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SMK Main Convent, Ipoh
SMK Convent Ipoh (''Malay: Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Convent Ipoh'') is an all-girls secondary school located on Jalan Sultan Idris Shah (formerly Brewster Road), Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. Established as a Roman Catholic foundation in 1907, it is one of the oldest schools in Ipoh and is widely known as Main Convent Ipoh. Owned by the religious order the Sisters of the Holy Infant Jesus (IJS), SMK Main convent was formally a private missionary school and is one of around twenty convent secondary schools in Malaysia. Principals * Sister St. Prudence (1907) * Mother St. Marcellin (1922) * Sister St. Helen (1939) * Reverend Mother St. Pauline Legrix (1945 - Mar 1951) * Reverend Mother St. Paul (1951–1957) * Reverend Mother St. Pauline Legrix (1957–1966) * Sister Fidelma Hogan (1966–1972) * Sister Maureen Chew, PJK (1973–1991) * Khoo Gim Keat (1992–1994) * Mrs Valerie Ho (1994–1999) * Mrs Shireen Ho (1999–2003) * Ong Yok Kheng (2003–2004) * Foo Ai Kia (2005–2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public School (government Funded)
State schools (in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand) or public schools (Scottish English and North American English) are generally primary or secondary schools that educate all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation. State funded schools exist in virtually every country of the world, though there are significant variations in their structure and educational programmes. State education generally encompasses primary and secondary education (4 years old to 18 years old). By country Africa South Africa In South Africa, a state school or government school refers to a school that is state-controlled. These are officially called public schools according to the South African Schools Act of 1996, but it is a term that is not used colloquially. The Act recognised two categories of schools: public and independent. Independent schools include all private schools and schools that are privately governed. Independent schools with low t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Mastura
Amy Mastura Suhaimi (born 10 May 1971) is a Malaysian singer and actress. Her entertainment career began in the music industry, following her performance at the 1993 Asia bagus talent show in Japan. Her self-titled debut studio album was released the following year under PonyCanyon, and she won the 1995 ''Penyanyi Wanita Popular'' (''Popular Female Artiste'') award. Of her studio albums, the most popular are ''Amy Mastura'' and ''Pujaanku'', both of which were certified Double Platinum, and ''Puteri'', which was certified Platinum. Mastura also performed a duet with American pop singer Tommy Page, titled "The Best Part". Her single, "Bintang Hati" from her 2000 third studio album of the same name, garnered her another award, this time as the ''Best Pop Rock Song'' in 2000 ''Juara Lagu'' awards. Mastura first ventured into the film industry in 1994 with the film ''Kuala Lumpur Universiti'' few months before her debut album released, but she gained prominence in 1996's ''Trag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures In Ipoh
A building, or edifice, is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory (although there's also portable buildings). Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term ''building'' compare the list of nonbuilding structures. Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) and the ''outside'' (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful). Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or canvasses of much artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secondary Schools In Malaysia
Secondary may refer to: Science and nature * Secondary emission, of particles ** Secondary electrons, electrons generated as ionization products * The secondary winding, or the electrical or electronic circuit connected to the secondary winding in a transformer * Secondary (chemistry), a term used in organic chemistry to classify various types of compounds * Secondary color, color made from mixing primary colors * Secondary mirror, second mirror element/focusing surface in a reflecting telescope * Secondary craters, often called "secondaries" * Secondary consumer, in ecology * An obsolete name for the Mesozoic in geosciences * Secondary feathers, flight feathers attached to the ulna on the wings of birds Society and culture * Secondary (football), a position in American football and Canadian football * Secondary dominant in music * Secondary education, education which typically takes place after six years of primary education ** Secondary school, the type of school at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Educational Institutions Established In 1907
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernice Chauly
Bernice Chauly (born 1968, Georgetown, Penang) is Malaysian writer, poet, educator, festival director, actor, photographer and filmmaker. Biography Born to Chinese- Punjabi teachers, she read Education and English Literature at the University of Winnipeg, Canada as a government scholar. She is the author of seven books, which include poetry and prose; going there and coming back (1997), The Book of Sins (2008), Lost in KL (2008), the acclaimed memoir Growing Up With Ghosts (2011) which won in the Popular Readers’ Choice Awards 2012 in the Non-Fiction Category, Onkalo (2013), her third collection of poems which Nobel laureate J.M Coetzee has said is "direct, honest and powerful", Once We Were There (2017) published by Epigram Books, Incantations/Incarcerations (2019) published by Gerakbudaya. In 1998, she began organising literary events in Kuala Lumpur and in 2005, founded Readings, the longest-running live literary platform in Kuala Lumpur. In 2011, she was Festival Dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preeta Samarasan
Preeta Samarasan is a Malaysian author writing in English whose first novel, ''Evening Is the Whole Day'', won the Hopwood Novel Award (while she was doing her MFA at the University of Michigan), was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009, and was on the longlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction. A number of short stories have also appeared in different magazines; “Our House Stands in a City of Flowers” won the Hyphen Asian American Short Story Contest or the Asian American Writers' Workshop/Hyphen Short Story award in 2007. Life Samarasan was born in Batu Gajah. Her father was a schoolteacher in Ipoh in Malaysia, where she attended the SM (Sekolah Menengah) Convent School. In 1992, she won a United World College scholarship and went to the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West in New Mexico, United States. After graduating in 1994, she went to Hamilton College, and then joined the Ph.D. program in musicology at the Eastman School of Music, Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zara Salim Davidson
Tuanku Zara Salim (''née'' Zara Salim Davidson; born 22 March 1973) is married to Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah, who is the reigning Sultan of Perak. She has been conferred the title of Raja Permaisuri ( Queen consort) of Perak by the Dewan Negara Perak on 20 June 2014. A chemical engineer by training, she was heading an oil and gas consultancy firm based in Kuala Lumpur before her marriage to the Sultan. She and the Sultan, who had been the country's most eligible royal bachelor for decades, have known each other since the mid-1990s. She was officially crowned as the Raja Permaisuri of Perak during Sultan Nazrin's enthronement ceremony as the 35th Sultan of Perak on 6 May 2015. Early life Born in the city of Ipoh on 22 March 1973, she is the youngest of four children of William Stanley Walker Davidson (Salim Davidson), an Englishman and his ethnic Malay wife of mixed Arab and Thai descent, Sharifah Azaliah binti Syed Omar Shahabudin who is from Alor Setar, Kedah. She is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francissca Peter
Yang Hormat Dato' Francissca Peter , also known as Fran, is a Malaysian singer-songwriter. Early life and background Francissca was born into in Malaysia of Ceylonese (Sri Lankan/Scottish) and Chinese family, to Alice Peter and Lucian G. Peter (embraced Islam in 2007 and changed his name to Muhammad Gaberial Peter Abdullah). She was the second of four siblings. Her father — an ex British soldier in the army during Malaya days teaching English grammar to the British soldiers then went on to be one of the first Reuters, Bernama then later joined New Straits Times and then went on to start the New paper, ''The Straits Echo'. He turned to alcoholism becos he was not happy and was very anti establishment and he eventually abandoned the family in 1978. Her mother had to raise Francissca and her siblings single-handedly with help from a handful of people and The Canossian Nuns. Despite being born in Klang, Selangor, Fran spent most of her childhood in Ipoh, Perak. She attend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng, ( ; born 6 August 1962) is a Malaysian actress. Credited as Michelle Khan in her early Hong Kong films, she rose to fame in the 1990s after starring in a series of Hong Kong action films where she performed her own stunts, such as ''Yes, Madam'' (1985), '' Police Story 3: Supercop'' (1992) and '' Holy Weapon'' (1993). She gained international recognition for her roles in the James Bond film '' Tomorrow Never Dies'' (1997) and in Ang Lee's martial arts film '' Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' (2000). The latter role earned her a BAFTA Best Actress nomination. Yeoh's other works include '' Memoirs of a Geisha'' (2005), '' Reign of Assassins'' (2010), '' Kung Fu Panda 2'' (2011), '' Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny'' (2016), and '' The Lady'' (2011), where she portrayed Aung San Suu Kyi. She went on to have supporting roles in the romantic comedies '' Crazy Rich Asians'' (2018) and ''Last Christmas'' (2019), and the 2021 Marvel Cinemat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
