Cultural Night Taaruf Week Sem 1, 2013/2014

Assalamualaikum dear lovely readers.

We come back with the collaboration show for cultural night Taaruf Week Semester 1, 2013/2014. This event has been involved by 11 cultural clubs which are Angklung, Acoustic Band, Percussion, Andeka Caklempong, Gamelan, Nasyeed, Theathre, Poetry, Zapin, Dikir Barat, and CPC. First of all, welcome to the Garden of Knowledge and Virtue to all new students. As being scheduled, the cultural night is on 8th September 2013. So, our members who will perform on that night have come back to IIUM on 30th September 2013 to start the training. We have been trained by Sis Intaz Syafinaz Sazali, Sis Dian Elisatun Nadhiyah, Sis Najihah, Bapak Dadang, and Cikgu Ku Zahir who personally train us for our new song, Can't Take My Eyes Off You. Alhamdulillah, we managed to perform Song of Do Re Mi and Can't Take My Eyes Off You (collaborate with IIUM Acoustic Band). Another three songs collaborated by all music-based clubs are Overture, Santubong and Symphony 40.

Training Session

Sisters

We look like 'grass' right? :D

Sound check!

Waiting for our turn to perform.

Angklung Club's members

Let's pray to Him.

Done. Yeay!

Happy faces. :)

The performers and committess. Well done!

In short, a bunch of appreciation to all the performers and committees for the hard work and commitment. It such a wonderful and memorable event on that night. Hope for a better Cultural Night next semester. Till we meet again. :D

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Iftar IIUM Angklung Club

Assalamualaikum.

Alhamdulillah, our mainboard has successfully organised an iftar for Angklung Club members on 24th July 2013. It is a joyful iftar for everybody as we managed to break the fast and perform tarawih together. It really help to strengthen our ukhuwah. After performing tarawih, there's an appreciation session for the seniors who will be graduated this short semester. After that, we do recording for "Selamat Hari Raya" song. So, let's enjoy some pictures (credit to: Bro Dzul Asyraff Firdhaus) and the awesome video edited by Bro Syahmi.

To all lovely readers, we would like to wish Eid Mubarak. May this Eid, In Shaa Allah be a source of immense blessing along with joy and happiness for all of us. Taqabalallahu minna wa minkum. Kullu'am wa antum bikhair. Last but not least, Congratulations to our mainboard for this memorable event. 

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Conference Engineering + International Model of OIC

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Ramadhan Kareem to dear readers. We would like to have a short update about another two performance for this month, July 2013. The first show is on 2nd July 2013 at Hotel Berjaya Times Square. We performed for dinner of Conference Engineering. This event has been organized by Kuliyyah of Engineering (KOE), IIUM.

The next two days which is on 4th July 2013, we have been invited to perform during dinner of International Model of OIC. The dinner was held in Main Hall, Cultural Activity Centre (CAC).  Basically, there are four performances on that night. Angklung was the one who performed first then followed by Arab Unity Group, Guinea students group and another performance from deligates. 

As for overall, we get positive feedback from the audiences and they really enjoy the performance. Thank you very much to the organisers for inviting us. That's all for this update. Stay tune with us! 

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Majlis Hi-Tea "Sentuhan Qalbu"

Alhamdulillah all praises to Allah. Angklung team has again been invited to perform during this short semester, which is in Hi-tea “Sentuhan Qalbu” Masjid Al Falah. This has been held in Dewan Orkid, Perbadanan Kemajuan Pertanian Selangor, Wisma PKPS on 29^th June 2013 (20 Sya’ban 1434H).  This program has been organized by Biro Muslimat Masjid Al Falah as one way to collect fund and strengthen the ukhuwah among the members of Qariah.

We performed in three slots. For the first slot, we performed Medley Ketipang Payung & Joget Pahang and continue the second slot with Tuhan. Before all the guests leave the events, we performed for the third slot. We played all the ten songs that we used to practised along the week. The songs was the same as the ten songs that we performed for Floria at Putrajaya.

We really thank the nice and friendly committee of this Hi-Tea and also a bunch of appreciation to Dato' Sri Haji Syed Zainal Abidin bin Syed Mohamed Tahir as the Nazir of Masjid Al-Falah, USJ 9 for his concern dan high interest in our performance. Thank you.

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FLORIA @ Putrajaya

Assalamualaikum.

On 22^nd June 2013, our team has been invited to perform at an annual event called “Floria” which is held at Laman Seni Putrajaya, Presint 2. The theme for this year is “Orchid”. There are 25 performers; 20 angklungians and 5 percussionists which performed ten songs on that that. The songs that are being performed by our team are:

Song of Do Re Mi

  My Way

 Ada Apa Denganmu

Medley Ketipang Payung & Joget Pahang

Bungong Jeumpo

Kopi Dangdut

 Cindai

London Bridge & Kereta Merah

Enjit-enjit Semut

Rasa Sayang

On that day there are also other performers who performed in different area. Overall, we really enjoy performing there. Dear readers, let's have a look on these awesome pictures. 

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Mass Gathering Semester 3, 2012/2013

Assalamualaikum.  

Today is already the end of June for 2013. Alhamdulillah short semester has already started one week ago. On  24th June 2013, Angklung Club held a mass gathering. There is only less than 20 members who attend the gathering. This might because of other members still not coming back to IIUM since Monday is holiday for IIUM students due to serious haze.

Our lovely president, Kak Bi has explained about the plan for short semester. She has decided to have only two times of weekly training which are on 25th June and 2nd July. There will be no training during Ramadhan but just an iftar for Angklung Club members. So, that's all for this semester's mass gathering. Hope that all the members can focus on this semester as this semester only have 6 weeks instead of 7 weeks for normal short semester. All the best everyone!

Till then,

Wassalam.

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Angklung Biz Days 2013

On 8^th, 9^th, 10^th & 11^th April 2013, IIUM Angklung Club has organized the entrepreneurship programme which is named as Angklung Biz Days 2013. The four days programmed was conducted from 9 am to 5 pm, located at the Female Mosque Entrance. As entrepreneurial skills are essentials to us as the students, the programme that was held by the club would help us in developing those skills.

The main objectives of the programs are first and foremost is to generate additional income to IIUM Angklung Club. The profit that we get from the programme can be contributed to the club. The second objective is to inculcate and developed entrepreneurship skills among the IIUM Angklung Club members. The target group of this programme was among the IIUM Community which involving 13 committees in total.

The programme that was started from 8^th April-11^th April was basically begun from 9am. By that time, the available committees gathered at Female Mosque Entrance and started to prepare and opened the booth. Usually, the business started at 9.15 am. The booth was available up until 4.45pm. After that, the committees started to prepare for closing the booth. At 5pm, the booth was closed and everybody dispersed to their respective Mahallah. The flow continued until the last day of the programme.

To sum up, the programme has been held successfully with the cooperation of all the members. The greatest input we got from the programme was how to develop the entrepreneurial skills and at the same time, we had the opportunities to know each member very well and strengthened the relationship between us. The programme went well as all the members gave their full commitments towards the programme and willing to help each other in order to ensure the successful of the programme. We really hope that this programme will be held again in future.

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SHOW + BUTEM Group Binding

On 3rd March 2013, Show and Performance Bureau and Bureau of Technical and Maintenance (BUTEM) had chosen to have the group binding event at a well-known restaurant which is only a walking distance from IIUM, Rahman Palace Steambot Restaurant. The advisor of our bureau and mainboard also joined the event together with the members of both bureaus.

We departed from IIUM at around 6.45 p.m and arrived at the restaurant at around 7.10 p.m. As we have booked the tables earlier, there was no problem of getting seats. We were so excited since there were numerous choices of food such as fresh meat, vegetables, variety types of meatballs and fishballs, and also fresh vegetables included in the buffet. The best thing was that each of us only had to pay RM20.00 for all of that marvellous cuisine.

Besides having a great time boiling and grilling the food, we used this golden chance to get to know each member better since we just can meet each other during weekly training. We also got to know the members of Butem Bureau and hopefully, our close relationship will last forever. We also had a surprise birthday celebration of two of us there.

At the end of the event, we took some pictures together before departing back to IIUM. We were so glad that we got to spend some quality time together as a family. Eating together never fails to bring everyone closer. As there is a famous saying, ‘ a family that eats together, stays together’.

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Archieve + T-Dev - GROUP BINDING

The group binding event of the Archieve and the Training and Development (T-Dev) bureaus was held on 10^th March 2013. The main reason that this kind of event was held was of course because to get to know the members better as we will be doing other events and performances together. Therefore, a strong foundation of bond between us must be built.

Both of our mainboard’s advisors could not come along due to some reasons. However, most of our members joined in this group binding event. We went to Sunway Pyramid Mall as the place for the event. We went there by five cars at around 9.30 a.m. It was a fairly exciting one-hour journey from IIUM.

We went straight to the ice skating place as we arrived at Sunway Pyramid. It was a first time experience for most of our members to skate. Nevertheless, we had fun as we could learn new thing that day. We skated for almost three hours and a half until 2.30 p.m. For sure we did not skate through all those 240 minutes literally and we did have our rest during those times depending on when we wanted to have our rest.

We performed Zuhr prayer and had our lunch afterwards. Because there were some times left before going back to IIUM, we decided to go to play bowling which is also at the Sunway Pyramid. Considering the times we did left after the bowling games finished at 5.00 p.m, we performed Asr prayer before going back to IIUM as we were afraid that we would not make it on time. As expected, we reached IIUM late in the evening at 7.00 p.m.

Undeniably, we did take pictures as the commemoration of this event. Have a look ;)

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