Gemilang 70 Golf at Sri Selangor Golf Club

 

The pioneering batch of students of Sekolah Tuanku Abdul Rahman ( STAR) in Ipoh celebrated their 70th birthdays this year. The batch decided to organize a 2-day celebration to commemorate this landmark. The festival started with a golf game at the Sri Selangor Golf Club where 40 golfers took part. Pakdokter's batch of Staroba69ers was represented by 12 golfers.

 

 

 

 Alias Shaarani, Mogd Rom and Harmain Zayadi of Staroba69

 

 Zaini Dewa, Omar Othman and Tan Sri Samad Alias

 

 Datuk Badli Awang Chik,  ??? and Tan Sri Samad Alias

 

 Ehwan Saring, Hashim Aris, Bakar Sulaiman and ????

 

 Baharom Othman, Ahmad Khalid and Ehwan Saring

 

 the above 3 with pakdokter and Hashim Aris

 

 Sufian Hamzah and Mohd Noor Ismail joined the group

 

 Datuk Badli Awang Chik, Dr Rosli Khan, ??? and Hashim Aris

 

Rais Mansor, Ahmad Khalid, pakdokter and Harmain Zayadi

Wisteria Festival (3)

 

Below are some pictures of the Tokyo SkyTree which is located not far off from Ueno. It could be easily viewed from the grounds of the shrine where the Wisteria Festival was held.

 

 

Below - are some pictures of the shrine where the Wisteria Festival was held. The Japanese is generally still a spiritual society. People queue up to make prayers and offerings at the shrine.

Wisteria Festival (2)

Wisteria Festival (1)

 

Sunday, 28th April 2013

 

We had lunch at an Asian Restaurant just metres away from the Malaysian Embassy. After that Rastam and Tsuyano had agreed to meet up with some other friends to visit the Wisteria Festival at another shrine located somewhere near Ueno.

 

 

 

PRU13 in Tokyo

Sunday, 28th April 2013

 

 

Today is the day Rastam votes in the PRU13. Pakdokter and partner and Rastam's friend, Tsuyano, accompanied him to the Malaysian Embassy located in Shibuya in Tokyo.

 

There were about 20 people in queue, mostly postgraduate students and those working in Tokyo. However the electoral process was quite slow. It took almost 2 hours before Rastam completed his electoral exercise.

 

 

 

 pakdokter, Fareeda, Rastam and Tsuyano

 

 the Malaysian Embassy in Tokyo

 

 the electoral exercise done!

 



A Night at a Whisky Bar

27th April 2013

 

From Ueno Park we walked down to ?Ochanamizu - a district not unlike our Petaling Street but the attraction here was the many sports shops selling their goods at a discount. There were many golf shops too but their prices were not much better than those at the major golf stores in Shinjuku which were also having a 'spring sale and promotion' now.

 

We decided to go into a whisky, wine and beer bar for drinks and pub grub as some of the earlier restaurants we wanted to go to earlier were full.

 

Pakdokter tried out the Yamazaki and the Hakushu single malts - the Yamazakis were smooth and sweet while the Hakushus were smoky and would probably be preferred by cigar-smokers.

 

We had slices of duck breasts and a simple pasta dish with pepperinos and anchovies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pakistan Fair at Ueno Park

27th April 2013

 

 

From the station, we walked to Ueno Park where there happened to be a Pakistan Fair. Food stalls, crafts and textiles as well as cultural performances were put up. We tried out the chicken kebab and samosas while sipping their masala chais.