2008 Mines Mensa Scrabble Challenge_16.08.08

The 8th Mines Mensa Scrabble Challenge, which was jointly organised by Malaysian Mensa Society and Mines Shopping Fair, was held on 16th August 2008 at Mines Shopping Fair, Kuala Lumpur. Due to limited spaces (because of ongoing renovation works), there were only 17 players for the Masters Category and 20 players for the Intermediate Category took part.

Participants for the Tournament
Tournament Directors Alex Tan & Ganesh Asirvatham

Rama took part in the Masters Category while his cousin Vijayaraj played in the Intermediate Category.

After seven rounds of play, Rama managed to achieve second position after winning five games (W-W-L-W-W-L-W). Pui Cheng Wui, who was undefeated, emerged Champion while Vannitha achieved third position.

Rama Vs Tengku Asri

Rama Vs Khoo Beng Way

Rama Vs Pui Cheng Wui

Rama Vs Vannitha

Rama Vs Sreepathy Iyer

Rama Vs William Kang

Rama Vs Gan Yi En

In the Intermediate Category, Viji managed to achieve third position after winning five out of six games. The top three winners all had five points but were separated by the spread points.

Viji Vs Teo Wee Seong (Score 441-380)

Viji Vs G. Krishna Iyer (Score 398-330)
Viji Vs Tan Ker Hee (Score 330-307)

The elder and younger scrabblers

Distracting entertainment for Merdeka celebration during the matches.

Prizes for the first eight winners for each Category

Photographs of some of the winners below:

Intermediate Category
Champion Reynold Lin

Runners Up Teo Wee Seong

Viji collecting his third position prize

Masters Category
Champion Pui Cheng Wui
Runners Up Ramaraj
Third Position Vannitha
Khoo Beng Way collected prizes for highest game, highest word (QUINTES-110 points), highest average game & fourth placing.

Prize Winners Group Photo

It was a good outing for the Raj cousins at this tournament. For Viji, this was his first prize-winning performance.

Raj & Viji

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Another Master in the Family_06.08.08

My elder sister-in-law, Dr. Savathri, attended her graduation in University Malaya (UM) on 6th August 2008 to receive her Masters degree in Public Health (Oral Health). She completed the four years full time Masters degree with five other course mates. They are the pioneer group of graduates for this Masters programme as it was the first time UM had offered this course four years ago.

Incidentally, my sister-in-law graduated from the same University for Dentistry Degree 26 years ago. She has been working as a Dentist in the service of the Government when she was offered a full time scholarship to pursue the Masters programme. Currently she has been promoted to Deputy Director in the Ministry of Health based in Putrajaya.

Mum & sis-in-law
Rama, Raj, Dr Savithri, Chitra & Priya
Jayaraj, Drs Savithri & Mahendraraj, Aishwarya & Anandaraj
Veni, Aishwarya, Sis-in-law, Priya & Sharmini
Vishnu, Viji , Sis-in-law,Krish & Rama.


It was celebration time. We all met up in my house and my brother treated us dinner at Syed Restaurant at SS 19, Subang Jaya.

Mutton Briyani feast

Girls' party
Boys' party

2008 SJC Girls' Futsal One Day Tournament_ 03.08.08

The One Day Tournament on 3rd August 2008, marked the closing of our 2008 SJC Girls' Futsal League. The final Round 6 games were played followed by the Mum's and Dad's Futsal games. The closing ceremony of the tournament included the prize giving ceremony, lucky draws and High Tea party.

Our Guest for the closing ceremony was YB Hannah Yeoh, ADUN for Subang Jaya.


Results:
Major Division
Amber 5 _ Emerald 3
Turquoise 0 _ Citrine 0


Senior Division
Jade 3 _ Sapphire 0
Opal 1 _ Garnet 0

Premier Division
Diamond 3 _ Ruby 3
Amethyst 0 _ Topaz 2

In the Majors Division, even though the Champions and the Runners-up were decided last week as Amber and Emerald respectively, it was a very competitive and rough game between them. Instead of letting the players enjoy their last game of the season, they were under pressure to win at all cost, which affected some of the players' performance. The second game between Turquiose and Citrine was a closely contested friendly game which ended in a scoreless draw. Turquoise players were happy to earn their first point. The results of the games did not change the positions of the team. Congratulations to the Champions Amber, Runners Up Emerald followed by Citrine and Turquiose.

In the Seniors Division, Champions Jade won Sapphire by three goals by nil. Opal managed to beat Garnet narrowly by one goal to end up as Runners Up followed by Sapphire and Garnet.

The Premier game between Champions Diamond and Ruby was very exciting. Ruby needed a draw to secure Runners Up position and they did it with a three all draw. In the second match, Topaz beat Amethyst by two goals to nil to achieve third position in the table followed by Amethyst.

Amber & Emerald players
Citrine players with Coach Thomas Ward
Topaz Vs Amethyst match

There were four teams each competing in the Mums and Dads futsal. It was a feisty battle between the Mums and the Pinky Mums emerged Champions. The Dads game was also closely contested and was won by Team 1.
Battle of the Mums

Dads' Futsal match
Mums of "Orange" team resting after the match
Dr. Amin with "Pinky Mums"
Winner of Dads' Futsal-Team 1

The prize giving ceremony started with a speech from YB Hannah Yeoh. Each player was given a trophy with her name and team name . The Champions and the Runners Up winners for each divisions were also awarded with medals.

Teams sitting patiently.

Speech by YB Hannah Yeoh
Medal Presentation

Priya & Maria receiving their trophies
Champions Amber, Jade and Diamond
Tun Kamalul and Family

Certificates were awarded to referees, coaches, team managers and volunteers. YB Hannah Yeoh was presented with a token of appreciation for her support by Dr. Amin, Chairman of SJCSC.
Ramaraj receiving his referee certificate

Mark checking out his referee certificate

YB Hannah & Dr. Amin

YB Hannah & Chitra

The lucky draws comprising of prizes ranging from hampers to Uno cards were great fun. Farouk, our SJCSC Coordinator, gave away the prizes.
Hampers waiting to be won
Kayshiiney and Farouk

There was also a surprise cake cutting ceremony for birthday girl Vyshnavi who turned nine on that day. The day ended with a High Tea treat comprising of "Roti Jala", curry chicken, chicken nuggets, sausages and curry-puffs.
Vyshvani blowing out the birthday candles.

We would like to thank everyone involved who have helped in any way to make this year's Girls Futsal League a rousing success. Hope to see you all next year.

Thank you for the memories.

For more photos, visit our photo album at http://ksrajchitra.fotopic.net/

For more details, visit our SJCYFL website: http://sjcyfl.wetpaint.com/