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    Posted on July 29th, 2009

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    Dialog and Dinner Session with YB Dato’ Hamzah Zainuddin

    Gambar Kenangan

    29 July 2009 – UMNO Auckland was delighted to meet YB Dato’ Hamzah Zainuddin, our Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries & Commodities here in Auckland, New Zealand. This is the first visit of a member of the Malaysian Cabinet to Auckland since Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s Charity Golf in 2007. The dinner was held at Bing’s Restaurant, Auckland City Hotel. The new Malaysian High Commissioner to New Zealand, Dato’ Hasnuddin Hamzah was also present during the event that started at 7.30pm and ended about three hours later.

    Dato’ Hamzah’s visit to New Zealand was intended as an educational visit to seek new opportunities for Malaysia in gaining the knowledge and expertise of New Zealand in dealing with the forestry sector.

    In his speech, Dato’ Hamzah also explained about the concept of 1Malaysia which was initiated by YAB Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, our beloved Prime Minister of Malaysia. Dato’ also did not forget to mention that the Government is planning to give more incentives to Malaysians who are based overseas to return to Malaysia and serve the nation.

    We were fortunate to have had a dialog session with Dato’ Hamzah in getting better views and information about the events happening back home in Malaysia. Among the questiona raised were about the government’s decision to cancel the teaching of science and mathematics in English (PPSMI), the visions and missions of the new Prime Minister as well as the new incentives that planes to be offered by Malaysia in order to attract Malaysians to work in Malaysia.

    We would like to express our gratitude to Dato’ Hamzah and wife, as well as the delegates for having us that night. It was an honour and a privilege for those of us in Auckland.

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    Posted on July 20th, 2009

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    UMNO New Zealand Cup 2009

    UMNO NZ Rugby

    UMNO NZ Cup, the annual rugby test match among Malaysian students in New Zealand, returned this year with more exciting stories. The 2009 campaign was held on 8th July 2009, on the 3rd day of 2009 Bersatu Games at the Massey University Rugby Club, Palmerston North. Just into its second year, the organisers and participants of the Tri-Region competition involving Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch strongly believed that the tournament has achieved its goals and objectives which are to provide a platform for Malaysia students to unite and compete in rugby as to be part of the New Zealand culture.

    The first game between tournament favourites, Auckland Tigers and Wellington Lions kick started with high intensity since both teams came into the tournament with a winning mentality after narrowly losing last year. The Lions were definitely the better team in terms of physique built after fielding six big unit players. However, the Tigers surprised the spectators by scoring the first try right under the post after the Lions failed to secure the ball from the kick off in the early minutes. Despite the scrambled start, the Lions found their composure and equalised just before the end of 1st half. Second half continued with the Lions overturning the rucks and scrums, punishing the lack of experience of the Auckland team. Despite dominating the breakdowns, the Lions managed to score just one more try, thus winning the game 10-7.

    Following that, the Tigers took on last year’s champions, Christchurch, playing two games back-to-back. Despite losing a few key players due to injury sustained during the Bersatu Games, Christchurch managed to secure their only try after the ball was knocked on by one of the Tigers player. Christchurch made the score 7-0 after the successful conversion. In what seemed to be a more physically equalled match, the Tigers quickly equalised the score line after a try was scored when a cross kick was picked up by one of Tigers player. Just before the end of 2nd half, the Tigers managed to bring the scoreline to 12-7 after a beautiful solo try by one of their forwards.

    Due to lack of players in the Christchurch team, the game between Wellington and Christchurch was forfeited. The organisers decided that the cup winner will be decided in a final match between Auckland Tigers and Wellington Lions. After a 10 minute break, the final match kicked off. The Tigers, a more composed team now, started to get hold of the game by totally dominating the lineouts and winning some breakdowns. Thus, they were able to move the ball more quickly to their backline, attacking their opponents’ lack of pace. Despite that, the Lions exploited the Tigers lack of experience and their superiority in forward play, to score one try thus winning the UMNO NZ Cup 2009. The final score was 5-0.

    The referee of the tournament, Mr Gerald Lologa, coach of Manawatu Turbo Rugby team was excited and honoured to be the official for the game. He said the tournament totally changed his perception about Asians’ participation in rugby. He said the matches were very physical and admits there is a bright future for rugby in Malaysia. Overall, the UMNO NZ Cup 2009 was a huge success with both the players and spectators being satisfied and entertained.

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    Posted on July 15th, 2009

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    Bersatu Games 2009

    Bersatu Games

    This year, Bersatu Games was held at Palmerston North during our winter break from 5th -9th July 2009. Bersatu Games is a yearly event where all Malaysian Students’ Clubs in New Zealand come together to compete in a variety of sports over a period of four days. The aim of the Bersatu Games is to create a fun, social and multi-racial sporting event with maximum participation from all Malaysian Students’ Clubs in New Zealand. The sports contested were football, sepak takraw, netball, tennis, futsal, badminton, athletics, volleyball, basketball, and handball.

    UMNO Auckland sent a contingent consisting of 22 athletes. We managed to clinch fourth place with three gold, one silver and two bronze medals. Our gold medals came from football, badminton men doubles and tennis men doubles. Athletics delivered one silver and one bronze medal. We added another bronze medal from handball.

    Congratulations to all winners and also to all the participants. Thank you for your hardwork during training as well as your high sportsmanship spirit displayed during the games. Hopefully, we will win a lot more medals in the Bersatu Games next year that will be held in Auckland. Looking forward to see a huge turnout from club members for next year’s Bersatu Games.

    Bersatu Games Dinner

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    Posted on April 18th, 2009

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    Seminar “Antara Semalam & Hari Ini”

    Antara Semalam & Hari Ini

    On 18th of April 2009, UMNO Auckland and Belia Cergas Auckland (BECA) collaborated to organize a seminar entitled “Antara Semalam & Hari Ini”.

    The objectives of the seminar are to refresh ourselves about Islamic history and to inform others who are not aware about the contribution of Islam that has made a huge impact on our world in many aspects until today.

    Ustaz Muhammad Fauzi Asmuni from Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (ISMA) was invited as the speaker on that day. There were about 60 students who took the time to attend this seminar.

    The History of Islam started with the birth of our prophet Muhammad S.A.W, how Islam survived during the confrontation from the enemies, the rising of Islamic Empires, and until the downfall of Islamic Empires was delivered.

    Q&A sessions were also conducted at the end of each topic to allow students to obtain an in-depth explanation about the topics that appealed to them.

    We hope that the seminar was an informative and exciting seminar. It will help us to be familiar with Islam better from a refreshed view.

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    Posted on April 12th, 2009

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    Assalammualaikum w.b.t & Kia Ora!!!

    Assalammualaikum w.b.t & Kia Ora!!!

    Welcome to the official website of UMNO Auckland Club. You can browse for latest news, photo gallery and video of club events throughout the year. If you want to receive information about our new features and latest news on the UMNO Auckland Club website, subscribe for the our monthly newsletter. If you have any questions or inquiries about the website, please contact the webmaster through the ‘contact’ page. Constructive comments for improving the site are highly welcomed.

    Thank you.

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    Posted on March 21st, 2009

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    UMNO Auckland Orientation Day

    UMNO AUCKLAND ORIENTATION DAY

    UMNO Auckland Club successfully held an Orientation Day on the 21st of March 2009 at the Te Taou Reserve, Auckland.

    The objective of the event was to welcome new members besides thanking returning members for their loyalty. The event was also held to allow a close relationship to be formed between members alongside fun activities and free food.

    The committee’s members of UMNO Auckland 2008/2009 were introduced to the members. UMNO Auckland also took the opportunity to introduce the club’s objective and upcoming events after Orientation Day.

    Ice breaking games were conducted while waiting for the BBQ to be ready. The participants were grouped randomly depending on the colour they were assigned during the registration session. Two games took place: 5 cent & 10 cent, “Group Osom”.

    We hope this will be an exciting year and the success of the Orientation Day was certainly a good start for UMNO Auckland Club.

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    Posted on March 6th, 2009

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    Registration Day 2009

    REGISTRATION DAY 2009

    Registration Week for UMNO Auckland Club took place between 3rd March 2009 and 6th March 2009 at the University of Auckland during the Orientation Week.

    The number of members registered this year reached 140 people and we are expecting more people to join the club during the Orientation Day on the 21st March 2009.

    This year, UMNO Auckland Club plans to affiliate with the Auckland University Student Associations which takes care of all the clubs in The University of Auckland. This is done in order to give us a better exposure and experiences of working together with other clubs in the University.

    A big, warm welcome to all our members, thank you for signing up and supporting our club. We will make sure that the year 2009 will be a very memorable one for all our members.

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    Posted on January 8th, 2009

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    Majlis Sambutan Maal Hijrah di Melaka

    Majlis Sambutan Maal Hijrah

    From left: Hj. Mahat Salleh, YB Dato Othman Muhamad, YB Datuk Md.Sirat Abu, Hj. Bahaudin Abdullah, Mohd Ridhwan Mohd Ali, Mohd Dan Samah

    8th January 2009 – In the spirit of “Hijrah”, UMNO Auckland Club, with the help from the people of Bukit Katil and Bukit Bayan in Malacca organized an event to celebrate Maal Hijrah; the starting of the New Year according to the Islamic calendar.

    Ustaz Fauzi Jaafar, a speaker from Malacca Religious Affair Department (JAIM) was invited to talk about Maal Hijrah. He talked about the differences of “Hijrah” during Rasullullah S.A.W.’s era and “Hijrah” during our time. He shared some tips to help us change in order to become a better individual.

    This event was made even more special with the presence of YB Datuk Md. Sirat Abu, Parliament Member of Bukit Katil, Malacca. In his speech, Datuk mentioned that we must strengthen our bond within the Muslim community to prevent the enemies of Islam to interfere and taking advantage of us.

    Solat Hajat was performed for our brothers and sisters in Gaza, Palestine in hopes that Allah S.W.T will help and lessen their pain in the war against the Israel regime.

    This event ended with financial aid being presented to orphans in the area.

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    Posted on January 4th, 2009

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    Program Jalinan Mesra 2009

    Program Kalinan Mesra

    4th January 2009 – UMNO Auckland together with JKKK Kampung Atap / Kampung Portugis, Malacca, organized ‘Program Jalinan Mesra Rakyat 2009′ which was held at the JKKK Kg. Atap community hall. It was launched by Datin Seri Datuk Wira Hajjah Asmah bte Abdul Rahman, wife of YAB Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam, Chief Minister of Malacca.

    Health was the main focus of this program. Free medical check up such as blood pressure, ideal BMI, and pepsmier test were offered. Blood donation was also held throughout the program. There was also a presentation by the Community Health Clinic of the Health Ministry of Malaysia and the Prisons Department of Malaysia. Private companies such as Naza Motor, E-Dymium and Takaful also opened booths.

    Besides providing an opportunity for the people in the surrounding areas to undergo free medical check up and gain knowledge from the presentations, financial aid were given to 50 children who really needed help to enable them to go to school and study in comfort with sufficient basic stationary/equipment.

    UMNO Auckland would like to express our highest gratitude to JKKK Kg. Atap for helping in a lot of matters and sharing the experience to organize an event that involved the local people in the area.

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    Posted on December 27th, 2008

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    UMNO Auckland “Reunion 2008”

    UMNO Auckland “Reunion 2008”

    From left: Farah Damia Ab. Kadir, Mohd Izhar Moslim (President UMNO Melbourne Club), Mohd Ridhwan Mohd Ali, Nurnisham Mohd Ali, Zairul Reza Rahim, Shazana Mohd Daud, Mohd Firman Sajat (President UMNO Liverpool Club), Junaidi Aminuddin

    27th December 2008 – UMNO Auckland had a reunion at Madam Kwan’s Restaurant, KLCC. The event commenced at 12.30pm with a welcoming speech by Mohd Ridhwan Mohd Ali, UMNO Auckland President for 2008/2009.

    The main objective of this event was to bring all the committees of UMNO Auckland together in order to strengthen the bond between all the committee members. The club also aimed for this event to become a platform for the committees to exchange thoughts and ideas for the benefit of all UMNO clubs.

    Our friends from UMNO Clubs in Melbourne and Liverpool also attended this memorable event. Various topics regarding UMNO clubs were discussed between the three different UMNO clubs. It was definitely a pleasure to have had them with us during the reunion.

    It was good to hear updates from old friends and share a laugh over old ones. And of course, new friendships were also created. The event ended at 2.30pm.

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