Yearbook Payment and Venue Updates

Gerard has spoken to the publisher, price is confirmed at 1060ru. However, expect around 100ru plus minus to that figure, depending on number of pages, color and quality of the paper.
Nadia will be collecting the full amount of 1060ru from you by this coming Sunday, 1st of March 2009.

It's now confirmed that the graduation hall, some decorations, inclusive of the lighting, projector, sound system, reception of the VIPs and invitation of Ambassadors from several countries will be taken care by MosLanka. Everything will be fully paid. However, a little bit of touch up like banners, balloons, ribbons, flowers and refreshment/food for parents will be on our account.

He'll be meeting up with the university reps, namely the Rector and Dean somewhere around next week to reconfirm the date before proceeding with the booking. However, he assured that if the Dean agrees to hold the graduation on the 30th June 09 (he did agree in our case), then he'll make sure that our graduation will be ON no matter what, on the above mentioned date. Tentative venue:
1) Dom Ucheni like last year or 2) РОССИЙСКАЯ АКАДЕМИЯ НАУК, in leninski prospekt.

Things to be done: requested by Dr. Saman
1) A full list of graduating students and their nationalities (so that he knows which ambassador to invite)
2) A tentative program for the day (will be taken care by Ponni)
3) A joint committee with other representatives from other countries
4) Accommodation for parents. Namelist of parents who are coming to Moscow that want to stay in our hostel. Price is 300-400ru. He can arrange for our parents to stay in another so called apartment 3 stars standard. Details minimal, but he promised that price is cheap. Not so sure about that yet.

And by the way, Dr. Saman will not be in Moscow starting around next weekend to mid April, so if you have any important question or suggestion, please do it now!

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Thanks for coming to CNY openhouse

We are glad that everyone enjoyed the food last night. Thanks for the warm support!

Message by Farah.
farah mazwina: Whoever hasnt sent their yearbook form..pls do it by today..today is the last day..to devi/farah (9-17) or gerard (11-16)..

Either do it online by following the steps here, send it to rsmu2009@gmail.com, or send the hardcopy to them by tonight.

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CNY makan-makan session for ALL Malaysian 6th year students

Date: Sunday, 22nd February 09,
Time: 1830
Tentative Menu: Hainanese Chicken, Oily Rice, Kung Pao Chicken, Sweet and Sour Fish, Mixed Vegetables in special sauce, Tang Yuan as dessert and Iced Lemon Tea.

We, from gr. 60, 61 invite all of you to join us for a LATE CNY dinner at 630pm, meet at room 610. Cups and tissues will be provided. However, bring your own plates and utensils, and an empty stomach too. See ya!

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The Yearbook Poll

Based on a total of only 14votes, we have decided to get the black color(1060ru) variant. Gerard is working out some plan with our very own Malaysian based companies, for example http://www.pixart.com.my/.

The decision is not final yet, but if we can get a better deal (same quality, or even better) from pixart, then we'll be buying it from them. The final decision will be posted up in this blog. Stay tuned.

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3rd Meeting Minutes by Saraswathy

RSMU Class 2008/2009 Graduation
[MEETING DATE]17/02/09
[MEETING TIME]9.00PM
[MEETING LOCATION]ROOM 7-08

MEETING CALLED TO ORDER BY Gan Boon Chye 9.00pm
SUBJECT OF MEETING :
FACILITATOR Gan Boon Chye
NOTE TAKER ( Secretary) Saraswathy Ramasamy

ATTENDEES
1. Gan Boon Chye
2. Azmuneer bin Muhammed Kifli
3. Saraswathy Ramasamy
4. Nadia Hamimah Kamaludin
5. Janet LeeHoong May
6. Fu Mei Sian
7. Siti Anis Zamrah
8. Yee Sze Voon
9. Tan Ling Tze
10. Lee Yan Han
11. Yuvaraj Gunasagaram
12. Aznul Hafiz Abu Shahid
13. Ponnalagi Subramaniam
14. Balasubramaniam Chelliah
15 Sumathi Sellaban
16. Tang Ray Yank
17. Ooi Yong Lin
18. Tan Boon Chin
19. Navin Kumar Sellapan
20. Yogambigai Sri Raman
21. Gerrard Lawrence
22. Dzul Al Kamal B Dawam
23. Nor Zaher B.Ismail
24. Abdullah Hanif B.Rosdi
25. Mohd Aizuddin B. Yusof
26. Mohd Jazzman B Che Rahim
27. Ahmad Zharif B Hussein
28. Hii Ding Wei

Agenda topics
1) General announcement by the EXCO
2) Open Issues discussion
3) Presentation and updates from every team leader (Multimedia, Publishing, Robe, Programme, Transport & Visa)
4) Any Other Business

[TIME ALLOTTED]9.00pm
[AGENDA TOPIC]General Announcement
[PRESENTER]Gan Boon Chye
DISCUSSION Gan Boon Chye announced to all 6th course students that a new committee for the Malaysian reception will be formed soon. Muneer Zhariff and Aznol will be in charge of these committee. The Russian Graduation committee will be reshuffled too.
CONCLUSION:
ACTION:
PERSON RESPONSIBLE: Muneer, Zhariff and Aznol

[TIME ALLOTTED] 9; 20PM
[AGENDA TOPIC] Open issues discussion
[PRESENTER] Gan Boon Chye
DISCUSSION:
Formed a new team which will be in charge of appostillisation of our diploms.The team consists of Yuvaraj,Sze Woon ,Hanif and Mohd Jazzman B Che Rahim.The team will find more informations about appostillisation and will update us later.
CONCLUSION:Seconded by Azmuneer
ACTION: Find more informations
PERSON RESPONSIBLE: Yuvaraj, Sze Woon, Hanif and Mohd Jazzman B Che Rahim
DEADLINE:Next meeting

[TIME ALLOTTED]9.30pm
[AGENDA TOPIC]Presentation and updates from every team leader (Multimedia, Publishing, Robe, Programme, Transport & Visa)
[PRESENTER]1.Gerrard Lawrence 2. Tang Ray Yank 3. Dzul Al Kamal B Dawam 4.Fu Mei Sian

DISCUSSION
1.Year Book :
Gerrard explained that publishing the year book in Malaysia is expensive, so the committee decided to publish it in Moscow. The Team came up with two different designs. The first design is cheaper which will cost 660 rub and the other one is 1060 rub. Voting pole will be put to decide which design to choose.

2.Multimedia:
The multimedia team will get the equipments for their presentation from the Christian Fellowship. Ray Yank requested all the students to submit more videos and photos. Sze Woon who is in charge of photography will inform the date and place for the photography session as soon as possible.

3.Robes:
All the 6th year students need to pay 500 rub down payment for the robes by 25th February to Nadia. The date to take measurements will be informed soon.

4.Visa, Ticket and Accommodation.
Fu Mei Sian explained that Singapore Airlines only requires minimum purchase of 2 tickets to attain the price of RM3680 excluding visa. The team will find more informations about the visa and will update in our blog.Students who are interested with Janet’s suggestion,need to give their names to Janet or Mei Sian before 25th feb and need to pay RM 500 as deposit to book the seats. For now the suggested date for booking is 28 th June 2009.

CONCLUSIONS: To avoid problems, students are requested to book the air tickets for their parents on 27th or 28th of June 2009

ACTION ITEMS: PERSON RESPONSIBLE DEADLINE
1.Nadia will be collecting money for 1.Nadia 25.02.09
robes

2.Janet and the team will have to find out more informations about air ticket and visa

MEETING ADJOURNED BY Gan Boon Chye 10.30pm

Brief version. Only important details are published here.

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17th Feb 09 Updates and Poll

First up, please vote on the poll. How much you are paying and what you get depends on this one. Only 1 day to vote.

журнал"А4, 4+4,200гр мат.лак с одной стороны,
блок 4+4,150гр 46 полос"50
price: 33500rb


журнал"200х220, обл. 4+4,200гр мат.ламинация
блок 4+4,150гр 46 полос на пружине"
price: 50350rb

Not so nice pictures to represent them, but you get the idea. A4 size for the red one, custom size and spring for the black one.

Prepare 500ru for the robes down payment. Al will double check with everyone again, confirm the measuring date for all groups and inform us later. Nadia will be collecting the 500ru by 25th Feb 09.

On the air ticket, visa and invitation. Give your name to Janet/Mei Sian by 25th Feb 09. And RM500 as deposit too. For now the booking date is on 28th June 09.
Refer to this link for more info.
http://rsmu2009.blogspot.com/2009/02/air-ticket-and-visa-suggestion-by-janet.html

Formed new team, the Trans-Diplomatic team. Consists of the most capable students, now we know our diplomas are in good hands. Members: Yuvaraj, Sze Voon, Hanif and Jetman.

A new committee list specialized on Malaysian Reception will be out soon. Leaders in charged: Muneer, Zharif and Aznul. Subteam leaders will be elected, new jobscopes for the reception dinner will be finalized.

The committee for Russian committee team will be reshuffled too. For now Che'din is our videoman and Zharif, as the winner of Massad video presentation will chip in creative ideas, working now as the advisor to the Multimedia team.
BBQ team is dissolved at the moment. More members will be joining the Venue and Programme team. Now we still have vacant posts like ushers, transport minister and accommodation manager.

Group 60 and 61 invite all 6th year Malaysian students to our Chinese New Year open house in room 610, this coming Sunday 22nd Feb 09, 6:30pm. A late gong xi fa cai indeed. Anyway, Welcome!

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General Meeting - Tuesday, 17th February 2009

Date: 17th February 2009
Time: 2100
Place: 708B
Attendance is strictly compulsory. In the case of emergency, please inform your group leader.

Rough topics to be discussed this Tuesday.
1) Yearbook. Gerard to present. Agree/not? Poll? it's about 50 pages each and the price is 50,365 rb for 50 coppies. So that will make it about 1000+ rb per student. Maybe can do it in Malaysia?

2) Multimedia. Ray Yank to present. Plans, equipments and konco2 for the day, people to meant the laptop, photographers, videoman, lighting, etc. Sze Voon on the photography plan.

3) Venue Team. Yuva to ask Dr.Saman/Dean for the possible venue. Rough program, inclusive of finding konco to be runners, MC, bouncers, security, ushers, etc.

4) Robe Team. Al to collect the names, to approach students of other nationalities, then decide date for measurement.

5) Treasury. Nadia to be in charged of collecting the money. 300rubles for down payment.

6) Reformation. BBQ team to be dissolved at the moment. Will be joining other teams. Dividing the team into 2. Malaysia team headed by Muneer. Russia team headed by myself. Anol and Zharif heading subteams. **

7) Visa, invitation team. Group 61 to present. Proposal. Mei Sian, Bibi, Janet to present.To contact Janet by 20th February if agree, and to pay down payment. Will be in charged of finding accommodation (hostel), transportation/taxi for parents from airport, from hostel to graduation venue. Abon will be helping in getting the transportation.

8) Any other business.

This is just the general outline of what I have in mind right now. There are obviously abundant of things to be done, discussed and I'm quite sure something is missing, so please come and support. Your participation, big or small, makes a difference.

Together we stand, divided we fall.

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Air Ticket and Visa Suggestion by Janet

Update done by Janet Lee, group 61.

After enquiring from a few travel agents in Penang, this agent who happens to be my mother’s friend is offering a good bargain for the air ticket travelling with Thai Airways. However, it requires a minimum purchase of 20 air tickets to attain the price of RM 3060 exclusive of visa. The agent is charging for visa at the price of 30 USD + RM 30 for courier and service charge which comes up to about RM 140-150 (single entry visa). With that, it means that parents living outside KL save the hassle to travel to the Malaysian-Russian Embassy to get the visa done.

If the above mentioned price is reasonable (so far it is one of the best offer that we could get), a deposit of RM 500 should be done ASAP to block the seats. Below is the flight schedule for Thai Airways travelling from Penang. Flight schedule departing from KL will be up soon.

Thai Airways (Ex Penang)
(Wednesday & Friday)
TG426 PENANG/BANGKOK 0820/0900
TG974 BANGKOK/MOSCOW 1025/1710

(Sunday)
TG422 PENANG/BANGKOK 2205/2245
TG974 BANGKOK/MOSCOW 1025*/1710

(Monday & Wednesday)
TG975 MOSCOW/BANGKOK 1820/0705*
TG425 BANGKOK/PENANG 1940*/2205

(Friday)
TG975 MOSCOW/BANGKOK 1810/0705*
TG421 BANGKOK/PENANG 1810*/2055

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Update on Robes

DzulAlKamal from gr.64 found a new shop near metro konkovo. This sifu quoted the robe to be around 1200-1500ru. The design is exactly the same like last year's graduation. On the possibility to change the design, we'll have to further discuss it with the shop owner.

Measuring will be carried out as soon as Al gets the confirmation from everyone in our batch, that includes the other non Malaysian students too. If everything goes well, hopefully by end of this month we can finalized the minute details (price, design of the robe, day of delivery and day of measuring).

So price is 1200-1500ru, down payment will be 300ru. And measuring will be done in batches/groups.

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Price of Yearbook

Updates from the publication team, by Gerard Lawrence group 62.
4 фев 09 - Малазия_М2
журнал"А4, 4+4 ,200гр мат.лак с одной стороны, блок 4+4, 150гр 46 полос"50 335.00rb
журнал"200х220, обл. 4+4,200гр мат.ламинация блок 4+4, 150гр 46 полос на пружине" 50365.00rb

Submit in your biodata ASAP. Updates on the invitation, visa, price ticket, tour will be posted up in 2 days time.

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The tentative graduation date

Georgiy Nikolaevich, Dean of the Foreign Students Department told me that the graduation date is on 30th of June 2009, just a day after the graduation for Russian students which falls on the 29th of June 2009.

Whatever happened last year was out of our control, just pray it won't happen to us. Hopefully.

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Tours suggested by Yong Lin

There are 2 proposals, A & B, made by Ooi Yong Lin from group 60.


Package A - above 16 people
The cost is RM8600 for a 7 days tour.


Package B - Minimum 15 adults and above
Proposed flight details :
TG 426 26JAN PENANG-BANGKOK 0820-0900
TG 974 26JUN BANGKOK-MOSCOW 1025-1710
SU 28JUN MOSCOW-ST PETERSBURG
SU 01JUL ST PETERSBURG-MOSCOW
TG 975 03JUL MOWCOW-BANGKOK 1820-0705 >hotel, breakfast and lunch will be provided
TG 421 04JUL BANGKOK-PENANG 1810-2055
Inclusions :
* economy class air ticket on international flight.
* 02 domestic flight Moscow-St Peterburg-Moscow
* 07 nights hotel accommodation
* meals, sightseeing including entrance fee, transportation as specified in the itinerary.
* Russian visa fee for Malaysia passport
* tips to local guide and driver
If we can get 20 and above, they can reduce by RM400

***The price differs, depending only on the accommodation you choose.***

Tour 1
Adult (twin share) - RM 9788 per person
Moscow - Cosmos
Suzdal - Pushkarskaya Sloboda
St Petersburg - Pribaltijskaya

Tour 2
Adult (twin share) - RM 10,988 per person
Moscow - Holiday Inn
Suzdal - Pushkarskaya Sloboda
St Petersburg - Pribaltijskaya

We need more substantial suggestions, so that we can compare the price. As you can see, the tour needs a minimum number of 15, so we need to collect names ASAP. If you are interested, or have questions, please leave a comment below.

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February - It's time to shift gear

Our progress came to a complete halt the last month, due to exam prep and winter holiday. We must get our acts together.

A general meeting for all will be held on the 20th/21st of February, but prior to that on the 14th of Feb, we'll be having a meeting with group representatives to discuss the progress of the teams and divide some new job scopes. Work will commence on the 9th of February, till then...

Happy holidays!

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