Announcements -

Be forewarned - these are totally random...



1. S509 Yearbook - Alhamdulillah, it's finally finished - phew! Managed to get the theme right - which is Doa Rabitah and Warisan (Legacy). May it touched the heart of those who read as it has touched mine. :) Still in the process of printing though - finally decided to print it myself at home because printing quality in school, is well, pathetic. Into my second black cartridge now...



2. Oh Lino! It is so difficult to write a happy ending! I am crying to write one! But I shall persevere and trying hard.... :) Now I truly need inspiring moments....



3. My two sons ( you people know which ones...!) are officially in love. With the burger-girl. Yup. You people might want to call it monkey love, or puppy love. It is not. I would prefer to call it 'patty love'. Yup. The way to these Mars' hearts is still their stomachs. Yes, Mary - we have gone back to the caveman era. It's clobbering, hair pulling time!



4. Raje, you're officially the darling of the 'umik'. Your post was a riot and your card belied a budding poet - chehwah! was blinking away me eyes and swallowing so hard after reading it...You should write more proses like that....

5. And yes, Zaimah - I don't think I deserve all that..but you are still one of the sweetest people around... :) don't give up, alright?

miss you all, gals...



Told you this was random....

Youthful Idealism

A group of Upper Secondary boys have been getting some attention lately. Not because they misbehaved. No. Attention was on them because they chose to be absent from school to attend a talk by a visiting ustaz at a local organisation. Some of us were worried that they might have their priorities wrong, for at their age, education should be foremost in their minds. Right? Hmmm...They did have their parents' blessings, as far as I know...the organisation even wrote a letter to inform the school regarding their absence...imagine! I was actually reminded of a thought by Imam Ghazali regarding youths...he was writing about the developmental stages of a child and he said, if I am not mistaken, that at the youthful stage, we need to give these youths a cause to fight for. It is at this age that their idealism is at its highest. They are at that stage where they would want to cling to some idealism, take on somebody as their mentor/idol and would stick to that ideal throughout their adult life. It is a most impressionistic time of their growing up and given the right guidance, these young adults can do wonders and lots of good to themselves and to society. Which brings me to the question of these students - how do we channel their new-found idealism towards something that is positive, so that they know their priorities, contribute to society and at the same time attain success for their future? Not an easy question to answer, nor an easy task to undertake. Whatever it is, we would have to, I think, tend to them with hikmah and patience, for idealism can so easily turn to rebelliousness and that, as we all know, is not something anybody wants to deal with. :)
May Allah bless our youths and help them attain and maintain their felicity and grow up to be mujahid in HIS cause and a blessing to the world as should be - Khalifah fil Ard..a rahmat to all!

And the floodgates open....S509 'Graduation' Day

Hangover. Major.

I had prayed that I will be sane and retain all my thinking and speaking faculties on this day. I wanted to be able to say what I wanted to say to these students. Alhamdulillah I did.

But it wasn't easy.

Thursday. I thought it was easy to say thank you, to say sorry and then to leave a few last words. It wasn't. Thanks for being patient and bearing with me..those were verry difficult ten or fifteen minutes of my teaching life...

Then that dear guy had to sing THAT song..and well, it rained..It's not easy to be seeing red eyes and red faces trying very hard not to have red eyes...It's not easy to see 'naughty', grinning faces turning sobre and wishful...it wasn't...

Friday. The rain fell all the way from JB. It's a surprise we didn't have any mishaps along the way. Thank you Allah...Usually, at the last singing of the school song, there'll be sadness..the dear lady beside me was already touched..but I wasn't. Really. In fact, the rain would not fall at all, and I was going through my lessons and meeting everybody with smiles. I then began to wonder and really worried whether there was something wrong with me...I felt nothing. Just a dullness inside.

After solat, the thinker came to see me. As I read, something happened, something burst...

And the floodgates opened....

It was pretty bad because Mdm Faezah was asking me whether I was okay and I just nodded my head. Then the guys came with my report card and a lot of other things happened...

It wasn't easy.

It wasn't easy to let go of a part of your life that was meaningful. Yes, we will meet again, insyaAllah, but it will be different. When my children leaves the home, I know they'll always come back again. But when my students leave the school.... Then it struck me that I have not followed my own maxim...kan Allah ada.. And because of this, I pray for your success, dunia and akhirat..may we meet and depart because of Allah, because of our love for HIM...

Doa rabitah buat anak-anak S509...

Let's celebrate your coming of age, let's now put our faces, hearts, minds forward for the bigger task of the 'O' levels. Keep true to your promises.....Perjuangan belum berakhir... :)

Till we meet again, insyaAllah... i miss you people lots..

'Terimakasih guru'

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