'Ronggeng Rokiah' (part 1/2009)

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As I wrote on my schedule for this week, I went to JB for three days and two nights. Yeah, JB is like my second hometown. Staying there for almost four years does not make me into an expert in JB area, though. Haha.
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So, I had a nice moments there, hanging out with my little cousins. Hunting exercises book was less exciting since I could not find the references that I wanted to. Since next year the kiddos will studying new literature text, I feel that it is a must for me to find my own references.
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My First Day
When I reached Terminal Larkin, I was looking for surau for Zohor prayer, but I could not find it. So I asked one of the shop assistant about it. She was a little bit puzzled and asked me back, "surau? maksud adik masjid?". This shows how I have missed a lot of thing about Terminal Larkin and now they have such a nice place to perform solat and it is air-conditioned too!
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This makcik was so noisy, calling people to get into the buses. She attracted my attention not only because of her voice, but also because of her mismatched baju kurung and sarung too!
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My Second Day
We went to City Square since I think I have enough 'visit' at Jusco Tebrau. I went to Padini Concept Store there and I found this lovely dress. Unfortunately I cannot wear it since I'm too short. Huhu~~~
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My two lil cousin who (were forced) to accompanied me to have a tiring moments in the bookshops. Yes, I spend almost three hours in Popular and MPH.
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Confused! She could not make up her mind on what to eat when I brought them to Laksa Shack. I am not a great fan of laksa, but if I have the opportunity to find Laksa Shack, I will definately eat Laksa Sarawak.
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Zohor prayer. Now, my Paris Hilton can say "finally I'm out from Segamat!". =D
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Can you guess where I took this photo?
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The books that I bought. Literature references for next year syllabus, a bed time stories (because the students have to learn Rumplestiltskin, and my KP said it might be easier for them to learn it as a story instead of a play), Ustaz Hasrizal's travelouge and Uthaya Sankar's collection of short stories.

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And I bought hard cover books too. The red one is for me to write about my love, my passion (guess what?) and another one is for working purposes (if I have to attend courses, I think I need a notebook that look serious).

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My Third Day

Went back home!
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(wait for my second part of Ronggeng Rokiah 2009 if I got to KL next week!)

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Adieu!

Tercekik!

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Kelakar. Tapi tak kelakar pun ada. Ini cerita saya. Terjadi dua malam yang lepas.
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Saya baru pulang dari be'ronggeng rokiah' di JB. Malam itu, ketika melihat lauk, terlintas di hati saya untuk tidak makan malam (maaf, saya tak pernah berniat langsung untuk berdiet). Tapi mengenangkan sudah beberapa hari tidak merasa air tangan ayah, maka saya pun makan malam.
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Sedang enak menikmati makan malam, tiba- tiba...
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Saya tercekik tulang ikan!
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Sungguh, masa itu saya rasa agak kelakar. Tapi selepas menelan 2, 3 kepal nasi, tulang itu masih tidak 'jalan', saya memaksa Ayah untuk menghantar saya ke klinik. Phew, nasib baik klinik sangat dekat dengan rumah (jalan kaki pun sampai).
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Sebenarnya saya sedikit cuak, lagi- lagi bila teringat cerita salah seorang junior saya berkenaan situasi ini. Katanya, dia tercekik tulang ikan yang mak dia masak. Katanya lagi, tulang ikan tu besaaaarrrr. (Er... apa saya sedikit doubtful dengan saiz besar yang dia maksudkan, sebab Bahasa dia selalunya kurang tepat. Contoh ayat kegemaran junior saya adalah, "my punya rambut", haha).
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Di pendekkan cerita, saya berjumpa dengan doktor dan doktor tersenyum mendengar cerita saya (masih boleh bercakap lagi). Sebenarnya saya bukan tercekik tulang ikan, tetapi tulang ikan itu tercucuk di bahagian lelangit (hampir dengan tekak). Tulang itu halus saja, tapi panjangnya hampir satu inci. Hmph...
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Kopak lah RM15 kerana kes tulang ikan ni. Tak apa, lain kali kena berhati- hati occay~~~
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Love Like This: My Two Weeks Induksi Course (part2)

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Life can be so confusing. Full of sorrow and misery. When you fall, there's nobody willing to held you up again, and everybody seems to turn away from you.
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Life can be just like a storm in a cup of tea.
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... but everything will be fine if you have a circle of people who are always beside you and support you.

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Here we come, the Kaizen...Haha, what an introduction. Actually I had planned to write this entry for so long. However, due to time constrain, I always delay to write it. But when I had a chat with Kluang Girl through Facebook, I suddenly feel excited to write this entry. Again, it is about Induksi, but this time around, I would love to write about the people in Kaizen- my group.
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The Boss

Our very super caring leader and cracked a lot of jokes. Days will be bored without him. At first everybody thought that he is still single, but alas, he just got married a few weeks before Induksi. Although he always pretend that he is still single, deep inside his heart, we know that he loves his wife soooo much. He is just like a brother to me and Kluang Girl as both of us are the youngest in the group.

The Singer

We will never get worried if they asked us to find representative from our group to sing as we know that we will always turned up to her. The Singer will always do her best in her performance and never failed to make us sing along with her. She is also the assistant to our Boss. At the same time, she is also the Secretary for the whole Induksi group.

Ustaz
This self elected treasurer is nothing less to be compared to our Boss. With his 'selamba' style, he also never failed to make us laugh non stop when we look at his face. Who could forget when he recited the prayer before we eat and without feeling gulity, he invited those pregnant ladies to have their meal, although it is supposed to be the MC's job. At the same time he can be so fatherly when he gave us ice cream as a treat after we had a drift- shopping for Hari Raya celebration.

The Warden
At first, I was a little bit afraid when I looked at her. But then only I realised that she is a warden at her school and no wonder she has this aura of confidence and firmness. Although she is a warden, it does not mean that she cannot crack jokes and most of the times, she will be sharing stories with us about students under her wings at hostel. One of our memorable dialouge was when she asked me "where do I accidentally meet you guys?". I was a little bit puzzled as I know the answer must be during Induksi. So, I asked her "why?". And her answer was "because all of you are nuts!" Hahaha~~~

Mr. MC
This fellow, I don't think that I have to introduce him further as most of you know him since he became my so called 'partner-in-crime' during one of the slots during Induksi. This is not a wild guess, but a fact that he has a lot of admirers during Induksi. One of memorable incidents was, when he was absent from a slot and we kept on speculating where he is until one of the boys said that he went to a polyclinic because of of tooth problem. Late in the afternoon we met him and asked him what happened and he replied that his muscle and jaws had some problem. We were laughing like anything because we believe that this might due to over chewing or over laughing. LOL~~~

Kluang Girl

Another partner of mischieve of mine other than The Warden. She even accompanied me to meet somebody (whom cannot be mentioned here) and shared my scary moments at McD Bandar Hilir. We will laugh non stop when we discuss about that issue. Kluang Girl, how I miss that super-crazy moment that we have had together throughout this course.

The Councelor

Although she is a councelor, she has this wacky, goofy personality until we do not believe in her when she said that she is councelor, whoa! Her bubbly personality cheered us up and we will miss her if she is not around even for a second. Other than that, she also has this fashion sense which is reflected through her jewelery and handbag. Oh, another thing is, her favourite word is "RAHSIA!" haha

Mak Buyong 2
An expecting mother for her first baby. She is sooo gentle and can stand under the coolest air-cond (Mr. MC surrender for this). Very soft spoken and always take a very good care of herself and we always beware wherever she goes.

Mak Buyong 1
Unlike Mak Buyong 2, this another Mak Buyong is very energetic and she even played bowling! Whoa, we was so afraid at that time, but we dare not to stop her. As this is not her first pregnancy, we believed that she could take care of herself. And yes, before every meal, she will take out all pills that she need to take and put it nicely on the papers before she swallow it with just one gulp of water.

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Is this the end of the story? Might be, but the memories that we shared will be for eternity. There's nothing that could be compared to our friendship and it is priceless in the sense of it one of a kind of experience that money can't buy.

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School's Over!

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Yeah baby, school's over and it's over! Huh, sound like an over excited teacher. Haha, believe me, I am. This year, I promise not to be a holiday grinch. If you read my last year's post, you will know how I actually hate holiday. This time around, I planned carefully my holiday. Hopefully everything will turn out as I planned.
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Ah, before that I would like to 'story' about my last week before school holiday. It's pretty hell for teachers as we have to finish up everything before the school ends. I would like to give a credit to my cousin who is willing to come back to my home-sweet-home and help me to complete my work. Haha...
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Karnival Sukan Celcom UOX @ Palong Timur
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The journey was sooo long winded and my students actually had a terrible headache during the journey. Nevertheless, when they reached the place, they acted as if nothing happened to they during the journey. They must be so damn excited about this. Haha, so much of drama queen and king.

The long winded journey

The students were off to the hall, but we went for our breakfast and 'ngeteh' first. So much of a responsible teacher. =D

The competition was not that bad and my kids performed excellently on that day.

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After the carnival, I forced my friends to accompany me to have a walk around the town and I ended up giving them a treat at Pizza Hut. Only this time, I came across of Tabasco sauce. Was I in the twilight zone before this until I never saw this sauce everytime I went to Pizza Hut?

Tabasco sauce
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School Annual Dinner

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Kak Win said, "never believe Ain whenever she took out her handphone and take pictures. Your picture might ended up uploaded to her blog".

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LOL. It's true. But since I promised that I won't uploaded certain pictures, the pictures will remain in My Pictures folder (well, at least for the time being =P). But sincerely, I didn't have much opportunity to take a lot of pictures that night since I was forced to be the MC. So much of being an MC this year until I decided to take a etiquette and protocol course after this. Oh, and I wasn't alone that night as I had a 'partner-in -crime' that night. Suddenly I remembered Mr. MC. Owhhh~~~

The Ustazs and Mr. E was listening tentatively to what my 'partner-in-crime' said.

And as usual, I was far cry form being lucky for any Lucky Draw. Hmph...
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Bee Gek's Wedding

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Wow, this is what I waited the most. She's married, lalalala... she's married, lalalala... she's married, lalalala... haha, so annoying. Anyway, congratulations Bee Gek. You are now entering a new phase of your life. Never forget our '6 Rendah 3', as our 'form teacher' will also ended his single life by next year...

Me and Bee Gek.

When I MMS this picture to one of my BFFs, he replied to me by saying 'dear, both of you look alike!" Haha~~~
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And guess whom I found there? Ecah and her lil sis! (of course with their parents too). When I saw her with her red hood, automatically I said 'little red riding hood'. Haha, but Ecah, believe me, you are not little anymore. So you are...

BIG Red Riding Hood

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... and these are what they ate that night.

See, I've told you that you are BIG. Even with your appetite. No hard feeling occay Ecah?
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Yeah, and now I'm sort of enjoying my holiday with extra dosage of sleep. As the result, no more ugly eye bags. Yeah, I'm lovin' it!

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Happy holidays kiddos!

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I have to make sure that I make full use of my early weeks of hoildays. Who knows, I will be called up to attend Literature Courses, streaming Form 1 clasess and many more!
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My Good Old Days (Part 2)

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In the previous entry I have written about my good old days at UPM. Now, I've 'uploaded' my memories about my beloved Maktab.
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Staying here for almost four years almost make us insane. In spite of that, I really enjoy my life at JB (and at first, I refused to go to UPM, haha). Because of Maktab too, we had build a super-duper-good resistance towards any negative perception about TESL students. Thanks to Mr. B for everything that he had said about us.
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Leave Mr. B and his story. Because now, Mr. B has been apart of our history.
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Let us enjoy my 'memories'...
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Our naughty NyoT

~we always consider this picture as 'Guru Terlampau'~

sooo..oldies... this is like 7 years back

our first year degree, during final exam

our final year degree, during Senaman Pagi session

they are laughing instead of streaching!

we even did an Open Class to celebrate Hari Raya

lalalalala~~~

our Dancing Queen, miss both of them

our favourite singer, Chret aka Duta

behind him, wearing black specky is 'S. Jibeng celup'

TESL Hi Tea

Raya@Puspa

with Pn Hayati's daughter- Farah Hani

one of my favourite moment with Sentul aka Abang Starbucks
"Terima kasih Power Root!"

my Nokia 3210 aka batu asah

this kitty is sooo educated!

learned at Maktab and even loove laptop!

laksa moment!!!

in Maktab's 'kamikaze' bus, sending us to Kota Tinggi for practicum

lunch after our very last exam during final year

looks like 'budak sekolah' kannn???

Faiz, NyoT, Baby and me

during Ms. Loh's retirement. She's our favourite KJ cum lecturer

anybody dares to give their teacher such a big card like us?

(we pasted our pictures there with signature and notes!)

dinner @ SeniBong with Pn. Zaiton

she has been our warden aka Mummy for four years

our grand final @ Rumah Limas, Danga Bay

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Now, tell me, how am I supposed to forget my good old sweet days just like that?
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