Message from the President of The Oxford and Cambridge Society Malaysia

11 May 2004

Dear Fellow Members,

Our next AGM is coming up on the 18th of June and I hope many of you will be able to join us at the meeting. It will be my last as President of the Society and it has certainly been an enjoyable 3 terms for me serving the society and its members. I hope you in turn have gained some satisfaction from being in the Society as the Committee has worked hard to organise a variety of events to meet the different objectives of the Society - The Vice President ( Oxon) gave a nice Chinese New Year party at his home, we had yet another memorable Boat Race dinner and you can look forward to a talk by a distinguished Malaysian speaker, a Summer Garden party hosted by the Vice President (Cambridge) for new graduates from Oxford and Cambridge, an English Language Event and a not- to- be missed Royal Programme soon. As they say “the best societies nowadays either has to feed people, amuse people or shock people!” Hopefully we are doing a decent job of the former two…Nevertheless we would like to hear your views and expectations from being a member of the Society and this valuable feedback will certainly help us plan our events better.

I am pleased to inform that we now have 382 members in our database with updated contact details of which only 231 have functioning e-mail addresses (18 have rejected e-mails or full mailboxes, and 133 do not have e-mail). As you can tell, this poses a problem for us whenever we have to communicate with you on events and other Society happenings as email is the easiest and fastest form of communication. However, we have resorted to fax and even snail mail in many instances and will continue to do so for those of you who are not comfortable with the bits and bytes! I encourage you therefore to kindly update your contact information with us whenever there is a change through our website at www.oxbridgemalaysia.com

As brevity does not inspire the yawn, I will end here. Please take the time to fill up the attached brief feedback form and send it back to us before 30th May 2004. I hope to see you on 18th June when a full report on what the Society has done in the year will be presented.
My warmest wishes and best regards to you

Tan Sri Abdullah Ahmad