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The MV Screamer May 2018 1 | Page issued by Kon Cze Yan 18/5/18 What is happening with the MVs? Hello! Like Tun Dr Mahathir, I’m back! French MV Night in the Museum, 3/4/18 By Danie Picot Lively presentation on silat, keris and Malay culture by Mohd Nadzrin Wahba and @marietseng. A great philosophy on how to react to violence in a soft, determined and intelligent way. Terima kasih to #muziumnegara and the francophone volunteers guides for organizing this "Night in the Museum"! The Story of Kapitan Yap Ah Loy by Billy Woo, 14/4/18 The effervescent Billy Woo gave us his take on Kapitan Yap Ah Loy on 14 th April. 32 MVs attended. Most of us do know something about Yap Ah Loy, but Billy Woo knows a lot more including dirty linen stuff. A marvellous rags to riches story. Unfortunately Yap Ah Loy’s son was unaware of the old adage “The first generation makes the money, the 2 nd generation spends it and the 3 rd generation loses it”. He skipped stage 2 and went straight to stage 3!
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What is happening with the MVs?
Hello! Like Tun Dr Mahathir, I’m back!
French MV Night in the Museum, 3/4/18 By Danie Picot Lively presentation on silat, keris and Malay culture by Mohd Nadzrin Wahba and @marietseng. A great philosophy on how to react to violence in a soft, determined and intelligent way. Terima kasih to #muziumnegara and the francophone volunteers guides for organizing this "Night in the Museum"!
The Story of Kapitan Yap Ah Loy by Billy Woo, 14/4/18 The effervescent Billy Woo gave us his take on Kapitan Yap Ah Loy on 14th April. 32 MVs attended. Most of us do know something about Yap Ah Loy, but Billy Woo knows a lot more including dirty linen stuff. A marvellous rags to riches story. Unfortunately Yap Ah Loy’s son was unaware of the old adage “The first generation makes the money, the 2nd generation spends it and the 3rd generation loses it”. He skipped stage 2 and went straight to stage 3!
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Teh Tarik 2, 14/4/18 Some 17 MVs stayed back after Billy Woo’s talk for a little chat. Feelings poured forth and suggestions flowed. Anyway, the meeting did result in some ACTION! Saida Dasser volunteered to conduct a survey! This was emailed out 30/4/18. Did you complete the survey? If not, please do.
"Peking Man" special exhibition tour by Ahmad Hakimi Khairuddin, cultural anthropologist, 12/4/18 (repeated 3/5/18) Please read “Peking Man Disappears” by Maganjeet Kaur, 5/4/18 on MV’s Blog.
And do visit this special exhibition by 16/6/18. Hakimi gave us a very illuminating explanation of the special exhibition. This exhibition is more than just Peking Man. Many important discoveries were and are being made at Zhoukoudian. The mysterious loss of Peking Man has tended to overshadow this. Before MH370, this was one of the great Vanishing Mysteries to grip the world! So far, ancient human fossils, cultural remains and animal fossils dating from 5 million years ago to 10,000
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years ago have been discovered. These include the remains of Homo erectus pekinensis, archaic Homo sapiens and Homo sapiens sapiens. As the site of significant hominid remains discovered in the Asian continent demonstrating an evolutionary cultural sequence, Zhoukoudian is of major importance within the worldwide context.
Sri KL visits Muzium Negara 17/4/18 171 9-year old students and 9 teachers divided into 12 groups and 8 guides. Thanks to Alvin, Mona, Rosa & Zeinep for doing 2 rounds of guiding. Lots of photos on Facebook.
Visit by the Argentine Republic Cultural Attache, 18/4/18 By Rose Chin
Rose Chin carried out a last minute request to guide the Cultural Attache of the Embassy of the Argentine Republic. Mr Gabriel Parini was greeted by Encik Jamil and Encik Badrul. Mr Parini expressed interest in a cultural cooperation with the museum in the future. En Jamil presented him with ‘A Malaysian Tapestry‘ after which Rose took
him on a tour of the galleries. He demonstrated keen interest in how we became a multi racial society and our road to Independence.
Visit by Medical Students from Philippines, 18/4/18 10 medical students from the Philippines who are on an exchange under UKM's Student Mobility Program 2018 visited the museum. They were accompanied by 8 other persons - local students and the organiser. Yee Chun Wah guided.
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Night Trail, 21/4/18 By Yee Chun Wah The first Night Trail took place on 21st Apr 2018 with an approximate crowd of 70+ persons consisting of tourists, industry players and members of the media. The trail started and ended at Museum Negara and took about 3 hours from about 8pm to 11pm. From Muzium Negara, the entourage moved to the Textile Museum then the Royal Museum and finally back to Muzium Negara. Future Night Trails will be held on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of November and December.
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Palace Museum of China, Beijing visits Muzium Negara, 7/5/18 By Hu Ping On 7th of May, a 6-person cultural delegation led by Mr. Lou Wei, Deputy Director of the Palace Museum of China accompanied by 2 officials from China Embassy in Kuala Lumpur visited the National Museum to share the experiences of publicity activities and to discuss the possible future collaboration between China and Malaysia. Our dedicated MV member, Hu Ping gave them a 100-minutes Mandarin conducted tour guidance in four distinguished galleries. The honourable China group was amazed by our not-very-big-scale museum but very rich and solid collections, in addition to our strong guiding services that could be provided in English, Bahasa, Mandarin, Japanese and French languages! The China guests spent more time particularly in Gallery B and C as they were greatly impressed by the historical Malay Kingdoms especially with the strong relationship of China-Malacca and how Colonial Era had undoubtedly impacted the evolution of political, social and economic of Malacca until the formation of greater modern Malaysia.
Information Mornings MV 15/5/18 & MVJ 16/5/18 11 people attended MV’s Information Morning on 15 May and 5 signed up. The next Information Morning will be held on 11/8/18. For MVJ’s Information Morning on 16/5/18, 21 people attended and 14 signed up. The next MVJ Information Morning will be held on 6/6/18 Please do tell your friends and relatives.
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Membership Update
We have 130 active members currently:
NATIONALITY Year Batch
Malaysian 63 2006/2007 1 1
Japanese 40 2007/2008 2, 3 4
French 12 2008/2009 4, 5, 6 4
British 4 2009/2010 7, 8, 9 5
American 2 2010/2011 10, 11, 12 5
Canadian 2 2011/2012 13, 14, 15 4
German 1 2012/2013 16, 17, 18 5
Chinese 2 2013/2014 19, 20, 21 16
Hong Kong 1 2014/2015 22, 23, 24 26
Korean 1 2015/2016 25, 26, 27 20
Others 2 2017 28, 29 34
Total 130 2017/2018 30 6
Total 130
Female 101
Male 29
130
MV Visitor Statistics Thank you to MVs for all your hard work and commitment!
English French
Japanese Other School Total
2016 year
1,298
294
1,677
107
1,976
5,352
2017 year
1,771
361
1,544
89
1,176
4,941
Inc/(Dec)
473
67
(133)
(18)
(800)
(411)
-7.7%
Generally slight ups and downs to our visitor numbers, except for school programme which did not have enough volunteers. Please contact Yee to help out. He guarantees that it is FUN! Tell him if you prefer to guide young kids (9-13 years old) or young adults. Yee Chun Wah 016-282 2167.
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Other Reasons to leave home
New Pieces on the Blog @ museumvolunteersjmm.com
“Hidden Gems: The Magic Square Bowl” by Marianne Khor, 17/4/18 “Graduation Batches - 28 & 29”, 26/4/18
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Mark this in your calendar
Date Day Event/Speaker
29/3-16/6
Special Exhibition: Peking Man
18-May-18 Fri International Museums Day
24-May-18 Thu MVF: talk on Cheong Fatt Tze by Josianne
6-Jun-18 Wed MVJ: Information morning
12-Jun-18 Tue MV Committee meeting - all welcome
28-Jun-18 Thu Kuala Kangsar trip for B30 + others
11-Aug-18 Sat Information morning
14-Aug-18 Tue Talk on Malay medicine by Jamil Haron
August
Talk on "The Bugis Warriors of Selangor" by Billy Woo
29-Aug-18 Wed MVJ Batch 31 - start of training
1-Sep-18 Sat MV Batch 32 - start of training
4-Sep-18 Tue MV Batch 33 - start of training
October
Visit to JB & Singapore
October
Talk on "UNESCO Sites in Malaysia" by Steven Lim
Miscellaneous
SCHOOL VISITS: Please contact Yee Chun Wah at 016-282 2167 or [email protected] if you would like to help with the school visits. BLOG: Please do contribute to our MV blog. Send your articles to Magan at [email protected] PHOTOS: Taken any must-share photos of artefacts or people lately? Send them to [email protected] with a short description and we will post them up. http://museumvolunteersjmm.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Museum-Volunteers-Department-of-Museums-Malaysia http://www.jmm.gov.my/en/museum/muzium-negara http://www.muziumnegara.gov.my/
