On the 24th of February 2016, Kolej Sakura once again held its biannually meeting between the college student residents and the college’s principal and Fellow; this meeting is often dubbed as ‘Perjumpaan Bersama Pengetua dan Felo’.
At 7.30 p.m., the signing-in process began and the student residents all gathered in Lecture Hall 1, Central Teaching Facilities 1 (CTF1). The meeting officially began around 8.30 p.m. with the arrival of the principal, Cik Siti Nor Ain binti Musa, the Fellows, Puan Noorfarida binti Saidi and Puan Noor Aliah binti Majid, and Kolej Sakura’s JPK. After singing UNIMAS’s and Kolej Sakura’s song respectively, everyone sat back down to watch the short video about the new members of Kolej Sakura student council.
Madam Noorfarida, the new Fellow of Kolej Sakura, was then invited to give a short speech. She made a brief introduction of herself, whereby she stated that she is a lecturer from the Faculty of Language Studies who is later assigned to teach the Pre-University students at the East campus. She said that she looked forward to working and getting to know the Kolej Sakura’s residents a bit more.
Then, Cik Ain as the principal of the college was invited to hand out awards for to the members of Kolej Sakura’s student council who did well in their studies and obtaining a CGPA of 3.0 and above for the previous semester.
After that, it was Cik Ain’s turn to give her speech. She wished everyone a warm welcome, particularly the final semester students whom she congratulated for being able to stay as the college’s residents for as long as they did. She then did her usual explanation and reminder of the college’s rules and policy as well as taking note of the new room assignation system in which floor and the type of room the student is assigned to depend on her achievements in the college. Cik Ain urged the students to view this as a positive change and as a motivation to contribute more to the college.
She also proudly showcased achievements Kolej Sakura has obtained during the previous semester by listing them off in a slideshow. Laughter could be heard as funny yet nostalgic photos of the students were shown. Before she ended her speech, Cik Ain once again welcomed the students back to the college and said that she looked forward to achieve more success together with its student residents.
The event ended approximately ended at 10 p.m. with the departure of Cik Ain and Madam Noorfarida. The students were then asked to sign-out and collect their merit stickers outside the lecture hall.
Prepared by,
Imelia Kyra binti Mohamad Iskandar.
