Sarawak ICT Expo 2015 in Miri

The Sarawak ICT Expo 2015 is currently being held at Miri Indoor Stadium. The expo is currently being done on Friday until Sunday on the 20th to 22nd of November 2015. This expo is almost similar to PIKOM PC Fair and it is also organised at the same place every year in Miri. A number of new PCs, laptops and electronic gadgets are on display for sale.  Other than the usual consumer affair, corporates and companies can also benefit from the Sarawak ICT Expo as there are some local firms that provide IT solutions to ease and simply IT related tasks for corporates and companies.

For the average consumers, a number of gadgets, PCs, laptops as well as 2nd hand computers are for sale as well. The discounts on offer are not that much but it's worth to get now rather than get it later on regular prices if you really need them. On our outing just now, there was an Oppo mascot to promote Oppo smartphones and liven up the expo. Nonetheless, the expo this year has some interesting offerings but may not be that lively since there is no interesting new product yet.

Majlis Restu Ilmu 2015 Kolej Tun Datu Tuanku Haji Bujang Miri

On this blissful Friday of the 30th October 2015, my alma mater, Kolej Tun Datu Tuanku Haji Bujang Miri organized an event for students who will be sitting for their SPM and STPM this year to seek blessings from their teachers and their parents.

The event's tentative begins as early as 7 am in the morning for the religious slots up until 8:30 am. Then, the event continues in Dewan Perdana (the new hall) from 9 am until 11 am. After the religious session, the students begin their walk towards the hall.

Students, teachers and parents gather and sit freely in the hall to hear from each student representatives from both the form 5 and form 6 who will be sitting for their SPM and STPM respectively. The students express themselves by showing gratitude to their teachers for teaching them for almost five or six years at school and nonetheless thanked their parents and peers for guiding them towards the path of success. Furthermore, some of them took the opportunity to motivate their peers before sitting for one of the most important exam in their lives.

Amusingly, the opening speech by the headmistress of Kolej Tun Datu Datu Tuanku Haji Bujang Miri, Hajah Hasimah Binti Abang Zen was supposed to be done first before the students' speeches but they were given priority. The headmistress told the parents, if possible, to support the students by helping giving moral support during the exams later on which will be lead by the teachers.

After the speech, teachers, parents, students, and guests were treated by throwbacks photos of students throughout this year which includes classroom photos and teacher's day photos and various other photos. The montage ended with wishes by previous Kolej seniors for current students to ponder upon and feel more motivated before the exam begins.

The event ended with students shaking hands with teachers and parents to signify their gratefulness to them for all of their efforts in nurturing and teaching the students. This moment is full of tear-jerkers so female students had prepared early with tissues with them. The writer would like to take this opportunity to thank the teachers of Kolej Tun Datu Tuanku Haji Bujang who are currently in service, as of 2015, for teaching me back in 2010 and 2011 as well as to those who had leaved Kolej. Without them I may not be able to reach where I am right now.