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Rosli Mohd. Ali

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Jan 16, 2016, 7:08:59 PM1/16/16
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Thank you Richard for a prompt reply,

I was given the lead to your email by our ex-teacher Mr Roger Prior, who now resides in US.


Mr Prior came for our MCOBA Royal Gala Dinner 2005, in December, the final event of the
MCKK Centennial Celebration, i.e. our 100 years-Centenary. And, that was when he passed
me his only remaining possession of pictures (in film negatives) at the alma mater, arriving a
night before and in time for our final concert rehearsal.
[Picture below of me standing to his right.]
 
 
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Below, is a photo of him with out batch, i.e. MCKK Class of 69 (65-69/71) during the Dinner.
 
 
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More photos of my batch below, under my pseudonym "WooeR".

But in those days too, it was during the times when I was active at MCOBA,
as well as with my batch mates from MCKK Class of 69 or "Jublitan65".

I used to be a moderator to both the groups, but I could no longer have the energy to continue.
I was also meant to initiate MCOBA Archiving, but that too worn me with more fiddling petty things.

So now, I only have a small group of 6 from my batch, naming ourselves "woodstock69"
at Google groups.

By this email too, I am also copying it to my MCOBA batch representative, who is also the
moderator to our batch's e-group mailings, which unfortunately I am currently not in the list, via 
my present email subscription, since my Hotmail account had been dormant for quite sometime. 

Anyway, I am forwarding you a copy of the MCKK 1971 School Magazine using "Dropbox" below,
in pdf, which I managed to obtain it from MCOBA website...albeit written in Malay. 
It was where I also copied those images for photo-editing as per my separate email attachments.


 
 
 
 
 
 
MCKK MAG 1971.pdf
Rosli Mohd. Ali shared from Dropbox
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I await responses from those other guys in the group as well.

I wonder who were the two old boys you met last February?
There are guys a year and two below me, in Sabah who would remember you, more so in KL.

Thanks to finally get connected with you again.

Regards, 
rosli a.k.a MATAli @ WooeR

NB* Do your boomerang guys!

MCKK Anthem Created in 1971
 
Orientatio​n Week February 9, 1971
Music and Lyrics by Salehuddin Hashim and Abed Onn, returning AFS students of 1970.
MCKK Class of 69 (65-69/71) a.k.a "Jublintan​65" welcome both their membership​s into the group,
including Nik Ahmad Azmi @ Bulat, the other returning AFS student of 1970.

Cheers!



On Sunday, 17 January 2016, 0:41, Richard Caudle <richar...@hotmail.com> wrote:


Dear Rosli,

You found the right person. I was in KL last Feb on my way to climb mt Kota Kinabalu. Met with a couple of old boys for lunch. It is a small world.  Attending MCKK was a wonderful life changing event. 

Please let me know of your plans if there is a reunion. 

Warm Regards,
Richard Caudle
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On Jan 16, 2016, at 9:15 AM, Rosli Mohd. Ali <rosli...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Richard,
I hope I am finally directing this email to a correct Richard Jones Caudle III.

My name is Rosli who happened to be at The Malay College Kuala Kangsar, Malaysia,
in 1971, during the time you were on an Americans Abroad program sponsored by the
American Field Service International Scholarship for a short stint at the boarding school
early that year.

Please acknowledge if this email do reach the correct person.

Thank you.

Rosli Mohd. Ali
MCKK Class of 69 (65 - 69/71)
* Below are some attachments, and I hope you can view them.
One of the photo was given to me by Mr Roger Prior, who was the teacher-in-charge 
during that excursion to Pulau Pangkor in 1971. Mr Prior was from Wales but he now
resides in US, and can be contacted at rpg...@aol.com






On Monday, 4 January 2016, 15:22, Rosli Mohd. Ali <rosli...@yahoo.com> wrote:


guys,

I have cc the mail to our ex-teacher Roger Prior at rpg...@aol.com in US,
as well as at his other email address at Roger Prior at, prior...@aol.com

That letter I had previously sent to caroline.caudle (at) yahoo.com , whom I assume to be
Tessa Caroline Caudle the daughter of Richard (Jones) Caudle III, who attended Malay College
for a short spell in 1971. 

Richard C Caudle age ~61
Lived in: Denver, CO, Vail, CO, Baltimore, MD, Arvada, CO, Englewood, CO, Boulder, CO
Known also as: Jones Richard Caudle, J R Caudle, Richard Richard Caudle, Richard C Jones
Related to: Louise Hurlbut, Madeline Caudle, Ann Caudle, Tessa Caudle
Work: Viewpoint Marketing, LLC
Education: Thunderbird School of Global Management, The University of Texas at Austin,
Malay College Kuala Kangsar

He is our only American old boy of The Malay College Kuala Kangsar,
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This caroline's website that I sent the message to, is, http://carolinecaudle.com/ 

whom, I also hope to be, 
the same person as Tessa Caroline Caudle who went to
John Hopkins University to do Bachelor of Arts in 2011,
http://www.mocavo.com/John-Hopkins-University-Commencement-2011-Volume-2006-2011/649354/95

I hope, I am directed to the right person.
You can also get hold of Richard Caudle on facebook....but I have stopped facebook longtime ago.

Amek, please do it....if you may...for a fren...that Pangkor excursion ???

NB. Attached, are some cuttings from school magazine and also a photo from Roger Prior's old collection.
I have plenty more....and nearly lost them all...

rosli




On Monday, 4 January 2016, 14:20, Rosli Mohd. Ali <rosli...@yahoo.com> wrote:


 



On Monday, 4 January 2016, 14:18, Rosli Mohd. Ali <rosli...@yahoo.com> wrote:


Dear Caroline,
Are you Tessa Caroline, who happens to be a daughter of Richard Jones Caudle III of Viewpoint Marketing?
Home address at 4151 Narcissus Way Denver Co

It is just a pleasure of mine for this enquiry. Because I am trying to locate Richard J Caudle, formerly from Houston,
who had came over as a student on an American Abroad program for short spell in 1971 at the Malay College,
Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Malaysia, which happened to be during my sojourn at the same boarding school.

I hope I can locate him. Last known contact as,
Richard C Caudle age ~61
Lived in: Denver, CO, Vail, CO, Baltimore, MD, Arvada, CO, Englewood, CO, Boulder, CO
Known also as: Jones Richard Caudle, J R Caudle, Richard Richard Caudle, Richard C Jones
Related to: Louise Hurlbut, Madeline Caudle, Ann Caudle, Tessa Caudle
Work: Viewpoint Marketing, LLC
Education: Thunderbird School of Global Management, The University of Texas at Austin, Malay College Kuala Kangsar
More info at: http://radaris.com/p/Richard/Caudle/ 

Sorry to trouble you by this message.
Thanks,

rosli









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Rosli Mohd. Ali

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Jan 18, 2016, 2:41:56 AM1/18/16
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Thanks Abed for the clarification.

And whilst we are on Malay College, 
MunzirFauzi had posted some pictures in my unofficial MCOBA-archive site,
when I last visited MCKK for Speech Day 2010. And, Jed was there too, to my left,

 
 
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To my right is A. Rahim Ismail @ Nana, from Class of '55.
He had apparently revealed to us 2 pieces of music composed by Anthony Burgess,
when the latter was the Master-in-Charge of Kings Pavilion, the primary school of MCKK
in 1957, when Nana was also the Prefect-in-Charge, during his Upper Six Form. 
The 2 pieces are "Semenanjung Tanah Melayu" and "Ode to MCKK".

But upon the translations and transcribed into Malay, the wording to "Ode to MCKK" by our
Guardian to the Malaysia Royal Seal, Dato' Sri Syed Danial Syed Ahmad  of Class of '61,
the musical arrangement had to be somehow slightly revised by Nana. I do not know which
song that was affected, but "Ode to MCKK" becomes "Jadilah Kesatria Budiman", in Malay.
[ Maybe the tune of the 2nd song takes the tune of the 1st song instead of the 3rd....]
Herewith are the 3 songs that was presented to the Royal Audience
and the Board of Governors of MCKK during the 2010 MCKK Speech Day,
in following order:
1. Semenanjung Tanah Melayu 
2. Jadilah Kesatria Budiman
3. Ode to MCKK

Uploaded at YouTube by, 
Hallerz@MCKK - YouTube 
 
Inline image 
▶ 4:41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgr3G5rZLnQ 
Oct 21, 2010 - Uploaded by chope090460
A performance by the Hargreaves Hallerz during the
official declaration of the Big School as a National Heritage.

Just to let you guys know...;p
 
rosliali @ WooeR




On Sunday, 17 January 2016, 20:09, Abed Onn <ab...@yahoo.com> wrote:


Dear Rosli, Richard et al

Of course, Richard & wife was in KL last year on their way to Mt. Kinabalu.
Saleh & I managed to join them for lunch at the Renaissance Hotel.

Thanks for pictures. Nostalgia! 

Warmest salam to all! 

Abed


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Rosli Mohd. Ali

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Jan 20, 2016, 6:22:15 PM1/20/16
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Guys,
While we are on the subject of Anthony Burgess, known then to the students of MCKK 
as Mr John "Burgess" Wilson, the Master-in-Charge of King's Pavilion in 1955. It was here,
at this Victorian Mansion that prompted him into writing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Burgess 

The building was one that our team explored into when we did our exhibition on the early
Colonial Architect of our Federal PWD, between 1895-1914, Arthur Benison Hubback in 2014.
King's Pavilion was originally designed in 1904, as the Residence for the High Commissioner 
to the Federated Malay States when visiting Perak, initiated by Sir John Anderson
(High Commissioner 1904-1911) who was responsible for its construction.
Two buildings had previously occupied this same site on Bukit Che’ Midah.
CO 1069-484-133 

Here's what our Team Member, Mariana Isa wrote:
" Che’ Midah or Long Hamidah binti Dato Sri Maharaja Lela Itam Muhammad Amin and her
wealthy merchant husband NakhodaTerang had sold her land to FMS Government.
Her traditional Rumah Kutai house was demolished in 1878 to make way for the double-storey
British Residency built for Sir Hugh Low (British Resident of Perak 1878-1889).

The Old Residency was demolished in 1904, and replaced with a Victorian building with
Tuscan columns and pilasters, designed by Federal PWD assistant architect AB Hubback
in 1904. Building completed in 1906 at the cost of $90,939 Straits Dollars.

Japanese Army occupied the building during W.W.2, where several prisoners were rumoured
to be tortured. 
Vacated in 1937 when the capital of Perak moved from Taiping to Ipoh.

1950-1960, Used as Malay College Kuala Kangsar’s (MCKK) extra classrooms and boarding.
Known to MCKK as the King’s Pavilion, August 1954-May 1955."

This guy, Geoffrey Grigson has been pursuing research on Anthony Burgess and in You Tube.

In, https://burgessodyssey.wordpress.com/ on King's Pavilion,

King’s Pavilion

Burgess writes in Little Wilson and Big God,
Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess:
"   
    There were good ghostly reasons for not wishing to stay in King’s Pavilion, but the real
causes for our dissatisfaction with the place were more mundane.
    It was beautiful enough, an ample structure of the Victorian age, and the view from its
verandahs was sumptuous. It looked down on great trees and gardens tended by thin
Tamils drunk on todi or palm wine; beyond was the confluence of rivers; beyond again the
jungle and the mountains.
    But the gorgeousness of the vista was inadequate payment for the responsibility imposed
on us. We inhabited what was in effect a huge flat cut off, but not cut off enough, from the
classrooms and dormitories of the preparatory school. At the beginning of the school year
weeping Malay boys would arrive with their mothers and fathers, who would stay a night with
them and try to stay more, and prepare to be turned into sophisticated collegians.
    When lessons were over the boys made much noise and pissed from their balcony into
the inner court, visible while Lynne and I ate lunch. If I railed at them they ran away. If I
entered their screaming dormitory they would drag out their prayer mats and howl towards
Mecca, knowing that their religious devotions rendered them untouchable by the infidel. They
called me Puteh, or white, and also Mat Salleh, or Holy Joe.
    The other teachers of the Malay College could go to quiet houses on Bukit Chandan, meaning
Sandalwood Hill, when their work was over. Lynne and I had to cope with noise and responsibility.
It was literally a responsibility for life and death.
    The garden was full of snakes, of which Malaya has a large variety, and a king cobra with a
growing family was much around King’s Pavilion during my tenure. Scorpions would get into the
boys’ shoes or beds and sting them bitterly. Hygiene was a problem, for the water supply was
erratic and sometimes totally failed.
"
----
Upon sifting through the collection of images on what is left in my possession,
I stumbled on this one of1955 at King's Pavilion which relates to the above abstract.
I swiftly edit it so that the person I had acquired it from, would not realised where
I had gotten it. But it does validate to the above story, about one of the boys who
pissed from the balcony.
I knew that because I went the talk on "Anthony Burgess by Rob Spencer on Jan.14, 2008",
Burgess was his subject for PhD thesis.
And that, the culprit too admitted to it...
"abu was one of the little boys who cried at night missing their mothers and
(according to burgess) pissed off the balcony..." wrote his wife.
Refer these 3 blogs, (2 by Abu's wife...)

Herewith is that photo in1955 at King's Pavilion...
 
In the photo, seated in the middle is  Mr JDR. Howell (Headmaster 1953–1958). On his left is Mr John "Burgess" Wilson.
The little boy, standing directly behind, and in between them, is "Abu", who entered MCKK at Standard 2 that year.
To the right of Mr Howell, I presume is Lynne, Mr Wilson's wife. And, next to her, the Malay lady, later married another
teacher, our Cik Gu Abu Zakaria, who was also the school's tennis coach, until 1968.

"Abu", or Abu Bakar bin Dato' Awang Ngah, Class of 64+65, is the longest serving student of MCKK,
having entered at Standard 2 in 1955 and completed his Upper Six Form in 1967, 13 years!

He was our MCKK Rugby Captain in 1967, as well as the Coach for the MCKK Under-15 Rugby.

Yea...hensem me standing second from right...kaki ayam, because the ruling by the
education ministry then, was "no leather-nailing studs" allowed! Adidas or Puma boots
were yet to be available or imported, otherwise beyond the students means!
Only custom-made were available, made locally at most kaki-lima..

We used to play with leather balls...
...timeless and elegant...

rosliali @ WooeR





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