Yes! It was the college’s third convocation ceremony.

As an exhausted assistant director (who was previously forced to be the director but later happily demoted), I was so excited, not to see the smooth co-ordination of the event, but to see the happy faces of my beloved students on their graduation day. It was the time to redeem and rejoice the victory with precious friends, proud parents, and gleaming lecturers. It was the much-awaited moment for many. It was the celebration of life!

Indeed, it was. Especially for Shazlee, our cancer survivor. Well done, buddy! You have made it to the finishing line. What’s the cliché line? Yes, I am so proud of you. And of course, with the publicity in the media, you are now a proud icon of survival, just like Lance Armstrong. Yes.

With Shazlee

Shazlee, with your courage, you deserved the honour to be the first graduand of your program to be conferred by YAM Tengku Panglima Diraja Selangor. With this success, you can always be the first in every daring attempt you are about to embark in your near future. Don’t stop running, okay.

Cekmi's Angels

With Wadud, Best Student in Co-Curriculum

With Fadhlihana, Best Overall Student

With Best Man for YAM

With Best Flower Girls, hehe

To all organising committees,
Well done! You worked extremely hard to ensure the success of this auspicious event. For all the hassles, headaches, inconveniences and embarrassments those endless tasks have painfully accumulated, let them be gracefully redeemed in the akhirat (since we did this in the spirit of fi sabi lillah, right?). Maybe the college could hire, and pay, those professional event managers to run the future convocation so that things are professionaly done, not amateurishly managed by some ambitiously inexperienced lecturers.

To all graduands of IIC,
Congratulations for having successfully accomplished one of the many significant tasks in your lives. The journey didn’t end there. Truly, life has just begun.

And I am still running and struggling for my own graduation this year!

Strolling for a scroll

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