Student

Am I too good? I always feel that my students like to take advantage of me. Even though I sound them a lot but they never afraid of me. Most of the time, I like a crazy women trying to tell them how bad I feel about their attitude but they are like a body without soul. I had to call their soul back... Some words went into their right ear and slip through their left ear.
Once I caught a student sewing his shoe in the locker while I was teaching maths in front. Some even sleeping. I always ask myself, shall I make the class more interesting or shall I finish my syllabus so that I can answer to my superior.....

Dayanah

She is 4 BK class monitor before she transferred back to her old school in Ranau. A hard working girl and I really like her as a form teacher because she really offers me a great help and she is so naïve. I still remember she came to see me during one of the recess time. I was so angry with her class because they failed to do my homework properly. I was making noise to her and told her that I will throw their homework into a rubbish bin. While making noise, I told her to prepare a rubbish bin whereby I just said it to show my anger. However, when I entered their class after recess time, I was surprised to find an empty rubbish bin beside my table. All my anger gone, I feel like laughing but I was so touching at the same time that a girl really pay attention to each word I say even though I don’t mean it. Such a naïve girl!

Backyard

I took these photos from my rented house backyard. I never notice it was so beautiful. Most of the time we forget that God gives us a wonderful place in front us but we just don’t see it. It happens most of the time in our relationship. When we start to realize we need to appreciate our surrounding, then only we found that it starts to disappear from our view. When will we start to appreciate more than complaining more?

Keningau

The photo is showing a playground in front of my rented house in Keningau, Sabah. I had been here since 1st January 2006 to work as a mathematic teacher for one of the secondary school here. The photo was taken on 16th September 2006.

Keningau is a quite small town. It is a quiet and peaceful town. I always feel I had been cut out from outside world. It is 2 and the half hours drive from Kota Kinabalu. The journey is long and boring. We need to pass through Gunung Emas to reach Keningau town. Gunung Emas area is gold and similar to Genting Highland. The differences between both mountains are Gunung Emas doesn’t have any casino and it only has a small resting area. The only thing that reminds me about west Malaysia here is the KFC restaurant. The one and the only KFC restaurant here.

I like the people here. They are friendly and helpful. They got married in young age. I always have mistaken their grandchild as the children. There always my embarrassing moment. However, it is very hard to find Indian people here. Most of the Indian people were posted here as teachers. The majority people here are native. Their main religion is Christian and Islam. They are living in peace and harmony because most of them are relatives even though they have different belief.

One thing that irks me is that they like to spit everywhere and is like their culture. The other thing they always carry out open burning which pollute the surrounding and cause irritation to our eyes. Hope they will throw these habits away.