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.:A Captain's Reminiscence [MCKK Magazine 1999]
by Hazmer Hassan (Captain of All-Blacks 99)
MC-VC 95: I was in form one and I watched the game for the first time. Even though I had just started playing rugby, I could see that Vajiravudh College was too good and nothing short of a miracle could give Koleq a long awaited win against Vaji. The difference in size between the players was negligible but Koleq could not match up to the Vaji boys. Koleq lost 3-36. My youthful confidence began to wane.
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.:Adieu to School [MCKK Magazine 1921]
by one on the eve of leaving for good
Notwithstanding all their glory and splendour which fill the heart of the beholder with noble inspiration, the crimson rays of the setting sun are sorrow-laden, for the price of their bright glory is the solemn gloom of the approaching night.
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.:A good and just society - that's the Malaysian dream [New Straits Times' e-media]
by Tan Sri Abdullah Ahmad
Schools become known to the public for their institutions, for the works of their teachers and the old boys/girls they produce. The Malay College Kuala Kangsar (MCKK),founded in 1905, has been remarkably distinguished. Much of its reputation is owed to three great headmasters: William Hargreaves, the first HM, who served from 1905 till his retirement in 1918, C. Bazell (1923-38) whose students included Tun Razak and Tuanku Jaafar Ibni Tuanku Abdul Rahman, and H.R. Carey (1938-1949).
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.:A Journey Back To Kuala Kangsar [www.asiahype.com]
by AI Shahbuddin
Kuala Kangsar's (or KK as it is known) blatant beauty is attributed to three things: the architecture, the river and the history behind it. An unpretentious town, whose quiet charm nonetheless managed to attract the production crew of "Anna And The King".
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.:A National Heritagenew!
by Tan Sri Abdullah Ahmad
In Malaysia, we too have public schools such as the Malay College Kuala Kangsar (MCKK) and its sister college, Tunku Kurshiah in Seremban and the Royal Military College (RMC) but they are owned and run by the government. The Tuanku Jaafar school and the Saad Foundation School in Malacca are run by the private sector. The Saad Foundation School was started by an old Malay collegian, Tan Sri Halim Saad, the Chief Executive Officer of Renong Corporation. Halim is an active member of the Malay College Old Boys Association (MCOBA). His executive office suite is just one floor below the MCOBA penthouse at Jalan Syed Putra, Kuala Lumpur.
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.:As I Remember You [MCOBA 100 Years' Celebration Committee]new!
by Syed Rosley
(This article was written by Old Boy Syed Rosley before he passed away)
We are all in the twilight years of our lives and living on borrowed time, so to speak.1 have crossed sixty and that makes all the eleven others so much more 'aged', I being the youngest. CORRECTION: nine as two have already left us for the HEREAFTER. After a severe illness some months ago, I thought I was going to be next.
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.:City Dweller Stuck In The Middle of Nowhere... [MCKK Class of 94 Website]
by Rafizi Ramli
London is cold - not only weather wise, but the city sometimes gives you this scary feeling that it is coldly watching you. You walk, you see, you smell - London lacks the spiritual content some people need in their life. London is definitely a far cry from the closed knit and traditional community of Kemaman which I come from. By sheer co-incidence, I am here in London - feeling out of place by the day whilst Jita is Paka, a place I so dearly call home.
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.:Commanding the Issues [MCKK Magazine 1997]
by Rehman Rashid
There were some great debaters during my time at Malay College. Although Sdr. Anwar Ibrahim, Sdr. Sanusi Junid and Sdr. Hishamuddin Rais had left by the time I got there, I grew up crossing intellectual swords with the likes of Sdr. Kamaruddin Jaafar, Sdr. Anuar Othman and Sdr. Sallehuddin Hashim. All of them as eloquent in Malay as in English, they all ranked among the best debaters the College ever produced.
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.:Dari Jemapoh Ke Manchestee : A Film by Hishamuddin Rais
by Zaim Al Amin
For those of you who are tired of watching some heavily bearded castaway talking to a painted volleyball named Wilson, or politically-right but historically-wrong versions of that incident at Pearl Harbour which happened when you or your fathers were still in diapers, or who wanted to puke at John Travolta's new villain-with-a-hairline-beard character (which you just cannot stomach since you still relate him to some disco freak in Saturday Nite Fever) or who are simply sick of Hollywood-churned American propaganda, or have watched one movie too many of Bollywood-churned macho Khans rolling around with pretty Kapoors; well, here's something closer to home.
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.:Excerpts from 'A Malaysian Journey' [© 1993 Rehman Rashid. Used with special permission from author]
by Rehman Rashid
I had an uneventful childhood; I had been a quiet, bookish child. My father had led a peripatetic career as a teacher (which was why he hadn't been present at my birth), and he had taken his young family with him to successive postings across the length and breadth of the Malay peninsula. And it was a growing family; my two brothers were born, at three year intervals, in Johor Baru at the peninsula's southern tip, and in Kuala Krai in the interior of Kelantan, where my mother's equally mobile family had come to a temporary rest. Eventually my father had received what would be the last posting of his abbreviated life, as a senior lecturer at the Language Institute in Kuala Lumpur.
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.:Fives at Kolej Melayu Kuala Kangsar, Perak [Eton Fives Association Annual Report 1994-1995]
by Dale and Krystyna Vargas
Kuala Kangsar is the royal town of the state of Perak, idyllically situated on the River Perak, home of the Sultan and one of the most splendid mosques in a country well endowed with such buildings.
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.:If They Would Only Stop Putting Those Ugly Ties On [STAR86 Online]
by Jockstrap Giles
It is a bit sad that these old MC sods have the weekly need to wrap a piece of striped rag around their greasy necks just to tell the world that they all spent their pathetic pubescent years in one same place. We would naturally then be compelled to presume that their lives have been shamefully reduced to such ugly ties, which incidentally went outdated the last time a Hanoverian sat on the Throne.
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.:Journalistic Instinct From Koleq [MCKK Class of 94 Website]
by Rafizi Ramli
Venue: Bilik Warta, TAR Hall Time: 2 am Date: One cold January night, 1993 Details: Warta KPKM (Underground Edition) Direction: Distribute to juniors in stages to avoid the edition from being banned, the message must reach the students at all cost Cost: RM 100 from crew's own pockets, eternal condemnation from the 'Red Blazers'
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.:Malaysia has a lot of use for that school in Kuala Kangsar [Berita MCOBA Vol. 2 No. 1 March 1991]
by Rehman Rashid
You and I, fellow Collegian, are part of the ‘Malay College Mafia’ that’s being whispered about these days. Indeed, the Malay College Old Boys’ Association has become the nearest thing to a masonic lodge this country’s ever known outside the Chinese clans. MCOBA is a code with special access into every corner of governance in Malaysia: the government, the civil service, the private sector, academia, the palaces, everywhere. Old Boys of the Malay College can be found among the country’s foremost politicians, administrators and businessmen, bankers, doctors, lawyers and engineers. It remains the school of royalty. Not because the sons of the Sultans still study there – they do not, for valid enough reasons – but because their fathers once did.
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.:MCKK [Raja Petra's Webhome / Harakah]
by Raja Petra Kamaruddin
The Malay College Kuala Kangsar, or better known as “MCKK”, was founded almost 94 years ago on 2nd January 1905. It was called, then, the “Malay Residential School” and was initiated with a vision and mission to produce “…a vigorous and intelligent race of young men who will be in touch with modern progress but not out of touch with old traditions...”.
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.:MCKK... and beyond [Exclusively written for MCNET]
by Professor Anthony F. Harmer
I arrived at MCKK during 1973. The new HM was already there Dato Nordin Nasir and he had the job of moving the school on. There were two other English teachers, Mr Dick for Physics and Mr Hindly for Maths. I was Head of Science and then Mr Chan took this over and I became Head of Chemistry. I remember the Speech Days with the VIPs and the visits to the Sultan's Palace. Things were difficult at the dam at Grik and there was certainly no East-West Highway!! At weekends, students went on trips using the school coach and for example, the Aeromodelling Club queued at the ferry waiting to cross to Penang, where we stayed at the Youth Hostel, prior to visiting the Australian Air Base. I was quite good at squash then and played at the courts at the back of school. Some students decided to see if they could smelt tin ore in the laboratory and with help from (now Dato(!)) Gordon van Praagh set up an oven. They entered the project in KL and won!
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.:MCKK-Our Friend or Foe [STAR86 Online]
by Atan Mustapha
Do you feel sick watching that familiar striped red tie being worn by a certain group of people on Wednesdays or catching a glimpse of that familiar crest above Renong headquarters while driving along Jalan Syed Putra? I was at a TKC Old Girls dinner a couple of years back accompanying my better half and I actually found myself at a mini MCOBA gathering. The emcee even went on to say, in praise of the TKCians' achievements, "TKC girls are no longer just MCKK wives but are also doctors and lawyers …". The few STARians who were there sure felt like throwing up (this will be confirmed by Sheikh Yahya, a 60s STARian who was there). MCKK boys have been our favourite enemies in school but are they still are?
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.:Memories of an Old Collegian [MCKK Magazine 1988]
by Anonymous
My group's "college days" began in January 1953 and did not end until December 1961. During those 9 years the 80 odd members of my group experienced a lifestyle that was unique in its ways and was subject to an enculturization process which was to last a whole lifetime.
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.:Ruffled feathers at MCKK [mir.com.my]
by Tan Sri Abdullah Ahmad
The colonials were disappointed with the new arrival who turned up in crumpled clothes to teach at the Malay College Kuala Kangsar. Abdullah Ahmad remembers the author of the Malayan Trilogy.
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.:Sejuk-Sejuk Angin Kuala [MCKK Magazine 1983]
by Farid Nawawi
Buat Amir... bersama senyum dan tangismu serta seribu kenangan yang meruntum hari...
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.:Un Musulmano Al Vaticano [MCKK Magazine 1987]
by AN Ariffin
I had done it often before since I arriced in Rome; strolling through St. Peter's Square at Vatican City, home of the Catholic Church, ostensibly to experience the architectural space. Being an architecture student, that was why I had gone to Rome in the first place, to study the architecture of this 'cradle of Western Civilization' and its long history of the Roman Empire and then as the initial centre of all Christianity.
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