OCM Weekly Highlights - 10th May 2009

OCM Weekly Highlight

10th May 2009

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Coming Events

8th Asia Cup Men’s Hockey Tournament 2009 – 9th to 16th May 2009 at Kuantan, Malaysia. 

21st OCM Executive Board Meeting – 11th May 2009 at 4.30 p.m. at OCM Boardroom, 1st Floor, Wisma OCM, Kuala Lumpur 

World Sepaktakraw Championship 2009 - 25th to 31st May 2009 at Stadium Negeri, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu Darul Iman. 21 countries participating. 

28th OCM Annual General Assembly 2009 – 30th May 2009 at 10.00 a.m. at OCM Indoor Sports Arena, Wisma OCM, Jalan Hang Jebat, Kuala Lumpur. 

Asian Rugby Football Union (ARFU) 5 Nations Tournament – 2nd to 7th June 2009 at Kuala Lumpur. 1st Asian Martial Arts Games 2009 – 6th to 14th June 2009, Bangkok, Thailand 

28th OCA General Assembly 2009 – 7th June 2009, Bangkok, Thailand 

9th Junior Men’s Hockey World Cup 2009 – 7th to 21st June 2009, Johor Bharu and Singapore. 

1st Mini Olympics Malaysia 2009 – 19th to 27th June 2009 at National Sports Complex Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur. 7th Asian Netball Championship 2009 – 19th to 28th June 2009 at National Netball Stadium, Bukit Kiara, Kuala Lumpur. 

Yonex-Sunrise Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold 2009 – 23rd to 28th June 2009 at Johor Bharu Malaysia. 1st Asian Youth Games 2009 – 29th June to 7th July 2009, Singapore. 

News Items

Happy Mothers’ Day 

The Office Bearers and members of OCM wish all Mothers a “Happy Mothers’ Day”. 

21st OCM Executive Board Meeting 

The 21st OCM Executive Board Meeting will be held on Monday, 11th May 2009 at 4.30 p.m. at OCM Boardroom, 1st Floor, Wisma OCM, Kuala Lumpur. This will be the last meeting for the session 2007/2009, before the 28th OCM Annual General Assembly on 30th May 2009 at 10.00 a.m. at the Sports Arena, 3rd Floor OCM Indoor Sports Complex, Wisma OCM, Kuala Lumpur.

OCM-Carlsberg Athletes Retirement Scheme

The signing ceremony of the extension of the Sponsorship Agreement between Carlsberg Malaysia and OCM for the OCM-Carlsberg Athletes Retirement Scheme was held at the OCM Museum and Hall of Fame on7th May 2009. Present were YAM Tunku Tan Sri Imran ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Ja’afar, Presdient of OCM and IOC Member and Y.Bhg. Dato’ Chin Voon Loong, Executive Director of Carlsberg Malaysia, and four of Malaysian Sports Role Models, Athens Olympic Games silver medalist, Cheah Soon Kit, 1998 Commonwealth Games gold medalist in Badminton, Wong Choong Hann, 2002 Asian Games Wushu gold medalist, Ho Ro Bin and 2002 Asian Games gold medalist in Karate, Puvaneswaran and a number of young and up-coming athletes.

In his speech YAM Tunku Tan Sri Imran ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Ja’afar highlighted the uniqueness of the Scheme as follows:

• It is an incentive scheme for athletes to strive for gold medals at the highest level.

• It is a form of savings for the athletes and at the same time provides protection.

• It is affordable for the Partner and OCM, as the annual premium paid is only a fraction of the total insured sum. 

A total of 69 athletes are in the scheme, which started in 1998. In 2009, OCM paid the total annual premium of about RM39,300/= for a total sum insured of RM2.01 million. OCM will cease payment for the first batch of athletes in the scheme in 2013, when the policies of this first batch of athletes become self-sustaining.

28th OCM Annual General Assembly 2009

The 28th OCM Annual General Assembly 2009 will be held on 30th May 2009 at 10.00 a.m. at the OCM Sports Arena, OCM Indoor Sports Complex, 3rd Floor Wisma OCM Phase II, Kuala Lumpur. In accordance with the Constitution of OCM, the following documents were sent out on 8th May 2009:

• Notice and Agenda of 28th Annual General Assembly.

• Draft 28th Annual Report.

• Audited Annual Financial Statements for Year 1st January to 31st December 2008.

The biennial elections for the Office Bearers of OCM will be held at the 28th Annual General Assembly. The 3 person Independent Panel has sent out the nomination forms, candidates acceptance forms and the Delegations Registration forms to all 34 Ordinary Members of OCM, on 8th May 2009. The Deadline for the receipt of the nomination forms and the acceptance forms at OCM’s Office is 5.00 p.m. on 20th May 2009, while the Deadline for the receipt of the registration of NSAs’ delegates’ forms at OCM’s Office is at 5.00 p.m. on 25th May 2009.

Assistance to the Laos SEA Games Organizing Committee.

A Malaysian delegation led by Tuan Haji Abdul Jalil Abdullah, Director of Events Management Division of National Sports Council, with Cik Aniceta Ferns (Bernama), Encik Rosmanizam Abdullah (OCM) and Tuan Haji Ahmad Mohd Idris (BAM), visited Vientiane, Laos, from 4th to 7th May 2009. The objective of the visit was to study the areas where Malaysia could provide assistance for the organization of the 25th SEA Games 2009.

Advanced Sport Management Course 2009

The 2nd session of the Advance Sport Management Course 2009 was held from 7th to 10th May 2009 at Level 2C, OCM Indoor Sports Complex. Many of the participants showed enthusiasm to present their case studies. The presentations and learning discussions contributed greatly to their learning of management skills with actual case examples. There were a few of them who regretted they could not attend this session but resolved that they would make up the session they had missed in the 2nd session next year. 

From the feedback, it was noted that the participants were aware of what proper management entailed. Participants from the institute of higher learning found the learning techniques and learning activities most interesting and useful. Apart from learning management skills they also discovered teaching-learning activities and processes that were more participative and effective. The participants showed their eagerness to go back and apply what they have learnt in their own organizations at the end of the session on the 10th May 2009.