Banyak pertimbangan dan organisasi diperlukan. Macam macam cerita dialami semua yang mengikuti perjalanan kita ini. Ada suka dan ada sadikit duka. Kebanyakan nya berseronok dan mengumbirakan.
Selain dari bersantai kita juga bertanding untuk merebut Piala Setiakawan International Masters yang di sumbangkan oleh Penaung kita, Tan Sri Hashim Meon. Dah ada 6 pemenang. Kali ni tambah satu lagi.
Chairman SIM, tak berubah- sentiasa Dato Khalid Saad. Keluhan dia tu didengar serata dunia SetiakawanGolf, tapi dipikul dengan penuh tanggung jawab dan dedikasi.
Cerita nya di sambung di bawah.
PRELIMINARY
SIM JAKARTA 2012 was thus far the biggest in term of participation with 29 golfers accompanied by 21 spouses, children and a grand child. We almost had 32 golfers to make it a neat 8 flights tournament but as usual 3 golfers had to back out due to unforeseen circumstances.
For this particular SIM, the committee decided not to engage the service of local travel agent as we normally did. Based on the strong recommendation from Capt Yahaya Othman, we engaged Bapak SOFIYAN, a free lancer as our travel agent in Jakarta. Thus, as the Chairman of SIM, yours truly had to do all the work of a local travel agent. On the one hand, it was a good decision as we saved a lot of money and got things done the way we wanted them to be. But on the other, it had caused the Chairman unnecessary heart ache as there were so much work to be done.
For the purpose of coordination, all participants were advised to book their flight on KLM. However, 12 of them decided to fly by MAS which was later proven to be the lucky lot.
We were to be accomodated at a 4 star Hotel SANTIKA in Slipi at a very reasonable price.
Three golf courses were chosen as the venue of our tournament :
a. Bogor Raya on 15 Oct.
b. Imperial Karawaci on 16 Oct.
c. Bumi Serpong Damai on 17 Oct
DAY 1 - 14 OCT
As with SIM BANDUNG 2011, SIM JAKARTA took off on the wrong footing. Mr Murphy decided to pay us a visit. KLM flight KL 809 from Amsterdam which were to fly us to Jakarta was cancelled due to "technical problem" - the favourite term used by airlines when things go wrong. The reaction of the airline staff including the manager in handling the situation was totally uncalled for by our military standard. Only 10 of 38 of our group were able to be transferred to another airline (MAS) on the same day while the rest were comfirmed with tickets to fly by MH 721 at 13.30 the next day. A total time of 4 hours were spent at the KLM counter before the whole problem was "solved".
The stranded travellers were taken in 2 coaches to Hotel Royal Bintang in Seremban where we were to be accommodated for the night. Why Seremban? God knows. Our ordeal was not over yet though we were very happy with the hotel and the food served.
More to Follow
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