Happy Holiday, Cikgu-Cikgu!

Teachers must be very busy with school examinations and so are the lecturers. With papers to mark and planning for the new terms and it will be the busiest for all. New students and new faces, new culture! Those are the "asam garam" of being a Cikgu. Thank you Cikgu2 out there!

Unlike the teachers, we have a different style of commitment in our organization. Make yourself buzy or you will be irrelavant! It will be almost daily (minus Sat and Sun sometimes) +12 hours of pure didication of improvement and monitoring of proceses and productivity.

We also deal with people. How we are linked between teachers and my organization is;- we used your products to unleased their talent and capability. Those with the right mindset will excel and those that fall halfway will have a difficult uphill trend and normally will need more motivation.

I believe program like, career awareness and character building in the secondary years is necessary. Quality imnprovement topics which is not learnt anyway until you are in universities or working, is a good topics to be considered as a co-curriculum. It helps student to solve problem systematically, and measures improvement and these can lead them to be more interested in subjects like statistics.

Now, holiday, holiday, again. maybe , Cikgu.. can think again and next time I am in town, I can share these quality tools with your students..basic of course..

Simple Reward that last a Lifetime!

School holidays is just around the corner now. The PMR and SPM participants are in their study mode. Parents' hearts are in suspense mode. Our children are asking for rewards, if this, if that. But do school have their prizes giving ceremony as the school terms end? Did not here any of that happening today? Or maybe not in my area..

I remembered well, the books I received at every year end as the school went for the third term holidays. During my primary education, yeah, I consistently got top 5 of the class over the primary years. As the school term ended, we had our final assembly for the year for the best awards presentation. Just like the Grammies or the FIM awards! It was proud moments, for thoses who excel in their studies, leaderships and sports.

Nothing like the rewards that our children are asking us today! A camera phone, motorcycle, etc..imagine asking for that 40 years ago! You just can't! No it is not available yet, but we don't even have the guts to asked for such things alike! But we still are happy and proud with the books presented to me for my studies. I still remember some of those stories eventhough the books are gone now. How? Read and shared the stories to my late parents, then! The stories were more like the hallmark type and you can never forget those type of stories.

What I am trying to share is that, a reward that will last forever, is not measured by its costs but, how we benefited from it and share that experience with others. A reward like above that I received many, many years ago are just story books, like I have said, I still remember sharing that stories with my parents and story telling. I cherished those moments today, and it has help me a lot in understanding people and the way of the world.

I believe, teachers are different now. Hope, they can see and realise how a simple reward can last a lifetime!

Norol, Dyg and a friend, Meg were at my house today....

Norol drove all the way to Nilai, with Dyg and Meg. Dyg called me around 11.30 and told me they are at Sg Buloh, moment later just past the KLIA and going towards Nilai..that was fast driving! By 12.30 they are already at my house! Yes, I have to wait someway after the toll and lead them direct to my house. Thank you for the efforts!

The above pic was taken at home. from left, Norol, Dyg, Meg with my wife and daughter..

So you made it to my house...

The Rayas When Bicycles Rumbles...

It is different now, time have changed us, indeed time have really changed us. I still remember the time when bicycles were our popular rides for youngsters of our time. We rode all over the town and left our marks between Pujut/Krokop and Luak Bay! We went to school on bicycles, picnics on bicycles, the cheap morning shows (it costed us 50/180/360 sens! for a ticket), joyrides with friends (chasing buses!), enjoying reading comics at Kok Boon's place and most of all visitings friends during festivals like Gawai, Christmas, Chinese New Year and days like now Rayas. Handphones were nothing that we can imagine of then. So the planning and meeting point must be finalized, days ahead. Normally I remember we have to wait at friends' place before we moved in group. Those left behind would tracked us from the houses that we have visited!

You don't imagine seeing that now. You may see your childrens' friends but on motorbikes and cars for those over 16th (last year this year! It will be minimum 21 next year). But those in the primaries and lower secondaries may choose to go with parents to go visiting ( it is cooler in cars anyway....)

Yes, I missed those bicycles rumbling years, come rains or shines, in all festivals and occasions, bicycles was the instrustment to bond all of us then, making us once a great team in our time....

(What are you trying to tell joQ?........comments)