Story behind the picture

PHOTO 1
Practicum is over !!! :D
Practicum is over ~ :(
There's 2 different expression there.

Thank you to my beloved students yang bagi hadiah ni. What I notice about them, they really excited in giving present to their teacher. Kadang2 sorang bagi lebih dari sekali sebab tengok kawan die punye gift lagi best. Teacher jugak yang untung. Hee~
I am very touched with what my students have done to me. Kalau yang year one they have no idea yang that day is our final day until they notice their seniors one by one come to me and ask for phone numbers, fb etc. and give me presents. After they know, they take a piece of paper and wrote " I love (forget how to spell my name then check out my nametag) Athirah". Ada sorang tu datang dekat dan tanya, "Teacher boleh x kite nak cium pipi teacher?". Terharunye ~ But that day my tears didn't came out at all, not because I am not touched but I just cant. Maybe sebeb dah banyak nangis earlier that week. I gave my students handkerchief with cartoon characters on it, most of them Angry Birds. WHY? It resemble me who can't be separated with handkerchief (hyperhidrosis). My teaching days have already over, the conclusion is I dont want to be a teacher. I think I prefer to be like my dad as a lecturer. I love kids but kids nowadays are different than during my days. Still want to teach but for upper level. Kene sambung sampai master la kot.

PHOTO 2

Huge things come with huge responsibility.This is the huge responsibility that i meant. I call him FERRERO ROCHER. Not the car on the right side ok that's daddys', mine is SAGA FLX. Saje tangkap gambar sebelah2 coz kete Babah rendah sikit hee~
Syukur Alhamdulillah rezeki Allah bagi dapat sebiji kete yang akan mempermudahkan urusan ku di masa hadapan. A perfect rebound after loosing Honda City yang ku rindui. Juz now me myself hantar FR for his 1st service after 1000 mile. Student banyak bagi soft toy knowing teacher die baru dapaat vroom2. Suddenly Mama kate, 'Bahaya letak anak patung dalam kete, nampak sangat pemandu perempuan. Nanti jadi target penjenayah.' Le me, "Yes Mommy~"
Babah pula inbox and letak kat komen pasal jenayah and precautionary step for female driver yang panjang berjela. Rupa2nye Aim juga mendapat SAGA sejibi-jibi macam FR tp warna hitam he call his SAGA Black Forest a.k.a BF. Pandai je aku bagi nickname. 92's  baby in the family pakai saga blake.

PHOTO 3

 

Next week, Mommy & Daddy will fly to Mekah for pilgrimage. Since my semester break just started I will stay at home and take a good care of not so baby brother who already in high school. At first, my parents want to leave him at Putrajaya with Daddy's sister, since a complicated procedure to change to another school temporarily is such a waste of time and they got no time to kill. I am the one who will take care of Raims for a few weeks remaing. It is such a waste of time because school holidays is just around the corner, so to undergo those complicated procedure to change school? Naahh~ I'll try my best not to fight and love my brother with care and patiently (sarcasm on). Just pray for my best. During night, Ada will accompany us by spending the night a.k.a sleepover everynyte..haha...Paket2 kecil bekalan Mama & Babah utk ke Mekah nanti...Without Mummy knowing sepaket selamat ku telan..hua hua (upah le kire). Kalau mama pesan time kat Terengganu boleh beli banyak sikit, last2 beli kat tepi sungai Kuantan je. Cupcake yang comel itu pula ditempah oleh Kak Long Nadia ku. She have a friend here who have a cupcake business, so she ask her friend to send over our house. Long distance surprise gitu. Comel sgt coz on top of it ade fondant kaabah + gambar lelaki pakai kopiah + pompuan pakai tudung awning biru. ^^,

3 pictures, lots of stories <3 p="p">

Baju raya warne ape??

Hai blog yang dah bersawang~ Memang sengaja ditinggalkan sbb targetnye setelah habis puase enam baru nak post pasal raya. Meaning dah abis la puasa enam nye * Alhamdulillah

Still not too late to wish Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri Maaf Zahir dan Batin. Sekarang ni mesti ramai orang tengah buat open house kan, tak mau jemput saya ke?? Hee~~Takpe no offence, I pon on diet ni (cover muka tak malu).

My plan for this week, is to drive home for the first time from campus to Kuantan (rasa diriku sangat dewasa kini). Tapi takot pule mahu drive sorang2, bertambah takot lagi tatkala Daddy meng-inbox di FB pasal jenayah yang melibatkan wanita drive sorg2 (lagi seram sejuk ye). Ingat nak ajak cousin tercinta MissAlia since dia pula ade Koko. TRIVIA: MissAlia kini menuntut di UMT seberang pagar kampus ku menyambung degree-nya. Ok la xpe try tanye rakan2 satu course yang nak balik Kuantan *result unknown.

So let say ade teman balik Kuantan, how about teman nak balik ke kampus? Kak Belle, x balik Kuantan this week so x dapat la balik together2 ngan die. TRIVIA: Kak Belle 2^nd cousin yang sedang bekerja di Kerteh. Why is it so important untuk pulang? Firstly, Ahad cuti Hari Malaysia *wink. Secondly, Mama nak buat open house this coming Monday (le me ponteng tak g skola). Since I am the only girl, sian Mama tunggang terbalik sorang2 kat dapur, guys…there are sort of things yang only me can do. So kene balik, syurga dibawah tapak kaki ibu kan * senyum sampai telinga

Ayuh flashback ke Hari Raya pertama untuk tahun ini. (prepare yourself for the lengthy unimportant story of mine). Honestly, Aidilfitri kali ni I only feel only until people finish performing solat Raya (coz le me cannot perform L). I ate Lemang during 3^rd Raya and I can’t find any reason for that. Lepas solat Raya Uncle and boys pergi main futsal pula. X sure lepas solat Raya or malam Raya. Normally time Raya akan melawat saudara mara kat Pulau Tawar & Sungai Koyan, since Raya one week je x terkejar dibuatnye. Shin Pa Jin pule cuti until 3rd Aidilfitri only. Raya ni tak jumpa pon Mokde Ida di Setapak coz mereka beraya di Kedah. L

As usual ada Barbeque Night di Rumah Mak Lang at Jerantut. Main2 mercun, main2 bakar ayam, main2 makan..waaahh main je keje nye. That’s the only time for Mama to hangout with her sisters yang susah nak jumpa tu yang very the havoc la wa cakap lu. Time tu kalu batang idung ni x duduk kat dapur pon Mama x perasan gamaknye. Then ke Kuala Lipis untuk tengok baby girl Kak Ma. Raya kali ni anak saudara & ibu saudara deliver baby. Untie Liza pon dapat baby boy di Kuantan.

Then,  melawat aunty and uncle di Gombak  and spent the night at Putrajaya. Singgah di Festival City shopping sebentar where a got a new watch J. Next day say good bye to Shin Pa Jin. First time la menjejak kaki di INTI College di Nilai.Balik2 rumah nangis kat bantal Ajin coz rindu begitu lah selalunye.

Sambutan Lebaran bersambung di SK Kompleks Gong Badak. Kami bertiga dok paka baju ghaye pong. Masing2 pakat2 paka baju bese2 ja. *buruk le aku cakap ganu                          

  Meriah la tengok student semua pakai baju raya hari pertama and dapat duit raya pulak. Pastu jamuan hari Raya. Ada pulak student yang bagi duit Raya time tu, tak kurang jugak yang mintak duit Raya. Cakap pasal duit Raya, di umur 20 tahun ini duit raya still dapat banyak J.

I got one extra day to spend my Raya with my high school friends. So I only visited to 3 teachers houses but they got to visit more than 3 houses. Short and sweet evening we had spent.  Still cant believe it, 3 years have passed after graduated from high school.

 Ok la x best la tulis panjang sangat korang kan visual learner, jom tengok gambar.

Tema baju raya : kaler bangunan buruk

Eid @ SKKGB

kRAZY cOUSINS

bARBEQUE nYTe

Place where mommy grow up

beraya di rumah cikgu

Anak2 sedara

Kak Ma and her new baby

5th floor

Remember when I told ya currently I am staying at 5th floor at Block E. There are pros that I keep on telling myself to senangkan hati yang kerap mengeluh ini. * Even writing this makes me breath harder just by imagine the whole thing. 
I should  be grateful living in a spacious bedroom with plenty of private places plus dont have to queue every single morning to have a shower. But *a huge BUT
After go through such a tiring day at school, yelling and shouting especially during Ramadhan, me and my roomies keep on saying "Why we have to go through this every day? why?"

Look girls we can see the roof through it :x

To make things seems too so much  worse, for these past few nights there were storm, the rough one. So that our bedroom ceiling come off and we can see the roof. Thanked god the roof was not leaking during raining, it would be a disaster if its happen.
Yesterday wee try to fix them by poking it using a broom. Unfortunately, the ceiling piece fell down to the floor and break into two, YEAY *sarcasm on  
Now all of us can see the roof when we lying down, juz imagine we can see stars through it errgghh~
During noon our room will be extremely hot and got a warm wind through the ceiling.


 ENOUGH COMPLAINING STARTS MOTIVATING
Inhale~
Let's look everything in different perspective shall we?
Telling myself that by climbing up those stairs for the rest of these coming 2 semesters is actually another way of exercising since I am too busy being a teacher (busy kah?) I am loosing some weight now *showing my retainer with wide smile. Baru muat baju raya nanti hihi. I always find a reason so that I can run through those stairs. Since now is fasting month, I have to go to Bazaar near the cafe and perform my Tarawikh at masjid/surau. It's like killing 2 birds with 1 stone, exercising and got pahala. * I should do this more often
It feels like a gateway from duniawi thingy for a moment you know ~ I hope I have inner strength to be Istiqomah in doing this. GO ME!!

School story time~

Recently Kak Lia (our advisor) ask me a favor to look after 5 Al-Batutta for her coz she have a meeting for year 6 teachers. I teach that class so I know them quite well, she ask me to finish the adjectives name label which I asked them to prepare in previous lesson. After finish doing that, the students have a Math homework to be completed. Many of them said they want to make Math at home since its a homework, ok that's fine for me I just asked them to stay calm and be in the class all the time. Unfortunately, kids are being kids even they already eleven and in intelligent group of students *sarcasm on

adjectives name label

There were few of them running in and out even I scolded them for few times the didn't listen. Then, I stand up and walk out the class without saying anything. Few of them chased after me and keep on apologizing by I say nothing. It's really pissed me off coz they took my order for granted and very disrespectful. I already in the middle of frustration with them since they didnt take care of a 'Star Board' that I have made for them. I already prepared them 2 times coz it tore apart once.
To console me back, a few of them come and apologize and a person who was walk out from the class send me a letter of apology. I received few of them from the students even other class heard about the incident. Some of them also tell me they recreate star board on their own to make me happy. I vow to myself I will not become sulky when it come to conflict between students but I cant help it. It's really turn my nerves on. I said to them afterward I will become a boring teacher rather than having fun during my class. I'm not sure I can do so.

Apology letters

star board take 2

Somban

Salam Ramadhan Akhi wa Ukhti ~
Macam tinggal lagi 2 weeks la kan puasa.From day to day I keep on procrastinating published this post coz idea tersekat..

dap errr

Since it's Ramadhan let's no talk Lagha2 thingy. Just wanna share the excited feeling I had last weekend. (Tim kayya??) For the first time le me been to Seremban (troll face). Yup le 20 years old me never been to Somban before, I feel very lucky to have a friend from Somban, no other than Mizz Farida. It have been an amazing experience since she is a Sharifah who might have slightly different from me in terms of family background (even  if kawan I yang bukan Sharifarah terang tang2 memang ade banyak perbezaan kan * ape masalah gua nih?!)
No larh, her family suka berkhasidah and listen to them which is something new for me, I heard them before but not as much as during my stays (which is good la kan). She have 5 siblings but during my stay there were only here two sister s around. They both treat me well * shukew cangat coz kitew xdew kakak :p Just like her sisters said "Having a sister is fun...but juz for a few days". Noted~

During my stay, I'm just being a Koala eating + sleeping..Molek bonar duk rumah orang wat perangai camtu muahaha. Ummi and Led ( Ida's parents) treated me very well. Ummi teach me to make karipap pusing. Hehe first time making curry puff I did quite well la kot (padahal xde rupe karipap pon) but at least it can be eaten.

that's how my karipap looks like :p

Led sgt cool masak Char Kuey Teow

Puding roti Ummi 

OTW ke Jusco

Selamat datang ke Serem...huk huk

Time balik, there was an unfortunate event.Our bus arrival was delayed. Not really delayed but much worse than that. Not coming. We took this Bas Tambang to take us to Pudu if I was not mistaken, in that rainy day. Three of us (me, Ida and Mia) depart from Somban to take another bus to Terengganu. Guess what, another unfortunate event, our seat was taken by foreigners who can speak Malay and they dont want to change place with us. I bear with it until we reach RnR Bentong. I tell the bus driver that I can sit at the back of the bus because I was bouncing like a dodge ball. That cool looking solve our problem.

T.E.A.C.H.E.R - torture

Including this week, its over a month already le me undergo practicum at my beloved school. Yeappady doo I already fell in love with the school. Of course la there a few unfavourite incidents that have to go through everyday but it doesn't mean it will ruin the rest of my day. Let's start with 1st sub topic shall we....

Le Guru Pembimbing


Syukur Ahamdulillah dapat Kak Lia as my guru pembimbing. She always updated me the DO'S and DONT'S in teaching my students as well as in being an English Teacher in this school. She treat 3 of us like a sister. Guess what, during sport day me and teacher Ida went to her house. I like everything about her house, it is not very spacious but she organized her house very well. The arrangement of the furniture is just amazed me, she managed to put the furniture accordingly match with the spaces in her house. She have a scrambler which she rides with her husband to avoid hustle and bustle of Terengganu traffic which is very cool for a mum with two kids.

sports day

I wore Arsenal jersey that day and students keep on saying "Arsenal tok beh ticer." and "Teacher minat Arsenal ke?" Then I said to them, "Football is not my thing, I wear it just because it is red in colour and I am in red team". There goes a weird look made by them and followed by a Malay translation from me and that's how it goes everytime Teacher Athirah speaks English.

TIME OUT MY WAY

First time I enter my class, 5 B AND 5 K, I paste a star board to give points for group that obey the terms and condition that I've prepared which must be followed (korg ingat contest je ke ade terms and conditions). It is to giving points to groups that able to follow the rule. There are 4 different colours of stars and each of them have different points. I also tell them for those who did not bring their book at the time they were ask to do so, they will have to stand at their place and "tongkat hidung". At first, I thought they will feel embarrassed to do so but they didn't. They immediately do so after I finished mention about it, I drop the punishment because they seems to enjoy the consequences.

I got the idea from my mum. She did that to her year six students and they try very hard not to get the punishment but not for my students. Then I have no idea how to punish them but for sure they seems to enjoy my star board which not make them feel bored :p

student bagi (tau2 je teacher suke pink

before mereka berlari

with teacher2 cantik

cute pose 

T.E.A.C.H.E.R

Facts that you will read next come from the bottom of my heart. Going through this practicum is almost like a dream come true. Ok I know it just a practicum not me being a real teacher yet. Being a teacher not just a job, some people said it is a safest and easiest job. But for me it is more that that.

 The 1st place I went to in term of education institute is primary school at SK Sri Skudai at JB. My mum take me with her as a standard 1 student, I suppose to be at kindergarten that time coz I was only 5 years old. It was a year when my dad just finished his Master at UK. Basicly, I know nothing about how is school everyday routine that time, I just follow my mum going everywhere. It is hard to believe I still remember those tiny details such as my mum bought a glue wit red tube for me that time, I'm not sure for what but for me that glue is kind a bizarre for me :p

i dunno why I remember this

After few days, my mum send me to Tadika Iman coz I can't cope with standard 1 learning syllabus (mane xnye kat tadika UK banyak main je). Back then, I follow my mum for a few times to her school and sit at teacher's table where all student staring at me and saying " Anak teacher...anak teacher". Even I was small and naive that moment I witness all of my mum action, how she control the class, being firm yet strict at the same time. What I know, all of my mum's students love her very much even she's very strict. BTW, she's an English Teacher. 

she is a TESL graduates, me?? soon

From that moment I said to myself I want to be exactly like my mum. She raise up her kids in her own way and educate her student in a way that makes they loves her very much. During teacher's day, my mum will receive a lot of present. Its not what I wanted the same thing... presents but today I feel very touch when I see how other people children loves my mum very much. I feel jealous at 1st but then I want to have that energy + passion + ability that my mum have. I know it is not easy but I want to be exactly like her. I wrote this not to feel brag or else but  i wanna share how long I've been waiting to be at her place. A place to teach and educate next generation. 

I know there will be challenges awaits me, I hope it wont torn my spirit down. I met all kind of teachers in my life but everytime I found something that I dont like in my teacher I tell myself, one day I will be in that place. I  never had a chance to be the  favorite student of my teacher. My teachers see me just like I am JUST another student but it is fine, I still wanna be a teacher. Back then (even now) teachers around me have their own student of preferences, I always be the one that sit in the shadow. I did not begging for attention at anytime, as long as I play my role as a student, perform well in study and do all the home work.

From time to time I take not the DO and DON'TS in being a teacher. I dont want to be a teacher that I dont like back then. I have to be more creative in attracting my students to love English and be a better human being. Wish me luck :)

ps: sorry for long boring entry ^^,

Practicum vol 1

Our first week of practicum has already over. How ironic within a week we feel we are belonging to the school. I’ve been to the school gate before with Mama & Babah just to know how far the school from the uni.  Kononnye leh la jalan kaki ke if I can find a house to rent since I don’t got a hostel. First week of sem 5, was a time where I don’t stick in one place. Squating umah sewa kakak and meet new friend Ratu, plus kene saman kat Kg. Cina ( 1^st ‘awesome’ experience). For a time being I am staying at Bella & Ida’s room (tq you guys coz sudi share)

Le Us & SK Kompleks Gong Badak TRIVIA

• ·         Mula2 kami ditempatkan di Bilik Guru then di bilik Kaunselling coz guru2 kaunseling dah pencen. (mengimarahkan katanye)
• ·         Guru pembimbing ku is de sweet and adorable Teacher Azlia.
• ·         I’ll be teaching Year 1 & 5 English and minor year 3 Music (x penah blaja music selama 20 tahun hidup then nak kena ajar music pulak kan *challenge accepted)
• ·         Enjoy me’relief’ kelas during first week coz boley test how far is our ability in managing the classroom.
• ·         Assembly agak lama ye but it’s amuse me to see how students started to feel anxious and do silly things to reflect how bored they are.
• ·         We have to overnight at the school during our 1^st week for Kem Ibadah which involved year 6 students.
• ·         Ida is the most favourite teacher and the whole world new why but she kind a sick of the reason. (exaggerate statement)
• ·         Teachers there is very kind especially the senior assistant  who answering all of our question that have been ask since day one ( we ask questions every single day during the 1^st week)
• ·         Actually we’re not supposed to be teaching year 1 and 2 coz they are practicing KSSR which is something that quite new but we will try our best. GANBATTE!!

  The school is just nice, meaning I 'll never get lost to find places :)