teacher aini zahariah

Today, at first, I thought about writing some book reviews that I found interesting on goodreads. I was thinking to paste some poems or lines of the book.

Mengapa dia berharap kepada selain Aku ketika dirinya sedang berada dalam kesulitan?
Padahal sesungguhnya kesulitan itu berada di tangan-Ku dan hanya Aku yang dapat menyingkirkannya.
Mengapa dia berharap kepada selain Aku dengan mengetuk pintu-pintu lain padahal pintu-pintu itu tertutup?
Padahal, hanya pintu-Ku yang terbuka bagi siapa pun yang berdoa memohon pertolongan dari-Ku... (hadist qudsi)

Di setiap udara yang kau temukan
Di sana akan kau jumpai Allah
Yang senantiasa mendengar doamu...
-Asma Nadia, Catatan Hati di Setiap Sujudku.


Then I changed my mind, I was thinking to write about Dato’ Zaid, about how much he made me admired him when I read at malaysiakini . The figure of Takuya Kimura, wearing a suit, potraying the role of Asakura Keita somehow made a flash on my mind. I admired so much Asakura Keita for his sincerity and when he admitted the wrongdoings his late father did who was also a politician. The scene of him bowing his head in front of people was something I never forget. Asakura Keita will remain as my favourite politician-in dream, not in reality. Anyway how many politicians will actually admit he’s wrong doing?

Now, I change my mind again. I’m going to write about my English teacher at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Penanti-sebuah sekolah kampung. I studied there from form 1 till form 5, oh I did leave the school for one semester to study at boarding school when I was form 4 but then I came back to SMKP. And this teacher, only this teacher, Cikgu Aini Zahariah did ask me why I leaved that boarding school. Was I being bullied? Oh no teacher..I just found that I didn’t like those strict rules there-had to straighten your bed, had to leave dorm at this time, had to do this had to do that. Haha.. being me who was always pampered by mom who was also a housewife-who did my laundry, who drove me to school and fetched me, who did this and that..Ohoho. Besides, I had internet at my home and I could watch tv whenever I liked. So, living in boarding school was like a hellprison to me at that time. Haha.

Teacher, I did search you on facebook just now but I couldnt find you. I did find En. Jamal-the KH cikgu, Ustazah Nor Azah, Cikgu Aishah -chemistry, Cikgu Lela -LK but not you. I guess you must be busy and have no time for fbing.

Teacher, do you know when I was form 3, I won the English essay competition without sending any entry? I was so surprised when the emcee at our weekly school assembly announced my name as the winner. I was liked, is that my name being calling out? The emcee repeated my name few times before I went up to get my prize-the first prize for English essay competition. It was actually my friends who convinced me it was my name as I was so blur and kept thinking how come it can be my name when I hadn’t write anything. Later, my gut feeling told me, it was you who chose me to win becouse you teach me English when I was form 3, and you evaluated me on my English essay homework. The prize I won- a round shaped lime green wall clock, my mom hang it on wall at kitchen. Haha..oh ya, my mom also hang my kerja kayu KH on kitchen’s wall. Wonder why all my things I did/got at school must be at her kitchen..May be becouse I seldom helped her out kat dapur kot. Haha. And yeah, later I found out this situation of me winning competition without sending any entry was like Ada Apa Dengan Cinta the movie, I was like Rangga in that movie-he won poem competition when it was actually the cleaner at school who did send the poem for him.

When I was form 4, you teached me English again. At this time, I joined your choral speaking group, a competition at Sekolah Jit Sin. Nothing much I can remember about the competition, if I’m not mistaken, the title was something about cancer-melanoma.

Oh, when I was form 3, you used to ask me to read an article out loud in front of the class. But all I did was read it with rather slow voice and very quickly sebab nak cepat habis. And you did comment, amboi lajunya. Haha. When pmr result was out, I got A for your subject and you gave me a dictionary as present. Well, all who scored As in English did get the same dictionary. Do you know that was the only dictionary that I owned, usually I borrowed my dad’s. I did love the present very much, I put plastic cover to it and was upset when my little sister borrowed from me and got it dirty.

I cant remember was I in form 3 or 4 when you asked me to write journal everyday in English, and you would like to correct any grammatical mistake i would have made. But i never wrote anything to you. Huhu..

When I was form 5, you chose me to enter the English debate team, I was the third debater. At first I was reluctant becouse I didn’t have any experience, you know me, a nerd, didnt talk out loud, how am I going to be a debater. Haha. When Fikri asked me to go to see you myself, to give my reason why I didn’t want to join, really I had no idea what to say. I was absent the earlier day when I was chosen as the team becouse of period pain. Well, my reason was, I don’t want to do things halfheartedly-thats what I told you my dear teacher. Haha. So lame. Then, I knew what situation you were going through. The school had no choice but to form a debate team as it was the first time our school hosted the competition-the m16/m6 english debate compettion. With the competitors were from Convent Bukit Mertajam, BM Highschool, Sekolah Sains Tun Syed Sheh Shahabuddin, Jit Sin was there too I guess, we didn’t expect to win anything. We just need to form group so that taklah malu sangat. Haha. However, our team won the first round-against Sekolah Menengah Alma. One of the jury also chose me as the best speaker ;). Then, we were against Sekolah Sains Tun Syed Sheh Shahabuddin. Ahaha..what did we expect with speaker who used to live abroad. Anyway teacher, it was indeed a good experience to me. I still remember the debate topic-the first round, TV is better than computer-we were pencadang*even tough we won, i still think computer is more better than tv!*. Then, the topic for next round was, advertisement gives more good than bad-we were the opposition.

Teacher, I think I have wrote long enough and need to stop. Its now 3.32 am. If you ever read this, I just wanna say thank you very much. You were a great teacher and still, you are a good teacher to me. Great Teacher Aini Zahariah. May Allah bless you always.

p/s: saya tahu cikgu juga guru perpustakaan maka saya ingin minta maaf sebab selalu seludup keluar English novel-the classic english series tanpa pinjam guna library card. tapi saya pulang balik buku-buku tu. lagipun bukannya ada sesiapa nak baca sangat pun time tu .haha XD. peace!




*gambar hasil carian di google