To Do or Not To Do.......

Once in a comfort zone, normally we are reluctant to move out. Would this be applicable for our kids too? I have mixed feelings about this. The reason? Planning or charting the future for our kids. With the current scenario of our young generation, degradation of social values, knowledge for future usage; I feel that I need to......

Last friday at 3 pm, we started our journey to the east coast and we arrived at around 10 pm. Thanks to new seatbelt ruling, we had to leave the 3 kids and the maid behind in TM, just in case of roadblocks. We're sending our eldest to a religious school. The journey was ok but it was raining all the way starting from Ipoh to KB. The following day, we were supposed to attend the briefing at 8 am but decided to skip the lecture and went straight for the registration n paying for the school and hostel fees at 9.45 am. The school is under Kltn Islamic Foundation. Being boarding school students, wifey and I have this fuzzy recollection of hostel life. There were about 250 f.1 students doing their registration and suddenly I felt like I was in a govt boarding school cos I met parents coming as far as Johor during registration. Things were a bit chaotic because we realised that we missed out on a few essentials for the hostel life e.g padlock n we had to buy a pillow cos it's not provided and it was raining all the while!! After paying for the fees and booking the bed in the hostel (as usual, they gave the 3rd floor to f.1) we went out at 12.30 pm to complete the list and to take our lunch.

We went back to the hostel at 5.30 pm to unpack, put markings on the stuff, organised them in the locker, tested the padlock, gave a few do's and dont's and by 7 pm (not before some red-eye-session), we were on our way back to TM cos we didn't want to get stuck if the flood decides to block any major route out of Kelantan. The traffic was slow moving and by the time I reached Gerik, I couldn't keep my eyes open. I decided to rest for a while and what was supposed to be a forty-winks turned out to be a-two-hour-nap at the rest area. After finishing a burger as my supper, I started off at 1 am and reached TM at 3.30 am...

Driving for 6 hours just to send him to continue his study was tiring, not because I'm not used to it but becos of all the instant execution of plans. I thought I had prepared everything but the result showed otherwise. Without realising it, my eldest has started a new chapter in his life but I have full faith in him. Tho' he might stumble but I do believe, with all the exposure that he has, he would be able to survive among his new friends. The thought of sending him to SMKA's did cross my mind and he did apply but I think he would be better off in the east coast. We'll see whether my plan would be for or against me........

Maal hijrah and New Year

Salam n greetings everybody,

2008 'passed away' with lots of memories and the dawn of 2009 has given way to the start of another year. Things change and modifications need to be done to suit the current situation.

The 1st meeting was held yesterday and things couldn't be clear enough. New measures are to be taken to mould holistic individuals and wishful thinking hinted that ideally things could be better. Coming back to real life, hiccups and hindrance are everywhere that could give rise... not to the price of petrol but BP level!! Everybody is hoping for the best but if individuals dont know (dont CARE!!) about their future, can we repeatedly advise the youngsters without them getting bored or getting on our nerves?

Another school is having the meeting tomorrow and after that, we are heading east to register our son for his secondary years. Coming back on saturday, we dont know what time we'll arrive but on sunday, we have to send the daughter for her pre-std 1 programme.

Well, Have a meaningful and fruitful days ahead….

Roger and out..

Recap pt. II

31 Dec - Sent the other half to her friend's house to continue with the meeting. Reached trolakjaya at 7.50 a.m. Headed back to school and reached at 8.10 a.m. meeting ended at 1.00 pm; after that went straight to Ipoh via Tapah. it was raining but the porting of maxis numbers to celcom has to be done. After completed the process, we went to Kinta City- fossil, solat, shoes and dinner. Went to Kelebang Jaya at 9 pm. Did some shopping at Tesco Extra and reached home just nice at midnight...

30 Dec - sent her to temoh then came down to tapah to pay the tithe. went to 'pusat sukan ppd' to park EVA for free. Went for breakpast first with En Sani, suhaili n pak karim (centre's caretaker). After going to 'pejabat agama', at 9.40 am I headed to an exhust shop in bidor to have the cat-con removed cos it's been there for more than 11 years. Had to wait for a while cos got 2 customers who arrived earlier. The process took about 40 mts and by noon, I was in the office back in SR. Thought of having lunch but since I got some data updating to be done, I stayed back until 3.00 pm. After that I worked with my colleagues to bind the booklets for tomorrow's meeting. By 5.30, missus called and I drove back to trolakjaya to pick her up. By 6.15, I reached KMP and met with the 'ironman' (who had earlier fitted the grill to my unit) to pay him for his service. Stopped by at pahrurazi's house and reached home by 7.10 pm..

29 Dec - Started the journey at 7.00 am and reached Temoh at 8.20 am. Headed up north and browsed in Tesco Kampar. Azs called at 10 am and we had tea at the mamak stall. By 11.20, I drove to Ipoh. Went to OCBC n RHB bank to complete the transaction. Headed to ipoh parade, spent some time browsing in popular. Later I checked the superbowl and surprisingly, 10 lanes were empty... By 3 pm, I decided to head back to temoh but not before I did some shopping at kampar. Reached home by 7 pm..

27 Dec - by 9 am, we're on the road to KL. Went straight to tmn kosas and had our lunch there. After Zohor, we went to setiawangsa and wangsa maju. We reached back tmn kosas by 7 pm. After dinner, we went to Carrefour ampang for a while before stopping in IPB kg pandan to pick up atie. We finally reached TM at 11 pm..

Recap.....

17 Dec...

went out in the morning for fauzan's checkup. At 10 am, sent the laptop for repair cos it refused to switch on again. Then at 11, the rentokil rep called and took her to look at the problem. Went back to pick up the laptop at 1 pm then heded home. In the evening I went over to the flat to wash it cos on friday somebody wanted to rent it for a few days. Btw. office called to inform that there'll be a meeting on at 8 am tomorrow. Darn....

16 Dec...

On the way out to malim prima, accidentally ran over a stone hidden under grass, hit the undercarriage and punctured the left tyre. stop to change the tyre and continued to malim prima to install lamp and fan. went back at 5, took a shower and out again to the tyre shop, ended up changing 2 pieces of nearly new 185/65/14 ducaro GA (200 lighter..). after maghrib, went out for dinner. bout 9 pm azlan called but he's on the way home from proton city hence the teh-session had to be re-set to some other time.

15 Dec...

Got a call from rentokil, asking a few q's bout the termite prob. The caller promised to get back to me tomorrow to confirm the appointment. At 9 am, went to kota malim to fix the lighting but only managed to fix 2 sets. Came back at 3 pm

14 Dec...

Dunno what to do, finally got ready and head to pc fair at 9.30 am. Reached KLCC at 11 am; spent bout 4 hours and bought some protector and an sd card. went into KLCC but nothing really interest me. Headed towards kelana jaya to have lunch at 4 pm. Went to giant kelana jaya and after that went to carrefour subang jaya. After maghrib I headed home and reached tm at 9.30 pm..

13 Dec...
went out to send the kids to board the bus at 8 am. did some grocery shopping and went back. did some spring cleaning but halfway thru, my eldest called to say that they were still in tm cos the bus had to change the tyre. took the opportunity to send the jacket over to my eldest. Then at 11 am, somebody called to visit the flat; was thinking of going to a kenduri but had to cancel cos the appointment was set at 2 pm.. The app lasted for 4 hours then went home and tried to continue with the cleaning but heck, malas lak. so, went to the night market to buy some fruits..

12 Dec...
Got ready and went to school; reached there at 8.15 am. Did some updating on SSDM. Went back at 12.30 pm. In the evening just carried out some mild activities around the house..

IQ n EQ

Salam n Greetings everybody,

It has been nearly 3 weeks since I last updated this site. been a bit busy n things were hectic until today. Tomorrow should be ok but still got appointment to send fauzan for his checkup. He's not well today, a bit of flu, flam n cough; hope its nothing serious cos things gonna be busier for the next 7 days; missus got meeting n I'll be on duty.
For the past one week, I was mentally squashed with the infos meant for the midlife teachers. 1 week undergoing the course has given me something to ponder about; am i gonna stay in the teaching profession or will i be in the management line? some of my colleagues have enrolled to do masters in education management n NPQH. I'm still undecided whether I should be taking the same path as theirs.
Listening to the lectures about the national policy and the policy makers' intention, everything seems to fit perfectly but experiencing the current situation, I have my doubts. Whether you are a reactive or proactive person, current infrastructures only help in certain ways. The rest would depend on the people who would be working at ground zero and with the current situation, I reserve my comment. I'm not trying to be pessimistic but I have my reservation.
Whatever it is, I hope I can do my best to make things work accordingly. IQ is needed to theoretically plan good things but EQ is needed so that the implementation wouldn't stress the workforce cos they are the ones who will actually be involved directly with the clients...
I beg to ponder...

Procastination or Pressure...

Never thought that the time to do an assignment would come again and to make it more challenging, right in the middle of brainstorming, eye-straining n nerve-wrecking marking moments. I always advise my students to somehow plan their writing but when it comes to reality, the execution is harder than I thought!!
I guess old habit dies hard; I was at the junction before, didn't know which path to take, until the eleventh hour has come and tried to strangle me with the guilty feeling of putting things off until they really suffocate you, I mean myself..
As it is, I'm halfway through of the 20-page requirement and if I can make it by tomorrow, I still have time to get it proofread. That's right, final check for that 'kerjakursus BM' before it'll be submitted this saturday.
As Nan said, torturous gilerrr.......

School holiday/ break

As good as it may sound, things are not as rosy as it seems. The last day of school was friday the 14th but for me, nothing to shout about. 18-19 nov, I'll be having a meeting, 29nov-6 dec have to attend a course, 10 dec a meeting again, 11-12 dec I'll be on duty in school and for the rest of dec my better half would be tied down with EST. So, there goes the entire school holiday. This has been going on for the past 5 years and somehow as the saying goes ' rebutlah masa lapang sebelum sibuk mendatang', is true. There's no more holiday in terms of quantity but with the limitations imposed, I need to strive for quality times....
Will I ever achieved that????