A Talk On Tawau History With Ken Goodlet

Aktiviti — By adrysabry on July 6, 2010 at 6:36 am

Credit : TawauPhotography.com

This is an event dedicated to all the people of Tawau , learning something what we called “the history” so that we can have a clear information of the origin and early development of Tawau. Rugi siapa tak datang tau!!

You must be wondering, who is Ken Goodlet right???

Ken Goodlet,is an Australian, lived with his wife Jan and four sons in Tawau in the late 1960s and early 1970s for eight years and has kept in touch with the town and its people since.

Out of this interest in people’s past, he began over forty years ago setting his Tawau students the task of researching and writing about their family history which he followed up with visits to his students’ older family members.  He soon realised that he had a rich historical resource on Tawau and, after authenticating the interviews where possible with archival material,wrote up a University of Sydney Master’s thesis which appeared in print in Sabah in 2002 as The Origin and Early Development of the Tawau Community, 1880-1942. He then wrote a more complete and user-friendly story of Tawau to 2008, a task that involved a number of visits to Tawau in the last few years to conduct further interviews and research, some with former students who had participated in this work forty years before.

Two in the middle… they called themselves as the Queen’s Guide… I wonder where’s the king’s guide???

Queen’s guide pun queen’s guide laa… peace!!!  hahaha….

Cute dowh… ehem ehem

hei jashmish… ap kya mere dil sunlo… mere janeman… mujhe dosti karoge??

Singing Negaraku & Sabah Tanah Airku… please stand up

Ustaz Shafiq from Tawau Community College

Mr Ken Goodlet and Datuk Tawfiq who offered himself as the translator.

Late entrance … nevermind…

Datuk Tawfiq daughter, Nabeela. Single but NOT available.. hehe ^_*

Descendant of a hero….

Ken Goodlet’s son who can speak in Malay…

Apa khabbar semua… Saya sanghat ghembira bherada di sini… etc etc

Q & A Session

Souvenirs anyone?

Hj Ponring… Dari Persatuan Bugis … padaidi ni…

I don’t know how to spell this guy name… Cosmas?

Apa pun… he’s a very nice guy… merangkap bendahari… ermmm Cosmas… minta duit… hihihi

Mr Ken introduce his families..

Sweet Katty with Mr Ken… She bought five books… now that’s a record…

MC : Calling for all members of the organizing committee… please come to the stage for photo session with Mr Ken…

Suddenly, everyone start coming up to the stage….  hahahaha…

(MC bingung… aku salah umum ker??… hahahaha)

Note from me : tiba tiba ramai plak “organizing committee” ni kan…

Tawau Bloggers… Together as one!

Sophiaan standing proud beside Mr Ken

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