Tuesday 1501

I teach Moral Education for Year 1 and year 2 kiddos.
I was teaching about Love & Care for the family in my Year 2 class yesterday.
I showed a few pictures and asked them what are the ways they can do to show love and care for their family members.
Being the most talkative and opinionated students amongst the three Year 2 classes, they gave me lots and lots of responses.

“Kalau emak kamu menyediakan makanan tengahari untuk kamu selepas kamu balik dari sekolah, adakah emak kamu sayang dengan kamu?”

“SAYAAAAANGGG!” They replied uninamously.

“Jadi, sebagai anak yang baik. Bagaimana kamu menunjukkan sikap kasih sayang terhadap emak kamu?”

And the class turned very noisy with their responses.
Some even came up with their own situation at home.

“Teacher, daddy saya..eh..ayah saya kan…kalau mummy saya kasi sedia makan, dia tidak tolong. Dia main computer saja. All the time.”

“Oh, mungkin sebab daddy kamu ada kerja. Itu sebab dia main computer saja,” I replied.

“Tidak! Dia main Counter Strike!! Non-stop.”

Erghhh.

Bah, daddy-daddy semua… rajin-rajin tolong wife kamu ah.
Nanti anak kamu complaint sama cikgu dia.

Until next post!
*hugs*

Monday 1815

Hola!
How’s your Monday?

Just an update on my fridge magnet collection.
I have added a few more countries/places on our refrigerator and boy am I smiling widely looking at those colorful bunch.

LJ, a friend of mine whom I knew since Uni days, went to Melbourne and New Zealand during last year final semester school holidays.
She gave not just one but six in total including one from Japan which was given by her younger sister who went there around the same time.
Thanks LJ.
Love the ’sheep’ fridge magnet the most.

Another two came from Susan - Hong Kong and Matamata, New Zealand.

She was even kind to give me a compact handkerchief from Hong Kong Disneyland.
And to tell you the truth, that is my first time seeing a compact handkerchief.
I was amazed at how the hanky was compacted into small 2″ X 2″ size cube and later turned into a normal hanky once it was slightly wet.
Big Thank You Zan!

Another colleague of mine is heading Beijing and Korea in June.
I am already visualizing myself having a Great Wall of China (or perhaps Tianan Men Square) and a Winter Sonata fridge magnet upon her return although I have not even tell her my request. Ha!

So that’s it.
Will keep updating on my fridge magnet from time to time.

Until next post!
*hugs*

Saturday 1535

“Has the bell rang? I have class at the library,” I asked one of my colleagues this morning.

“No bell today. The bell is only set to ring from Monday to Friday”.

“Aaah okay,” I retorted while mental-ling the No-Bell-On-Weekend in my mind.

I proceeded with my class at the library as usual.
About 10 minutes before my class period was over, I kept looking at my wrist watch for fear that I might missed the time (since there is no bell to signal the period is over).

8.05

8.07

8.08

8.09

When I was about to tell my students to get ready to go back to their class, the bell rang.

“Eh, ada pun bell. Good, just in time for my kids to go back,” I was telling myself.

I instructed my students to keep all the books in the proper basket for read books, keep the chairs arranged and walk back to their class silently.
I didn’t sense anything weird.
What more to feel anything out of the ordinary.
Everything was as it supposed to be.

I have another class in one hour time after the earlier class.
So I had breakfast with two of my colleagues.
Soon, fifty-five minutes gone and I got ready to go for my next class.

“Eh, ko ada class lagi?” My colleague asked.

“Ya, but better saya tunggu the bell ring dulu la baru saya jalan”.

“Jangan lah ko tunggu, tiada bell tu kalau Saturday”.

“Tapi tadi saya ada bah dengar bell ringing”. I started to feel confused.

She insisted that there was no bell ringing as it has been set that the bell will only ring every 30 minutes on weekdays.
And I, knowing perfectly what I have heard, defended that it was really a bell ringing at 8.09am sharp.

I should know.
Because, when the bell rang, I checked my wrist watch and it showed 8.09am.
And wondered to myself that perhaps someone must have changed the bell setting so that it will rang today.

I know what I heard.
It was loud and clear.

Then, my other colleague who happens to be the person in-charge of the library intercepted.

“Did you say you were in the library when you heard the bell ringing?”

Yes.

And she laughed out very loud.

“You had a ‘friend’ when you were there!” she continued and laughed again.

Only after she calmed down that she told me, they believe the library is sort of haunted.
There were quite a number of light paranormal activities happened before in there.
Normally, it happens when someone is alone inside.

In my case, I was not alone.
I was with 12 noisy kids at that time.
But the bell did ring.
Loud and clear.

“That ‘friend’ must have pity you so much cos you kept checking on your watch, it chimed the bell near your ear,” my other colleague said to me.

What?
Errrghhhh….

That bell I heard… it was indeed the ONLY time I heard ringing today.
And no one claimed to hear any bell ringing today.
Spooky!
I am never going to that library ALONE next time.

Until next post!
*hugs*

Tuesday 1824

My school is just five minutes drive from home.
Without the traffic jam that is.
You probably have heard this so many times from me, it bored you by now.

But I am gonna tell you again.
My school is just five minutes drive from home.
And.
My HALF TANK fuel lasted me THREE WHOLE WEEKS before Gentut calls for the next pump up.
Seriously.

I didn’t believe that myself but when my fuel tank icon blinking to the ‘E’ yesterday, I realized, the last pumped was on 6th January, the day I had day trip to my former school and had it re-fueled to half tank when I came back to Penampang.

But of course, all this economical talk is merely because Gentut has been given total rest from long distance travel.
Since the last drive back to Keningau on the first week of January, he has not been traveling more than 10km a day.
He’s been traveling about 250km every week for 5 years, up and down the Crocker Range before.
So yeah, he deserves the rest.

Well, let’s see if the RM50 of RON97 fuel will last three weeks again this time.

Until next post!
*hugs*

Saturday 1826

Remember Bam-Bam?

He’s a small dog.
He barely reach my knee when he stands.
And if people are not familiar with his breed, they might mistaken him for 3 months old puppy when in fact he is already coming to 11 months old.
And with his ‘puppy-face’ look, one will start admiring him despite his hyper behavior.

But.
Scrap all that cos Bam-Bam is now a DADDY!
His playmate Tinie (remember Tinie?), has just delivered FIVE little pups on Thursday night.
Buli tahan juga si Bam-Bam ni, kici-kici badan dia buli juga sampai 5 offsprings dia.

We bought Tini a new crib, big enough for her and her pups.

See all these mini Bam-Bam? So small right?
I wonder if they’ll be more like Bam-Bam or Tinie.
I just hope their looks will inherit Bam-Bam’s while their temperament is of their mother, Tinie.
Susah gia if they ikut muka si Tinie….muka yang nampak tragic saja ni.

I am a granny(again) and I have five cute grandpuppies!

Until next post!
*hugs*