Ragam Kanak2 Unta di Minggu Presentation

Last week, kanak2 unta ni buat presentation for the whole week. Yang paling kejam ( diaorg laa cakap), minggu presentation adalah minggu last nak antar draft for their assignment. Buat presentation dulu then later the following week baru antar assignment. Bagus kan bagi masa utk students buat assignment. Ader kat Msia cam ni?

As I mentioned in my previous post, I ngajar intercultural communication this semester. Subjek yang paling best and paling interesting. Tajuk assignment dan presentation diaorg adalah sama topic iaitu, pilih satu negara Asia then compare dgn Oman in culture area. 

Seperti biasa laa before the presentation dah buat hal diaorg ni.. Suker sgt bg cikgu korang ni naik darah, before nak buat presentation hingga laa abis buat presentation. Antaranya adalah:

• Ada lagi yang x tahu Asian countries. Yemen laa, Egypt laa... suker ati korang jerr.. main hentam jer laa. 
• Ada plak 3-4 group x bleh buat presentation sb nak kena pegi college lain for extra curriculum. Bleh?
• Group for the first day, dtg mintak permission nak tukar to the last day sebab need more time to prepare.
• Dah bagitahu x bleh datang class after buat presentation sb nak balik kampung. Apakah???

Yang bestnya bila diaorg ni bila present diaorg nyerr culture, kemain lagi pro.. tapi bila nak present culture lain, mula laa baca jerr kat paper tu. Macam biasa laa Miss Nur kan suka minus mark... so ramai laa menghafal takut Miss Nur yang bakhil ni potong markah. Tahu takut!!

Antara benda2 yang buat Miss Nur terkezut masa presentation adalah:

• Tak ku sangka yang pendiam tu,tetiba jer bila buat presentation mak oii siap berlakon2. Wah.. ada bakat terpendam rupanya.
• Segala baju, pedang, brg kemas keluarga diaorg ni bawak utk buat presentation.I plak yg takut.. iyer laa siap bawak senapang2 tu...
• Students2 yang slalu berlakon utk college tetiba jer bila present x reti nak berlakon laa plak. Terus kaku.... baca notes dr mula ke akhir. Tunjuk laa skit talent yg ada tu kan?
• Ada plak yg buat presentation cara2 nak memasak makanan Oman dan jugak Chinese food. Ellloooo... korang ingat ni persembahan masak memasak ker?
• Yang x brapa pandai cakap English tu tetiba jerr fluent.. wah, cam mana tu? Sure korang menghafal ni...

Ada jugak 3-4 groups choose Msian culture. Haaa... ni memang carik nahas. Dah tahu tak tahu, bukannya nak tanya. Then bila tunjuk gamba2 kluar laaa Msian celebrates Gawai day. Then Msian pakai baju macam orang Iban. Aduhai... suker korang jerrr kan? Tergelak I dibuatnya... suker2 unta korang jer kan?

After diaorg ni present, I terus laa bagi comment. Ada yg bagus dan ada yang perlu diperbaiki. Mmmm... macam biasa laa diorg ni bukannya nak dgt comment I.. lagi nak menjawab ada laa. Mana x naik darah Miss Nur ni. 

Bila puji.. "good", "well-done"... still lagi after class tanya lagi. " Very good Miss?"... dah comment good tu kiranya good laa tu kan? Tak puas ati.. nak "very good" jgk. Sabor jer laa.

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Tamat laa minggu lepas dgn presentation...blom lagi bagi mark. Tunggu laa byk lagi citer yg lebih menarik selepas bagi mark.

BoDeK/ RaSuAH...

Kanak2 unta kat sini memang suker bodek membodek lecturernya bila nak dekat final exam. Bagus laaa kan? Idea kamu2 semua mmg bagus... tapi awas, itu taktik lama yaa sb lecturer ini sudah tahu apa kah agenda kamu2 semua..

Well, this semester jer dpt macam2. Tapi before trima tu mesti laa ckp, ini rasuah atau tidak, if rasuah, sorry yer... I do not accept!! In a way diorg ni baik hati tp kekadang tu nak pembalasan. Bleh? Sangat laa x baik kanak2 unta sekalian.


Pemberian Pertama

Dari: Pelajar yang kuajar semester ini and dah 3rd time ajar

Pemberian: Frame ( ayat2 Quran)

Sebab: isteri dia yang beriya suruh bg (betul ke ni?)

Status Pelajar: kononnya sudah berkawin, sssshhh... "Miss, dont tell people plz. My wife say salam to you". Amat laaa lemah dlm pembelajaran. Yang malangnya dah 3 semester in a row I ajar dia. Budak ni x serik2 lagi ambik class I tau even I bagi grade yg teruk.

Keadaan: Pelajar ni suker sgt dtg2 mengadap I kat bilik and slalunya pepagi buta lagi. Alasan yang sama diberikan, kena naikkan markah sb dia last chance dah this semester, if not mmg college will kick him out. (tragik)

My feedback: Aksi tolak menolak hadiah tu sb I tak nak okey. Yang I tak bleh lagi nak menolak bila dia ckp this is from his wife not from him, dont make his wife sad. Bleh?


Pemberian Kedua

Dari: Pelajar yang kuajar semester ni jugak but first time ajar

Pemberian: Gelang ( 2 lagi you..)

Sebab: Mak dia suruh bagi, bleh? Dia citer kat mak dia yg dia ader lecturer yg baik ati dan muda. Mak dia pegi Mekah bwk balik gelang and suruh bagi kat I. Wow... cam tu skali!! Terkelu kejap!!

Status Pelajar: Pelajar ni consider average level. Tak de laa bagus sgt, tak de laa teruk sgt. Tapi kalau buat presentation, deboom... cair budak2 pompuan. Tang mana cair, I dont know!!

Keadaan: So far budak ni x penah la mintak markah kan? tp kan.. cikgu yg risau tau, takut ader udang disebalik batu. Kalau betul mak yg suruh kasi x pe laa kan.

My feedback: Gunakan mak sebagai alasan utk I trima... oooooooohh tidak!!! Dah laa ckp mak yg kirim ni. Susah nak tolak oooo!!!

Pemberian Ketiga

Dari: Pelajar yang I ajar previous semester

Pemberian: Halwa ( manisan Oman)

Sebab: "You didnt teach me this semester, I miss you so much and Im thinking to give you Halwa". ( Gitu plak?)

Status Pelajar: Pelajar ni pun x de laa pandai sgt, tp yang I tahu dulu he got a good result. Can see he was hardworking. Tak tahu laa skrg kan, tu previous semester.

Keadaan: Slalu jgk dtg my room, tanya2 soalan. Yelah, mana laa tahu kot2 dpt soalan bocor kan? Hehhehe... bijak, bijak kan?

My feedback: no.. no.. I didnt eat halwa, so much. Ambik kau, bagi satu bekas. Sapa nak makan, I alone okey? Nak jer bertahun baru abis kan. Untuk tidak mengecewakan dia, ambik laa jgk then agih-agihkan kat my colleague.

Pemberian Keempat

Dari: Pelajar I ajar dah 2 semester ni

Pemberian: Ikan ( seekor ikan yang sgt besar dan fresh)

Sebab: Pakcik dia ader factory ikan and bila balik kampung ingatkan I, thats y laa bagi ikan utk I. ( Bleh?, I never said I like fish that much, puhhh....)

Status Pelajar: Average student. Slalu gak x datang class especially ari rabu sb balik kampung. Bagus punyer alasan then on saturday bawak ikan ambik ati cikgu. Bagus kan? But so far x penah laa begging for the mark. Thank God!!

Keadaan: Slalu dtg my room, gelak2.. apa kerr lawak pun x tahu. Yang paling best, x serik2 ambik class I even dapat low mark. I guess he got no choice right?

My feedback: Siap antar kat rumah yg dah dipotong2. Sapa nak makan ikan ni, masak seminggu x sekali. So, i masak ikan tu jadikan ikan sweet sour and fishball, call pelajar tu then bagi dia balik. Sound great right? Bertuah tau, kalau dapat makan masakan lecturer. Korang penah? I pun x penah :(

Rasuah x rasuah, bodek x bodek... mintak maaf yer kanak2 unta. Tak de nyer korang bagi pemberian2 cam gini, I nak naikkan markah lebih2. Sorry yerr... kan dah ckp tadi "Mafi rasuah okey"...

Itu laa tuan2 dan puan2 sekalian. Kanak2 unta ni pandai ambik hati dgn bagi pemberian2 cam gini kan. Kat Msia ader? Korang penah dpt rasuah/ bodek cam ni?

Oman National Day

HAPPY 39th NATIONAL DAY OMAN!!

Being a Malaysian who are living in Oman, Im so proud of living here. I gain and experienced so many things. Good, bad, weird and sort of things. When Im here I feel Im like Omani. Hahhaha.. ade yg kena buang Msia ckp cam ni. Tak de laa, I mean I do learn a lot of their cultures, their people, attitude and behaviour. Always told my students in the class that Im Omani coz of some of the things I know better than them. Bleh??

Yang peliknya, even tdy is their national day but we were at the college this morning. No holiday people!! Apakah ini??

Well, not yet holiday.The best part is even the national day is today but the holiday will be anytime next week or another week after. Adakah itu pelik??

Amat laa pelik skali. Tapi saya amat suker skali!! Kenapa? Sbbnya dia akan gabungkan cuti raya dgn cuti national day!! Suker.. suker. Tq..tq Sultan Qaboos.

Ari ni my students ramai laa yg lelakinya pakai "masar" ( macam serban tu laa kat kepala yg dibelit2 diputar2) warna ijau and merah. Tu kan warna flag diaorg. Yang pompuan plak, still wajib pakai black abaya tapi tudung berwarna merah, blink2 manik merah. Amat laa bersemangat skali kan?

Apa2 pun till now still kitaorg x tahu cuti nyer bila. Boleh cam tu? Kat Oman ni semuanya boleh, Yang mustahil pun jd "stahil"? kitaorg kat sini akan tahu cuti2 am slalunya 2.. 3 days before. Adalah sukar utk buat planning yg awal. Tunggu laa bila Sultan Qaboss declare holiday. Suker ati korang laa janji cuti nyer lama.

Pelajar2 saya amat laa berdedikasi skali, sbb dah inform sy yg minggu depan start monday diaorg x akan dtg class. Amat laa bagus skali sbb diaorg akan bz buat preparation utk raya. Apakah ni semua alasan kanak2 unta!!

Sy x kira, kalau pelajar2 sy bleh tinggalkan sy kat class sorang2, sy pun akan cabut jgk pada hari berkenaan. Sy pun nak bersuka ria dgn family sy yg x lama lagi akan tiba disini. Ssssshhh.... korang ckp x nak dtg class right kanak2 unta? Deep inside, Alhamdulillah... itulah kata2 Ms Nur. Bleh laa ku bersuka ria bersama keluargaku nanti. Hehehhe....

Clock is clicking... counting days, minutes for them to arrive here. Cant wait!!

To lil bro' : how i wish you can be here with us, really miss u

To sis: how i wish you can be here too bebeh.. im sorry these people are leaving you alone for Raya :(( but down worry, will be back to meet u soon.

Imagine...,

If you are a lecturer, try to imagine this: ( ni udah di translate ke bahasa jiwa bangsa)


Situasi 1

Pelajar: Puan, sy nak markah mid-term saya.

Pensyarah: Naper? Saya belum siap marking lg.

Pelajar: Naper? Puan malas yer? Teruk laa Puan ni...

Pensyarah: Durhaka punya pelajar!!!!


Situasi 2

Pelajar: Puan, bleh sy tahu brapa kali sy dah tak dtg class?

Pesnyarah: Mmmm... kenapa? ( dlm ati- adakah studentsku, jarang jer nampak budak ni?)

Pelajar: Mungkin ptg ni saya tak pegi class puan kot.

Pensyarah: kenapa?

Pelajar: Saya dah lama tak balik kampung. Sy rindukan keluarga sy.

Pesnyarah: &(^$$##^*_&%#@#$%


Situasi 3

Pelajar: Pagi Puan, Puan sihat?

Pensyarah: Pagi, Alhamdulillah sy sihat. Awak sihat?

Pelajar: Sy x brapa sihat. Saya pening sb ada banyak masalah. Puan... assignment sy belum antar lagi sb sy banyak masalah ni.

Pensyarah: Baik punye alasan!!!


Situasi 4

Pensyarah: Awak nampak lain ari ni.. mmmmm

Pelajar: Naper Puan? Ari minggu, sy pegi potong rambut. Okey ker Puan?

Pensyarah: Ok, nampak lagi handsome.

Pelajar: Ya ker Puan? Puan suka? Malu laaa saya

Pensyarah: Suka kau laa labu...


Situasi 5

Pelajar: Puan, ni assignment sy. Sy tahu dah lewat sehari ni, tp saya dah siap lama dah cuma saya sajer jerr hantar lambat.

Pensyarah: Tak pe.. tak pe.. jgn risau yer. Sehari lewat, 2 markah sy potong.

Pelajar: Puan ni, kenapa kedekut sangat. Kita kan Muslim, kena laa tolong menolong.

Pensyarah: Sukerrrrrrrr kau jerr yerr!!!



Semua situasi diatas adalah kisah benar. Tiada sedikit pun rekaan... cuma bahasanya sahaja di translate ke bahasa jiwa bangsa. Semua situasi ni dah ditranslate sbbnya lebih ummmph bila dibaca. Setiap kali siatuasi ni berlaku, saya bersama2 rakan sebilik akan melakonkan semula gelagat2 pelajar2 ni ke bahasa jiwa bangsa. Then bersama2 kitaorg gelak sbb memang pelajar kita kat Msia x akan buat semua ni. Tu laaa... mana nak dpt experience yg luar biasa ni kan. Engkau ado?

Terkejut? mmmm... itu laa kanak2 unta kat sini.

Tak pasal2, jiwa dan hati yg tenang bleh dpt heart attack!!! Mintak jauh...

Dalam duk sakit jiwa melayan macam2 kerenah kanak2 unta ni, still I remembered words from one of my ex-colleague. He said, " Diaorg tu innocent, they do not know what are they saying. They are honest people and they are also our entertainment. Without us, they are no where"

He's right!!! Patient Ms Nur.. be patient. Insyaallah, berkat kesabaran dan ilmu yg dicurahkan kepada kanak2 unta ni dimanfaatkan utk masa depan diaorg. Amin...


Status: Bz yg teramat!! Need to check the assignment; 7 groups of students ( blom start dah rasa penat, pening yg teramat)

NeW SeMeSTeR

After i did my summer semester here, felt so exhausted!! With the heat and ofo course the attitude of kanak2 unta during the summer course. Alhamdulillah, got at least 2 weeks to go back to Msia. Such a short time... one week got sick (fever, cough, flu and NOT influenza) and one week to go out for eating out, shopping, dating, etc

New semester began on the 1st Ramadhan. As expected, in the first week kanak2 unta came to the college only to register their new subjects and not to the class. But for us, lecturers need to go to the class for 15 min and if no students then we can leave the class.

As always, lecturer yg slalu berkobar2 nak pegi class. Di malam hari, dah bz iron baju and study preparing for the lectures. Tp for 1 and 2 week, jgn harap laa ada students datang.

Till now, the 3rd week of semester yg datang x sampai 1/2 of the class. Its really not worth it!! Tunggu laa this saturday, a week before Eid for sure kanak2 unta ni x datang class. Kononnya bz balik kampung and nak prepare utk Raya. Macam laa kat Msia, x de bas nak balik kg. Padahal kg2 diaorg ni hanyalah 2..3 jam dr college. Sangat laa x patut!!!

Many of the private colleges and universities here closed and will begin the semester after Eid. All of the schools are closed too. Reasonnya H1N1... Been praying so hard, hope the college is also close unfortunately till now x de apa pun. If not bleh jgk balik berpuasa lama skit di Msia. Hampa... amat menghampakan!!


Again, this semester memang pening and of course so many problems arise:

• students timetable is clash with our timetable
• new staff didnt come yet, and we need to take some of their classes
• Ramadhan time, all lectures 4-6 are cancel. Nice!!! - all the classes end at 2 ( bagusnya kan kat sini) kat Msia ader cam tu? so yg mana ader class 4-6 sepanjang Ramadhan lepak jerr laa kat rumah. You are lucky people!!!
• 1 hour class become 45 min only.
• Class back to back : exhausted!! even 45 min/ class - 4 hours in a row. Sengsara!!

Even byk problem arise di bulan Ramadhan ni, ader jgk advantage nyerr pd lecturer:

• paling lewat blk umah kul 3, tu pun sbb ader meeting
• balik rumah: after zohor adalah masa utk beristirehat
  
• iftar kul 6.30. kul 6 sempat lg nak masak- masak ker? Well, mkn jerr laa apa yg patut.
  
• solat terawih: kul 8 dah beres!!
  

Some of the students came to my room:

Students:

" Miss, we missed u so much"
" Miss, why u didnt teach us this semester? We need you Ms".
" Miss, you were in my dream. Really love u Miss"

Wah? biar betul kanak2 unta ini.. sesuka ati jer cakap mcm tu. Most of them are boys. Oooooooo... adakah mereke mengerti apa yg mereka ungkapkan?

" Miss, why I got D in your subject? You hate me?"
" Miss, thank you.. thank you.. love you. I got B-"
" Mafi Adil Miss.. why I got F? I answered everything Miss"

Tak kurangnya, ada yg memuji dan ada yg membenci. Aduhai kanak2 unta sekalian, "kulu anta anti make me sudah" - really make me headache.

Di zaman skrg ni, bukannya students takut lecturer tp lecturer takut students. Apakah???
Lecturer plak yg berpeluh2 nak menjawab persoalan2 memang x bleh dijawab. Even dijawab pun memang diaorg ni x bleh trima. So how???

Ignored!!!! Susah.. amat laa susah nak ignore and of course cant run away from these problems.

At last, say these words "Allah Kareem"... case closed!!

KeReNaH KaNaK-KaNaK UNTa Di MuSiM PaNaS

Summer semester this year adalah kat Sur, where I am lecturing right now. Thats why la, this year sanggup x balik Msia bercuti selama 2 bulan semata-mata nak experience summer course kat sini. Before decide nak lecture summer course ni, dah dengar macam2 dah dr lecturers yg mengajar sebelum2 ni. Punya laa cabaran dan dugaan yang sangat besar. Wahhh, takut bunyinya. But still, I wanna take a risk. Dah laa kepanasan di musim summer ni di tahap yg sangat2 panas (goes up to 50 C and even more), then dgn kerenah2 kanak2 unta ni lagi.

As mentioned before, we have 5 colleges of applied sciences around Oman and semua yg nak buat summer course kena la datang ke Sur coz communication subjects only offer in Sur. So datang laa semua kanak2 unta ni dr semua tempat and yang kebanyakkan yang enrol for the summer course were those yang repeat the subject ( sbb fail), yang nak improve CGPA ( sbb ramai yg below 2) and x kurang jugak yg belum lagi ambik subject ni ( usually paper yg susah2 tunggu buat summer course). Naper? Sbb mentality diaorg ni ambik summer course, their grade will be better and they can easily pass. Ohhhh tidak dengan Ms Nur yerr, wahai habibi and habibthi. Hehhehehe... Sangkaan anda semua amat tidak tepat skali. Kesian diaorg ni amatlah malang skali sbb Ms Nur megajar di musim ini. Hahahha...

For the first few weeks, Masya Allah, kanak2 unta ni memang well behaved tau. Bila duk lecture, semua telopong jer duk dgr. Wah khusyuk skali. I plak rasa tersentuh. Faham ke tak faham ker blakang kira laa kan. Yang penting concentration tu... Nak ikutkan kalau normal class x de sebagus ni kan. So cakap2 org before this, cabaran dan dugaan summer course x de laa seteruk yang I gambarkan.

Summer course is only 8 weeks including a week for the final exam. The first week of the course, kanak2 ini dah x datang sbb culture diaorg ni first week mmg x blajar so x yah laa dtg. Lecturer jer yg rajin2 pegi kelas. After all, its just 6 weeks of lectures jer. Nak abiskan syllabus 14-15 chapters. Dashyat kan? Well, Insyaallah x jadi masalah sbbnya they will seeing me 6 hours/ week. Ambik kau, ader yg termuntah2 tgk muka Ms Nur. (tu laa sapa suruh ambik Summer course?)

After 4-5 weeks, kanak2 unta ni dah mula laa tunjuk kerenah diaorg. Banyak laaa diantaranya... jeng.. jeng.. jeng

• Sorang student ni x datang class for 2 lectures, meaning that dah 4 jam miss kan? Attendance adalah penting okey, sbb 10% ni laa yg I bagi zakat and sedekah kat diaorg. So bila dia datang dia cakap la, yg dia x datang sbb " my grandfather's friend died". Bleh? Apa kena mengena dgn dia kan? Ya Allah, nak marah pun bertukar jd nak gelak. Sbbnya kat sini kalau absent jer for sure alasan yg sama either ader kematiaan or ader accident. Cam mana tu nak caya kan? Kalau ader surat x pe, Ms Nur trima okey. Ikut rules laa kan...

• Sorang ni plak, bagus tau bila I lectures khusyuk betul. Focus jerr, tp dia slalu duk kat blkg tp I kat depan nampak bagus jer budak ni. One day tu I rasa nak jln2 jer pegi blkg tu kan tgk budak ni salin x notes, I berdiri kat depan cam duk menulis smtg jer, bila pegi kat tempat dia kalut2 dia tutupkan buku dia. Mula laa Ms Nur suspicious kan? So adegan tarik menarik buku bermula la selama a few seconds. Nak tahu apa budak ni tulis, jeng.. jeng.. jeng. Dia melukis wajahku!!!! Ohhhhhhhhhh.... tidak, x de keje lain kerr korang ni nak buat. Nak marah pun jadi nak gelak. Sabor jer la kan!!

• Yang sorang ni plak, budak bedu (beduwin), dia ni slalu duk depan2 meja I. Bagus laa kan cam nak blajar jer. I duk perhatikan budak ni dah 2..3 minggu lepas lagi. Mata dia memang focus pada I masa lecture, tapi tangan dia kejap2 duk menggaru tangan, kaki, muka. Jap2 duk korek telinga, yang paling I dah x bleh tahan. Mengorek idung.Elloooooooooooooo... amboi2 syoknya mengorek kapal korek ni!!! Mula2 tu I x kisahlah kan sbb may be dia gatal2 kot, kita pun penah cam tu kan? But yg ni, every class cam ni and bab kapal korek ni laa yg I x tahan. Sbb dia syok sgt mengorek sampai kepala didongakkan ke atas and mata pun tertutup skit. Wahhh... bayangkan betapa syoknya dia!! Ingatkan syok dgr lecture I, rupa2nya duk mengorek kapal korek. Ya Allah, sabor jer laaa kan. Again nak marah pun jadi nak gelak.

Ms Nur: Ahmed, whats wrong with u? Are u ok? Can u just relax urself? ( cee...ceee.. lecturer pun kena cover line)

Kapal korek: Why Miss? ( sesambil duk korek gigi plak dgn mencungkil)

Ms Nur: What are u doing? ( menjerit kuat sgt, ader yg terkejut masa tu)

Kapal korek: No Miss, water here is very bad!! ( terus terpelanting mencungkil gigi tu sbb dah kena jerkah)

Ms Nur: Okey guys, take 5 min. ( mengucap panjang sambil tergelak2).

Ya Allah x tahan betul dgn kerenah2 kanak2 unta ni tau. Macam2, tp at least ader jugak daily dose of entertainment kan?

Bila musim2 nak mid-term or final exam, lagi la banyak kerenah. A week or 2-3 days before the exam, mula laa diaorg ni datang bagi barang2. Skrang ni ramai yg datang bagi kurma dan mangga ( sbb musimnya). Amboi.. amboi, taktik ni dah lama dah Ms Nur tahu, cuba laa ubah taktik kan? Usually before I accept it, will tell them first that they need to give it sincerely not coz of the marks. Diaorg ni ingat, Ms Nur ni trima rasuah buah-buahan? Pas tu mula laa gelabah bila kita cakap cam tu.

"No, no.. plz dont say that Miss. But if you want to give good marks, Alhamdulillah." -- Bleh?

Tu laa tuan2 dan puan2 skalian, diantara kerenah kanak2 unta disini. Banyakkan laa bersabar Ms Nur :)) ( sambil urut dada)

DRaMa CoMPeTiTioN

Drama competition was held last week at the my college. It was Arabic Drama, tapi disebabkan dapat invitation for the opening ceremony, maka attend la jugak. Kat sini kan biasanya apa2 jer event or activity suker sgt buat malam tau after Maghrib prayer. Tau-tau jer la bila dah balik rumah, amat la malas skali nak kluar. Tapi kalau dah wajib terpaksa la datang jgk.

My students keep coming last week sbb pujuk I attend drama ni. Tak kuasa tau nak melayan sbb dah x paham sbb in Arabic, pas tu buat malam2 buta plak kan. Usually, for the opening ceremony of the event diaorg ni mulakan dgn bacaan Quran dan diikuti dgn tarian dan nyanyi traditional diaorg. Yang ni 'wajib' ada.

Penari2 mestilah students2 lelaki (pompuan x bleh okey: HARAM). Diaorg ni akan pakai "Khanja" kat pinggang. Khanja tu senjata traditional Oman macam pisau. Then akan pegang tongkat dgn pedang. Pas tu gelek2, goyang2 sesambil baling2 benda alah tu laa. Macam tu laa lebih kurangnya. Muzik traditional Oman ni best tau, bila dengar jer sure terasa nak gelek2 sama tau

Tu siap dengan gendang2 lagi tu. Bila dah pakai Khanja kat pinggang, terus Dishdasha terangkat, seksi tu

Students2 ni bila dah menari2, lecturers kat sebelah pun dah x peduli dah. Syok kemain !!

Marah tau Khanja tu. Nak bawak balik Msia pun takut, nanti tak pasal2 ader yg kena tahan kat airport

Tongkat tu pun benda yg wajib dibawak utk ke majlis rasmi kat sini. But only for a man. Like my dad last time, beli byk2 kat sini bg souvenir kat Msia. Berebut orang2 kat masjid tu. Amboi2 pakcik, ingat murah ker tongkat tu. Berebut2 macam goreng pisang panas plak!! Hehehhehe

Then bila abis jer menari2, ada la plak 2..4 orang akan bawak "halwa" ni . Ni pun kiranya makanan traditional diaorg jgk. Mahal tau, satu dulang besar tu nak nyer 40-50 rial. Rasa 'halwa' ni manis sangat then rasa rempah2

Bawak jer dulang ni then cubit lah cikit2. Senang kan diaorg ni, main pakai cubit2 pakai tangan jer. Pas tu siap bawak tisu kotak lagi. Hhhahahah.. lawak laaa

Cubit2, jilat2, lap2 kat tisu. Senang kan x yah nak beli sudu, garpu, pinggan, mangkuk. Sempoi betui pak2 Oman

Sehingga menjilat jari diaorang ni makan tau. Memang suker bebonar diaorang ni makan "halwa"

Lepas makan2 halwa ni, round ke-2 diaorang ni bawak cawan kopi yang x de gula. Cawan tu ader 2 jer pas tu share2 la. Ohhh tidak, I akan tunggu diaorg bagi air mineral or jus. Then layan laa drama kanak2 unta ni till 11pm. Tengok jer laa, buat2 paham. Kan Arabic, ader laa words yg tahu skit2 kan. Best jugak buat paham2 sdiri ni. Hehehhe

Students2 ni kalau bab2 activity cam ni kemain aktif lagi, cuba bab2 blajar? Nak terkluar anak tekak lecturer mengajar tau. Itu bukannya complain tau, itu adalah dugaan kan?

Kena optimistic di musim2 Summer ni. Dah laa weather macam dlm oven, kalau x sabar ader yang krusi meja melayang nanti kang! Tul tak?

National Day Celebration

National Day celebration held at the college last week in the evening. It went pretty well with the attendance of some VIPs including the Wali (person who is in charge of Sur) , Ministry people, Police, etc. That was the first time for me to attend the event organized by the college. Previously, there were some events but I never attend. Ntah laa ... apa ker jadah this time I wanted to go.. may be coz of my students keep coming to my room and persuade me to come I guess ;))

The event started at 7.30pm with the arrival of VIPs guests. Followed by recite of Holy Quran. Then the event continued with the first performance from disable people sang a song in Arabic. It was a sad song with emotional feeling...

Those were kids singing and dancing with their traditional song. Look at them.. They were wearing their traditional clothes too.. ( I guess the college invited them to performance, definitely they are not my students )

Those were outsiders too. They were singing and dancing their traditional song. Nice song ... They make me moved my body too..

That was like a musical drama... look at the "dukun" who was wearing the mask. So scary.. I guess there was the story behind this.. Never had a chance to ask my students..

Some of my students performed this. They were dancing with the sword. It looks real..Some of them are so talented. So proud of them ;))

New Office Room

After one semester sharing a room with 3 people including me at last I got a new room. This time, Im sharing with my colleague. Only 2 of us in one room. Feel so release ;

Suker sgt dpt bilik baru ni. Yeah.. of course feel so damn happy. Diantara sebabnya adalah:

• Got privacy looorrr....
• Nak solat pun senang sbb before this tunggu our guy roommate balik then baru bleh solat. Sometimes sampai solat zohor pun rapat2 jer dgn solat asar. Bagus ker cam tu? X bagus kan? Told u!!
• X de lagi org nak bengang2 sbb ramai students slalu dtg jumpa. Yelah dulu ader jer org bengang2 sbb students slalu dtg kat bilik. Maklum laa kita students communication for sure laa dtg slalu kan.
• The room is so spacious, comfortable and cozy. Last time 3 people in a room and now is 2 people.

Meja yg kemas.. nampak sgt x buat keje lagi kan ;))

Look at the side cupboard .. for sure laa ader candle & mirror. Candle for sure utk bagi ketenangan bila ku nyalakan ( nak nyalakan ker.. syg nya) and mirror utk menyenangkan ku membetul2 kan tudung ku ini.

This semester most of the lecturers will get a new room. Like my department; Communication Dept, we got 4 rooms and its near to each other. It is easier for us to communicate and interact. ( Ye ker?.. I dont think so.. susah wey nak berkomunikasi dgn geng2 K***** ni.

At the moment, there are 7 of us in dept including 3 Indian, 1 Omani and 3 Malaysians. Well, things go so well right now and hopefully till the end of the semester.

Havent start my class yet. Should started last week as the students just came for the registration and went back home. Maklum laa Ramadhan kan... Hopefully they will turn up next week. I guess I need to catch up lectures for this semester. We got many holiday like Eid, Eid Adha, National Day etc. In a way, I feel happy to have holiday coz here is not like Malaysia. In Malaysian we have lots of holiday. The weird thing here is the holiday will be announced a day before. Giler kan? Its depend to their government... x kira laa cuti apa pun. Selagi announcement x dibuat selagi tu laa x confirm. Susah tul nak buat plan kalau cam ni kan? Especially like for the Eid. Till now, I'm no idea when is our holiday. Nak booking tiket pun susah.. Siut jer diaorg ni. Dengki laa tu org nak balik beraya kat negara orang!! Nyampah...

Mula2 dtg sini hampir sebulan x de bilik duk menumpang bilik orang sampai naik menyampah orang tgk muka kita hari2. After that dapat laa bilik menumpang jugak department lain for the rest of semester. Macam2 laa berlaku sampai orang pun naik bengang sbb lecturers communication ni aktif sgt dgn students. Ari2.. setiap jam ader jerr students nak jumpa and the room was always crowded with students. Sorry looor.. bukannya salah I okey.. dah namanya students kan, kita kena laa encourage diaorg dtg jumpa kita. Not like other lecturers x suka students dtg jumpa slalu. Tak paham lerrr!!

Well, Alahmdulillah... setelah sekian lama menunggu utk dpt bilik sdiri tercapai even tunggu for almost one semester. Berkat kesabaran kan.. sabar ker? Dalam duk sabar2 tu ader laa jgk duk menyamuk2, mengutuk2 sbb geram kan... janji tinggal janji till now.

Dates..

Remember my last post was about the dates' tree.. Ingat tak korang ni? Ish..scroll balik err..

This time, I nak tunjuk kurma yg sudah masak..not really laa sebenarnya.. dah nak masak. Kena tunggu lagi ni.. bagi kuning lagi laa..baru bleh makan.. Sedap wey..I tell you. One of the Omani Lecture kat sini kasi 2 biji I dgn x malu nyer ambik. Actually, I x tahu pun dia lecturer ingatkan dia student... hehehhe. Dashyat kan? Maklum laa semua berjubah putih..mana laa nak cam ni lecturer kee ni student kerr kan.

Bila dia dah offer...I ambik laa kan.. bukan 1 biji tapi 2 biji..hehehe mmg muka x malu. Sedap...sangat laa fresh .. sangat laa manis... sangat laa rangup ( bleh??)

Tak sabar ni nak petik kurma2 kat college..yelah org ckp kurma2 kat college adalah kurma wakaf..suker2 jerr kan. Serious my friend and I slalu duk aim ni yg mana nak di petik utk dibwk balik ...heheh..

Will see if I can take them back to Msia. Bleh laaa kawan2 ku disana merasa keenakkan kurma disini kan??

Geram laa wey nak petik... satu2 pokok tu mak oiii byk tul tangkai2 dia.. Satu family x abis makan kalau satu pokok ada kat umah..Dah laa pokok kurma ni kan rendang2...ala2 ketinggian I jerr.. ader yg rendah dr I okey..best sgt laaa....

Look at that... byk tu wey..x abis makan ni.. for sure nyerr...

Dah masak ni... tunggu aaa... nak g petik dah ni..

FinaL ExaM FeVeR

Minggu lepas start final exam utk kanak2 unta kat sini. As expected laa kan...a day before the final exam x henti2 laa kanak2 unta ni duk dtg bilik tanya soalan exam. Some of them came coz they might know that I knew the questions and some of them came coz sajer laa kan..mana laa tahu dpt rezeki.

Yang peliknya kat sini, final exam disetkan oleh coordinator. Coordinator tu plak bkn nyer from the same college. The coordinator of the subjek ni pelik gak... dia bleh jer selamba land dia jerr email lecturers2 lain yg mengajar that subjek so that we can submit the final exam questions to him or her dalam masa seminggu... mana laa sempat nak buat soalan wey.. ingat otak apa kerr!!

Memandangkan I ni baru kat sini kan..I submit laa jgk soalan tu even lambat laa skit sbb x de masa nak buat ( ala..hantar awal pun bukannya dia nak ambik soalan i pun...x kuasa nak melayan laa) and dia ade kuasa laa nak buat cam mana dgn soalan2 tu. Yang geramnya, dia x kasi tu soalan tu in advance..at least bagi laa tahu kat lecturer2 yg mengajar kan?? Senang laa kitaorg ni nak kasi tips kat kanak2 unta ni.. email bertalu2 i kasi kat coordinator i tu... tapi langsung x reply punya laa kedekut!! What a big deal laa kasi soalan tu kan...cam laa kitaorg ni nak bocorkan soalan!! Ish..so laa x berperikemanusian.

I was worried coz that day I havent finish all the chapters. I did speed up my lectures but tahu la kanak2 unta ni amat laa slow skali and terpaksa laa i masuk gear satu dan dua jerr... and Alhamdulillah..I managed to finish it all...

Kat sini bagus gak..if your paper on that day, lecturernya x bleh jd invigilator ..yelah nanti ader laa yg gatal2 mulut ckp jawab kat students kan. Tapi yg menyampahnya I need to wait kat dlm control room ( tempat soalan disimpan and penyerahan kertas2 soalan) for 2 hours plus. Siut jerr kat ... ntah apa2 laa I nyerr HOD tu.. nak suruh temankan dia laa ... ngader punya K*****.

While I was there, I got a call fr the invigilators sbb ader students nak tanya soalan yg diaorg tak paham ... so berkejar kejaran laa pegi kat dlm kelas utk explain. Bila dah masuk kelas tu..bukannya sorang jer duk tanya soalan... ramai laa plak.. yang menaikkan darah i nyerr.. tanya soalan yg bodoh2.. like what is the meaning of the words..cam mana tu?? Sabor jerr laa... One of the room tu..siap the invigilator tu announced " Dont ask ur lecturer the meaning of the words.. she is not your dictionary" . hahahhah... Lawak laa plak...tergelak i kat situ!!

I been given 72 hours to mark all the papers after they are done. Apa keee jadah ?? Ader kerr kasi 72 jam jerr nak marking semua ni.. ingat robot nak buat semua ni!! Geram tul laa... Nak submit kat Ministry lambat laa lagi...sajerr jerr diaorg ni kan!! My paper was on Wednesday and the next day was weekend... aaaa bagus laaa dgn weekend2 laa tergadai!!

My weekend was so suck!! Yelah.. x klaur pegi mana pun... initial plan nak jalan2 but need to cancel coz takut laa kan x siap nak marking paper. Imagine laa I got 7 classes with 200 ++ students. Nak marking semua ni ari Khamis and Jumaat.. Nak termuntah2 dah rasanya...

With so many kinds of handwriting..so many answers ... membuatkan ku rasa loya skali..

Lagi loya nak muntah2 bila pembahagian markah. Soalan objektif dicampur aduk kan dgn soalan fill in the blank. Bodoh tul laa org yg buat soalan ni!! Haaa... sebijik kan dpt bodoh kat atas muka!! Hehhehe... yelah nama jerr ade "DR" tapi nak buat soalan pun x reti.. soalan UPSR pun lagi bagus laa!!

Disebabkan loya and nak muntah kan..so I pelbagaikan laa aksi2 masa marking tu.. Kuang lentang, kuang dada...kuak kupu2..atas katil..kat meja..bwh meja..meniarap..ishh..macam2 aksi laa.. termasuk laa aksi2 yg mengghairahkan!! Hehhehe.. jgn nak imagine yg bukan2 okey.. aksi2 tu jgn ditiru..sbb i kan duk sorang kat dlm bilik ni..sapa nak peduli kan..lagipun kan panas kat sini.. memarking ni lagi laa buat ku kepanasan...

Thank God, I managed to finish marking all the papers in the weekend walaupun weekendku tergadai... Yelah.. dgn tido nyer x lena. On Thursday I slept at 3am and on Friday I slept at 12 mid nite. Even petang pun x de masa nak tido even kepenatan sgt!!

x pe.. nak abiskan semua ni..malas dah nak pikir..just nanti tunggu nak posting markah dlm form jer laa.. Tu pun malas nak buat lagi...

My friend also was helping me in counter check the marks.. Luckily got her. Tq bebeh!! nanti i tlg counter check paper u lak yerr.. heheheh. Tapi kan kalau kat Msia sure ader org tlg kan.. my two great sis yg slalu tlg.. at least marking objectives nyerr questions kat. Well, nasib badan laa kat sini duk sorang2..kena laa buat sdiri semua...

First Meeting

The meeting supposed to start at 9 am and turned out at nearly 10 am. Terukkan diaorg punya timing kat sini. Meeting with all the communication lecturers from all colleges. Since I came here never meet anybody some of them and guess what 3/4 of the staff in this department are Indians. Hahhahahah.. as expected. They are good in communication right!!

The chairman was the coordinator of the program and he is an Australian if Im not mistaken. Well, the meeting was like 'a talk show' coz Mr Chairman been talking non stop since the meeting started till at nearly 4pm. There were an argument between the staff as I expected and suggestions and ideas from the other colleges. The meeting was so dull and bored for me coz they were talking abt smtg ridiculous. Mmm... salary thing, relocation, exam, coordinating and etc...

Guess what the "good" thing abt this meeting was they were only prepare the snack of the day... even the meeting tooks more than 5 hours still we got only breads. Is it funny?? Not like in Msia..especially in govt. sector...Dengar jerr meeting sampai ker lunch..even till 11 pun dah kalut dah nak mintak lunch. Isnt that good?? Jangan harap laa kat sini.. Even bfast... supposedly the hotel is including the bfast but not here..it is excluded..dashyat kan?? Yeah, the hotel do served the bfast but we need to pay for RO4.100= RM40 for only the bfast?? Of course big NO...NO for me.. why I need to waste my money just only for the bfast right?? The supposed to include the bfast..so laa pelik laa kat sini. Even when you wanna stay at the hotel, they didnt count as per room but per head.. so laa pelik kan??

Well, I was not really enjoy in the meeting.. I be a good listener and got a task need to complete before I leave for summer holiday.

Went back to Sur right after the meeting at nearly 4.30pm. Stop for the Asar prayer and bought food to pack home. The journey was so good even the road was not completed yet. Up side down.. free exercise as I told in the earlier post. Been chatting with the driver ..making jokes..laughing ... and x tido..Hahahha.. serious x tido!!

At first, I decided to extend our stay till weekend.. but I got a bad mood. My mood swung coz of the meeting and decided to go back right after the meeting. Arrived Sur at nearly 6pm and I was so exhausted. Time to sleep and take a good rest for myself..

Journey for the Meeting

I been told that Im going to have a first meeting with all the communication lecturers from all the colleges in Muscat on Wednesday (14 May). Bestnya... bleh pegi Muscat after so long didnt go there.

In my department of comm, there are only 4 of us including me. 2 Indians and 2 Msians. My boss needs to go one day earlier coz of HOD's meeting and another colleague will go by himself on the same day. We decided to get a driver to sent us there and the hotel been booked by the administration people.

I left the college at the afternoon around 2.30pm on Tuesday. At that time, panas mentari terik diatas kepala.. Mak oiii.. can feel the real heat!! The driver is named Ahmad Sabar and he was the person who took me to the college when I first came here. He is such a very quiet man but nice. Only my friend and I went with him.

There are two ways to go to Muscat..One is the long way which is higway. It takes 3 1/2 -4 hours to reach Muscat while another way is a bit shorter way which is by the coaster road. This coaster road takes 2-21/2 hours there. Ahmad preferred to take coaster road coz its shorter and will be pass his village called Tiwi. Sukerr laaa si Ahmad ni... melalu kampung halaman dia kan. We all x kisah pun..as long as sampai kat sana sudah. We used own college land rover and its totally suit for the coaster road like he gone through.

The coaster road is expected to finish it soon.. now is still in the process of building the highway. Supposed to finish Jun this year and extend to next year. Once that coaster road finish, it will only take us 1 1/2 -2 hours to reach Muscat. Bestnya kan...x de laa lama sangat..senang laa nak berulang alik nanti.

At the moment, the road is pretty good compare to the last time when I came here. Ahmad took my parents and I with this road and amatlah teruk skali. Jalan yg berbukit bukau..main redah jerr... simpang siur.. Still remembered, on our way to Sur using this road..my mum was so worried till her tears flow. Yelah, tgk jalan cam ni.. teruk tul kan. dia risau laa kat I kat sini. Cam mana laa anak aku ni nak pegi Muscat ..pegi airport kalau ader apa2 emergency nak kena balik Msia. Ish...my mum ni kesitu plak yg difikirkan. Tuhan tu kan Maha Adil..Insyaallah, everything will be going to be okey. Seee... skrg ni pun jalan tu dah nak siap dah..no more worried. I totally understood her feeling last time. She loves me so much and she doesnt want me to suffer... Luv u min..

Actually, best jugak lalu jln ni.. bila lalu jln yg byk batu bata... berbukit bukau... duk kat dlm kete tu rasa cam exercise jerr. Free exercise.. semua otot2 bergerak.. dr ujung kepala hingga laa ujung tapak kaki. Bergerak2..bergetar2..Hahahhaha... Automatically dpt free exercise!!

Si Ahmad Driver ni x pandai sgt ckp English and we all plak x pandai sgt ckp Arab. Bagus laa cam ayam dan itik. Hhehehe.. bila ckp smtg in Arabic... dia gelak.. bila dia ckp English kitaorg gelak.. Labu...ohh Labu... Bergelak2 jerr laaa.

My friend yg lawaknya ckp ni pakwe dia...konon2 laa.. Coz tgk si ahmad ni cam muka yg x de perasaan jerr. Alah...cam muka selambaland gitu.. jenis yg tak reti nak marah..susah lerr nak explain..Korang paham2 laa sdiri okey!! Just imagine what I said...Nama lagi Ahamd Sabar,..aaa jenis muka penyabar pun ader.. hehhhehhe...

Kitaorg duk laa melawak dgn dia suruh dia berhenti kat Kg dia tu.. pandai plak dia ckp mak ayah dia tido laa..x leh berhenti laa.. Mmmmm...takut lerr tu, yelah suka2 jerr kerr ingat nak buat blk 2 perempuan jelitawati ni balik umah.. Haram...haram..hehehheheh... Gelak dia!! Skit..skit..tomorrow aaa... tomorrow aaa... Giler lawak !!

Gelak punyer gelak...ckp punyer cakap...tertidur gak I kat dlm kete tu.. yelah panas terik ni.. sampai2 dah kul 6 jgk laa..terus check in kat Hotel Al Falaj. Okey laa otel tu.. dah penah dah duk otel ni dulu2 masa mula2 dtg.. The hotel is very close with the ministry as our meeting the next day is at the ministry.

The otel may be only 3 stars otel kot.. cam biasa2 jerr laaa and it cost RO60=RM600..siut mahal.. RM600 siap bleh duk kat Hotel Golden Horses dah okey kat Msia tu.. sini just hotel3 stars jerr.. and coz of ministry booked they gave half price RO37 including the taxes and its excluded the bfast. So laa kedekut ministry ni...x termasuk bfast tu..jahat..jahat.. x sukerr. Kalau nak bfast kat situ bleh just pay RO4.100 per head. What... mahal siut..sgt laa mahal!!! We rather eat outside.

Luckily one of our Msian friend another state will be coming and staying at the same hotel too. She came with his husband and 2 kids. Thank God, they got car and on the next morning, they brought us to one of the coffee shop to have our bfast before the meeting starts. Pegi makan roti parata kat indian coffee shop.. Sedap gak..dgn kuah dal. Hahahha dal nyerr amat laa pekat skali.. satu pinggan 2 keping paratta.. If kat kedai lain usually satu pinggan 3 paratta.. Mak oiii...ingat perut i ni besar sgt kerr...2 paratta pun x dpt nak abis wehhh..

When to the meeting right after the bfast.. Ehhh.. nope.. we check out the hotel before we left for bfast and I just realized I left my new Clark sandal in the hotel room. Biar betui aku ni..tetiba jerr lupa.. I was wearing sandal at first and change to shoes coz of the meeting and forgot to put inside my bagpack. Nasib baik ingat kan.. so right after having our bfast went to the hotel to find my sandal.

My dearie Clarks Sandal.. mmg laa x lawa but comfortable sgt..sukerr!!

Kalau sandal yg murah2 ..yg dah buruk2.. for sure I will just leave it there but this is Clarks sandal okey!! Beli dah lama kat sini during sale but I never used it. Sayang sangat..sbb baru and sbb mahal..hahhaha..Teruk kan?? Tak kan laa nak tinggalkan cam tu jerr kan. Went to the counter and the receptionist gave me the key of the room. By the time I reached the room, the people was cleaning the room... and unfortunately I x not find my lovely sandal. Nak nangis pun ader...nak marah pun ader.. sayang okey kat sandal tu.. seriously sayang!!

Akhirnya kau miliku.. serious comfortable!! Its sale product for sure..if not cant afford to have one

I asked the cleaner and he didnt understand. I show my shoe.. he gave me the plastic bag..I said sandal...sandal.. he gave a paper for the shoes polish.. after 5-10 minutes explaining and at last he understood. My sandal is inside the big black plastic bag. Ohhh tidak.. if not he will throw it or put it under "lost and found". Ada rezeki lagi laa kan.. Alhamdulillah...

If not I will be crying for my sandal.. for sure nak kena carik the same sandal again... ;(

Dengan senyum yg panjang lebar ... we went straight to the ministry for 9.00 am meeting.

Suka Ati Lah Labu...

Since morning been bz with checking and marking my students assignments and homeworks. This is going to be my routine for this couple of week before final exam. My paper ( Intro to journalism & PR) will be on 21 May... soon rite? Biasa laa selagi exam tak start selagi tu laa kanak2 unta ni duk kluar masuk from my room. Guess what they want? These are the lines that was common for these few days before an exam start...

" Ms Nur.. can I look at my marks?" " Miss...ohh miss.. plz help me miss.. I need more marks" " You need to help me Miss.. my point is under 1 pointer.. plz..plz!!" " Not good Miss if you didnt help us.. Islam said we need to help each others" " All the chapters need to read Miss?" " Do we need to read the notes you write on the board or the paper that you gave?" " Why cannot know our marks miss.. mafi adil (not fair)" " Teacher...teacher..how my assg? my homework? my presentation?"


and of course more and more students are coming to ask the same questions. Penat weyy Miss Nur nak menjawabnya.. asyik duk jwb benda yg sama jerr.. Tak larat okey. Kekadang penat duk melayan budak2 ni jer. Selagi x exam selagi tu laa dtg x henti2.. Kunci pintu pun...siap ketuk2..Miss...Miss...I know you are inside ( siap jerit2 tu.. coz they know that Im inside)...hehheh. Macam budak2 tadika laa plak..main sorok2!! Adakah lecturernya ini amat kejam skali sampai kunci pintu tu. Ahaks.

Guess what my answers for their questions:

" Are you sure you wanna know your marks? If you wanna know now.. mafi musykil ( no problem) but I will not help you anymore in your final exam. But if you dont wanna see your mark now, Insyaallah..I will try my best to help. Allah Karim.. Plz..do doa after your solat!! Ask Allah to help you..."

Haa... baru buat muka cuak semua orang.. nak tgk tak markah??? Hahhahah.. Psycho laa skit!! Baru takut kan bila ckp cam tu. Actually, I bukannya x nak kasi diorg tahu markah before their exam tapi sebenar-benarnya.. Miss Nur ni lum lagi abis check semua assg and h/w. Almaklumlah byk weh nak check..tak menang tangan dibuatnya. Bila I ckp kat diorg that I havent finish checking... guess what their respond...

" What Miss... you havent finish?? What are you doing? You only have one subject to teach and no kids at home" .... Amboi..amboi lancang kuning tul mulut yerr.. Suker suker ati jerr ckp cam tu. Diaorg plak yg mempertikaikan keje I..bleh?? Siut jerr kan.. Tu laa alkisahnya budak2 unta ni, ckp tak bertapis langsung. Nak kasi markah lebih pun terpaksa pikir 40 kali.. amat laa berhati perut skali kan?? Memang laa kekdg diorg ni x de tokmaninah..


I supposed to arrange the final exam papers in my HOD 's ( head of department) room at 2pm today. At 11.30 am, he came.. "you girls ready?" "Can we do it now""alllu... baru kul 11.3o..not even 12 yet..janji yesterday kul 2..ni sorang suker2 ati jerr nak panggil org.. Orang bz okey.. chewah..bz tuh!!

Nak tak nak terpaksa laa pegi gak bilik dia nak sort kan final exam papers. I didnt know the system here as this is my first time doing this here. Dulu masa mula2 sampai kat sini, I did help my colleague table out the result of the students and also be an invigilators for the final exam. Mula2 sampai kat sini dulu, terus kena jadi invigilators.. dasyhat weh.. Lagi dasyhat, dpt tangkap ramai students2 meniru. Haaa... ambik kau!!

Diaorg ni nampak jerr pakai kopiah, songkok, serban, jubah but then bab2 menipu ni...Ya Rabbi..tip top laa. Senang sajer.. masukkan toyol2 and setan2 dlm tgn baju jubah tu.. aaa mana nak nampak kan.. Jgn nak tipu dgn I okey.. I got six sense!! Serious, I can smell the students who are trying to cheat!! Ntah cam mana laa bleh dpt six sense ni. Mula2 jaga exam, biasa laa bdk2 ni duk bisik2 laa dikalangan diorg... wahh.. new lecturer aaa... sure diorg ckp cam tu kan??? Still remember .. 4..5 students asked me " Are you a new teacher here?" hahahha .. Im laughing to the floor .. Lerr.. ingat apa.. student? Staff? Siut jerr kan...

Seingat i, I caught 7 students who were cheating at that time. Aaaa... muncung laaa.. bila kena tangkap... Tu laa... sapa suruh meniru!! Nampaknya pendek cam ni..garang okey.. hehhehe!! Tahu takut...

Well, at my HOD's room buat apa tau. Photocopy all of the question papers. Ya Rabbi... buat semua ni sdiri.. tak penah dibuat org. Imagine, we have 7 subjects and each of the subjects we have 7 groups and each groups we have 30 students. haaaa...kira..kira skrg.. brapa nak kena photostat tu. Byk wehh.. Some of the questions papers are done yesterday and some need to finish it today as my HOD will leave the office for the meeting tmrw. Nak tak nak..terpaksa laa buat.

After photostat, ambik stapler.. stapler kan each of the question paper..letakkan dlm envelope and etc...ect.. Byk laa process nya sampai x ingat laa nak jot down here.. Biasa laaa my HOD is kinda ringan tulang skit. Dia laa yg buat most of the work. Since another of of the staff title "DR" cam bz jerr duk chatting.. dia buat x tahu jerr laa kan. My other colleague pun cam tu gak..jenis x brapa nak buat keje.. nak buat keje dan x nak buat keje sama byk lerr. Not like me.. I x bleh laa tgk org duk buat sorang2.. its totally not me. As I need and wanted to settle it quickly. Seriously.. Bila duk wat menyetepler kertas2 tu.. bleh tak...sorang duk kalut berchatting dgn laptopnya and sorang lagi just duduk tgk I duk buat semua ni dgn my HOD.. sanggup tu duk tgk jerr... Waduh.. bengkak ati akak ni!! Mmmm.... suka ati kau laa labu.. x responsible langsung kan!!

I was complaining to my HOD in nicest way.. why we need to do all of these things. Well, as these college can baru lagi and the system kinda mess up. Semua benda alah ni kena buat sdiri sbbnya.. exam centre x wujud lagi. Sabor jerr laa.. Bila semua org duk buat keje ni..cam cepat laa skit kan.. and we seems like a factory workers. Hahahhha... so systematic ..sorang photostat, sorang stapler, sorang stamped and sorang lagi put it in envelope. Tak kurang laa smtimes each of us will be curik tulang.. I can see you!!

My HOD is pretty nice.. we started the work with a cup of coffee and we ended our word with a cup of tea. Bagus kan..at least laa kan. Mmm... well yg sorang lagi lak..so title "DR" tu.. ckp jerr byk.. nak blanja mkn kat otel laa..nak blanja lunch laa ...dinner laa.... towards the end.. hempeh.. tetiber jerr duk diam. So x baik kan?? My friend punyer lah bengang... Mmmm... Kalau dah K***** tu.. K***** jgk kan?? Hehhehhe....

I was so exhausted while doing these things.. what more they put on the Hindi song. Ohhh.. what a song!! Old hindi song.. was so dull and make me really headache.. X suker laaa dgr lagu hindi..serious since dulu2 lagi I really cant stand with Hindi songs.. Sowwwey!! After a while, my friend and I told them to turn off.. hahahha.. kejam tul so laa direct to ampang point kan??? Peduli apa.. dah x tahan dah.. pening..peningan dah dtg ni.. nanti kang x siap keje ni kang.. baik tutup cepat2 lagu tu.. Hahhh...

We got 1/2 hour break for the prayer and we are done at nearly 5pm. Terasa kelaparan and kepenatan after been doing these things.. I only took my bfast in early in the morning and till 5 x mkn apa.. just duk minum..minum.. sampai perutku pun berbunyi x henti2.. angin sudah masuk dah!!!

After asar prayer when back home... Finally, we managed to finish all of the final exam papers for next week. I got a timetable for the invigilator for the exam. Yang bagusnya, there will be 2 lecturers who are going to be invigilator in one subject and one of the invigilator must be an Arabian. Baguskan...yelah, mana laa tahu kan...kot2 kanak2 unta ni x paham.. bleh laa diorg explain in Arab..nanti asyik duk lak paham..lak paham ( x paham)...mafi maklum...mafi maklum!! ( x tahu). Tak kee kesian students nanti kan??

I look at my final exam paper too.. The questions are pretty easy.. yeah, at least there are some of the questions expected and been discussed with my students in the class.. but still havent sure how they can do it.. memandangkan level diaorg ni amat laa..amat laa rendah.. Im still do not know how to comment..may be too early to comment.

I got mixed feeling after looked at the exam paper.

1. Happy coz I covered the chapters even not all at least in the questions been discussed before. Been worried coz I didnt finish the whole chapter (14 chapters) due to their ability.. diaorg ni amatlah slow sklai ..mengalahkan kura2 tau..

2. Worrried coz most of the questions are not direct to ampang point!! Really... nak ikutkan level diorg ni..tak sure laa diaorg bleh jwb kerr tak

3. Sad coz I do not have chance to look at the questions early. All the lecturers supposed to submit the questions to their coordinator a month before and the coordinator will be distribute and share the questions or at least what chapters will coming out with the lecturers. Unfortunely, after sending an email to my coordinator, I got no reply till now. So teruk kan?? At least ckp laa chapter mana yg kluar..so laa kedekut.. This make me have a bad impress to org2 K***** ni.. geram laa ni..

4. Pity to my students.. really I wanted to share with them.. definitely not giving them the questions paper itself but at least the tips what will come out.

What to do.. after all, the question papers are ready now and I just pray for my students. Mana yg bleh ditlg... Insyaallah..

But if the students are so so kasul ( lazy), x not submit the assg, x do the presentation, always skip the class... so sorry!! Really cant help you out. Sukerr ati laa labu nak jadi apa kan...

Communication Talk

Before I left the office yesterday, got called fr my HOD and he told me that tmrw at 9.00am, we are going to have Communication Talk and all the students need to attend at the hall. Im done with my class at 8.30 am and brought them to the hall. Tunggu nyerr tunggu...sampai kul 9 lum lagi penuh dewan tu.. Then all the sudden, muncul lah Assistance Dean dgn kaum kerabat dia kat atas pentas. Tahu tak diaorg duk wat pe? Tgh betul-betul kan meja..susuh kan kerusi for the guest speaker. Assistance Dean did that? Can you imagine that? Siut jerr kan.. so what more I can do..go and help him? Hello...im a lady okey.. Im not supposed to go up to the stage and help him. Kat sini lain skit..bukannya kat Msia ni.

My friend and I looked at him differently.. yelah pelik bin ajaib laa kan.Assistance Dean buat semua tu!! Bayangkan laa.. My HOD and the guest speaker and seorang lagi Dr. lum lagi sampai kat dewan.. dah 9.15 ni.. bleh cam tu? Seriously they never appreciate of time!!! So fed up .. nearly 9.20am they came and sat at the front row and me and my friend joined them. My HOD, Ya Allah..so laa x proper, pakai topi tu dgn sunglass kat atas topi.. bengong tul dia ni. Ni kan majlis cam formal jugak laa kan..pakai cam tu jerr??? Sabor jerr laa

The people who were giving talk

There are 3 people on the stage ( my HOD, DR - fr our dept and guess speaker fr Oman Tribune Newspaper). The speaker was so-so.. kononnya so laa good coz journalist kan but it turn our very bored. Baca jerr memanjang kat kertas.. apa kerr jadah??? duduk jerr kat krusi ..x gerak2.. bleh??

My HOD plak.. giler kuasa, students duk tanya soalan kat guest speaker...dia plak yg jawab..sian tgk guest speaker tu..tenganga jerr dia duk situ. Dah laa x menjawab soalan.

Ambik gamba pun side blkg, maklum laa segan silu nak duk depan2.. baik punyerrr shoot!!

Ni yg lawaknya lagi. Ada laa sorang pekerja tukang sapu kat situ. The assistance dean asked him to buy drink for all the speakers on the stage and he brought a plastic bag with the 3 bottles of the drinks. 1 bottle he gave it to the Assistance dean and dgn selamba land nyerr dia naik kat atas pentas tu bwk beg plastic berisi botol air. Then masa org duk rancak2 ckp bg taklimat..dia pun kasi laa kat speakers tu air.. alamak 2 botol jerr? Terkial2 dia..patutnya 3 botol sbb speaker ader 3 org..dia muka yg ke maluannya..dia pun jalan nak turun stage.. separuh jalan.. handphone plak bunyi (bleh? siut jerr kan??) and tengah2 atas pentas tu..dia pun duk jawab call tu.. ( Ya Allah..suka ati mak bapak tuk nenek dia jerr nak jwb call). Imagine laaa... x leh nak tahan gelak.. laughing to the floor laaa I dgn my friend.

Cam x reti bahasa kan diaorg ni.. suker2 dia jerr kan?? Cuba laa all of this happened back at my previous office. For sure dah kena baling kasut dah dgn bos. hahahahah...

Most of the students in the hall are my students.. students ni pun satu.. at first I was sitting with all the ladies and terpaksa laa beralih kat depan coz guest speaker dtg kan.. and apa lagi...Kanak2 unta yg guys ni pun tepuk laa tangan... Ms Nur..Ms Nur ( siap panggil nama tu.. amat laa malu skali).. glamor skit pun ader..cuba laa jgn panggil nama...lengsing kang... siut jerr kan...


Overall, the talk was okey-okey.. At least students got some info abt their career in communication.

* sorry .. the quality of the pic x so good ( ambik dgn hp tu.. so laa x elok kan..usually turns good, ade laa tu masalah teknikal)

Cultural Event

My class at 10pm was cancel this morning coz of Cultural Event at the college. We as lecturers not even know about the event and only got to know fr the students. Its happened before and I dont know how the system goes here. At least give a memo as circulation to all the people and people will know whats going on in the college.

Some of the arts & sculpture display

Well, when the classes are cancelled...kanak2 unta mula laa melangkah kaki panjang ke cafe and senyumnya lebar ke telinga. Am I right? Of course I am..

The culture event started at 10 and all of the students will be gathered at the hall. This was the second time for me to attend the event at the college...last time Tourism Event and this time Cultural Event.

There were some VIPs and tak tahu sapa pun and what I always notice diorg ni sure akan jemput polis as a VIP ( may be ketua pengarah polis kat situ laa kot). Pelik kan? ?? and for sure yang VIPs akan pegang tongkat tradisional diaorg laa.

The good things about their event was they started with reading Quran. One man will sit on the chair kat atas pentas tu and mengaji Quran. Mak oiii..suara..menusuk tulang2 ku !! Serious... mengemang bulu2 roma i okey!!

A man was reading Quran during the opening

The inauguration ceremony, the Dean did that... masa Dean naik stage, students ( guys) menjerit2..ntah apa2 laa diaorg ni..dgn buat bunyi2an yg cam kat konsert tu.. sabor jerr laa. Allu .. x respect langsung diorg ni kat VIP. Really ..like a concert!! Biasa laa budak2 unta ni bab2 cam ni suka sgt lerr...

Dean with his opening speech

Well, semuanya in Arabic and Ana Lak Paham. Then got 2 poems from 2 students and one poem was in English ( baru laa Ana paham). The last one was performance fr a group of students. Menari2 sambil bwk senapang ( takut betul tersasar kat I yg duk barisan ke 2 fr front) and bwk pedang yg panjang tu. Serious scary!! Mana laa tahu silap2 tersasar kat Ana ni..hehhhe.. Well, it was enjoying performance. Lama laa jgk diorg ni duk bergedik2 kat atas pentas tu..its their culture dance I guess. These are some pictures taken for your view honey:

Towards the end of the performance and event, dtg laa 3..4 people came to give drinks and food. They will served drink in a very small cup and we need to share the cup between each other. Bleh? Sabor jerr laaa... cuba laa bwk byk2 cawan kecik molek tu kan? Again, thats their culture. The food was a sweet.. tak tahu laa nak explain cam mana. It looks like wajik ( alah, pulut yg manis tu...aaa cam tu laa manis yg giler2 nyerr manis and for sure nyerr kalau abis mkn satu dulang tu terus masuk CCU). 2 guys will carried the dulang and bring to everybody and sesapa nak makan sweet tu ambik jerr dgn jari...euw!! dgn jari? Kalau Ms Clorox ..for sure dia x ambik kan..yalah mesti dia rasa byk bakteria kan? pelik betul laa kan.. Yeah again..thats their culture. Sweet tu adalah makanan wajib yg perlu ada di setiap majlis. No spoon okey, must take it using your fingers!!

The traditional sweet called Omani Halwa




One of the English Lecturer tried the sweet

Thats all for the cultural event... aaaa nak tahu, meh laaa sini nak gossip ni. Citer td tu serious skit kan? Yang ni ..nak gossip laa plak. ( If you are not interested...plz stop reading and if you are interested plz continue... AMARAN KERAS!!! ( amaran tu..ahaks)


Tahu tak, in the middle the event, sapa dtg??? Guess laa dulu abang2 ..kakak2..adik2.. aaaaa tepat skali.. Ms Clorox you!! Terkezut i.. dgn sunglass nyerr yg besar bagai nak rak( x bukak2 tu event dah dlm hall). She was looking for the place but at my line there was no empty seat and terpaksa laa dia duk barisan depan bersama2 angkatan lelaki. Hahahhah... nak gelak pun ader..selamba badak dia jerr duk depan dgn kaum2 Adam..x pernah dibuat orang pun. Tahu tak?..so laa jahat...I pun derrrr jerr kat dia...kononnya nak balas dendam laa... kononnya laa kan.. tapi manusia seperti I ni x reti nak berlakon2.. alih2 senyum jgk laa kat dia ( x brapa ikhlas senyum tu)..x baik kan??

Tu laa sapa suruh maki2 I ari tu? Sapa suruh marah2 bagai nak rak pasal rezeki ?? Geram laa ni..x abis2 lagi tu... Bila dah abis, semua org gerak nak kluar dewan...I pun x tahu jerr u..biar laa dia..marah laa kononnya (padahal baru jerr tadi buat2 senyum x ikhlas)..and ader org panggil I... (nik nurjai...nik nurjai..) ..NIK NURJAI adalah nama yg dipanggil oleh Ms Clorox. Nama I yg elok2 pun jd x brapa elok.. Mak oiii bila dgr dia panggil...so laa terkezut wehh.. yelah ingatkan x nak dah bertegur I. Bukan kerr marah gilerr keee sbb bagi bakteria kat anak dia ari tu?? Lupa lak nak tanya.. "Are you sons still alive??" Geram laa a tu.. Jgn main dgn mulut akak ni.. bila geram segala sampah sarap akan kluar okey!! So watch out!!!

Tak nak laa menghampakan Ms Clorox kan..so dgn senyum2 x brapa ikhlas I pegi laa jalan2 blkg dia and of course laa buat lambat2 jerr jalan..Tak kuasa okey nak ckp dgn dia.. lagipun dia jalan kat depan dgn one of the lecture.. So I ader can laa nak larikan dia dr dia. So x baik keee buat cam tu? Tak baik ker? Salah i ker?? I still mad at her okey... so jgn nak salahkan i okey???

Ni rasanya dah terkluar dr topic kat atas tu..Nak berciter nyerr pasal Cultural Event tapi dah terpesong ke Ms Clorox plak.. Cam mana tu?? Sapa nak jawab!!! Tak tahu...???

Tu laa sapa suruh baca sampai abis.. kan dah tambah dosa bersubahat!! hahahhahahah