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What’s going on?

Graduates of 2015/16 Batches 25, 26 and 27 Congratulations to our new MVs!

Batch 25 (Japanese) Batch 26 (Sat) Batch 27 (Tue)

Kazuko Amako Julia Stanbrook Marie-Helene Dorleans

Hikari Izumi Anne Fevre

Yasuyo Uchikura Lorena Aguilera

Reiko Uchiyama Junko Hayamizu

Kaoru Kawasaki Michael Jensen

Mariko Shozawa Elizabeth Khoo

Akiko Shiraishi Claire Poulain

Mayu Sugihara Soorya Saravanamuttu

Hideyuki Soda Yee Chee Wah

Zenta Takitani Margaret Yeo

Akira Fujiwara Katharine Yip

Mariko Maruyama

Toshio Yoshigai

Katsuhiko Yoshida Masayo Washizu

MV 10th Anniversary Party “1001 Arabian Nights” @ Byblos, 19/11/16

What do you do when a cute 9 year old says she wants to attend the MV party again? You cast her as a genie and fabricate a story about Scheherazade, King Shahryar, 1044 virgins and 1001 nights and call the little show “The King and I” (the non-musical and non-sense version). This was the opening act for the MV 10th anniversary party. I am not sure if the audience enjoyed the skit but the performers did – we had a great laugh. Cast: Genie – Red; Scheherazade – Effa; King Shahryar – Mariana; Narrator – Cze Yan.

We celebrated the graduation of Batches 25, 26 and 27 next. As you all know, only very intelligent people can be Museum Volunteers and 27 such special people made it this year. Apologies… we do not have a group photo of the graduates. Please see Facebook for more photos.

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It is hard to believe that MV is 10 years old. To review the 10 year history of MV, we engaged a “famous” chat show host. A very suave Jean Marie Metzger hosted the J. Marie Tonight Show with special guests Karen Loh (President), Zahara (a relic from Batch 1); Junko (to represent our largest sub-group, the Japanese); Danie (to represent our largest Western group, the French).

13 MVs started joget lessons on 1 September and after 2 tough months of practise, 6 MVs (Karen; Mariana; Zaharah; Fumiko; Marutani;

Serena) transformed into Lex’s Ladies to perform the jolly joget at the MV party. The lively dance drew many to join them on the dance floor and got everybody warmed up for the next hot act – a belly dancer! The party ended as soon as the belly dancer left! Why?

Focus French Regards Croisés: “The Birth of Kuala Lumpur”, 17/11/16 By Danie Picot

On November 17, Danie took the Discovery room and impersonated Ah Cheong to tell the story of “The Birth of Kuala Lumpur”. Ah Cheong was one of the 87 Chinese miners who arrived at the muddy confluence in 1857; and was one of the 18 who survived malaria and the harsh and difficult life in the mines of Ampang, Petaling and Pudu. Ah Cheong witnessed the making of a town from a small village made of planks and thatched roof. He was there when Yap Ah Loy arrived and developed

the village. Ah Cheong avoided smoking opium, tried not to gamble too much and did not like to drink. He preferred to keep his money to visit the girls in the brothels. These girls were Chinese from Guangdong province; sold by their parents who were too poor to feed them till their marriage to another family.

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Ah Cheong saw the long nosed, red faced orang putih arrive and settle on the right side of the Klang River. He was there when they built beautiful buildings for the colonial administration. And in his old age he enjoyed a stroll in High Street to visit his friends in the brand new shophouses, built to prevent fire and flood from the great Klang River, mother of the town. 60 persons enjoyed the story of “The Birth of Kuala Lumpur”.

Focus French Regards Croisés: “Malay Proverbs”, 8/12/16 By Danie Picot On December 8th, Colette Hassan gave her audience a tour of Malay Proverbs. Malay has its roots deep from the past amongst its rural folk and its sayings, Proverbs, au tours are li Kedah with earth, rice, water, sun, and everyday life. 25 persons from the French community enjoyed learning about the different names of rice: Padiham; Berkshire; nasi; Bunbury. And about the different expressions with mata: matahari; mata air; mata mata; mata gelap; silap mata; cahaya mata. Colette has a great sense of humour - she knows well how to translate a few Malay proverbs and sayings to quite the equivalent French expression. Thus she gave the audience a good understanding of Malay culture.

Coffee Morning, 8/12/16 The next MV training programme is scheduled to start on 14 February and will run to 20 June 2017. Only a Tuesday class will be conducted. There will be no Saturday class. 34 interested people attended the coffee morning on 8/12/16 and 23 people have paid up.

The next coffee morning will be held on Saturday 21 January 2017, 10am. Please do tell your friends who may be interested.

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iM4U Awards – Volunteer Malaysia Awards – A Prime Minister’s Award, 9/12/16

Museum Volunteers were

nominated for iM4U's

Volunteer Malaysia Awards

2016 (under the Public Sector

category)! 1Malaysia for

Youth, usually stylised as

1M4U or iM4U, is an

initiative of the Malaysian

government to encourage

volunteering among

Malaysian youth. It was

initiated by Prime Minister

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in 2012. iM4U also offers funds to youth volunteer organisations. The

award categories are:

1. Best Volunteer Initiative Awards for: Public Service Sector, Private Sector, NGO/NPO/Collective, DRe1M Fund, Media Organisations, Personality, School & People’s Choice

2. Lifetime Achievement Award 3. Superelawan of the Year 4. Best Social Media Campaign for a Volunteer Initiative 5. Best Humanitarian Song

I am afraid I am not able to find the list the winners. The only thing I am sure of is MV did not win!

The Award ceremony and banquet was

held at the Sunway Resort Hotel. It was

a star-studded parade of “famous”

emcees and entertainers – I almost felt

like I was attending the Oscars! There

were 125 tables; an eleven piece band;

red carpet; spinning spotlights; flying

camera. The grand finale of the night

was the Prime Minister giving out the

Gold awards personally. Although MV

did not win, we rubbed shoulders with

those who did!

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=%23volunteermalaysiaawards2016

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Christmas Gift Ideas

MV book “A Malaysian Tapestry – Rich Heritage at the National Museum” On sale at the JMM Library. “Kuala Lumpur Street Names” by Mariana Isa & Maganjeet Kaur On sale at Kinokuniya, MPH and other book stores.

New Pieces on the Blog @ museumvolunteersjmm.com

“Tea – History, Culture and Trade by the Potful” by Chen Poh Leng, 30/11/16 “French MVs at Yogyakarta” by Marie-Andree Abt, 8/12/16

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Mark this in your calendar

Misc

SCHOOL VISITS: Please contact Marie Andree madreeabt@gmail.com if you would like to help with the school visits. BLOG: Please do contribute to our MV blog. Send your articles to Magan at magan25@gmail.com 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/

Date Day Time Event/Speaker

16/10-31/12 ASEAN Songket Weave Exhibition

15/11-28/2 Shadow Puppet Exhibition, Gallery 3

16-Dec-16 Fri MVJ: UKM to visit MN

Jan 2017 Textile Museum Training (TBC)

9-Jan-17 Mon 10.00 MV Committee meeting - all welcome

12-Jan-17 Thu 4-5.30 Local university visits MN

19-Jan-16 Thu MVF: French community visit MN

21-Jan-17 Sat 10.00 Coffee Morning

21-Jan-17 Sat 12.00 Chinese New Year Pot Luck

14-Feb-17 Tue 9.00 Start MV Training