Sunday, January 04, 2009

Ape sy jumpe di Friendster

Dulu bile sumer org bukak MySpace, sy pun bukak MySpace. Pastu bile diorg try Hi5, sy try Hi5 jugak. Pastu bile sumer org bukak Friendster, sy pun sibuk nak bukak Friendster.. dan kini bile sumer orang sibuk berFacebook, di situ lah sy :)

Tapi student sy ramai gune Friendster. Dan oleh kerane sy cume bukak FS bile ade 'friend request' atau 'comment' shj, sy mendapati skrg sy selalu bukak balik FS sejak² student sy jumpe FS sy.. adeh! Terre beno korang nihh..

Tadi sy bosan, cari surat penting yg sy tatau sy letak mane.. Sy tak rase cam tua tp nape sy cam nyanyuk ye skrg? Pastu bile sy frust tak jumpe surat, sy bukak la email. Sy tgk ade comment dr student sy kat FS sy so sy bukak la page diorg. Pastu sy perasan ade gambo yang familiar kat FS 2 org student sy.. tau gambo ape?

Ni yang petame.. sedikit blur, tp sy kenal sgt org baju ijau tu.. dan sy kenal sangat la bilik tu. Dan sy ingt sgt la hari gambo ini diambil w/pun sy tak pasan pun ade activity snap gambo di mase tersebut.


Ni yang kedua.. konpem trus la sy kenal org baju biru tu..


Diorg ni, takde keje ke buh gambo cikgu diorg dlm FS diorg. Kot ye pun, bgtau la kat sy awal² kaaan, leh sy buat muke comey ke? Hehe..

*Sebenarnye cikgu diorg suke hahahah.. tak sangke diorg sayang cikgu diorg ni jugak :p Tp cikgu diorg ni tetap rase cam patut diberitahu awal² supaye lawo skit gambo cikgu diorg dlm FS diorg, ye dak?*

Saturday, January 03, 2009

Whats in my mail?!

(Ayu ni.. kate bz, tp nape cam byk update skrg?!!?)

Anyway, had a so-and-so week. Ok in some parts, but thumbs down in some departments.. but I'll live hehe..

Wanted to share some things I got in the mail recently. First and foremost is, of course, the books I've been waiting for. Please note (again), I only used my phone camera. My digicam still mogok and already thinking of buying a new one (that was before I realized I MIGHT have to buy a new wrist watch. Mama's watch which I've 'borrowed' for 13 years now suda uzur hehe.. wanted to change the battery yesterday but turned out the battery was still okay! Adehh! Melayang la beratus lagik duit pasni.. uwaaa!)

Now where were we? Haaa.. my books lagik (Oppss, forgot to update, I already bought Dorothy Koomson's My Best Friend's Girl @ Popular yesterday.. Ad suda gelak tengok sy membeli buku itu tapi sy buat muke seposen je :p) So here are the three books (which makes it 9 books this month aje)..


Travelling Pants tu Baizurah was the one who introduced it to me. Memang la, its a teenage novel, tp sy punye suke la? Have a problem with that?!?! Heheh.. Ayu cube jadik gangster :p Ayat² Cinta tu memang dah lame nak beli after Bart bought it the other day and also cause Salimin told me the book was better than the movie (Yup! To those who remember, I DO have the soft copy of the book in my PC but to those who know me, mesti tau yang sy tak suke bace bende yang sy tak boleh pegang :p) Freedomland tu plak Wanie promoted to me, the Books Galore girl. I like her taste in books so I trust her judgement and so far, I'm never disappointed :)

Second thing is a bag. Hahah.. iyer, sy tau, walaupun some people kate sy ni girly, tp sape yg kenal sy tau sy sgt tak suke gune handbag. I usually use my slingbag, even when its formal. Except for kenduri's je I whip out the handbag Asyraf (bless his dear heart mem'perempuan' kan Ayu haha..) sent me for my birthday. So I was more suprised than others when I decided to buy this bag.


Actually, I like it coz it looks small, tapi sebenarnye banyak harte karun boleh sy sembunyik kan di sini.. so I likey hehe.. bleh bawak gi tuition and sumbat my purse (Adi and Ana's birthday present pulak), my pencil box with 1001 unused pens, my bulky calculator, my girly pouch for girly things (birthday present jugak.. from kak Shima, kak Kathy, kak Zura and kak Yun), my spectacles case, my shot of Nescafe Latte, my VS body mist (nape tah bawak haha..).. and I like it because it has pink trimmings haha.. selalu je sy takmo ngaku sy suke kaler girly sebegini dan lebih suke kaler biru tp keychain kereta sy dan phone sy pun kaler pink, lagi tak mo ngaku kaaa Ayu?!?!



And the third thing is some bracelets I got on EBay (Sile salahkan Adi dan Ana yang menyebabkan sy terjerumus di lembah EBay :p)


Actually, the one on the left tu I bought from kak Zai, not EBay. Batu dia cantik tapi kamera sy ini tidak dapat meng'capture' it *sigh* The other four from EBay la, though :). The fourth one tu maybe sedikit melebey haha.. haven't worn it yet as I feel a bit 'mak datin'ish with it! Camne la leh terbeli haha.. but I love the othe three. The last one on the right is my favourite. In the picture on EBay, takde la nampak cantik sangat, but when I got it, I think I like it the best. That night itself dah trus pakai when I went out for the movies :)

Hmm.. tu je la kot nak share! Hahah.. Ceh Ayu ni, macam bagus! :p

But to my friends: Please remind me, NO MORE indulging again!

Friday, January 02, 2009

New Years Resolution


Boring! Yesterday I went home at 2am after finishing the paper. Then this morning dengan semangat tahun baru came to hand in my paper.. but Leong was on leave.. erk, aiyak!

Mule la bosan.. and went blog hopping! And I noticed, since it was the new year, people mostly write about the past year or their resolutions. Un's blog did a history of a few years back till now while Watie and Lie's blog 'concluded' their 2008 by month. Looked like a good idea then so..

January
Hmm..

February
Hmm lagik..
Haaa.. did a suprise for Adi and Ana by sending cupcakes to them on Valentines. Funnily, Ayu yang lagi excited dari diorg hape heheh.. Seriously, trying to make people happy actually makes you 10 times more happy than they are :)

March
Had a great birthday.. thanx to Puga (main organizer) and the gang in the postgrad room. Love you guys to bits.. muahhhhhsss!!

April
Hmm..

May
Hmm lagik..

June
Hmm balik..

July
Ran outta 'hmm's

August
..
Haaaaa! Registered for my PhD :)

September
Back to 'hmmm's

October
Hmmm..
Chup²! A student's mum called me just to thank me and told me how I made a differance to her daughter *smiles*

November
Met the 'class from hell' <--Cikgu Ayu jahat!

December
Fell in love with my other class :) :) :)
Saw my money 'flowing' with the tyres, tyre rims, timing belt and drive shaft replacements.. kene blaja lagik pasal kete ni!

Kesimpulannye:
It doesn't seem like a good idea anymore haha.. Now I feel like an old granmama.. A SENILE one too!

Thursday, January 01, 2009

My six-week teacher fix :p

Yer.. yer.. saya tahu. Sepatutnye saya abiskan paper saya untuk ditunjuk pade Leong esok (kenape saya rase macam pelik je ayat ni?) dan selepas entry sebentar tadi, saya sebenarnye bercadang untuk menyambung penulisan paper saya tp kenape saya masih rase malas?

Kamon la Ayu, sudah new year.. bukankah awak patut berpusing pade daun yang baru (turn over a new leaf.. atau adekah patut saya menukar 'daun' kepade 'lebaran' atau 'helaian'?)?

Baiklah, saya bagi awak satu peluang lagi untuk malas (Ni sape dok ckp ngan sape ni?)

Saya nak cakap pasal student saya. Enam minggu ini, saya rase sangat sayang pade kelas saya. Memang ade beberape student yang saya tak suke, especially yang buat lawak lucah bg cikgu dia blushing tp depe sikit pun tak merah muke.. sungguh bengong mereke itu!

Saya ade due kelas. Satu di PB satu di J (Elehhh, macam le org tatau hurup² itu untuk district mane kan? :p). Kelas sebenar saya di PB. Terdapat 40 orang pelajar di sane dan sebenarnye saya sangat takut dengan kelas yang besar. Saya lebih suke kelas yang kecil, tapi sbb saya bukan boss di tempat tuition itu, saya tidak dapat menghalau student² yang saya tidak suke. Klau ikutkan hati saya..

Saya juge kurang suke (Cikgu apekah saya ini ye? Sesuke hati takmo suke kat student.. buruk perangai!) kerane ade beberape student di sane yang menakutkan saya dari pelbagai sudut yang tidak mahu saya bincangkan di sini kerana tidak mahu memakan kembali perkataan² saya selepas ini.

Tapi itu tak bermakne semua nye begitu :) Di sane, antarenye, ade Izzati dan Hidayah yang pendiam, Hani yang pandai dan suke senyum, Shabilla yang suke jerit bile cikgu Ayu nak tickle dia, Wahida yang sweet, Amira yang suke mekap dan Zu yg selalu tanye soklan yang berakhir dengan"..cikgu jgn cubit sy!" Di sane ade Reza yang suke gigit jari bile jawab soklan, Farid yang suke tulis mcm² kat jawapan dia untuk bg cikgu dia gelak, Amiruddin dan Edham yang ceria, Ammar yang pemalu, Fazli yang suke kate cikgu comel tp bile cikgu kate dia comel, dia malu haha.. Hakim yang jugak adik Naim (junior saya di USM), Ikrimah adik Mustafa, bekas student saya 5 tahun lalu, Ridzuan yang suke berlakon (bile bukan dpn 'kwn²' dia yang perasan cool, baru dia tanye saya mcm² soklan) dan ramai lagi student yang saya suke jumpe. Tapi tak boleh nak tulis sumer kat sini, nanti nmpk sgt plak yang mane saya suke yang mane sy tak suke so name yang takde itu adelah campuran name student lain, dan bukan hanye student yang menakutkan saya :)

Kelas 'bukan sebenar' saya pule di J. Sepatutnye ini kelas Cikgu W tp Cikgu W telah dpt promotion dan terpakse meninggalkan kelas. Student² di sini pule ingin membuli saya sbb saya selalu kate pade mereke, "Cikgu korg tak sayang korg, sbb tu dia tinggalkan je korg.." Mereka selalu kate, "Mesti cikgu sayang kat kami kan.. sbb tu sanggup je nak ganti.." Chaitttt!

Lalu mereke meminte pade boss saya untuk saya mengajar mereke. Sebab itu saya terpakse mengajar mereke dengan hati yang pade mulenye sangat berat, tapi selepas itu, kelas inilah yang paling saya look forward to :)

Kelas ini tidak pandai membuat lawak lucah untuk memalukan cikgu. Sebaliknye, lawak paling teruk mereke ialah mengate cikgu pendek! Itupun setelah saya TERsebut mengenai kekurangan ketinggian saya ini dan mereke menganggap itu lampu ijau untuk mengate saya haha..

Kelas ini tidak ramai seperti di PB tp masih menakutkan saya kerana jumlah mereke masih sgt lebih dari 20 orang. Tapi lame² saya tak takut lagi.. dan saya sangaaaaaaaaaaat sayang kelas ini :)

Di sini terdapat Fatin Amira yang suke belajar, Hidayah dari Maktab Mahmud (saya rase malu ngan dia. Adekah sy produk gagal sekolah AlMashoor?), Mahfuzah dan Hawa yang suke tanye, "Hari ni cikgu pakai gelang ape pulak?" (dan mereke juge telah meminjam buku² Harry Potter saya), Hawa 2 yang suke gune ejaan pelik² (Iyer, saya dah tua dan tak paham ejaan budak² mase kini!), Liana dan Atiqah yang pandai wpun sorg pendiam dan sorg bising (Liana penah dpt hadiah dari sy sebab dia jawab quiz dgn cepat dan betul), Zarul yang suke terkejut bile cikgu dia kuatkan sore, Syafiq yang suke pekene cikgu dia, Haziman bakal 'anak sedare' Yun :p, Shafie yang handsome (opsss..) dan pandai.. Hazril, Hafidzul dan Nazreel yang suke curi jawapan Shafie, Hafizuddin yang sgt sy suke sbb dia sangat rajin tanye soalan w/pun dia pemalu.. dan ramai lagi.

Oh ye, ade juge Idham yang mengangkat tangan menunjukkan victory di kelas semalam bile berjaye jawab soklan saya dengan pantas mengalahkan Shafie dan 'memenangi' trifle pudding yang lebih. Saya masih boleh bayang muke dia di saat itu hehe.. Paling saya tak tahan bile dia pindah tempat duduk untuk jawab soklan terakhir saya itu, macam nak konsentret je gaye dia itu hehe..

Di J ini juge terdapat kelas form 2 dan form 3 yang saya sering ganti. Form 2 bes, sebab kelas dia kecil sahaje. 12 orang tp sy tak ingat name mereke, maaf. Kerane mereke kecil, saya suke lagakan lelaki dan perempuan bile memberikan soalan kepade mereke dan mereka akan 'bertanding' siape lagi pandai hehe.. senang kerje saya! :p Tetapi kerane mereke kecil, mereke suke melambai² kepade saya bile saya balik huhu.. saya pun rase macam budak² bile saya lambai² balik dengan tahap excited yang same dengan diorg!

Kelas form 3 pule dalam 20 lebih student. Di sini terdapat adik Shafie, adik Mahfuzah dan adik Yusliana so saya suke mengenekan mereke. Tapi ade ke patut, mereke panggil saya 'Cikgu Mesra'? Ingat saya ni kedai Petronas ke? Tp mereka la yang bg saya rase kembang bile mereke beritahu saya mereke nak pindah ke sekolah saya supaye boleh belajar ngan saya hari² (w/pun penat saya bgtau mereke, saya bukan cikgu).. dan saki-baki perasaan kembang itu masih ade lagi hari ni (patut la jeans saya rase ketat skit hari ni :p)

So itu lah ringkasan (mcm panjang je untuk dilabel sebagai ringkasan) cerite program cuti sekolah saya tahun ni :)

P/S
Utk Ana: Ok tak entry BM sy? Hehe..
Utk Misa: Seperti dijanjikan, entry BM. Leh banggekan cikgu Nasar tak? Hahaha..

"Haha" moments for me

Yesterday, in the middle of the night (I'm suspecting she was on call during that time), As had sent me a new year's sms.

"There comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won't anymore.. and who always will. So don't worry about people from your past. There's a reason they didn't make it to your future.."

Ade la other parts of the message yang kurang penting yg sudah omitted. When I received that message, I was half asleep so I just read through it, didn't even realize it was from As. But then last night, after coming home from the movies with a friend, I sat on my bed replying an sms from my student when I remembered As's sms.

Reading it again, I went, "Whoaaa, thats deep.."

And for a while, it got me thinking. Made me smile a bit, even made me blink back a few tears when some memories just washed over me, staggering me a bit. Faces from the past then came rushing through me: some as vivid as they were sitting right on the bed with me, others like the passing of a fog.

I realized, everyone who had made their way in my life, no matter how long, left an impact in me. Made me a better person, taught me so many of life's lessons. Helped me when I couldn't stand, trusted me when I thought I was useless, shared their happiness and sorrow, held my hand when things seemed so bleak, cried with joy whenever I was happy.. and I realized, no matter what I felt about them at one time or another in certain points of my life, I love them!

So I replied to As, a token of appreciation for reminding me about this: "As, happy new year jugak utk awk :) 29 dah kite tahun ni As. 16 tahun dah sy kenal awk.. Thx ye jadi kawan sy! :) Rindu la kat korg sumer :("

Feeling happy about myself, knowing she'd understand, I was about swing my phone shut when an sms came in..

From As: "Awat hang sentimental sangat ni, Ayu? Thanx jugak sebab hang selalu ingat kat aku.. Happy new year tau :) "

Notice which part of the reply was the one I noticed? Cehh.. ditanye plak 'awat Ayu sentimental?'.. ciss..

And though she replied again after that saying, "Jangan la sentimental, aku sebenarnye sebak ni tadi.."

..my bubble had been burst! Huh! Nyampah ngan As ni :p


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Just got an sms from Hamdi, my student in Pt Buntar a.k.a Zul's (my colleague.. btw, happy birthday to Zul n wife. Lucky him, they share the same birthday!) nephew. He told me, "Rindu la nak gi tuition. Duk rumah ngantuk.. klau tuition tak ngantuk sbb dok dengar org jerit²!"

Ayu konpius, but felt something familiar here.. just couldn't put my finger on it.

When I asked him, he replied: "Klau tak skrg ni cikgu mesti tengah jerit² atau tengah bg cake atau nyorok belakang pintu atau tengah minum Nescafe.. atau ape² lagi laaa.."

He even once asked me when I told him I was doing my PhD mainly coz I couldn't find a job, "Kenape cikgu tak jadi askar?" Konpius lagik.. until he said, "Cikgu nye sore kan kuat haha.."

Aik.. hahah.. sejak bile I have a reputation of screaming/screeching/whatever else yang berkaitan?

Then I remembered, Zarul (another student) calls me a 'skuad leader' while this group of students who were talking at the back while I was teaching last year once said, "Cikgu, cikgu jangan la jerit kuat sangat. Kitorang janji, tak sembang dah pasni.. asalkan cikgu tak kuat sangat cam tadi.."

Erkk.. looks like another item on my new years resolution list: Pelan kan volume hehe..


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Another item: brush up on my loghat Penang!

I thought I was doing well. But a few days ago while going out with Bart, we had gone to McDs and I was eating the prosperity burger. After finishing up the burger, my hands were smeared with the black pepper sauce so I went to wash my hands before finishing up the fries.

Bart: Ayu, awat basuh tangan? Kan nak makan lagi..
Ayu: Ni haa, tangan saya tadi.. ape ni.. haaa, berselemuih!
Bart: *gelak terkekek² sambil pegang perut*

Ayu ngange jap..

Ayu: Bart, saya still salah sebut ek perkataan tu?
Bart:*lum abis gelak*

Caittttt!!!