

So, To All CBM ladies, come and enjoy ourselves! We deserve to have a great nite!

Looking forward to see All of You very soon !!!

A Love Gift back to the society together campaign…..

In conjunction with our 6^th reunion dinner, the ALUMNI CONVENT BM plans to play a part in giving back to the society. We invite you to join us for this noble cause. As such, we will be helping out a shelter home for under privileged kids named Pusat Jagaan Sinar Ceria; located at Lorong Sejahtera 2, Taman Sejahtera, Alma, Bukit Mertajam. This home was established in January 2004 by Madam Pakiam, along with 4 staff. The home houses 17 kids with the age range from as young as 3 years to 14 years with the breakdown of 5 girls and 12 boys.

Madam Pakiam felt the need to start the home as she saw young children with serious moral problems and dropping out from school during her bus trips down to BM town. She sees the importance of education for their future. Thus, birth this idea of steering the home for this cause to help the kids. In order to sustain the home, Madam Pakiam receives support mainly in terms of goods and items like clothes, stationeries, food supply, bus school fees etc, from individuals or families who come independently. A church organisation is funding their house rents of RM800 monthly.

We can be part of this noble cause by supporting:

1. Monetary (the Alumni Committee will then purchase the items)
2. Dry Items (Canned Foods, Milk powder,  Milo, Toiletries, etc)

Time Tunnel again :-)

At the Hari Kecemerlangan Akademik event (by SMK Convent BM), we met the Headmistress of SRK Convent BM (the primary school), as well as Sister Stan, from the Convent Board of Governors. Belinda and I discussed with the HM about future events that the Alumni can co-organise with the primary school. We were then invited to go around the primary school block by the HM together with the PPD officer, Tn Hj.Shafie and Sister Stan.

Yes... travelling back through the time-tunnel is always fun, I would say.
So here I would like to share some of the pictures taken, during our mini tour.


The stairs:
(I just can't resist myself from editing these stairs-pictures to more nostalgic color... hehe) :P

The library.
The back of the library look the same as I remembered it... But the main room, I realised there are no more old old books... the one with bookworms.. in big huge old library-cabinets. I kinda miss them :-)

One of the classrooms.... This is the first room next to the stairs.
*I used to be in this very same class when I was in std 6 :-)

Just going around:
The corridors:

Corridors at the back:

Stairs and tunnels give me the nostalgic aura, I just can't help it, hehe.

Hmmm... wait, do we call this a tunnel? Haha

Anyway, walking pass by this area, I had glimpse of past... and wow, I was so small back then...

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Then..  we were invited by Sister Stan to visit the Sisters' place in the CBM area. We used the main entrance, through the Hospital BM entrance.

They have a very nice orchard :-)

Catching up and chatting...

Belinda is very keen on inviting the sisters to join the upcoming Alumni Reunion Dinner. She has invited and agreed to sponsor them to attend the dinner. This is also seen as another effort to widen the network of people affiliated to the school. Besides the sisters, we are trying our best to also gather back ex-teachers, and of them will be Ms.Szeto who taught CBM some time around in the 70's... and we are yet to get in contact and confirm with a few more ;-)

It was a nice day of meeting interesting and nice people.

and of course... nice to go back in time as well :-)


Reunion info:
http://alumnicbm.blogspot.com/2012/04/announcement-6th-reunion-dinner.html

urs truly,
azleena

Alumni Scholarship Presentation - (Hari Kecemerlangan SMKCBM)

The Alumni Convent Bukit Mertajam has been carrying out scholarship and financial aid programme to the students of SMK Convent BM since year 2008. This year, we have selected two Form 4 students as the recepient of the scholarship and six form 5 student for the one-off financial aid.

Belinda Gan, as the President of the Alumni and Azleena, as the Vice President; attended the Hari Kecemerlangan Akademik held by the school. We have given the honor to present both the scholarship and financial aid to the students.

Following are some of pictures taken during the event:

:-)

The Scholarship Presentation by Alumni President, Belinda Gan:

One of the financial-aid recepients...

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5th Alumni AGM

The 5th Alumni AGM was held in Pearl View Hotel, Seberang Perai on 18th February 2012.

The President, Ms.Irene Ewe gave a welcoming speech and thanked everyone who came. She also presented and discussed about the activitites organised by the alumni for the past year. After discussing and approving previous minutes and last year's secretary and financial report, the current committee board was dissolved.

Lau Hooi Kiean was elected as temporary chairperson, to handle the election process.

New committee members are elected, for the term 2012-2013.

The newly appointed President, Ms. Belinda Gan gave her speech and discussed on the new direction the Alumni should take to increase interest and involvement by the Alumni members as well as ex-students/teachers of Convent Bukit Mertajam.

Light refreshments were served, and the chit-chat continues informally after the meeting was adjourned.

2010-2011 Commitee Members

The Newly Elected Commitee Members: