UPSR dan PMR akan di mansuhkan?

Aku tak tahu nak komen apa. I'm not an expert and I'm not a teacher either. I'm just a simple parent. Kalau nak di mansuhkan pun...make sure the reason is professional not political. What do we really expect from our children to be? What do we expect them to achieve in life? Does exam oriented is good or otherwise?

Mak oii...banyak nyer soklan aku nih! Yang pasti nya Ery akan menduduki UPSR tahun ni. Setakat ni aku rasa semua nya macam menyeksa anak2 dan guru2. Nak paksa Ery buat latihan kat rumah pun aku rasa kesian. Last week dah mula Kelas Intensif Tahun 6. Bila aku dapat surat dari sekolah...aku mula menggaru kepala yang tak gatal ni. Selama hari ni dia ada kelas tambahan lepas waktu sekolah sampai pukul 2.40 ptg Isnin~Khamis. Malam2 pulak tuisyen kat sekolah jugak dari 8.00~9.30 malam. Cuti sekolah hari tu pun ada kelas tambahan sekolah jugak...Kali ni pulak pukul 1.45 ~ 3.45 setiap hari kecuali hari Jumaat! Dan minggu ni dia ada Pre-trial test sebagai persediaan Percubaan UPSR pada 27hb nanti. Can somebody tell me what is this?

Kalau tak dapat 5A jugak...tak tahu lah nak kata apa.

Saat Bertemu.

Saat bertemu teman yang dapat dipercaya, rukunlah bersamanya.
Karena seumur hidup manusia, teman sejati (sahabat) tak mudah ditemukan.

Saat bertemu penolongmu,
Ingatlah untuk berterima kasih padanya.
Karena ia lah yang membantu mengubah hidupmu

Saat bertemu orang yang pernah kau cintai,
Tersenyumlah dengan wajar .
Karena ia lah orang yang membuatmu lebih mengerti tentang cinta

Saat bertemu orang yang pernah kau benci,
Sapalah dengan tersenyum.
Karena ia membuatmu semakin teguh / kuat.

Saat bertemu orang yang pernah mengkhianatimu, Baik-baiklah berbincanglah dengannya.
Karena jika bukan karena dia, hari ini engkau tak memahami dunia ini.

Saat bertemu orang yang tergesa-gesa meninggalkanmu,
Berterima-kasihlah bahwa ia pernah ada dalam hidupmu.
Karena ia adalah bagian dari nostalgiamu

Saat bertemu orang yang pernah salah-paham padamu,
Gunakan saat tersebut untuk menjelaskannaya.
Karena engkau mungkin hanya punya satu kesempatan itu saja untuk menjelaskan

Dan Saat engkau bertemu seseorang yang saat ini menemanimu seumur hidup (suami / istri) kita,
Berterima-kasihlah sepenuhnya bahwa ia mencintaimu.
Karena saat ini kalian mendapatkan kebahagiaan dan cinta sejati yang kau cari.

SPAIN is a new 2010 WC Champion!

Viva Espana! Congrats to SPAIN...a good game indeed. They deserves the cup. Walaupun ber van2 player Belanda masuk padang (Van Bronckhorst,Van der Wiel,Van Bommel,Van der Vaart and Van Persie) dan berkeping2 kad kuning dan kad merah kali ni. Memang Deutschland and Dutchland tak boleh challenge kehebatan dorang. They were so focused on winning the game. Hopefully jangan jadi cam Italy ngan France the next 4 years nanti sudah lah! Apa2 pun Thomas Muller (Germany) tetap terpilih sebagai TOP SCORER. He wins the Golden Boot and has also been named as the young player of the tournament. Tak lah kecewa sangat akak ni...hehehe :) And I'm eagerly waiting for the next World Cup!

Kes hangin satu badan...

I'm seriously upset...tak tahu nak kata macam mana dah. Speechless. My eldest text me that she already got the scholarship. She asked me if she has to save the money. Of course yes b'cos we are gonna give her the allowance from our pocket money. Later she text me again asking me to call her after Isyak. Fine.

Bila aku call...dia nak tanya sesuatu kata nya. "Kakak nak jadi agent Score-A Programme boleh?". Sorry...I have to mention the name here! Then she was explaining to me what it is all about. In fact, I already know what it is all about! She was missing some points somewhere. Hmm....aku rasa cam nak naik angin betul dengan orang2 Score-A tu. They are really interested with the students' money I know. Cuba bayang kan RM500 satu kepala...berapa ramai student kat UIA tu? They put it in such a way that everything look so easy to the students. It is all about networking kata nya!

"Well..." I said, "If you need my approval, the answer is no! They are after your money, not helping you." I know that she was not happy with my answer. I was not either. We changed our subject...but everything was cold.

I talked to my husband and he was upset as well. The next day, she text me again. Pledging me to listen to the Score-A Programme people. Hangin lagi aku rasa....

I discussed it with my husband. "I think you are not listening to her," kata nya. Alamak! terkena lah pulak aku. Memang betul pun sebab aku memang emosional terutamanya bab2 MLM ni. Aku memang concern tentang wang yang di laburkan dan pulangan nya. Apatah lagi anak aku masih belajar, manalah ada masa nak buat benda2 macam tu. Belum masa nya lagi. "Itu pendapat awak, ada awak tanya macam mana anak awak plan nak buat?" tanya suami aku lagi. "Awak tak boleh assume dia sama seperti awak. Mana awak tahu mungkin dia boleh melaku kan nya. Kita tak boleh biar kan dia asyik2 mintak approval dari kita setiap masa," tambah nya. "Sometimes, let her taste her own medicine," kata nya lagi. "So, we should prepare to lose that RM500 lah ya?" tanya ku. "It is just a money...," kata suami ku. "Expensive lesson," tambah ku. "There is always price to pay for any lesson," sahut suami ku.

I text her later. "Salam. I'm sorry for not listening to you. We trust your judgement. Anyway, it is your money. Just spend wisely. Luv u." Few minutes later she replied; "Ok, thanx a lot.Luv u 2".

What upset me most is I cannot protect her from this kind of things any longer. The only thing I can do now is praying to ALLAH to protect her and give her the wisdom when she needs it most. Ya ALLAH, por favor!

Huhuhu...Germany Kalah!

Apa nak buat....bola tu bulat! Kena tunggu 4 tahun lagi untuk next World Cup... :(. Gonna miss Miroslav Klose for sure! There is always first time for everything. First time Spain dapat masuk final in World Cup history, Viva Espana!

Brownies

I don't like brownies much...sebab terlalu manis. Tapi kenkadang datang sweet craving dan dok memikir nak try resepi aper lak kali ni. So terjumpa lah satu resepi ni dan gambor nya sekali. Hmmm.....no harm trying.

So, I adjusted some quantity of the ingredients to suit my liking...so here it is;

Am I that lucky?

I have 7 sisters. I like to talk with one of my sisters. We share stories, experiences and knowledge. In one occasion, she made a remark: You are always lucky, almost in everything!

Excuse me....I'm not that lucky actually. Things went bad sometimes. Let me tell you something. I'm playing with my luck all the times. I try to change my luck by trying to look into things differently. Not as what it is, but how am I going to look at it. How I react towards it. How I believe in things....perghhh, a hell lot of adjustment and change to be made! Well, if you think I'm lucky...think again! One thing for sure, I am always grateful for what I have.

Remember this; Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Kegagalan

Aku pergi menghantar barang di office lama. Jadi berjumpalah dengan beberapa orang office mate lama ku. Ada seorang teman yang telah berkahwin buat kali ke-2 tahun lalu setelah bercerai dgn suami pertama nya. Aku pun bertanya, "Bagaimana dengan suami baru?" "Ah, susahlah Kak Nik. Agak nya saya ni tak boleh berkahwin kut!" jawab nya. "Eh...apsal pulak kau ni?" kata ku. " Tak kisahlah kalau dia tak paham saya, tapi susahlah nak paham perangai orang ni," sahut nya.

Aku juga kenal seseorang yang telah berkahwin sebanyak 4 kali di dalam hidup nya dan mengalami masalah yang sama dengan isteri-isteri nya. Di manakah silap nya? Tersalah pilih kah? Dalam mengejar kebahagiaan, manusia akan gagal beberapa kali dalam hidupnya. Dengan kegagalan itu dia akan tahu di mana kelemahan dirinya; gagal sekali tidak mengapa, yang susah ialah jatuh dua kali di tempat yang serupa. Di mana kah misteri nya....

My advice : If you lose, don't lose the lesson.

Forgiving Others

One of my friend's status in the Facebook;

Ada org suruh tanya.. Perlukah kita add org yg pernah menghuru harakan hidup kita d dlm friend list kita bila kita mula bangkit dari perasaan down kita atas perbuatan dia terhadap kita! My personal... "thanks but no thank!".. What about U?

My simple comment;

If you want to learn how to be happy...learn to be forgiving first. People changed, give chance as much as u expect people to give u chance....just a piece of my mind. Good luck! :) Peace...

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Do you realise that forgiving others is actually for our own sake? Thru the course of my life, I really thought that I'm a forgiveful person but actually I'm not. Until recently, I just discovered the fact of what forgiving really means. (OMG...I'm already 42 years and just discovered this fact, what am I thinking....obviously learning this skill is not overnight!) Forgiving doesn't mean you forget the whole event, that is called avoiding the issue. The real forgiveness means you still remember the event once in a while but it doesn't hurt you anymore when you think about it! (Hmmm...I used to cry a lot when remembering it b'cos, ouch..it hurts!) I think it is called the art of letting go...

I really feel good about myself now since I do not have any grudges over anybody. It doesn't matter anymore if that person/people changed or otherwise. Or they realized what they have done to us or not. Let him/her deal with it themselves. Don't lose your sleep over them. It doesn't mean that you have to be nice to them. Just be nice to everybody sincerely, not pretending. Get over it and move on honey!

Just my 1 cent worth of experience....

Firman Allah yang bermaksud: “Dan jika kamu memberi maaf, maka itu lebih dekat kepada takwa.” (Surah al-Baqarah, ayat 237)

Beating Yourself Up

Since akak tengah tunggu Germany Vs Ghana malam ni, meh kita share citer ni. Life is better when shared....muahaha...yerlah tu... :D



"Linda, if beating yourself up were an Olympic sport, you'd win a gold medal!"

Annabel, my close friend, stunned me with that blunt observation after I told her how I had mishandled a situation with a student in a third-grade class where I was substituting. "I should never have let him go to the boy's room without a pass! It was my fault he got into trouble with the hall monitor! I'm so stupid!"

My friend burst out laughing, and then made her "Olympic" comment. After a brief period of reflection I had to admit that she was right. I did put myself down an awful lot. Why, just during the previous day I had called myself "a slob" for having some papers spread out on my desk, "ugly" when I left the house without makeup and "an idiot" when I left the house for an emergency substitute job without my emergency lesson plan.

In a more reflective tone, Annabel said, "I once took a workshop where the woman in charge had us list all the mean things we say about ourselves."

"How many did you have on your list?" I asked.

"Fifteen," she confessed. "But then the teacher said, 'Now turn to the person next to you and say all the items on your list as if you were speaking to that person!' "

My jaw dropped. "What did you do?"

"Nothing. Nobody did. We all just sat there, until I said, 'I could never say these things to anyone else!'

"And our teacher replied, 'Well, if you can't say them to anyone else, then don't ever say them to yourself!' "

Sincerity

Let me share something here. There is one biggest lesson that I learned in my life is from my husband. It was long time ago when we were young. I owed him so much for this lesson. It is called sincerity.

He said, "Ikhlas itu bermakna bila kita melakukan@memberikan sesuatu dan kita tidak mengharapkan apa2 balasan dan tidak mengungkit2 pemberian kita. Walau apapun yang orang lain lakukan atau katakan kepada kita selepas itu, sekali pun mereka menyakiti hati kita. Kerana apa yang kita lakukan atau berikan semata2 kerana Allah bukan kerana orang lain dan jauh sekali untuk mendapat pujian". Full stop.

I found that it is such a liberation when you do something good and you attached yourself to nothing. Even if people don't appreciate you. Why not try it yourself!

Firman Allah didalam Surah Al-Baqarah, ayat 262 maksudnya: "Orang-orang yang membelanjakan hartanya pada jalan (ugama) Allah, kemudian mereka tidak mengiringi apa yang mereka belanjakan itu dengan perkataan membangkit-bangkit (pemberiannya), dan tidak pula menyinggung atau menyakiti (pihak yang diberi), mereka beroleh pahala di sisi Tuhan mereka, dan tidak ada kebimbangan (dari berlakunya kejadian yang tidak baik) terhadap mereka, dan mereka pula tidak akan berdukacita."

Masak2 cuti sekolah...

Huhuhu....cuti skolah dah habis. Thank you Kak Nyah sebab ajar emak camner nak wat pic kat atas tu! So...layan gambar2 masakan akak masa cuti sekolah. Ada orang kata akak pandai memasak, excuse me.... tapi rasa nya bukan pandai tapi suka memasak! Kekadang masuk tong sampah jugak...muahaha :P.

Antara menu cuti skolah ni; ayam golek...testing new recipe, chocolate cake...with fresh strawberries on top, marble cheese cupcakes, karipap with chicken pie filling...guna chicken pie filling sbb malas nak buat puff pastri, apple date cheddar muffins...my first attempt, shepard pie dan butter prawn. Yang tak ada dalam gambar, ketam masak lemak dan pancakes(the kids love this)... sbb akak tak pandai nak meng"adjust" gambar2 tu lagi daa...