Kolej Tunku Kurshiah 1992 Dec - 1998 Mar
 A blast from the past ... 1970 Jul 5 Sun, the bus stops and drops; the netball on the ground; the debate in the hall; I was taken around for the 'tour' by the headgirl - only now that I felt like I wanted to know who was she, and what was she doing right now. Never imagined in 1970 that I would be spending quite a fraction of my time here later, not yet told then when; |
We took Malini to Tunku Kurshiah College, TKC on Dec 14 Mon to begin her Form 1. This is my third "arrival" in TKC; the very first one was in 1970 Jul 5 Sun (then TKC was an English School) in SAS70 Prefect return trip from PD. Then in 1986XXXXXXXX helping CheGu Harun's son Nazri (a UKM first year FSFG) to fetch his sister for emergency trip back to Trg via Subang for their mother's funeral. As after then, I would be in TKC many hundreds times more. Syarbini was then about to become an 'erectus'.
I made two stops asking the passer-by to arrive at TKC. But this was only indications that Seremban had changed a lot that its pictures do not superimpose on the memory I had. When we arrived, TKC itself had not change much as of 1986, or even deeper to 1970.
The registration was in the hall, the same hall - Dewan Budiman - which I was not sure of its name in 1970. And then to the dorm of the House Tun Fatimah. As we left the compound in the afternoon, we put a great trust that Malini would survive and retain her one-pieceness - to 1997 Dec - for I did not know how much the boarding schools then had changed from that in the 1970's. And this one was our first "great adventure" in schooling the kiddos, unlike her sister Rubaini who was in semi-boarding school. The only basic info that we had was that, things had changed and are changing.
TKC was the reborn Malay Girls' College, sited at 2 1/2m Jalan Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, which admitted its first group of 41 girls on 16th October 1947. It was officially opened by Lady Gent, the wife of Sir Edward Gent, the Governor of Malayan Union in the presence of Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaidin Sulaiman Shah, and the Tengku Ampuan of Selangor. In April 1962, the College moved to a 22-acre site on Bukit Merbah, Jalan Tunku Kurshiah, Seremban. Its new name Tunku Kurshiah College, in honour of the first Queen was formalised when the college was declared open by Almarhum Tuanku Munawir ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, the Yang Di Pertuan Besar Negeri Sembilan on 24th May 1963.
A quick five years 1992 Dec - 1998 Mac
