Bid Farewell to 2009: A (Partially) Journey to Remember

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When I'm typing this entry, 2010 is just around the corner within a few hours. 2009 had been quite challenging to me either in my personal life or my career life. This, is my journey in 2009...
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Career
I personally do not think that I am a good teacher this year. Somehow I feel that I do not manage my time properly in preparing my stuffs to teach my kids. Yes, I am a kind of person who needs planning in almost everything I do. Even when I did my assignment during undergrad years, I even made a story board to arrange my assignment!
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Financial
Owh ya, I got my increament last July but still I am not good in saving up my money monthly. Uhuks~~~ but I guess, I can still achieve my goal to save at least RM10K within two years of working. La la la...
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Fashion
Wow, I think this year I spent a lot under this things. Yeap, and this year I realise that I looove fashion! Ha ha... I follow advices from my favourite magazine by not investing too much on a pair of clothes because you change it every day. Instead, invest on handbag, shoes or watch. I also learnt how to wear contact lense and I received different feedbacks from my colleagues and students. Some like it, others no. What ever it is, contact lense allows me to experimenting with my eyes (now only I realised that I have a pair of sepet eyes...this must be inherited from Mak).
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Passion
Long live literature! I started to write poems again and mostly in English. I even bought a special book for me to write down my poems. And as usual, I bought a lot of books, enough to make my room filled with papers (-_-") But for the time being, I need to stop buying novels since I still have about 10 novels that need to be read up (as if I have a lot of time to read it =D )
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Love Life
No story. Ha ha, it's private baby. I keep it to myself and my BFF
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Debt/ Property
Early of this year, I join insurance. Of course, I have to pay it monthly. Early of this month, I bought someting which I have to pay the installment every month, starting next month. Sorry, no picture of the thing that costs me some $$$ each month. I will upload the picture in later entries.
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Miscellanious
Second hand stuffs: First, I bought second hand clothes aka bundle clothes. Hey, who say that bundle is low class and only for guys? Before this, I was also sceptical about bundle. But hey, tak kenal maka tak cinta, it was proven that I am wrong about it. But one reminder to buy clothes from bundle, make sure that the clothes really, really looks nice, not something tacky. After all, you still use your money to buy it. Second, I bought second hand property (read under Debt/ Property label). It does not matter for me either it is first hand or second hand. As long as it can bring me from one place to another, conveniently, I am fine with it.
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2009 Resolution: Is there any such thing for me? No. Not that I do not believe it. It is just that I am more into making short terms planning (as short as 30 minutes). The longest planning that I have this year might be to keep RM10K withing two years of working.
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2010 A New Book

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New year resolution? Huh, do not even have time to think about it. But I always believe that whatever it is, we must try to make our life better than yesterday. Avoid procrastination. Keep that in mind and you will realise that you have new resolution almost everyday you wake up from bed! Isn't that nice? But of course, sometimes we will face bad days. It is normal as a part and parcel of our life.
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Good bye 2009. Welcome 2010!

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Sindorm Pra Sekolah

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Bukan, bukan. Ini bukan sindrom yang terjadi pada budak- budak yang baru nak masuk sekolah. Tapi sindrom yang terjadi pada aku bila sekolah dah nak buka semula. Okay, mungkin tak sepenuhnya datang dari aku sendiri, tapi dari pihak pengurusan sekolah.
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24 Disember 2009
Menghadiri (baca: gantikan tempat orang) taklimat e-Kasih di SMK Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah, Muar. Dua slot. Slot satu ngantuk habis, slot dua ada umphhh. Penceramah pun cun (sempat ushar heels dia yang mengancam habis!)
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28 Disember 2009
Mesyuarat pertama untuk sesi persekolahan 2010. Sesi dimulakan dengan takwim sekolah, jawatan- jawatan yang disandang, hal- hal kewangan. Edisi warm up yang paling hip, hot dan hangit adalah pengiraan headcount. Cikgu- cikgu yang baru masuk sekolah 'ni nampak blur 'ja. Ha ha...
Jawatan yang bakal disandang tahun 2010
> Guru Tingkatan 2A (-_-")
> Guru BI Tingkatan 2A, 1A, 1C,1F,1G =D
> Guru Anti Dadah (yes!!! suka)
> Guru Kebajikan (apa kes?)
> Guru Pengawas, hah???????
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29 Disember 2009
Pagi: Jualan buku di koperasi bagi pelajar Tingkatan 4 dan 5. Tak ramai budak Tingkatan 4 yang datang, sebab tak tahu masuk kelas apa. Ada yang datang menyongeh 'ja. Dah baik-baik buat list buku, h****m dia tak beli. Cuma nak buku kerja 'ja. Kena potong balik list tu. Haish!
Petang: Mesyuarat Panitia. Tak pasal- pasal aku kena jadi setiausaha Panitia BI. Haish. Tapi yang bestnya, dapat pinjam kamus elektronik (semua cikgu BI dapat seorang satu). Mula guna dengan main game Tetris (-_-")
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30 Disember 2009
Pagi: Jualan buku di koperasi bagi pelajar Tingkatan 2 dan 3. Kaunter penuh sesak. Ada pula budak- budak Tingkatan 4 dan 5 baru nak beli buku. Kalau tengah sesak, kena halau 'ja. Bukan tak bagi tahu awal- awal. Sendiri cari pasal. Hangin betul.
Mula berjual pukul 8 pagi.
Habis berjualan 12.30 tengah hari.
Waktu pulang 2.30 petang.
Sampai rumah pukul 3 petang.
Gara- gara-> bungkus buku pelajar Tingkatan 1 dan Peralihan untuk hari esok.
If yesterday was bad, today is worse and tomorrow will be worst!
Petang: Kalau ikut status di Facebook, sepatutnya bagi makan rimau. Tapi rimau bercuti dari makan sampai minggu depan (3 Januari 2010). Dah macam budak sekolah pula rimau ni. (-_-")
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31 Disember 2009
(Akan dilakukan)
Pagi: Jualan buku di koperasi bagi pelajar Tingkatan 1 dan Peralihan
Petang: Nak buat apa ya?
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1 Januari 2010
(Akan dilakukan)
Pagi: Mesyuarat Jawatan Kuasa Disiplin dan Pengawas. Tak pasal- pasal kena datang. Baru ingat nak me'ronggeng rokiah' dengan Mr. K ke Melaka. Apa kes?
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Tapi sebenarnya, mood nak kembali ke sekolah sudah lama aku dapat, sejak mula cuti lagi.
Satu: Berusaha keras mencari buku-buku rujukan dan latihan baru bagi teks sastera baru Tingkatan 1
Dua: Berusaha (dengan gigihnya) menyiapkan Perancangan P&P Tahun 2010 bagi Tingkatan 1 dan 2. (Ketua Panitia minta satu salinan sebagai panduan Panitia ihiks~~~)
Tiga: Mengumpul, mengasing dan melabelkan baki- baki lembaran kerja tahun ini. Dah siap boleh buat portfolio seh.
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Sungguh, kalau aku tak jadi cikgu yang lebih baik dari tahun ini memang tak patutla. Rancang 'ja lebih.
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We do not plan to fail, but instead, we fail to plan. So, work out your plan. If you do not want to fail.
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Shattered Dreams (2)

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through my window
i can see
my shattered dreams
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and i'm scattered
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Refer to Shattered Dreams
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Credit for this photo
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Subjektif

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[,,,]
Tagline L'Oreal;
> kerana dirmu begitu berharga.
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[,,]
Becky M. Leogardo kata;
> "kecantikan adalah hak milik setiap insan"
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[,]
> "Tak handsome!" kata junior aku.
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LAri:JaUh

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Dulu
aku kata
"aku mahu lari,
pergi jauh!".
Tapi kau kata,
"jangan!
Tinggal saja denganku".
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Sekarang
sudah hampir pasti
kau akan berdua
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Nah,
ke mana harus aku
bawa lari
jauh- jauh
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hati
ini
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UNknown

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... might as well kill me
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Mess... Arghhhhh!

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My room is in a total mess. Not that I purposely do not want to clear and clean it up, it is just that I need all those papers to complete my scheme of works for next year. Hah, I will try to be a better teacher next year =)
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Those papers actually are the worksheets that I did not use for my students this year. Some will say, just throw it away. But hey, what if the worksheets have 70 sets for each? It will be a total loss for me. Some more, I'm trying to save our environment =) as well as my pocket too!
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Goodness, I think my head is already ting tong with all these stuffs. At the same time, I have to study the new text for literature. For those who have children or younger siblings who will be in form one and form four next year, they will study new text. The one that the students are studying right now is already ten years.
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I'm more than happy when I know that they are getting new text. However, then I read through the texts (both forms), I felt a little bit disappointed. The text is not local at all! Except for 'Heir Conditioning' by M. SHANmughalingam, 'A Fighter's Lines' by Marzuki Ali (Form 1 text), 'In the Midst of Hardship' by Latiff Mohidin and 'Are You Still Playing Your Flute' by Zurinah Hassan (Form 4 text).
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I wonder how my students will learn the texts as I expect that I'll teach among the last class. Phew, I really have to work extra hard next year. At the same time, I also expect to be sent for endless workshops next year. Haish... when will I have time to teach my kids? Haish...
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Stop complaining Ain! Continue your work!
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Dang!
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REvisit: UPM

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This is where we begin...
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Since I started working last year, it is like a habit to go back to this place where I call it as home-sweet-home. Yes, UPM is our second home as MPTI/ IPTI is our first home.
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I miss all these places, the BSN where we did our 'rompakan bersenjata' because our monthly allowance were bank in through it. Most of the time, the juniors who were still in Maktab will inform us when our allowance will be in. The Harbour Bridge, or some of us called it as 'bukit batak', because once, one of my friend misheard what my friend said. Actually, my friend was refering the bridge just like bukit kat maktab. So funny. We had scary times with the college bus since the drivers drove like manic. We always pray hard and cross our fingers, hoping that there would not be any accident. Plus, we also had a lot of headache since they played the non-friendly-'Kelly Ng'- songs non-stop.
* The FPP, is where we spent most of our times and when we discovered how cosy JPPPL is, we hang there like anything. This is also the rooms for our lecturers. We had our breakfast, brunch, lunch, tea, discussion, (dating) and a lot more things at faculty's cafe. Whenever we wanted to pay for our food, we always pray that the one who will calculate it will be the abang, not the makcik, because he usually will give us cheaper price. My lunch usually cost me only RM2. Wow, I do save a lot then it comes to food.

When we orded our drinks, the abang who prepared it usually will put a lot of condensed milk. And Sammy will say, "rasa susu sebenar, fresh dari ladang UPM". Once, I told him to make my Nescafe Iced a bit thick, so I told him "bang, kasi kaw punya" and he replied "okeh boss".

Oh, JPS is the least adimred place for TESLites and we could not understand how the sports students can stand with that place. It's scary and smelly, yucks!

We love the foyer! Hell ya, we love it like anything until we create a phrase nak berfoya-foya di foyer. A lot of informations we got from the foyer as we always look for updates at the boards. After that, we will spred it among 52 of us. When I went there the other day, I found an interesting banner, which is about MICELT 2010. We love MICELT, and for next year, it will be held in Equatorial Hotel, Melaka again! For more information about MICELT 2010, refer to this site for updates.

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Besides FPP, we also had our lectures at Dewan Kuliah Akademik Pusat aka DKAP. When we first read DKAP on our timetable, we were wondering what does it stands for, and one of us replied "dewan kuliah atas pelatar kot?" =D It is greener compared to our degree years.

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Oh, I went to the bookshop, and shop there like there is no place in KL that I can shop better. But wait, I found this, the script for Ronggeng Rokiah by Dr. Anuar Nor Arai. I did not bought it, but I just love the title la la la~~~
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The entrance is one of our favourite spot. We admired the architecture and it is a good subject for photography. I remembered that I used this entrance as one of my subject of photography for my Teknology Pendidikan class. It was early of the semester. Students were still eager to go to class and I had to wait almost 30 minutes to make sure that nobody would interfere or enterframe my picture. Not a single human, and not a single vehicle! I was really tiring, but indeed, I managed to snap a beautiful picture.
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Owh ya, Dr. Edwin will screamed at us if he saw us walking on the grass. "You UGLY PEOPLE, GET OFF FROM THE GRASS!!!" And when we entered his class, he will give us another lecture about walking on the grass. If you read the entry that I wrote about him, you will see our pictures with him standing on the grass. It was drizzling, what a beautiful moment, and he said like this to us, "because all of you, I had to be an UGLY PEOPLE today".
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This is not the end. Although we had our convocation at Dewan Besar, it is not the end of our journey. In fact, it is the beginning of our career. We hope to come back to this place again to get our second degree. One day, we will tell our next generations proundly, "I used to study in UPM once. We never regretted even a minute of our life studying there and we are proud to be the Alumni of UPM"

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Salah!

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As an English teacher, sometimes I think I suffer because I tend to correct every single mistakes that people make when they speak or write in English. Sometimes, I even laughed at them (this happened during Induksi), scold them (during Induksi too), etc...
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And look what's written on the paper...
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I didn't realised it until I looked at it thorougly. This happened when I bought my new toy. If only the person who wrote this is my student, I will definately scold him on the spot!
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HUH!
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'Ronggeng Rokiah' (part 2/2009)

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As I have promised earlier, I will write about my second part of 'Ronggeng Rokiah'. This time around, I went to KL (ya, there's no other place for me to go except JB and KL).
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Day 1
I went to KL quite late as I had to go to school and finished some tasks.
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Day 2
incik-kacang-senyum asked me where I wanted to go and I straight away said, "UPM!". And UPM, here I come!
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I will write more about UPM in my next post.
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After UPM, I went to Mid Valley (where else?) for my first round of book hunting. Unfortunately, I could not find the books that I wanted to buy, but wait! I still buy some books. It is a lie if I tell you that I entered a bookshop and walked out of it without buying any books. Haha...
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And I went to The Gardens too (so jakun!), since I have never been there before. Mind you, I'm staying in Johor and going to KL is just like escaping from a prison.
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Since Christmas is just around the corner, they decorated the places with christmas trees and castle. The one in MV is still unfinished (when I went there), but the one in The Gardens reminds me of bridal dais. Yeah, you know people nowaday are so creative until sometimes I think they have changed the dais into something else. *sigh*
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Mid Valley
The Gardens
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Day 3
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I continued my book hunting session starting at Amcorp Mall. Actually I was looking for Popular, that's why I went there. I cannt say either I was unfortunate of fortunate enough since I reached Amcorp quite early (9 someting, *sigh*) and Popular only operated at 11 a.m. However, I found this book clearance sale and as a person who is addicted in buying books, this is unresistable. =)
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Big Bad Book Sale @ Amcorp Mall
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Then, I remembered that I used to come across a Popular near to Petaling Street. Therefore, I went there and viola! I found the books that I want. I continued my 'Ronggeng Rokiah' session to KLCC and had my lunch from Kyros Kebab.
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Just like MV and TG, KLCC is also decorated with christmas trees, bread house and not to be forgotten, gingerbread man! I took this picture with the help of a Filipino lady who was on her vacation. It ended up with me taking her pictures and vice versa.
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After the 'photography' session is over, I went to Kinokuniya (as usual) and took quite a lot of books. Come across my heart at that time, hopefully I have enough money to pay for those books or I will be a dead meat. And guess what? I got RM10 voucer since I spent more that RM100 in a reciept. There goes my smug face. Since the voucer can only be used from 3/1/2010 until 31/3/2010 I guess I have to come back to KL next year. Hopefully I will go there on sencod week of February and it also means that I can attend the first MASKARA next year, yeah.
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Day 4

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Went back home!
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These are some of the stuffs that I bought on my second part of 'Ronggeng Rokiah'
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