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MALAM KIAMBANG BERTAUT

Assalamualaikum WRTHB dan Salam Sejahtera,

The last mail I sent regarding the reunion dinner was on 31/8/2010. The updates on the status quo was given then. Of course we are really short of funds to get things going. I have requested that the RM 100 payment be deposited into either my personal Maybank acc or the official uiTM's account. The amount of money collected at that point was only RM7,800. At this point in time we should have RM 50,000 to pay the hotel a 50% downpayment on the basis of 1,00 pax attendance and also entertainer 50% fees.

Between then and now, a few friends have responded. As of today, we have managed to get RM3,000 more and the total amount collected to date is RM 10,800.00

I am still working on getting people to pay, this time by personal calls and sms - mana yang larat dan mampu. And I am always thinking on how to get the full amount - DAY and NIGHT.

Yesterday I met up with the people at Crowne Plaza. Told them our problem and they allow us to delay the 50% payment until the week after raya. So ada masa sikit lagi bagi kawan2 yang nak bayar. Terlanjur you all pergi bank untuk tukar duit raya dalam sehari dua ini, deposit sekali lah 100 henget tu kat 1-12101-213808 no.akaun Maybank saya. Bolehkan.

I would also like to remind those friends who have pledge to give "something"/"anything" for the lucky draw to get those stuff to us at the Faculty by Friday 24/9/2010 the latest. That is 2 weeks before the function so that we know how much items we have to give away as lucky draw prizes. And we can categorize the gifts as major lucky draw item, or yang biasa-biasa aja. So please send those stuff by slow/snail-mail ker, fast/courier mail ker, or personally delivered. Use this address kalau nak mail - Dr.Salim Abdul Talib, Fakulti Pengurusan Hotel dan Pelancongan, Universiti Teknologi Mara, 40450, Shah Alam, Selangor.

So what happens after the raya dateline and funds are still low? The event cannot be cancelled as so much effort and time has been put into this project. Well I think I should start calling up few Mr. Ah Longs for the best short term loan deal.

For now, I cannot afford to be shy to again plead/merayu/mintak tolong/mengemis to those of you to deposit the RM 100.00 to my 1-12101-213803 account and fax me the deposit slip at Dr.Salim @ 03-5544 - 5698. Those as faraway as Australia pun dah buat payment and fax pada saya slipnya.

This medium of communication is still very limited to the names in this list and cannot reach many more of our friends. As a favour from me and the organizing committee, we would like to ask a favor from you all to extend this mail to your DCT/DCA friends which is in your e-mail contact list - facebook, twitter, myspace - apapon jua lah! Tolong lah kami wahai kawan2 semua!. Ni dah terdesak dah nih!

Sekian dulu buat hari ini. Hari esok, lusa, tulat dan tungging saya akan update lagi. Mintak2 bertambahlah sikit dari jumlah RM10,800.00 yang ada sekarang.

Terimakasih dan Wassalam.

Selamat Hari Raya, Maaf Zahir dan Batin.

Yang benar,

Salim

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ATTENTION TO ALL CULINARIAN

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PLEASE EMAIL IT TO ME xzchef@gmail.com or chefazahar@gmail.com

19th June 2010

Assalamualaikum WRTHB semua,

Sepertimana yang telah digembar-gemburkan sebelum ini tentang satu majlis perjumpaan dan makan malam bekas pelajar2 seni kulinari UiTM seMalaysia (AC/EWC/PCM/DCT/DCA/BsCA/MsCA/PhDCA), saya dengan ini ingin memaklumkan bahawa segala perancangan/persiapan awal telah siap diatur. Kini hanya menunggu masa untuk kita semua menghadirinya sahaja. Tetapi sebelum itu, kutipan wang harus dibuat untuk membayar wang pendahuluan kepada pihak hotel sebagai pengesahan tempahan, wang pendahuluan sebulan sebelum acara berlangsung, dan juga perbelanjaan2 lain yang berkaitan (pendahuluan entertainment artist professional, hadiah, kos pengiklanan, buku program, pamiran dsbnya).

Berikut ini adalah maklumat-makulumat yang berkaitan:

1. Tema: Malam Kiambang Bertaut Alumni Jabatan Seni Kulinari UiTM

2. Tarikh: Sabtu, 9 Oktober 2010.

3. Venue: Crowne Plaza Mutiara Kuala Lumpur (KL Hilton dulu)

4. Masa: 4.00 -7.00 petang: Cocktail Reception (Galleria Foyer -depan Nirwana ballroom ballroom).
- Ada light snacks, light beverage - sponsors for addtional
drinks and snacks are most welcomed.

7.45 - 11.00 malam : Grand Dinner (Muhibbah Menu)

------> Adalah dinasihatkan agar anda datang pada sesi cocktail reception itu kerana
sesi ini adalah masa yang paling sesuai untuk kita berinteraksi sesama kita, ambil
gambar, buat networking dsbnya. Di sesi grand dinner, kita semua akan duduk
dimeja makan dan kurang manis kalau kita masih berkeliaran, buat bising dsbnya.
Seating arrangement nanti akan di maklumkan kemudian. Surau ada kawasan
ballroom/foyer, jadi tidak ada masalah untuk kita nak solat asar, maghrib, isya',
hajat, istikharah dsbnya jika mahu.

5. Kos: RM 100 per pax. Dibolehkan dan digalakkan membawa spouse (suami atau isteri).

6. Pakaian:
Sangat mengharapkan anda semua menghampiri tahap wajib , especially yang ex-Culinarians, datang dengan Chef Whites. Kita nak lihat satu "lautan putih" yang
menjadi trademark dan kebanggan kita di majlis ini.

7. Total Number of Pax:
Kita mengharapkan agar 1,000 bekas pelajar (spouse included) dari semua level - certificate, diploma, bachelor, master dan phd dapat hadir kemajlis ini kerana tempahan dan perbelanjaan adalah dibuat diatas kapasiti 1,000 pax.

Kalau tak sampai, agak bermasalah bagi pihak penganjur iaitu Jabatan Seni Kulinari, Fakulti Hotel UiTM Shah Alam kerana kami telah menandatangani letter of undertaking for this event. Tandatangan saya telah berada diatas dotted line tersebut, kalau apa-apa hal, hotel akan cari saya.

So help us to make this event a success by joining, and help us market this event to others that we can't reach -your classmates, batch mate etc. Juga tolong kami cari sponsors untuk event ini. Surat minta sponsorship ada diattachkan dengan e-mail ini.

Acara ini adalah acara rasmi UiTM. Naib Canselor UiTM (VC) dan Menteri Pengajaian Tinggi akan diundang ke majlis ini.

8. Cara Pembayaran:

- Supaya tiada pertikaian/dakwa-dakwi yang akan timbul kemudian dan meningkatkan tahap
kebolehpercayaan terhadap duit yang bakal dikutip, kami pihak penganjur cuba untuk tidak
mengumpul wang secara tunai (jika boleh- unless you insist to pay cash).
- Pihak Bendahari UiTM telah bersetuju untuk memberi keizinan untuk menggunakan Akaun
Tabung Amanah UiTM sebagai wadah untuk kutipan bayaran dari alumni dan juga sponsor.
- Dengan itu, anda boleh mendeposit bayaran kedalam akaun yang maklumatnya seperti di bawah:

Bank Name: Affin Islamic Bank Berhad
Address: UiTM Branch, Shah Alam, Selangor
Swift code: PHBMMYKL (for transfers)
Account No. : AIBB 105140003422 (for CDM-cash deposit machine)

- Setelah anda membuat pembayaran/pendepositan, pastikan anda hantar salinan
fax "transaction slip" ke Fakulti Pengurusan Hotel.
Tuliskan --> kepada Dr.Salim Abdul Talib atau Pn.Roslina Ahmad. Pastikan anda tulis nama
anda (atau nama syarikat anda jika syarikat anda ingin menjadi sponsor cash untuk beli
table (RM 800 per table for a table of 10) atau untuk cover sebahagian expenses kita,
tulis juga tarikh dan nama event (Malam Kulinarian UiTM - 9/10/2010). Dan juga tarikh
fax anda dihantar beserta nombor telefon bimbit/pejabat anda untuk kami hubungi anda
untuk pengesahan penerimaan.

- Nombor fax fakulti ialah: 03-5543 5698

- Apabila kami terima fax anda, kami akan keluarkan satu resit rasmi pembayaran. Kami akan
berikan resit ini kepada anda apabila anda datang mendaftar pada event itu nanti.

Dengan penjelasan cara pembayaran itu tadi, saya berharap anda semua bolehlah melakukan pembayaran tersebut mulai sekarang. Ini adalah kerana pihak kami perlu buat bayaran pendahuluan dan perbelanjaan lain seperti berikut:-

Deposit RM 5,000.00 semasa menandatangani kontrak untuk pengesahan tempahan (sudah dibayar pada 6/6/2010 melalui wang yang dipinjam dari Fakulti – P.S. perlu bayar balik nih!)
Perlu bayar separuh dari jumlah penuh kira-kira sebulan sebelum tarikh event (we are looking at around RM 30,000.00 to RM 40,000.00 here). Saya hendak pastikan by 1/9/2010 kita dah dapat kumpulkan jumlah tersebut dan boleh confirmkan dengan pihak hotel jumlah pax sebenar.
Jumlah penuh mesti dibayar selewat-lewatnya 3 hari apabila sudah habis event.
Perlu bayar wang pendahuluan kepada artis professional yang akan dijemput untuk membuat persembahan pada malam tersebut bila kita sudah confirm untuk dapatkan khidmat mereka. Chef Zam Awz sudah mengusahakannya. Two professional artists (secret for now, one popular in the 80's, male and the other popular now, female) dan satu dance performance group sedang dirundingkan. Once confirm, about RM 7k to RM 8k is required for deposit.
Wang untuk perbelanjaan runcit seperti pengiklanan, hadiah/cenderamata, buku program, logistics dsbnya- probably few thousand RM more.
Semua perbelanjaan ini nanti akan pihak kami oditkan dan pamirkan untuk tatapan semua diakhir event ini nanti.
Sebagai rumusan saya bagi pihak penganjur memohon beberapa perkara dari anda semua:-

1. Tolong war-warkan berita ini kepada semua warga alumni Culinary Arts tak kira short course (certificate in assistant cook (AC), eastern-western cooking (EWC), pastry and cake making (PCM), diploma in chef training(DCT), diploma in culinarty arts (DCA), bachelor in culinary arts, master in food service/culinaryart/gastronomy, phd culinary art) yang anda kenal, terutama dari batch anda.

2. Tolong buat bayaran secepat mungkin kerana kita perlu duit buat pembayaran pendahuluan kepada hotel dan perbelanjaan lain.

3. Kepada anda yang masih berada didalam industry perhotelan khususnya ataupun sudah pun menceburi bidang lain, tolong kami carikan sponsor untuk event ini samada in-kind (meal voucers, hotel rooms, vacation) atau pun cash. Kita nak bagi sebanyak hadiah yang boleh untuk lucky draw dan special achievements dan pada tetamu undangan - Menteri, VC, bekas Dekan, bekas Pensyarah dsbnya. (Chef Muluk - grand Maggie Chef can help? and other Exec Chefs, Sous Chefs, GM, F&B Mgr, HR Mgr etc. can help?, Towkeh/Owner Restaurants can help?). Saya attachkan surat permohonan untuk sponsorship bersama e-mail ini. Anda buka, download dan gunakanlah bila anda meminta sponsorship tersebut. Bila dah dapat jangan simpan pulak, berikan kepada kami.

Dah banyak saya tulis dah nih. Letih jari menaip.Tolong forwardkan e-mail ini kepada kawan-kawan lain yang saya tak ada e-mail address mereka. Kalau ada pertanyaan lanjut, e-mail saya kat salimmrsm@hotmail.com atau call saya dinombor 019-358-7020.

Wassalam.

Salim Abdul Talib


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Allahyarham Chef Arif Wahi
Batch 1976-1979
Tuesday, 1st September 2009

Al Fatihah untuk Almarhum...

I had an opportunity to work with him for a while... in Pelangi Beach Resort. We were friends when both of us working in Genting...

May Allah bless him & all of us... Condolence to his family...

Kamal Md Saad

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Salam
Listed are some of the HotCat related groups.
Feel free to create your own batch/fan group.

Please use the link as references:

(Facebook)
Petition to create "UiTM" network in Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6338201315

HotCat Batch Jan 94
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19816789100

DHCM ITM
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17747621459

School of Hotel and Tourism ITM Shah Alam
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26865590990

UITM Dungun HOTCAT ALUMNI
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=31036193139

Chef Zam
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21847624718

Babes & Hunks of DTM92
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20607709349

HotCat Batch 93-96
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47834770589&ref=nf

ex UiTM Dungun Branch batch 94-98
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28214088077

DHM98
http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb#/group.php?gid=44756907447

Ex Student Diploma In Chef Training - ITM/UiTM
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=88075378969

Ex Dip In Chef Training UiTM 95-98
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=85406178887

Hot Cat Millennium Batch
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=111562066349

dfsm1992
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9797981538

DCT HOTCAT UITM 1992 (SEM JANUARY)-1994SEM (DECEMBER)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=92793041395

(Yahoo Group)
XHot Cat, ITM, Shah Alam
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xhotcat/?yguid=351263035

HOTCAT SCHOOL ALUMNI
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hotcat_forever/?yguid=302037003

Alumni of DCT and DCA to the link below:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DCT-DCACoolChefsClub

Blogspot for DCT:
http://dctuitm.blogspot.com/

Collaboration with our Faculty....check it out
http://www.trymasak.my/

Alumni Hotcat ITM/UITM Shah Alam
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8615004964

July 96 Diploma in Chef Training, ITM Shah Alam
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=110885609444

DCT HOTCAT UITM 1992 (SEM JANUARY)-1994SEM (DECEMBER)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=92793041395

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Interesting !!!!
Nasi Kandar Newsletter

* CAM Penang Chapter Nasi Kandar 2009
This is Chef Association Malaysia Penang Chapter Nasi Kandar Newsletter for year 2009.
>> Nasi Kandar June 2009- http://www.penangchefs.com/sitedocument/nasikandar/NASI_KANDAR_2009_June.pdf

>> Nasi Kandar March 2009-http://www.penangchefs.com/sitedocument/nasikandar/NASI_KANDAR_March_2009.pdf



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Host: Chefs Association of Malaysia

Type: Party - Cocktail Party

Network: Malaysia

Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Location: Renaissance Hotel

City/Town: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Free Cocktatil Party to annouce the new board 2009/2010 to celebrate the launch of our new website and membership endorsement scheme.
* Entry strictly by invitation cards only for CAM member.
* For non member and invited guest, kindly confirm your attendance with the administrator.
RSVP :
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Pastry & Baking Asia Pacific

I wanted to give you an update on Pastry & Baking Asia Pacific and our
new, free resource for chefs.

Starting on January 1, 2009 all our back issues of both Pastry & Baking
Asia
Pacific and Pastry & Baking North America are now posted on our website in
digital edition format. By visiting www.pastryap.com and clicking on
"Digital Editions" or "Back Issues" foodservice professionals who can
browse, read and search all our back issues for recipes and subject
matter. If the Chef's Association of Malaysia Penang Chapter can alert
your members to this new service it would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Joe Marionette
Publisher

Pastry & Baking Publications



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Dear Colleagues Greetings.

I would like you to visit the Chamchefs Archive which has been updated with 11 new teams including your own. www.champchefs.com http://www.champchefs.com

In the attachment you will find the Champchef Logo which will enable you to link this site to another if you so wish. Thank you for your time and patience assisting me in the gathering of the necessary information for this file.

At this time I would like to wish you and yours good health and good fortune during the Christmas season and then onward into 2009.

Maurice.

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Subject:DCT / DCA Next Event

Due to the positive responses received on our "sembang-sembang DCT", a
group of us, happened to linger behind and started to discuss the future
event.
The followings were agreed:

To create a DCT yahoogroup - this has already been created by Kapt.
Mazian. www.DCT-DCACoolChefsClub@yahoogroups.com. Please sign-up and do
contribute. Mazian, thank you.
To have a get together on a smaller scale on a monthly, bi-monthly or 3
months once, depending on the response. This can be initiated by anyone,
and anyone who has the time and wants to join are welcome.
To have an event on a grand scale which can be a Gala Dinner, in February
next year, 2009. Thus, we have about 12 months and counting to plan, and
all ideas and contributions are welcome.
To have a committee to initiate and come out with the ideas. Those who
stayed behind were officailly selected except for Helmy -Jusco JB due to
logistic problem.

Below please find the proposals for the next year 2009's event:

Objective:
To highlights our own achievement.
To have the highest number of Chefs under one roof at one time (we might
be lucky.....world record.....who knows...but that is not the main
objective)
To acknowledge the people who has contributed and made a difference to
DCT, the country and the Chefs.
Networking and bringing us closer together as one Brotherhood of Chefs

Date: 14 Feb or 15 Feb (Saturday or Sunday)
It is in the middle of the month after the Chinese New Year and before the
F1 starts.
I would prefer a Saturday. Though it could be a busy weekend day, it will
give us 1 day to recover before going back to work on Monday. It also
gives enough time for our outstation colleagues to come and return safely.

Time: 6:00pm - 10:00pm or until finish
6:00 pm - registration, standing cocktail, magrib
7:45 pm - all seated
8:00 pm - dinner is served, followed by whatever event planned by the
committee

Price: RM100.00 nett/per person
Spouse is encourage to come. This is to show support and encouragement.
Students are encourage to come. To see where their future is, from the
people who are already there and to meet them

Type of Meals: Chinese Set Dinner or Muhibbah Set Dinner
Chinese is preferred as I believe none of us is a Chinese Chef thus,
allowing us to enjoy the evening together.
The main course after the SOUP, instead of serving course by course, 3
dishes can be served concurrently.
Then, the dessert, preferred Western and fresh fruits.

Theme: DCT BERMULA NYA DISINI...........or DCT SEKALI LAGI
BERSAMA.........or ANY PROPOSAL???
This is the evening where we highlight and praise ourselves on past,
current and future achievement.
It is time to recognize and acknowledge some of the achievements received
and sacrifices made by our colleagues to reach their dreams.
Time to share their achievements, commitments and dreams.

Attire: ex-DCT students and students in White Chef's Jacket with Black
Pants and UiTM Scarf. Compulsory.
To have the largest number of Chefs under one roof sitting down together
at one time, thus we need uniformity.
Scarf: Current UiTM issue. Those who do not have them will be given at the
registration or a ceremony. Need the actual head count and the cost per
scarf.
Thus, those who are not in White Chef's Jackets are obviously not
ex-DCT/DCA or current Students. It will be nice to see the once young and
supple body, wearing the jackets again.

Propose Acknowledgement:
To those who still wears the Chef's Jacket for 20 years or more. Thus,
this will eliminate those who have move up or out into Management or other
professions.
To those who has lived, studied and/or worked in minimum 5 countries. As a
Chef, one gets a passport to travel.
To those who speak the most number of languages other than the mother
tongue, Malay and English
To the First Batch. Not too late to recognize them.
Others

Action Plan

Committee Members
The CM were self-elected on a voluntary basis after the 17 Feb event.
Please find attached the members list. More volunteers are welcome.



Bank Account Number
Need to have an account where we could start collecting the money for
those who are interested to come for the event.
It has to be set early and hopefully, 3 months before the event ie middle
of November 2008, we have a good response and able to plan accordingly.
Action: Md. Shah / Kapt. Mazian - please advise

Main Event
Please start to line-up the programme of actual evening for the evening
Time - registration, cocktail, dinner, speeches, games, luckydraws,
gifts.....etc.
Menu - please propose the menu, price and also the food tasting session
Prices / Awards - what prices or awards that we would like to give.
MC for the evening - Need to look at the MC; Zamzani already offered
himself. It will be good to have our own guys, preferably a pair, those
who understand what we are talking about rather than some outsiders whom
we have to pay but do not know who we are.
Action: Committee Members, please indicate what you would like to handle
or can handle.

Sponsors
I saw the list of suppliers who sponsor Chef Association of Malaysia.

Instead of everyone asking from the same supplier for the same event,
maybe 1 person should spearhead and handle this. Preferably someone on the
committee of the CAM - Zubir and/or Kamil - CAM Secretary

Door Gifts / Cendrahati : Ideas?????

Can the tailor or supplier that supplies the scarfs to UiTM sponsors all
the scarfs needed for the evening? Need the head count. Action: Salim or
representative as Salim maybe busy with his project.
Action: Zamzani, Salim, Shaharim, Zubir

Bulletin / Notices / Flyers
When can we officially spread the news?
It has unofficially started through this email but need the support of
means to make it official. Newspaper, Website......etc.
Action: Zamzani, Mazian

Remunerations
Please look at the ways to thank the Committes and those who volunteers to
help make the event a success.
Free dinner for Committee Members - I suggest to pay first to get the
finance going and to the boost the numbers of attendees.
Free dinner for Students who help before and during the event - to those
who really contribute, otherwise we will have all coming in for free.
Please inquire, how many tables can we get free from the selected host
company.

Those who would like to join the Committee or would like to contribute,
please reply through this forum.

Please do not let this information come to an abrupt end. Do spread the
words around.
To those responsible on the actions need to be taken, please act
accordingly. Do not let us get caught in a corner again.
We need timelines and datelines.

As this is an open forum, all comments and feed-backs are welcome.

Good Luck to ALL of US and Insyallah We'll Make DCT/DCA Proud

Wassalam


Hafidz_Ainuddin@Singaporeair.com.sg

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