Graduation

I've graduated!


Okay, it was kind of a fake graduation...it was organised by MASAF, and we got a cert from JPA (a sijil penghargaan)

The ceremony was held on the 5th of June in Paris. They rented a boat that cruised along the Seine...

the boat

inside the boat (this photo was taken from the stage)

the guys from my batch (the girl is a year our senior)

the Pekom scholars from our batch (except the rightmost one, who's a year our junior)

Fzah at the non-grads' table...one senior and two juniors

my table

the cenderahati (souvenir) they prepared

table decoration

At the beginning, before going into the boat we had drinks and curry puffs on the...um, what do you call the top of the boat already?

with some of my batchmates (see the curry puff Mimi's holding? :P )

After that we went into the boat, found our tables (we got a card with our table number on it)...after some speeches we had our lunch. When we were done eating, we went outside again...by that time the boat was already moving along the river.

with Khairunisa (from Toulouse, who was at my table as well), ??, Anis (4 years my junior, who was in Angoulême as well), kak Seri (one year my senior, in La Rochelle before), ??, kak Asilda (3 years my senior), and ??
(please fill in the blanks for me if you can :s )

with Firdaus, kak Asilda...and I don't know who :s

with Fazli, Kenneth (also a Yeoh :P ) and Taufik

with (er...let's skip the first person) Yilie and Jun (who's graduating as well, but was in MFI instead of INTEC)

with Fzah, who's studying language (was, actually...she's really graduated, unlike me :P )

I was going to take a photo with Dinie, but then Fadhil and Taufiq wanted to be in the photo as well...

one left, but the other was still around

Same thing happened when I was taking a photo with Fifi...I think he was trying to push them away :P
(by the way, these four are from my batch but Telekom-sponsored)

Then they asked everyone to go back into the boat except for the grads. They asked us to stand at one end of the boat for photos...

the grads

...and then we lined up to go inside and get out cert. They only had about nine square caps, I think...so we passed them around :P

group photo after docking, just to let you see the number of people there (I think only one or two were missing, taking the photo)

They wanted to take photos of us throwing the graduation caps into the air, but with a limited number of caps, it wasn't exactly possible... Also, it was so hot that most of us preferred staying in the shade under the bridge :P

See the three cones high up at the back, with rolled up certs inside? That us :P (I was with Fazli and...I can't seem to remember who was the other person with us :/ )

Then we took photos in small groups...all over the place.

group photo for my JPA batch (I think the curtain background was for the boat's next customers, but everyone wanted to take photos with it lol)
Back row (the girls and one guy): Asmahanna, Iz'zati, Sia Ven, Mimi, me and Taufik
Front row: Firdaus, Fairuz, Fazli, Saipudin, Faeez, Hakim, Hafiezal and Akmal

So there you have it, the grad ceremony. After that some of us went to Starbucks, and I think someone took photos, but I can't remember who, and I haven't got the photos because I can't ask that person for it.

Sorry about the sudden flood of long posts...but hey, it's now or never! Still, there are more photos than words... :P

Thanks to Fiezal, Fifi and Yaacob Hasan (whom I don't know personally, but he seems to be the official MASAF photographer for the occasion) for most of the photos, and to Fzah for the photo of us together. As for anyone else who hasn't passed me their photos...just do it!!!