Chinese New Year Gathering

As you know, our Chinese friends will be celebrating Chinese New Year on the 3rd February this year. The Embassy of Malaysia, in Muscat with Malaysian Chinese Community in Oman will be hosting a CNY Gathering at the Royal Hospital Recreation Club Hall on the 24th February 2011 from 4.00 pm - 8.00 pm.

Gather your family and friends and do notify our staff, Ms. Sadaf at the Embassy (tel. no: +96824698329) whether you will be coming or not and how many will be attending!

Great day ahead! Gong Xi Fa Cai...Kong Hee Fat Choy...Happy Chinese New Year to our Chinese friends..

Coffee Morning Perwakilan Muscat - January 2011

Snips of the Coffee Morning held at Puan Kartini Norhisyam's residence (Acting Chairperson of Perwakilan Muscat), on 10th January 2011. While waiting for the other members to arrive, ladies feasted their eyes with hand-made accessories by our own Perwakilan member, Awin.

The flower arrangement was demonstrated by Cik Liza, Malaysian staff at Al Bustan Palace Hotel. She was kind enough to teach the budget ways to save money from the 'blood-sucking' florist!

Her creations are minimalist yet appealing. You can use any leaves that you might find behind  your backyard!

Then came in the Food Session! Members were served with Nasi Ayam, Pasta Salad, Popia Goreng and as usual, Malaysia Boleh spirit, the members brought along their home-cooked delicacies for the rest to share...Yummy

Selamat Datang (Welcome in Malay), Ahlan Wa Sahlan (Welcome in Arabic)

Dearest ladies,

This is our first post in our own blog. We welcome any comments or post in this blog.

For a start, we would like to encourage members to do Coffee Morning where we can:

1) benefit new ideas/information about any issues
2) mingle with other members
3) celebrate the new members in town & Au Revoir to those who will be leaving Oman (we will include farewell gifts)
4) celebrate birthday babies of the month
5) ad-hoc meetings

More ideas on hosting a Coffee Morning amongst the Perwakilan members:

• Coffee Morning will be hosted by a member or more in every month (this can be discussed further with other members)
• Choose a theme for your Coffee Morning (e.g. colour, movie, etc.)
• Venue - where you prefer to host, be it your house, restaurant, etc.
• Invite a speaker to give talks on anything (e.g. health, cooking, education, religion, etc.)
• You may include lucky draw!
• Why not put in a demonstration on how to do your own jewellery, sewing, new hobby?
• Mini Bazaar is also welcomed (you can invite your friends - locals or expatriates) to promote goods

So ladies, let's meet up for our next Coffee Morning in February 2011 and who shall be the next host?