Minta Derma Bas Sekolah

Assalamualaikum! Pagi tadi pak haji pergi berjumpa dengan orang-orang korprat sebuah syarikat multi-nasional. Tujuan Pak haji pergi temujanji itu sebab nak pohon derma sebuah bas untuk sekolah kami. Dengan bilangan murid yang meningkat lebih 40 orang serta purata tambahan 2 orang setiap bulan, kami mengahadapi masaalah pengangkutan. Selama ini Pak haji mengangkut pelajar-pelajar menggunakan Hilux nya, kereta anak-anak yang kecil-kecil dan van jiran yang baik hati. Tiap malam pak haji berdoa agar ada hati yang akan terbuka untuk menderma Van atau Bas kepada sekolah kita. Semoga doa pak haji dimakhbulkan. Ameen!

Semalam mak teh tersangatlah 'touched' apabila kawan baik mak teh, Mazz yang sedang menunggu kelahiran cucu pertamanya telah menyatakan beliau sudah mencadangkan (menyatakan keinginannya) kepada anaknya bahawa bayi cucunya itu akan di hantar ke sekolah kami. Alhamdulillah ! Ada juga kawan yang pandang begitu tinggi terhadap usaha-usaha kami. Ye lah! Mak tehpun bukan nak rekomen apa-apa. Tetapi melihat keadaan dunia sekarang rasa mak teh sekolah jenis MTAQSA ini lah yang akan memberi sebaik-baik pembelajara ilmu dunia dan akhirat. Wallahua'lam !

Dan apabila bercadang nak hantar anak-anak ke sekolah jenis ini, hantarlah anak-anak yang pandai nescaya mereka akan jadi orang yang berguna di masa hadapan. Bayangkan dimasa hadapan anak cucu kita menjadi pemimpin yang bijak pandai seorang professional atau ulamak yang berpengetahuan luas. Alangkah bahagianya kita. Pendek kata kalau matipun boleh pejam mata! Baguskan?

Mak Teh Yang Letih

Assalamualaikum! Hari ini mak teh tersangatlah letih. He, he, kalau anak-anak buah mak teh dengar ni tentu mereka akan kata, " Namapun mak teh tentulah letih!". Nak tahu kenapa mak teh letih sangat hari ini? Awal pagi lagi rutin mak teh macam biasalah yang pernah mak teh ceritakan dulu tu. Selepas mengajar iaitu pukul 11 am mak teh pergi beli buku-buku dan alat tulis tambahan untuk 3 orang pelajar baru. Kemudian balik makan lunch. Lepas tu pukul 3 pm pergi K.L. bawa pelajar-pelajar baru lelaki, (satu dari Temerloh, satu dari Raub dan satu lagi dari luar Negara orang putih) tempah jubah uniform sekolah kami. Dah sampai K.L. tu sambil pergi beli keperluan lain untuk mereka dan yang di order oleh pelajar-pelajar perempuan.(Oh ya, pelajar perempuan yang latest addition adalah dari Kemamang, Ganu) Kemudian lepas maghrib pergi Giant beli roti dll untuk breakfast.

Selepas Isya mak tehpun berehatlah, sedang berehat itu, mak teh hairan tengok anak-anak yang berkerja (dari K.L.) pulang awal. Selalunya mereka pulang lewat malam. Rupa-rupanya mereka telah mengaturkan mesyuarat keluarga untuk membincangkan mengenai majlis yang bakal dilangsungkan. Itulah, dahlah mak teh penat sehari, mereka suruh mak teh join mesyuarat mereka pulak. Penat lagilah kepala mak teh ni, banyak nak difikirkan. Nasib baik mesyuarat berlangsung atas katil mak teh. Bolehlah mak teh rehat-rehat sambil beri idea. Mereka telah melantik Kin sebagai wedding planner dan Ude sebagai designer and Zed pula sebagai co-ordinator majlis. So mak teh dengan Pak Haji keluarkan belanja kenduri dan jadi host sahaja. Yang lain mereka akan uruskan. Alhamdulillah! nampaknya tak sia-sialah mak teh dan Pah haji melatih mereka dari kecil lagi handle functions yang selalu kami buat zaman dahulu.

Mak teh baru dapat tahu rupa-rupanya mak teh ni ada ramai juga silent follower yang baca blog mak teh ni. Selepas entry yang baru lepas tu, adalah beberapa orang yang telefon mak teh excited mengucapkan tahniah sebab mak teh nak menerima menantu. Kemudian mak teh dapat warning dari anak-anak iaitu friends mereka dan saudaramara BB pun baca blog ni. So mak teh kena lah hati-hati apa yang nak ditulis. Alahai, mak teh ingatkan orang tak baca blog mak teh ataupun orang tak kenal mak teh pun.

InsyaAllah, inilah senarai yang akan bersama rombongan mak teh on 1st may nanti: pertama mengepalai rombongan sebagai spokesman ialah Datuk A and Tok Puan J ( my husband's cousin and wife ), kemudian Second Brother and SIL, then younger sister and BIL follwed by husbands youngest sister and BIL, then my good friend Mazz and my good neighbour Kak Z, then Tok Su and son and daughter, then our family members (11 less Yana n Lia n the BP, jadi 8 ). I received the feedback (after I wrote in last entry saying that we will be bringing 7 dulangs ), that we are supposed to bring 5 dulangs only for the bertunang. However according to my family tradition we always bring 7 dulangs,(my grandma had always insisted that we bring 7 dulangs for such occassion. So in this case the other 2 we will bungkus je, no problem, tradition can always be adapted to the local condition. He, he,jangan marah )

I hope whatever I have written in my blog would not have caused anybody to be upset or any misunderstanding. Please take it with humour and in good nature! Thank you for following my blog!

Tepak Sireh Mak Teh

Assalamualaikum! Sudah lama mak teh berangan nak terima tepak sireh. Namun sampai sekarang belum lagi ada rombongan berkunjung dengan tepak sireh kerumah mak teh. Jadi mak teh pun ambil tepak sireh yang dirumah ini sediakan untuk berkunjung kerumah sahabat yang tinggal di Bukit Jelutung. Baru dok siap-siap tak berkunjung lagi. Malam tadi mak teh SMS BB mak teh dan mereka bersetuju nak menerima kunjungan dari rombongan mak teh pada 1hb Mei ini. He, he, pendek cerita mak teh akan terima menantu lah tak lama lagi! Mak teh berdoa semunya akan berjalan lancar sebab anak bujang mak teh tu pun dan mencapai umur 30 tahun. Rombongan mak teh akan membawa 20 orang entourage dan membawa 7 dulang sahaja. Kata mereka yang dah tengok BM mak teh tu , kalau mak teh berjalan dengan dia orang akan kata dia anak mak teh. He, he harapnya tanda sejuk (bagus) pehubungan dia dengan mak teh nanti. Tarikh nak buat majlis ni belum tahu lagi. ( Sila hubungi kalau nak anda di jemput sebab rasanya kami tak akan buat besar-besaran kut) Yeh! yeh! kita nak pukul kompang.

Sesiapa yang baca ini dan rasa terlepas peluang nak jadi BB mak teh, janganlah keciwa sebab mak teh ada 8 orang lagi yang bolih anda datang masuk meminang ( tak kisah lah nak pinang yang anak bujang mak teh pun boleh ada 3 lagi, puteri ada 5 lagi, semua bagus-bagus macam mak mereka, he, he, he!)

Guru Idaman

Pak Haji sedang mencari seorang Guru Kanan, seorang yang berkelulusan Master atau equivalent degree (Al Azhar). Kami dah jumpa orangnya tetapi dia teragak-agak nak join sekolah kami. Reason dia pernah kata suatu masa dahulu bahawa dia malu ( tak tergamak) nak menerima gaji dari kami yang berusaha membuka sekolah ini. Pertemuan pagi tadi dengan beliau membuat kami amat teruja sebab beliau tidak menyambungkan perkhidmatannya dengan majikan sekarang. Lalu saya berdoa (diaminkan oleh pelajar-pelajar Ting 2) agar beliau join sekolah kami. Sekiranya beliau masuk mantap lagilah sekolah kami. Semoga Allah akan membuka hatinya untuk menjadi warga MTAQSA.

Pagi tadi, 2 pelajar baru dari luar Negara telah datang mendaftar jadi pelajar sekolah kami. Mereka adalah 2 beradik, nenek mereka saja yang berasal dari Malaysia. Pendek kata mereka kelihatan asing dari segi rupa paras dan memang bertaraf kewarganegaraan asing. Awal2lagi kami telah memberi amaran kepada pelajar-pelajar lain supaya tidak memandang asing terhadap mereka ini. Pelajar-pelajar juga telah diberitahu agar tidak mengejek, mengacah membuli atau menyakat mereka ini. Esok mereka akan masuk asrama dan mula belajar.

Lepas Cuti Sekolah Buka

Assalamualaikum! Lepas cuti 4 hari sekolah kami pun buka, masuk asrama Sabtu, kelas mula hari Ahad. Alhamdulillah semua pelajar-pelajar masuk semula tak ada casualty nampaknya setakat ini. Hanya seorang murid baru yang masuk lepas CNY ni, seorang lagi kami tak ambil dan 2 orang lagi kami expect besok atau lusa sebab mereka datang dari jauh nun seberang laut. Pelajar yang baru masuk ni namanya AR ibubapanya Dentist. Kesian dia! Sebelum ini dia telah dihantar ke sebuah sekolah swasta yang kurang standard sikit. Konon cerita di sekolah itu, makan hanya 3 kali sehari dan macam-macam lagi cerita yang menyayatkan. Tak baik lah saya nak coretkan hal tu disini nanti orang ingat nak burukan sekolah orang pula. Anyway masa dia datang tu nampak jelas dia telah mengalami trauma, matanya berair dan keadaannya nervous. Jadi kami telah cadangkan dia balik bercuti dirumahnya selama seminggu. Itu lah lepas CNY ibubapanya hantar masuk sekolah kami. Hari-hari ( dah 2 hari) saya pantau keadaannya, nampaknya dia dapat menyesuaikan diri dan makanpun berselera. Pak Haji obsrve AR pandai main bola sepak dipadang petang tadi.

Keadaan diMTAQSA adalah vibrant dan riang. Nampaknya pelajar-pelajar dah settled, mereka berlumba-lumba menghafal dan aktif semasa kelas subjek akademik. Pelajar-pelajar saperti Helmi, Azim, dan Izzat (sarawak) dah tak sebut nak balik kampung malahan mereka nampak tertib dan jinak dengan Pak Haji. Aniq dan Azreen, walaupun ada-ada je sebab kena denda (pushup or ketuk ketampi) mereka masih happy selalu je bertanya itu dan ini pada kami. Ramai lagi pelajar yang lain amat menyenangkan hati kami saperti Firdaus ( Brunei), Arham Irhami, Jawad, Fakhri, Ariffuddin and the girls sangat menyejukkan hati so far so good! Hati kami bahagia bila dengar ibubapa yang membertahu bahawa anak-anak mereka suka belajar disini. Ada yang tak sempat-sempat nak balik semula hari sabtu lepas cuti tu.

Hari ini saya semakin sibuk dari biasa menguruskan kotrak Dobi yang baru. Perkhidmatan Dobi dahulu tidak memuaskan ibubapa sebab uniform jubah putih pelajar tidak kelihatan putih berseri-seri. Ada lagi perkara lain yang ibubapa komplen jadi terpaksalah kami cari kedai dobi yang baru. Lain padang lain belalang jadi saya kena sediakan laundry basket dan plastic bags untuk perkhidmatan dobi baru ini. Kami juga kena ambil dan hantar pakaian ke Kedai itu. Jadi nampaknya makin bertambah sibuklah saya dan Pak Haji. Ni sedang nak cari pekerja all rounder yang boleh jadi driver, gardener and assistant sekali gus. He, he, siapa yang layak bolehlah fon mai sini. Jangan marah noooo!

Our Relatives

When I was young my grandmother introduced me to strings of relatives. They were mostly grandma's anak buah (nephews and nieces) and hoards of cousins from all sides. When I got married, my husband and I both come from big families ( 9 siblings on my side and 12 from his side ). So logically speaking our children would have hundreds of 1st and second cousins. When we were a young couple we went everywhere visiting relatives, uncles and aunties and cousins. We cared for our relatives a lot that we were the one that went round visiting them. It did not matter if the visits from them were rare or they came only when we invited them for functions. We never made that an issue because we thought we were the lucky ones, we had the time and means to go around. When the fruits season came, we distributed the fruits collection from our dusun to reachable relatives. When we went visiting places eg Cameron Highlands we made sure to bring back some fresh veges as buah tangan ( we love giving gifts. I hope this is not mengungkit which will nullify my pahala). Actually I just feel like telling this story) We were then economically sound that we would have several makan-makan functions in a year. We love doing kenduris, BBQs and celebration each year until our economy slowdown some years back.

We do not entirely blame the others about the presentlack of social intergration, we also blamed ourselves. Now we do not visit some relatives anymore, because we do react to some peoples action towards us. With great care that we do not cut out the relationship outright or 'putus the sillaturrahim' which in Islam is a serious wrong doing, BUT we do not go all way put to visit some people or do everything to please them. Lately my mother sounded her displeasure towards me, telling me that people who putus sillaturrahim will not smell the syurga! I felt hurt but Pak Haji quickly told her mother-in-law that we never do that, its just that we do not go all way out to meet or to please people who had gravely hurt us. Well, they may have their own reasons for doing those things to us but WE WERE BADLY HURT.

Then we changed our lifestyle, for two reasons, first we have not much rms to flaunt to do all the functions, second we embrace a more Islamic lifestyle. We do realise that most people will love to associate with successful people. So we can't blame our relatives if they rarely come to our place these days because we do not do funtions like before.

I am not prepared to tell about what had really happened now, suffice to say that the emotional hurt nearly killed me! (And they said they did not do anything!!) So my poor children have less uncles and aunties to visit and less cousins to romp around with.

However I still hold fast to the beautiful memories of my happy young days with my relatives cum friends. Yes I still remember the days romping around the village with Pak Uneng Din, Pak Anjang Badi, Mak Tam Siroh, Mak Andak Solehah, Mak long Nur,( they are mothers cousins around my age) playing in the river and playing hide-n-seek around the kampung. I still fondly remember my stay over at grand-aunt Chu Timah's house during school holidays. I love her children like my own aunt, they are Mak Lang Tiah, Mak Ngah Wailah, Mak teh Faizah, Mak Andak Solehah and Pak cik Budin. I love staying at their place becauce their house were in the middle of sawah or padi fields (vast open space) while my own kampung has different atmosphere being ar the edge of a pondok settlement (crowded settlement)They in turn love to stay over at our place due the the difference in enviroment.

Our School Short Break

Assalamualaikum! Yesterday, our school let the students go home for the monthly short break (4 days) which coincide with the CNY. For the new students, this is their first 'balik kampung or balik rumah' break since they joined the school on 1st January 08. Parents as well as the children looked very happy to be reunited! Parents started arriving at 3.00 pm. and the last one came at 6.00 pm. We then locked the hostel building and looked forward to have our own break. For Pak Haji and me the feeling of relief as well as tiredness sets in at the same time!

I gave myself a treat by going to the Pasar malam nearby. I bought satay and Yong tau foo and told the maids to cook light dinner. Of course after eating those things I had little appetite for dinner, so I slept early. I woke up later to watch the late news. I was feeling a bit relax and let my mind wonder elsewhere other than the school.

This morning woke up at 6.00 am which is later than usual. I also skipped my morning walk, he, he. I wanted to feel relaxed and carefree! However that situation did not last very long, for soon after breakfast, Zed reminded me to have a look at the hostel's rennovated new dinning area which has not been use as yet. We have to improve it so that rain would not wet the area and that we have to put the tables. We also have to see to the extra beds to be made available for the 4 new students coming after CNY. I have yet to crack my head where to put up the extra beds. Well, well, a job has to be done, has to be done! So there will not be much rests afterall. Luckily this is the kind of job Pak Haji and I love to do.

Then my mind began to wonder to if only.....If only we have a bus to transport the students, Pak Haji won't have to make many trips with his Hilux transporting the students to mosques, library, swimming pool, tahlil invitation etc.... If only we have a lot RMs, we could buy that piece of land to build the asrama and other, facilities..... If only we could build our own complex...... beautiful!! wonderfull!! Insya-Allah! All things are within Allah's knowlege and Authority! Who knows Pak Haji's dream to develope the school into a Higher Instituition may come true not so far off in the future. Semoga Allah makhbulkan! Ameen! Ameen, Ya Robbul'aalamin!