Wednesday, March 31, 2010

of crappy room and teaching styles...

Everything has a two sides. Coins, colors, seasons, gender. Same thing with what I am experiencing in Melaka. There are good sides and bad sides. Good sides are of course financial freedom, doing things that I love and meeting all these bright young individuals. The bad sides are unstable schedule, lack of entertainment and the one that bothers me most, the condition of classroom. One of my group is unfortunately to be placed in one of the crappiest room that is available here. Between there and the bunk of the World War II remains, I prefer the bunk. At least it got walls.

So when the inevitable happen, the best thing to do for me is try to make it at least acceptable. So, hence come the teaching style. To compensate for the damp condition of the room, I make myself a nice display. Does not mean that I become Tyra Banks because in my wildest dream I can be as hot as her but I make myself as lively as I can. I have to be active to make them active. So at least we can enjoy ourselves for being in that unfortunate room.

Unfortunate events seem to stroll one after another. Just then I find ourselves to be bearable there, protest exist. It's hard to compromise I know but isn't a teacher supposed to be empathy. Here we are trying our best to make it good but instead somebody else stepped it and complaining about it as if we don't know the real crap in the first place.

Well, the solution is to move out and trust me, I should have done that in the first place. Let they have one less problem to worry with and same goes for us too.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Gaji...gaji makes us go crazy!!!!

Money is power. There's a phrase that I finally understood after I've been working for 3 months. Having financial freedom has always been a target in my life. Basically, I've been living off my parents' money for almost 26 years. With no husband in target to switch, 26 years is a pretty pathetic to be spoon-fed by your parents right?

Mostly the payment that I've got are used for rent, savings and food. But there are moment that I feel like I want to emptied all bank accounts and buy everything that I've seen in the marketplace. But, obligation is the key and I have to prove to myself and my family and I'll be fine with my own money.

But still, I did have some fun with my pay. Firstly is to treat my family to one of our favorite place to eat. Saba' in Cyberjaya. So big plates of lamb for my siblings and chicken for mama and abah (lamb is strictly off limits to them!), we had fun over there. Also, this is the first big family outing my our newest member, Mia so we had fun!

The realization of becoming 26 years old single woman has made me realize about my health. So, the next splurge is spent on sportswear. I always wanted a decent sport shoes, not the one like I've bought in Tesco, (no offense Tesco, but you're a convenient store, not exactly sporting goods store). With a little dime in my pocket, I've surveyed the shoes for myself. I ended up buying Power sport shoes from BATA, 68 ringgit. I know it's not exactly Adidas, Nike or anything but hey, it covers my feet right?

But the biggest splurge that I did was on books. I know, pretty nerd, huh? I considered myself a rebellious geeky nerd so I'll that that term as a compliment. I've bought 2 books at Midvalley, one crime books, an area that I love and a made-up funny biography. Both cost about 6o ringgit. But the one that I spend most is on Ebay Malaysia. I was just browsing things for fun and for actually to be used for my teaching, then I come across of the complete set of Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events in hardcover. All 13 series for RM 240 and a little calculation with a help of a calculator of course, that makes each book costs RM 18. So RM 18 for one book, isn't that a bargain? Ok plus shipping cost, it's RM380 in total, so that makes RM24 per book. Still a bargain for me! So, my fingers just reflectively clicked buy and there goes my fmoney!! After 7
days of waiting, it finally arrives and the collection is great and totally amazing!!!



Currently, I'm at the tenth book and so far I'm loving it!! Right now, I'm waiting for my next pay, I think I'm gonna spend it on food because I just found a website promoting great food and this cougar just can't hold her appetite! I can always used friends to accompany me, so interested? First stop Sibaraku Oriental at Plaza Mahkota. It is the highest rating restaurant in Melaka in Malaysian food website so, my next pay here I come!!!

Returning of izzat...

Assalamualaikum,

Sorry for the absence. I just started working and things starting to get haywire and apparently I've forgotten about this. But now, I'm starting to get hang on things so it's fun to write and express anything that I want to say.

Right now, life has turning up and down, side way, parallel, any directions that you can think of. Coping with a new life, new schedule, new place and new faces is totally overwhelming but nonetheless is a great experience indeed. I count myself lucky for only having to be out of luck for 1 and a half months before I got employed in here. Even though working in Melaka has never been in my train of thoughts, I'm glad it happened to me.

As for teaching, I absolutely love what I am doing right now. Although teaching English is not exactly what I'm dreaming for, I love every moment of it. What makes it even more special, the fact that I'm teaching for UiTM. I owed UiTM for my 7 years of higher education and there's nothing better than to be able to do something back to UiTM, even if it a thing as little or insignificant like this. My debt with UiTM is a lifetime debt and I'm here to make up for most of it.

As for living in Melaka, it's been bittersweet symphony for me. I love the tranquility and the uniqueness that Melaka has offered like the buildings, the places of interest and many more. But I also miss the convenience that Selangor has. I mean, it's easy to find a place to eat and hang out in Selangor. In here, we need to shot for either Bandar Melaka or Ayer Keroh to get a bit of hype. With the traffic and the drivers' attitude, it's easy to resent it a little bit.

But amidst of all the hype of my personal lives, I am hoping for the best for my carrier in here. Teaching has always been the thing that I'm sure I'm good at in my life. I come to this world with many shortcomings and teaching has always been a good remedy to redeem for it and I hope this love will be a lifetime affair for me. There's nothing happier than being looked up upon by these young individuals like my students and someday I'll hope that I can be a person that present as a big influence in their lives.