Hendak seribu day, tak hendak seribu daleh - alahai OG TMGS

Asking for donation or favor for the school, most of the times is pretty easy. We really appreciate OG Teh Lai Choo, now Dr Teh Lay Choo of Penang (more appropriately the Director Of Penang State Health Department), who took some time out from her busy schedule to officiate the cyclethon. OG Teh Lai Choo is from the class of 1970. We also have OG Lim Swee Bin of class of 1980 who alerted my friends and me on the condition of TMGS building and who worked tirelessly to help the school fund. She was with her family at the cyclethon. There are many more like OG Lai Choo and OG Swee Bin. As for my batch, Lean See, Nita, and Ena worked really hard to get the girls of 1981 to contribute in anyway we can for OUR school. Thank God for the net - FB, email, chat, and blog really help us. But then... there are also others who would give all sorts of excuses. Questions like "What had the PIBG done?" and "What had the OG do?" were played like broken records. That does not include - "can you afford to pay my appearance fee?" And not to mention - What had the school done for me... Which brought me to JFK's famous words - ask not what the country can do for you, but what can you do for the country. In this case - Ask not what TMGS can do for you, but can you do for TMGS. I also recall this- if Mohamed can't come to the mountain, then the mountain should come to the mountain.. not that I am equating Prophet Mohamed pbuh with TMGS. But I believe that the OGs should come down and just check out what they can do and how they can help our school. Even if we are already reaching the stars, the moon and what not, I still believe that it's not wrong to once in a while place ourselves back here on earth. Once in a while we need to forget the protocols, the ringgits, and just think of ourselves as students of TMGS - past, present, and future - and help our school when she needs us. Yes, we know that there are OGs who might be facing hardships in life. But what about those who don't? Itulah - hendak seribu daya, tak hendak seribu daleh. PERIOD!!!!