A Mu'allim and His Seasoned Car (Part 5)

You chose to continue upgrading your Ferrari. You made some adjustment to your budget. You know it is a long shot. It might take years before you could make full make-over to your Ferrari. With limited income but with unlimited mujahadah, you believe that one day you'll see your dream comes true.

Therefore, you set up an account just for your Ferrari. You allocate RM 250 from your monthly income for this sacred cause. Months passed, and finally you have enough money to make the first phase of upgrading your car.

You sent the car to your most entrusted mechanic. He assessed the cost of repair for your car. He divided the cost of repairs into the followings:-

A) Engine: RM 5,000.
B) Body : RM 3000.
C) Electrical: RM 1500.
D) Suspension: RM 1250.
E) Air cond: RM 1000.

You have RM 5000 in your Ferrari account. Which part or parts would you like to upgrade first?

Voting opens until 4th October 2012. You may cast your vote via  the provided poll widget.

A Mu'allim and His Seasoned Car (Part 4)

Without really considering your financial status, you make a rather rash decision. You take all from what is left from your monthly income just for the sake of upgrading your Ferrari. You have no money to spend for your food. You have no money to spend for your clothes. You are left with nothing. You are broke. Life is so difficult for you.

Now that you are facing with the most difficult time, you make another move to get out of the current situation. Therefore you decide to:-

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A Mu'allim and His Seasoned Car (Part 3)

After thinking thoroughly, you decide to save a portion of money from your income until it reaches RM 10,000.00. It is better to live hard rather than to die with debts around your neck.

The question now is how much can you save monthly? Your nett income is RM 1,500.00 monthly. After deducting the necessities (house rent, bills etc) you're left with RM 500.00 in your hand. You need to put some portion for your daily expenses and some for saving.

You've to take all these things into consideration. After a very careful calculation, the amount that you can save monthly for your 'FERRARI' is....

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Kem DIDIK 2012: Encore

It's Saturday. A Saturday like no other Saturdays. School is on. It is a burden for some to leave the comfort of their bedrooms or the warmth of spending the time with their loved ones. Time is so limited. There's so many things to do yet nothing could be done.

"In order to gain something, some other thing has to be sacrificed." A wise word from a wise person. On this odd day, around 130 year 6 students from Sekolah Rendah Islam SRI Al-Amin Bangi march with full of spirit to attend Kem DIDIK 2012, leaving their zone of comfort in order to gain something; knowledge.

They're accompanied by their respective teachers among others, the ever enthusiastic Mu'allimah Juliana a.k.a Miss Jules and Mu'allimah Sarah Nadia, a young and talented Head of English Panel. Suddenly, an odd and unwanted day turns interesting.

As I am updating this blog, the students actively participate in the activity done. First on schedule is the English Workshop. Questions asked, hands raised, answers given. There are laughter all around but yet things are taken seriously.

May Allah bless their effort and sacrifice.

A Mu'allim and His Seasoned Car: Part 2

You've chosen a name for your car. You nickname it FERRARI. However, you know your car better. FERRARI is far beyond reality. In fact, your car is an old, sluggish piece of machine which is waiting its time to be scrapped into junks.

To be a FERRARI, your car needs to be made-over. Most of its parts have to be replaced or improvised. You've made a list of things that need to be change. It is a very long list of things. Out of it, you put down your expenditure and your budget. After a careful calculation, your expected expenses reaches the amount of RM 10,000.00. You thought that amount is reasonable.

However, you have a tiny little problem; Where can you get such amount of money?

You think of the possible sources and you find options as follows:-

1) Borrow from your family members
2) Apply for a loan from bank
3) Meet Ah Long, the Loan Shark
4) Save a portion of your monthly income until it reaches the amount

So, from the above, you choose:-

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In the meantime, since you've chosen FERRARI as the name for your car, you put a miniature of the car on your dashboard.

A Mu'allim & His Seasoned Car (Part 1)

This is a role-playing story. The story would be partly mine and partly yours. How? In this story, at certain point of the storyline, you would be asked to choose the outcome that you want. The choice with the most vote would decide what's next in the story.

So, in this story, you are a humble and kind mu'allim (A teacher). You own a car. A very seasoned one. It is of the same age as yours. Since you love your car very much, you plan to give it a name. Among the names that pop-out your mind are Sweetheart (to show how much you love it), Tuan Guru (to represent the initial 'TG' as your car plate number) or Ferrari Wannabe (since you always fantasize about having one).

Each names have some meaning to you. So, which name would be your choice?

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A Mu'allim and the Innocent Child

It was 2:20 pm. Finally, the final class of the day. He walked to the class thinking of the relief afterwards. What a long day, he thought. As a newbie, everyday is a challenge for him.The first challenge was a new working environment; all of a sudden he got children. Not only one, but hundreds of them. As a single, he was struggling to define the true meaning of fatherhood.

The other challenge was a new bunch of colleagues. He couldn't deny that all of them were great persons, with great visions. They even had greater commitment than him as some of them had a family of their own. The problem was, that commitment had become an undisputable justification to put on most of the burdens to singles like him. He sighed but never made any complaint. There's always a rainbow after a rainy day.

He made his walk with pride carrying all the burden on his broad shoulder. His new children greeted him. He replied with a smile. He taught and did everything to the best of his limited knowledge and skill to discharge his responsiblity for the day. So far, so good, he thought. The children were doing what they were asked. Everything was good until suddenly, he started to lose his grip. The children started to lose their attention. Some started to play. He moved around and patiently asked them to sit and do their work. They obeyed except for one particular child.

With a badminton racket on his hand, that child ran out of the class and aiming the racket like an M-16 and started making firing sound along the balcony. It was a very hot day, and the teacher lost his patient. Almost losing his mind, he shouted to the child. Suddenly there was silence. Suddenly, there was order. But it didn't end there, the teacher kept on scolding the child in English until the end of the day.

The next day, he went to the same class. To his surprise, the child he scolded yesterday came to him and helped him to carry his things. He thought that this child had learnt something from yesterday's scolding. Before he began the class, the child looked at him innocently and asked him in Malay, "Mu'allim, apa yang mua'llim jerit-jerit dekat saya semalam? Saya tak faham lah." Dang!

Welcome!

This blog is a humble attempt to improvise a non-English speaking person into a person who is equipped with satisfactory if not excellent ability and skill of socialising in English. What is meant by SOCIALISING here is the way we communicate among each other, be it in writing or by conversation in a very comfortable and hopefully enjoyable way.

This blog is built upon the conscience and conciousness that English IS NOT an easy language to learn, but it CAN BE MADE easy to learn. It is also bulit upon the idea that in order to conquer the ability of certain language, we must COMMUNICATE as much as we can in that language.

Therefore, based on these ideas, most of the entries in this blog would be presented in the form of stories. It would be interactive at times whereas it is hoped that the reader and the blogger could cooperate to 'scratch each other's back'.

So, sit back and let's SOCIALISE!