‘Be our guests, Your Majesties’

Royal wave: Students waving to the King, accompanied by Dr Wee (second from right), as His Majesty prepares to leave the varsity.

IT’S not every day that one gets to perform for the country’s King and Queen.

For Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology’s (TAR UMT) young talents, it was the chance of a lifetime to shine before a royal audience when Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah and Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Hajah Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah graced the momentous launch of the varsity on Jan 5. “We knew we would be singing for a big crowd but performing for His Majesty was not something I had ever imagined I would get a chance to do even in a million years.