A Primary School Reunion

I dont have the proper words to express my happiness meeting old friends whom I havent met for some 30 years. We were together in Primary school. Some of them still have the similar look on their face - only in the 'older version' like Amir, Tg Azlina, Radziah, Roziah, Nor Sham, Joe Adam, Joe hashim, Suhaimi, Nisah, Tay, Kiang and few others - not much 'transformation' happens to them so not that difficult to recognise them eventhought we havent met for so long.
But some like Fauzi Wahab, Shuhaimi Musa, Dato sri Ma, Dato seri Wong, Wan fauziah, Siti Badariah, Au Chi Shi, Yap and few others - they really 'transform' into someone else - be it in size or face transformation. I didnt know how they are until I looked at their name tag.
What a nice reunion at MS Garden, Kuantan- we had dinner, karaoke, made jokes, chatting . It was really fun. the dinner ended past midnight. I reached home at 1.40 in the morning with a very fulfilling feeling of happiness. Thank the Almighty Allah thet we are still alive for this reunion.

My sad story

I know I should have been happy when a very close friend of mine,Umi Kalsom Masrom told us- me and Ayu - that she'd got a job as a lecturer at UNITEN, Muadzam, Pahang. No doubt it was a very happy moment for her because she is getting a permanent job, which at KPMIM she's still on contract basis despite her many written applications and phone calls since 2008 to the MARA Headquaters requesting (or begging is more appropriate)to be made permanent. Obviously there're so many red tape, rules and what not in MARA. The good news is the delay in recruiting her made it easy for her to 'jump over' to other Institution and the happiest news is she isgetting a double pay - at 4K a month plus a RM500 monthly allowance. For this, I'm happy for her.

What make me so deeply depress are 2 factors. firstly, we have been close friends for years now - since we were crammed in the same room at the old building - then we did our Masters together and with Ayu, we were always in the same group, she was our 'pusher' who always reminded us the get our assignment done, schedule our group study - always sat together in the front row in every class. Having meals and do all the good and bad things together. Too many good memories with her. In many ways, she was naive - we made fun of her because we could easily make her believe whatever we say. we sure gonna miss her and her kids -especially Musyhid and Mukmin who were always confussed between Untie Jamie & Untie Ayu!

The second factor is why am I not as lucky as other people are? I possess a Masters degree in TESL but I am still the old me - no salary or grade hike, still a DG 41 English teacher just like the newly grad teachers. I guess the feeling of complacency in me leads me to where I am - it's NOWHERE

Time flies.....2010!

Wow! It seems like yesterday I wrote my last blog. Little did I realise that it was written last year - early January to be exact! What have I done throughout 2009. Have I become what I aimed to be? I really doubt. But one thing for certain - I became a year older and looked older.