A good 'Eid. A good year.

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This year’s December end is definitely a good New Year start as we celebrate our ‘Eid Adha before the Masihi new year. Yes, it is also a way to reflect upon our past deeds especially if we try to focus on the sacrifices we made the whole year of 2006. What have we done? Was it enough? Did the things we do make us better people? Events like this don’t come often. As much as we can, we appreciate it and fill it like there’s no tomorrow.

Everyone has a place to reflect upon their lives. It is not necessary to look back only during the last day of the year but as Muslims, we try to reflect each day before sleep. It differs from those who keep on living their days without wanting to make any effort of changing bad habits and attitudes. Congrats too, to my fellow peers who made their way to another phase of life as wives and some, as husbands. The coming year, the number is increasing.

A benchmark for me was my trip to Kota Kinabalu with fellow colleagues. Leading simple lives, I salute their inner and outer strength. While we are living like mad cows in a mad rush society, we learnt new things along the way, especially patience. While doing some house chores yesterday, I realised the fast pace in doing things when at that moment, I didn’t need such a quicky task. We work like robots that even doing leisure, we want things to be fast as we have been trained in such ways. When I decreased the rate I was working on, I appreciated more and enjoyed it. Sometimes, quality gets out of hand when quantity is much needed. Where’s the balance? We are imperfect after all. Good enough we have insufficient natural resources, and here we are destroying ‘em.

Being in KK, again, gave me the opportunity to grab the beauty of the Divine. A more relaxed society and thumbs up weather due to all our activities being outdoors. Away from homeland, we breathed in clean air. It was nice, that this ni’mah of no-rain weather accompanied us during our 3D2N stay despite the continous downpour back at home.

School term is starting soon in 3 days time. This last one week has been endless meetings stretched like office hours. With the upcoming needs and vision aligned for the coming year, my energy is surely to be pumped. It seems that I need to work smarter this time round as the services I am rendering might be to wits end. And it seemed that discovery of certain traits of me from colleagues have put me to places where I think, expectations might be high. Time to be back to the REAL world! Current tasks for the new year:
* Department: Back in MT department
* Service: Videographer/Photographer of sch
* Partners: Sch website
* CCA : Sc & Technology Club

Let us pray to a blessful year ahead! (I’m sure some individuals close to me look forward to the exciting year! *grins* ) Be the best that we can be and always hope that our aspirations and efforts will materialise in 2007!

Shahru Mubaarak!

x x x

Some of KK pix uploaded in multiply.
Some will be uploaded to blog, soon.

Books enlighten me!

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One of her favourite past times, reading books. This girl here loves to read books. However, not considered loyal to one. More of a book hopper. But it depends too. If hooked to one, then loyalty comes first until the end chapter.

So currently, surrounded by a few books. It was aeons since the last time she stepped to a library. So, first time to the new NLB was great that it made her sick, perhaps due to the on-off weather the whole day as well.


It was a book galore. Must make it a point to resume her routine of visiting NLB like she used to those days. Lots of digging to do with the nice ambience as long as her jacket tags along!

Borrowed two books. One is a local handbook by Cheong Yuen Lin, 'Sustaining the Passion to Teach'. Another is A Cup of Comfort for Teachers. But what I need now is a cup of hot tea! The voice is sending signals of getting sick by tonight. The fact is, she sound like a toad now.

With four books to finish, with the additional Indian Summer, count herself lucky that the activity doesn't require voice, hehe!

Better heal it fast before departure in a few days. Wouldn'tbe enjoyable with bugs following you around!

Let's start the Readathon now...

p.s: Thanks sis, for the Jodi Picoult books...

x x x
Feeling much better, hopefully.
Thinking positive. Thinking ahead.

Melancholic night...

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The path that have been taken in the past
Taught me a lot about
Friendship, leaders and family
Values I gained on
commitment, hardships or determination

Once again, I see
Faces that in a way or another
Moulded me to who I am today
Faces whom I've shared joy
And perhaps, for some, tears as well
Continuing in a higher level for the rest

I envied them, they've went that far
My pure admiration salutes up high
While me, where do I stand?
Did I ever deserve the load I once had?
Even feeling much further than them

This weakness is it here to stay?
Will great ideas be silence than say?
This moment, feeling such a dismay
Daunting hard, for bravery I pray

I don't wish for an ocean of silence
I wish to be a better person
Not for self, but for friends and society as well
Where should I heed?
Is there enough strength for me to lead?
From here, will I ever proceed?

The melancholy truth, facing the music
I know I have to proceed for a sweeter return
Not for monetary rewards but self satisfaction
More of practising the things I've learnt
Along the way from the education life to the educating line

Thank you friends, we met again tonight
The special faces whom I will always remember
Still united, for one another

This moment, this night I reflected
This entrance I took that one fine day
Which led me to many doors of chances
To find my worth hidden within
To feel those, unforgettable experiences

For the continuity to me,
Doesn't lie only within the internals
But how it continues touching my heart
To continue even when
I've exited that door...

Night Reflection

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Ternyata hari-hariku tidak sia-sia
Cuba untuk mengisi tiap langkah, tiap ketika penuh makna
Agar dapat ku untai semuanya menjadi saat-saat indah
Menjadi kenangan yang menemaniku ketika kesunyian

Moga jadi insan yang lebih tegar
Walaupun terangnya tidak kekal di langit biru
Mendung dan hujan pasti membasahi keringat
Asyik memandang ke hadapan tidak kira waktu

Mungkin kali ini harus lebih berani
Mencari peluang di ruang-ruang terbuka
Langkahku usah terlalu goncang ingin tumbang
Demi mencapai kejayaan lalu mengucap kesyukuran

Di ruang sepi terkadang termangu
Apakah sebenarnya disimpan untukku?
Apakah mampu semakin kuat menunggu
Ini jalan yang ku pilih, ku yakin padaMu
Lumrah insani tetap terfikir

Khabar gembiramu wahai taulan
Do'aku tulus untuk kalian
Bahteraku masih di tengah lautan
Usahaku sudah, berkayuh di tepian
Singgahnya entah, padaMu ku serahkan

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Will I be able to build more pillars of patience?

"Knowledge is a life-long journey"

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Lovers of knowledge enters an open door that leads them to greater opportunities.
Once the doors are knocked, choices are, they remain ignorant or take a step ahead
to unlock the doors for better life chances.

Observations and coffee talks were thought provoking in the sense that there are some who continued the learning journey albeit the age of supposedly called "employees" instead of "students". Don't get me wrong. The ones I am referring to are those who seemed to circulate themselves in the education line as means to avoid entering the new phase of life, the work force.

I wonder, is it because of the larger constrains that we'll face in the field of labour that stagnate us on the lower pyramid (like opis politics)? Is it because of our social awareness and perhaps the rest of S.E.L (social-emotional learning) values taken away in the future?Is it because we are unprepared of the advantages we might lose along the way?

Again, my reflection. Isn't the formal education we gained as a track to be more responsible? To be able to apply in reality? So that we can survive the paradigm shift that shock us?

To each his own. Attachments and practices are currently the trend to equip the current youths in the labour force. Some, an eye-opener (as happened to me). Learn to leave the box of comfort and expect sharp torns poking holes to your box. It gives you shelter but shed light as well, isn't it?

Till my next reflection...

Let's learn to be brave. Do not haste. = )