Bagai Kayangan...

 Terimabau zaman dulu dulu. Masa aku di alam pekerjaan. Aku seorang guru. Bukan guru yang hanya mengajar di satu sekolah. Tetapi menjangkau hampir semua sekolah rendah di bumi Perlis ini.Dalam seminggu, hanya 3 hari aku di sekolah induk. 2 hari lagi aku kena menjelajah kawasan. Macam saleman. Berbekalkan alat mengajar dan ilmu yang diberi dan dicari, aku kena tolong guru guru BI dalam pengajaran dalam kelas.

Aku bukan nazir, bukan pegawai jabatan .Aku adalah sebahagian TST. Teacher support teacher team. Ada nama spesifik tapi dah lupa. Dan bagaimana aku terjebak dalam ini, ingat2 lupa lah juga.Aku bergerak sendirian . Mana sekolah yang tak aku masuki. SK,SJKC,SJKT dari sekolah dalam pekan hingga nun dicerok kampung dan hutan..

It was a nice experience. Some received me with open arms. Glad of the assistances given, open to new ideas. Some were a bit apprehensive. As they felt it was an intrusion into their practices. Fearing that I might report any ill practices to the jabatan. Gradually and eventually, most teachers were receptive of those visits. 

Well... that is only an introduction..Hihi

Yesterday, in a posting, I came across a picture of Perlis. Taken from a bird eye view of the fields near Bukit Baju Dalam.... as sometimes it was jokingly referred. It was awesome. Macam kayangan la.Bukit Cabang never failed to attract my attention whenever I passed by.

During my visits to schools which took to me to nearly every nook and corner of Perlis, I felt so fresh. South, you could see stretches of padi fields and rivers meandering through the flat plain. It was a cool sight when the padi fields were green and gold. Depending on what season it was.

Up North, those limestone hills that cropped up here and there were mesmerising. Macam dalam cerita kayangan. And those hills that border Malaysia and Thailand... majestic.

To the east, when I drove along the beach road, it was thrilling too.

Ni la gambaq yang membuat cikson terthrow back zaman dok round Peghelih dulu2.Gambaq 2 googled.

Bagai kayangan kan?

Jadi tak heranlah bila terjerembab dengan kereta2 berplet luar Perlis drive slow mo. Cikson tak hon depa suruh laju sbb tahu depa dok terpinga pinga. Ehhh.. kami ni sesat mana ya. Ntah2 dok kayangan...haha.

Thats all folks. Bye. have a nice weekend. Love u all.

Kemarin , harini , esok....

 Semalam gagahi pergi Service centre utk servis cikiriz. Sejak PKP mula mula dulu, sakit ini itu, aku tak beri perhatian pada dia. Tiba2 check buku servis yang terperam dalam laci, wahh... dah overdue service berkala dia. 

Memasuki ruang ofis,hanya seorang pekerja dimejanya. Namun, cepat dan tangkas dia buat kerja. Dan hampir dua jam kemudian, cikiriz dah diservis dengan jayanya. Juga membaiki sensor undurnya yang dah hilang daya sensingnya. Alhamdulillah.

Jam hampir 11 bila cikli datang . Ke Suri kami utk makan tengah hari. Its been ages since I went there.

Makanan di sini sedap dan murah.

Memasuki ruang restoran, aku termalu sendiri. Haha... peghak and jakun pun dah boleh dah bagi .

All these while, kat semua tempat, bila kita TEMBAK suhu, kita tadah dahi dekat guard atau buat sendiri. Gadget tu kita pegang dan hala saja.

Rupanya kat SURI ni dah adeban. Dah macam kat airport la kot. Pengimbas dia stand in.

Terpinga pingalah la sat. Nak berdiri kat mana. Jauh mana. 

Makcik, berdir dekat dekat, hala dahi kat mesin tu.... someone I dont know told me. Tengok2 budak . Haha.

Lepas rekod semua tu, cepat2 cari makan. Dengan fikiran, eh ketinggalan zaman la aku ni.

Kadang kadang terfikir aku. Bila agaknya aku tak perlu lagi fikir dan attend to all these matters. Bab kereta contohnya. Juga bab remeh temeh yang lain. Bertuahlah badan kalau boleh berbuat demikian.

Tanggungjawab lebih besar seakan menanti aku bila datangnya Oktober. Tahun tahun dahulu aku rasa gagah perkasa menyorong suami ke hospital, membawa kereta meredah dingin pagi ke HSB, meneman cikli diluar dewan bedah waktu dinihari atau tidur atas kerusi pelastik disisi katil dia. 

Namun itu semua past tense. At present, diri aku pun tak larat dah aku nak urus...huhu. 

Untung mereka yang ada anak2 berdekatan. Sakit demam boleh dipanggil datang.

Teringat aku perihal perbualan aku dengan penunggu suami2 dihospital.

Kak, samalah kita. Ada anak kita lepaskan mereka cari kehidupan sendiri tanpa syarat. Biar kemana mereka pergi cari rezeki, kita doakan saja. 

Pelajaran dah bagi tinggi tinggi, takkan nak suruh jaga kambing lembu .Rugilah masa depan depa. Ada harta bergunung pun ,sat saja lesap kalau dk tarah selalu. Anak saya kalau nak pi Timbaktu pun pi lah. 

There was this couple who sold their home in Perlis to be with their children in KL.

One day, I put forward this idea to cikli.

Senyap dia...

And I would not trade this cosy little state for another state as well. Sini mana ada jam.Hiruk pikuk yang memeningkan.Gitu pula.

Thats all folks. Have a pleasant weekend.

Dok main2 cari flight to Pahang direct. Wahhh..RM 400 per pax one way membantutkan angan2. Lepas tu harini naik flight, besok baru sampai. Mengalahkan nak pi London...

In loving memory...

 When I was posted to this school, I was a bit dismayed. Situated right smack in the middle of sawah fields ,the road leading here was challenging.

Every working day and even during semester break, I would travelled the path less travelled. 

Reaching the school safely and returning home every evening ,I would say Thank You Allah. I am saved for today. 

Imagine this... the winding one way road, the big sungai on your left and a deep drain on your right. If you arent careful... down the sungai or the drain you go.Or the sawah where many of the teachers experienced.

Then I noticed. Even though this is a village school, the children are good students. As a small school, we teachers in fact know the parents well. Meetings with year 6 parents were done every month. Reports of individual achievement were laid before the parents to see. Yes, we have individual chart, report on each subject. The grade achieved and the expected target in a brown folder. 

As the head, I went over every child's progress.

I noticed another thing. The computer lab. I asked,why dont we use the lab to its full extent. Make our students literacy in computer to the maximum. Soon heads were discussing on how.

Teachers at that time were still struggling themselves to learn. So we engage an IT knowledgeable teacher from out side. For a minimal fee we encouraged children to join. Later it was made the school compulsory subject. Those who couldnt afford we sought the help of our PIBG.

The officers in town were surprised to see children as young as year one, could fare well in computer study.

Budak2 kat sekolah pekan pun tak tau nak buat macam ni...was an exclaim I heard.

I could do more but a transfer for me to a school in town took away my dream. I dream to a have my students doing well in BI and be proficient in Mandarin. I dream to have a lab or kitchen where students could learn cooking, sewing and other domestic skills. 

When I went back to the school a few years later, the fern trees that the teachers palnted had already grown big. But the programs with the computer were not carried out anymore.

Kak, policy jabatan. They said. Kita tak boleh buat business dengan harta benda kerajaan.

To this I said... Business taik kucing apa. Berapa cikgu tu dapat sebulan nak run program ni. Come on la... tak boleh beli basikal pun. Jauh lah merc.

Kononya ada repot naik jabatan yang cikgu sekolah subahat dengan kedai IT . Buat bisnes kelas komputer. 

If I were there, I would stood up and say...

Lebih rugi anak2 murid tak kenal komputer walau komputer depan mata disekolah. I did that tuition with the sole purpose of helping the children be computer literate from the early age.

Nanti rosak komputer sapa nak bayar. Cikgu IT tu buka cikgu. Pulak.

Never did they know that the class to carry out, there was a teacher assigned.Never did they know that the children came running to the lab with happy faces.

Berangan cikson anak anak handal memasak dan masuk masterchef kanak2. Tu baru hebattt. Itu pun tinggal angan.Angan2 yang berasal dari school visit di Edinburgh. Murid sekolah rendah belajar memasak dan menjahit .Lelaki dan perempuan .

Semalam termimpi hari pendaftaran masuk sekolah.....

Buat Hal lagi....

 Semalam, dia buat hal lagi.

Bila diikuti, di bulan September adalah hal dia.

Sapa yang tak tau langkah 16 September.

Semalam Langkah 23 September pula....maka riuh gegar gumpitalah rakyat Malaysia dan most probably doniaaaa.

Well... tak perlu aku habaq sapa dia.

He is part and parcel of our life... politically.

Some may say that his act yesterday is a political angan angan mat jenin or some sort of hallucination. Its yet to be seen. Malaysia is a land of bolehland. Anything is possible.

Hanya satu, kalau dia ditakdirkan Tuhan berjaya,aku nak dia clear nama dia. For so long stories of him being wild were concocted , drag to court, meted out jail term . I want him to drag, find and round all those yang drag him to court, wrote bad about him. I want him to show the world that he is a victim . Not as seen to be. And a single name stood out among them. The father of them all.

Just now on FB ,I saw pictures and read news about medical staffs being fetched to Sabah. From all states in Malaysia. That the covid state in Sabah has reached an alarming stage is not staged after all.Still clear in my mind, how frontliners from all over China were sent to Wuhan to fight the invisible army. 

And that political pak lawak of that ketapi buat hal lagi.. geram betul tengok video ucapan dia.

That we might have a snap election seemed likely . PM has hinted that if they win the Sabah state election, we might all go to the ballot box. Anak anak muda or maybe orang2 tua yang tak mendaftar jadi pengundi dok tunggu apa? Pi register la. Kalau malas sangat nak pi mana2 post office, on line kan ada?  Anak bangsa lain dah ,kita jangan dok berlengah. 

Because of politic, kadang2 rasa malu timpa mai kat diri. Orang politik yang dok peleceh bangsa sendiri, malaslah, dok langut sabsidilah. Orang politik juga yang conteng nama bangsa kita,kelepetokrasi , kaki rasuah , tak amanah. Orang politik juga yang buat ramai kita tak tahu jawi. Adoi... banyak la lagi.

I hope, kali ni menjelmalah seorang pemimpin yang boleh membawa kita mendunia. Megah utk mengaku kita bangsa Melayu. Kita jadi bangsa yang sihat, tidak rasuah, rajin bekerja,beramal mulia.

Apa tunggu lagi....walau apa pun umur kita, kita masih ada tugas. Mencari pemimpin yang benar. Yang ada wawasan. Buat agama dan bangsa juga tanah air kita yang dah jadi caca merba.

You may disagree. Tapi simpanlah na sendiri sendiri. 

Hehe,cikson buat hal lagi. Dari dok sengap2, siap diri ,dia dok tulis bab politik pula la ni...

Bye...have a nice day.

Cikgu cikgi...semaikan semangat jati diri dalam anak2 bangsa kita. Jadikan mereka confident, hungry for knowledge,juga bersahsiah yang baik. 

Do you know that to have a child to come up to you and say thanks when you have left the institution for a long time is the greatest gift of all..cikgu cenge.