Jerejak Island

assalamualaikum,

All praises to Allah,
despite of the money matters and this and that
we finally made this trip reality.
we took a student's package which offered five activities at a cheap price, RM 68.

All 5 activities took only one n a half hour to finish and we were given free lunch.
actually, we planned to take the 5.30 pm boat but we decided to go back earlier since there was nothing interesting in the island except the outdoor activities. we could not swim at the beach since the water was smelly and not suitable for swimming.

all in all,
it's not worth the amount we paid but at least, we had an experience of going to Jerejak Island.

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finally,
after 4 years of studying
i finally got the opportunity to explore the beautiful places in Penang.

it started from the 2 months practicum in Balik Pulau.

as compared to other friends who were doing their practicum in Georgetown, we needed to pay more for rental and etc. but, the experiences were priceless.

we managed to do two things at one time. exploring Penang while completing our hectic practicum journey.

alhamdulillah.

let pictures do the talking.

while waiting for our speed boat

the scenery from Jerejak Island

the scenery from the jetty


wanna know more about the history of the place. checkout at the official page.

till then.

A tale of a boy

Assalamualaikum,

“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, 'What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?'”

-Rachel Carson-

there was a boy who successfully opened my eyes. His name was Aiman.  The only thing that made me remember of him was naughty/ignorant.

kids these days were different than us when we're young. the way they think.  the way they behave. the way they show their respect to the adults n etc.

i was once a kid who was brought up in a village far away from a luxury life. i had never ever had any chance to taste the crunchiness of KFC chicken until i was in year 5.

i was a kampung girl who loved to play boyish games. i loved fishing.

i was a girl who walked to school everyday until we moved to Kamunting.

I was a girl who always respected my teacher. dulu la. sekarang. dalam kelas sembang dok belakang sekali main phone. haha. ampun!

Aiman and I were two different person but we were brought up in almost similar environment

tapi, tak boleh compare sangat la kan. zaman berubah.

He was the one who gave me the card that I pasted on my blog in the previous post. What made me excited/happy when I received the card and read his wish was he voluntarily said sorry and even expressed his forgiveness and begged me to return to the school and taught him.

yelah, when i was teaching him for about 8 weeks, I never expected him to say sorry or even do my work cz he always refused. It was either he would disturb his classmates or make annoying faces or imitate my words and actions.

The first person whom I would expressed my anger to was him. how could I hold my anger when someone was imitating my words and actions in front of me? *geram*

ampun. i always made him stand up. in front of his classmates.

entahlah.  i wasn't a good teacher either cz i know nothing to do except making him stand up in one corner.

wait!  when i asked him to make puppets and story book, he could concentrate and stay focus till the end of the  lesson. meaning, he loved hands on activities rather than listening to lectures and completing worksheets.

but, i had to cater with 23 humans. How could I keep my eyes only on him and prepared hands on activities for each and every lesson. tell me how!.

I sometimes asked him, 'what's your problem, Aiman?'. He would smile like he did nothing wrong whilst the others would shout, he was lazy not only in your class, teacher!

He was a clever boy  but sadly, he suffered from a serious disease known as pencil phobia. pemalas nak pegang pencil. grrr.

i dunno what else to do with him but he successfully carved a long lasting memory in my cerebral cortex.

kids are special. he is one of those special human beings.

May Allah protect him.

throwback

assalamualaikum,

people always said, don't say good bye. just say 'till we meet again'.

i couldn't find the pause button. 

what could i do was to savour the experience. 

=)

Pantai Malindo

assalamualaikum,

since the practicum journey has officially ended, let's welcome a new journey. journey of a student. living inside the fancy fences.

stop!

i'm here to share a few pictures upon our second visit to Pantai Malindo. as usual, we went there for to witness the beautiful sunset. we loved it. we loved the beautiful breathtaking view of the sunset. you could see the movement of the light rays. from bright yellow rays to red. i felt blessed for the opportunity. alhamdulillah. i'm gonna miss it.

forgive me, i'm lazy to edit my pictures and here you are. look how wonderful the scenery. subhanallah. it was a discreet place and not many people knew that place. 

luckily, our house was just 5 minutes away from Pantai Malindo. that was why we had no problem to hit the road late in the afternoon and quickly drove back for maghrib prayers. if not, we won't come. yelah. maghrib is just short. 

till then,

end of the second practicum

assalamualaikum,

indeed, it was the best experience i had ever had. life is too short to grumble at almost everything. let's take everything that happened as a challenge and a way to be a better person. 

i couldn't wait to end up everything but at the same time i had started to fall in love with the environment and the people. they were nice . 

look how they appreciated their teacher. they did that not only to me but to other trainee teacgers too. well, one of the reason might be 'we're very lineant and sporting'. I just couldn't get angry to children. looking at their humble baby faces made my heart smile. tell me how to  be a stern teacher coz i just could not. 

so, yesterday was the day. i had been waiting for such moment for two months. let's clean up. let's end everything. feeling grateful for whatever they had done for me though they were very active and talkative. oh kids. they wanted to share almost everything with you. the younger they were, the more ceritas. 

Love is:

Stronger than iron

crueler than death

sweeter than springtime

it lives beyond breath”

-Juliet Marillier-

May they always be in Allah loving's hand. 

Pantai Pasir Panjang, Pulau Betong

Assalamualaikum,

exciting and breathtaking view. words couldn't describe. 

it was like my dream came true. 

subhanallah. 

years back, my dream was to have a camera and it came true. 

years back, my dream was to visit beautiful places and now, it came true. 

it's all about time. 

i felt blessed for the opportunity. priceless. to experience staying outside of the fence. 

i had to spend some money to rent a house but, in return, i got a chance to capture the beautiful scenery and to experience living in a beautiful place in Penang. 

one more week to go till practicum two ends. 

till then.

new addition

Assalamualaikum,

our family
 is a circle of strength and love

our family
with every birth and every union the circle grows

our family,
is the circle of strength

every crisis faced together makes the circle stronger.

welcoming another new member in the family.

this time, we import our new player from Besut.  =)

beautiful Penang

assalamualaikum,

hehe. despite of the never ending workloads, i still have time to spent my time here. hehe. macam menteri pulak. spending time for the citizens. haha.

last weekend, we, finally, hit the curvy road.  I never imagined i would be driving on that road but when the time came, "now i know how it feels".

i felt proud of myself. haha.

i felt proud of my passengers because they were brave enough to be my passengers.

so, our journey started from

Air Terjun Titi Kerawang. 

it was not in our plan to stop at such place cz we never know the existence of the waterfall. indeed, we loved it. subhanallah. 

subhanallah. 

Teluk Bahang dam. a must go place. breathtaking view. peaceful. relax. blue water.

Taman Negara

we stopped at a few beaches for sightseeing. 

i'm in love. loving the beautiful sightseeing and the fresh air. come and join us. let's uncover the beauty of Penang. 

till then,

post eid jalan-jalan

assalamualaikum,

a beautiful day in Lembah Bujang.

why that place?haha. we just followed our leader. when they told us about that place, i was like. erk. why? it surely would be the most boring holiday since we were going to visit a historical place. don't judge until you see 'BUT'.

 but, my brother in law took out his phone when we were at one of the monuments up on the hill. yeah.  we climbed the stairs with two toddlers and a baby. He played a song "Cinta di Pantai Merdeka". muahaha. we knew already why they intended to bring us to such place. it was one of the places mentioned in that song. haha. later, we continued our journey to Tanjung Dawai.

hahaha.

what a beautiful song. i would surely ask my future husband to do the same thing. haha.

 let's listen to a song (must have places mentioned in the lyrics) and off we go to explore the special places . so romantic. hahaha

kan ku ukir namamu di puncak gunung everest. will you explore such place?huhu

till then.

practicum 2: report...haahaha

assalamualaikum,

something big is finally ready to be released.

Life can only be understood backwards,; but it must be lived forward (Soren Kierkegaard)

Experience is the best teacher. teaching a rural school gives me a different view towards education system. Children are still children but the way they think that makes them different. They are playful because they are children but they are not rude. They may not be clever. They could not speak English like most of the children in town school but they shows the interest to learn at least. but, that goes to students in the first class and some in the second class.

I learn something. never underestimate you babies. your first impression might not be true. Up to 20% of them comes from problematic families. divorce. single mother. staying with the grandparents. Absentees is the most famous issue. If the teacher asks them why. one of the reasons is 'mom asks me to take care of my adik today'. teacher has to pick them up from their home. it happens. yes, it happens. teachers in that school do extra work with no income. picking up their pupils from home or else they won't come. last week, a  group of teachers went to a house at 10 am. to pick up a students. as they arrived, all  the windows were still closed. hehe. the whole family was still in lala land. you get what i mean. they don't take education seriously.

the end. let's not talk about the negativeness. i love the kampung environment. breathtaking view. fresh air. cool water. it surely is a new experience which I can't buy. note, this is my first experience. for those who have been in this field for years, they might not excited about teaching the rural school children. this school is considered as rural school as it is located on the other side of Penang. far away from the developing town.

oppps, back track. the villagers welcome us with a warm gesture, in fact, they sent us foods during Ramadhan and my housemates's students always give us food. we feel appreciated. they give us food for breakfast lagi. haha. waking up in the morning with someone knocking on the door and hand in a plate of fried noodles. alhamdulillah.

Life is the art of drawing without eraser. sure?

yeah!

we often go for sunset  sightseeing. hihi. you can't buy the experience. for the villagers, it is no longer a fun for them to get the opportunity to see sunset and sunrise. for us, it is the whole world. we rarely get the opportunity because all of us live in town area. huhu. the sun will still rise but we rarely get the opportunity to see how beautiful it is when the colour of the sky begins to change.

till then,