English versi Whatever :)

The worst thing about being a teacher is…..you have to regain the momentum of teaching and working after a holiday. No amount of coffee can help us in the morning, what’s more at the staffroom we don’t have any cubicle to “hide” and dream while every other teachers are still reminiscing their holiday memory with their family. Gahhhhh..not helping at all.

But no matter how lazy Teacher Noa can be, I will drag my butt into classroom, for the sake of collecting the homework that I've given to my pupils. Haha, I love giving them homework, but not so loving it when it comes to check it. Like seriously. Cause it can give you both tears of joy and heart attack at the same time.

So, the task I had given for the one week's holiday was very simple. I had provided the pupils with like hundreds of action verbs in a list, and the pupils got to choose 30 action verbs and construct a sentence each of the action verbs, in present continuous tense structure. For example; eating- My sister is eating sandwich at the cafe. 

Only 30 sentences like this, easy peasy right? But NOT to my pupils, cause English is not even their fifth language and I guess teaching them Deutsch should be easier, and my friend even claimed that he is more willing to teach American Literature than English in his school. Talk about the educators' dilemma. Haha lame!

So, these are what I got in return, I called them "English versi Whatever".

jogging- Amir is jogging at the taman. (hmmm..the rojak English that we often use.)

fishing- Johan is fishing ikan. (and again!)

snatching- The cow is snatching grass at the field. (snatching - meragut? a misconception of grazing right? Aiyooo)

milking- Mom is milking at the kitchen. (salute to breastfeeding mom eh?)

selling- Mazlan is selling Ambia at Betong. (pemerdagangan manusia? Oh my!)

.........and I got lots of these types of sentences from my precious pupils! But somehow I must be thankful as my pupils are slowly developing the understanding in English and improving somewhere compared when I first taught them in January. And some of them had started to do well in English. Weeho :)

Geddit?

Nevertheless, what does not kill me will surely make me stronger to teach and inspire my pupils. I don't really mind to sacrifice my time and source provided that these pupils will work hard for their future. InshaAllah :)

My last year's English Education pupils :)

A home teacher for Year One 2011 :)

Our humble school, very the kampung right?

And none pixels from 2012 yet. Still. Busy. Teaching. Ok? Ya right :P

Kisah Hot Plate dan Orang Bodoh

Last night, my housemates and me tak masak. Sebab beras tinggal sikit. So we decide to makan-makan kat luar. Dah decide esok-esok je beli beras. Then off we go, kat satu kedai yang ada-potensi-but-with-masalah-attitude kat Betong yang aman damai ni. Sampai kedai tu, have to wait 10 minutes jugak untuk dorang ambil order. Then after placed order, one by one lah dish datang.

I ordered Japanese Tofu Hotplate, and now the story began.

Benda ini yang I imagine I akan dapat, hmm..

Pic credit to yvonnesam.blogspot.com

Tukang masak tu masak tofu tu berasingan dari hotplate. Tofu yg siap letak dalam mangkuk, and another hotplate was put on a table in front of me. Then before serve kat our table, waitress tu telungkup kan mangkuk tofu tu atas hotplate, dgn cara yang agak kasar, seolah-olah lontarkan mangkuk tu kat hotplate, sebab it is hot I know. And ada yang tumpah-tumpah lagi tu. Right in front of my eyes.

Kalau tuang sopan-santun macam ni, boleh lah accept kan. Ni tidak!

Pic credit to taufulou.com

Then, tgh hotplate tu berasap dgn maha hebatnya, waitress bodoh tu terus hantar dish tu depan muka I, exactly in front of my eyes. Berasap till I can't see muka my friend in front of me. Rasanya the whole customer in kedai tu semua dah menoleh. So, I alihkan hotplate tu kat tepi sikit. Cause dah feeling ala² mengewap muka dah.

It was like this, in front of my very face :(

Then datang seorang pelayan lelaki push that hotplate again in front of my face, sambil kata, ''benda ni memang makan panas-panas macam ni!'' Whattt? Terus I balas balik, ''kalau nak makan pun, takkan macam nak asap²kan muka saya, panas macam ni. Bongok ke apa ni?''. Okay, hati dah start panas dah sebab ada yang dah berlagak kuang ajar.

Hmm..perut lapar, so makan jugak sikit waima hati dah menggelegak. Tak habis pun makan, only 1/5 jer yang dijamah. Then masa nak bayar, I decide to sound orang kedai tu..''Ni saya nak bagi tau sikit, next time uols hidang hotplate, tak payah lah nak telangkupkan depan muka customer and hantar benda yang masih gelegak berasap-asap macam tu. Tak bagus, tak sopan tau. Orang datang kat sini nak makan. Kalau nak hidang, buatlah siap-siap kat dapo''. Terus budak cashier tu (anak tokey kot) jawab, ''Alah, memang benda tu dimakan macam tu, camtu lah cara hidang nya!'', menjawab dengan muka masam tak nak ditegur sambil mencebik-cebik bibir. So saya pun, ''Hotplate tu memamg biasa dah I makan, tapi takde plak orang lain hidang berasap-asap banyak sangat macam u buat. Tak sopan! Tak bagus macam tu, berasap-asap habis satu meja tak nampak apa dah. And next time kalau orang tegur, u terima je, jangan nak buat muka sombong pulak!''.... (dah lah bodoh, sombong pulak tu...kata hati saya). Tapi boleh jugak ada mak cashier tu berdiri di srbelah anaknya yang dah diteur tadi buat muka bodo jerr. 

I have to, haha..

Oh hairan :( Then I just berlalu dari kedai tu dengan rasa puas hati after luahkan apa yang I tak puas hati. Walaupun dalam hati rasa nak korek² jer mata budak bodoh tu. Ishhhh..

But seriously, keluar dari kedai tu, muka jadi oily, tudung memang macam bau kena tumis dah dah, my two other friends pun dah busuk² jugak. Sakit hati yang real punya, lain kali kalau ada orang buat the same, rasa nak jatuhkan jer hidangan tu tolak² dari atas meja. Tapi kesian makanan, rezeki, bukan salah ia pun. Hummm..

If I can ever do this kannn?

But, moral of the story: Kalau nak berbizness tu, ikhlaskan hati. Jangan buat kerja tak senonoh, jangan layan macam customer tu mintak sedekah kat kedai awak. Or kalau ada pekerja yang buat kerja bodo² ni, tegur. Jangan biarkan cause pekerja macam ni lah yang akan tolak rezeki awak. And kalau ada orang menegur, belajar lah nak terima. Jangan nak lawan² cakap. Customer is always right, cause rasanya, kalau ada 10 customer yang tak puas hati, maybe seorang jer yang sanggup tegur. Tu pun saya tak terus 'maki' guna word macam kuang ajarrr, bodoh, mudahan kau bankrap walaupun attitude uols layak menerima makian sebegitu. Banyak customer yang akan terus tak akan datang kedai macam tu daripada menegur kan. You have to agree with this. And lastly, kalau bodoh jangan sombong. And kalau sombong, tak perlu nak bodoh. And sentiasa bersedia terima teguran. Or else, awak akan mati dalam keadaan bodoh sombong. And I only say the stupid word to those yang really deserve it, why not.

Still geram.

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A game that unite all

Yes, football ialah game yang unite us all. Tak kira yang reti main or just a plain kaki bangku---like me. But last night, I guess all Malaysians had a blast screaming and supporting our Team Malaysia to the extend that they play real hard to bring back the gold medal for Malaysia. Tahniah Harimau Muda, I really love how you roarrrr-ed and how the opponent team dived. Hihi.

Back in my college year, I am very fond to anything tiger-ish. This inclination is specifically to the feline family. I love cats, big cats and the small one, as well as the domesticated type. Meow! So for my Final Year Project back in Unimas, I had chosen a project related to the cats, in my case Wild Cats. I still can remember my project title: Historical Records, Distribution and Morphological Measurement of Felidae in Borneo. And FYI, kat Borneo we only have 5 types of wild cats. Meow again.

And one thing, I still remember, during my project presentation, one male panel asked me :"Since we have 5 type of wild cats in Borneo, why don't we have Panthera Tigris (Malayan Tiger) in Borneo?". I was given time to think before I answer that, but being the one that done the research, I knew I must answer the panel asap to minimize my mistake of overlook why we don't have tiger in Borneo. Being an innocent, I answered back "Maybe during the climate change where plate-tectonic movement happened during dinasour era, the tiger had missed the chance to jump into Borneo Island, thus it made them can not be found in Boeneo today". Huh, jawapan macam bijak kan? tapi I was very unsure of that. Main hentam jer, boleh lagi ingat binatang ni main lompat-lompat benua zaman ice age to live in that place. Shallow hihi. Then another panel said, "a folk tale tells me that a tiger can't live where the ironwood is found". Whoa, betul kah harimau ni takut kat Kayu belian. Maybe? I don't know/

But, from the SEA GAMES 26, it is proven that our Harimau Malaya is not afraid of Garuda. Kudos!