Assalamualaikum! Semalam dan pagi tadi SMS di terima menyatakan kembalinya ke rahmatullah Dato Haji Ishak Baharom. Blog lain dah mencoretkan mengenai Tokoh ini. Jadi saya akan cerita apa yang berlaku pada kami sahaja. Saya telah mula English class for Form I pagi tadi, tiba-tiba nampak Pak Haji (Pengetua) bergegas ke Ting 2 kelas sebelah. Kemudian nampak the boys berderet turun ke bawah blok bangunan. Lepas tu Pak Haji masuk kelas saya buat pengemuman mengenai bekas Mufti Selangor meninggal dunia akan di kebumikan di Makam Di Raja Shah Alam. Pak Haji ajak/ mengarah kami semua seluruh warga MTAQSA pergi ke Pusara mengiring Jenazah dan menyaksikan pengkebumian. Tanpa lengah kami semua bergegas turun ke bawah. Girls pun nak ikut sama jadi kamipun berhimpit-himpitlah naik transport Hilux Pak Haji bawa ke pintu masuk jalan nak naik ke Pusara.
Setiba kami di situ keadaan jalan Persiaran Masjid sangat sesak. Kelihatan ramai orang yang berjalan kearah Masjid Negeri dan juga Ke Pusara. Kami berjalan kaki naik ke kawasan Makam Di Raja yang terletak di atas bukit bertentangan Masjid Negeri. Tidak berapa lama kemudian kereta jenazahpun tiba. Upacara pengkebumian di jalankan dengan segera dan berjalan dengan lancar. Cuaca yang mulanya mendung kian panas. Nasib baik saya dan pelajar-pelajar MTAQSA berada dibawah khemah, kerana kami datang kesitu agak awal juga. Namun saya lihat orang-orang lain yang berdiri dalam panas tidak berganjak seincipun sepanjang upacara pengkebumian, bacaan talkin dan tahlil sehingga doa-dao tamat di baca olih Timbalan Mufti Selangor. Bacaan tahlil dan mengamin doa-doa bunyinya bergema kuat dikawasan pusara itu.
Dalam pengalaman saya, inilah upacara pengkebumian yang sempurna dan teratur dan indah diiringi oleh ramai muslimin dan muslimat yang datang ikhlas bukan kerana pangkat simati. Maka tidaklah salah lah kalau kita buat kesimpulan bahawa arwah tersebut mendapat rahmat besar dari Allah SWT.
Semoga Allah mencucuri rahmatNya keatas roh arwah Dato Haji Ishak Baharom!(seorang yang berani menjalankan tugasnya) Ameen! Ameen! Ya Robbul'aalamin! DariNYA kita datang kepadaNya juga kita kembali!
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
My Daily Routine
I wake up about 5 am to prepare for the subuh prayers and the sunat night prayers if there's time.( Sometimes Pak Haji is up much earlier) Then do the sunat fajr and the subuh prayers. After subuh read a few pages of the Quran. Then have a little breakfast. Then I walk down the hill to the school with the students (girls). While walking briskly we say the zikir in low tone ( Subhanallah, Walhamdulillah, Walaiallaha illaallahu wallahu Akbar!). In about 10 minutes we reach the school gate. The girls cross the road into the school compound. When I see that they are safely in, I walk a little further down the road towards the Pasar. By then my son will pick me up to deposit me at the pasar. I will have about 1 hour to do my marketing. My husband or son will pick me up from the pasar about 8.30 am.
Then I will sit down for breakfast with Pak Haji while glancing at the papers. Meantime the maids have prepared the ingredients for the students makan to be served at 10.30 break.(eg today the menu is Mee Goreng). When the maid announced that the igredients are ready, I will go into the kitchen to cook the item on the menu for the day. Having done that I will get dress up for school to teach the students Bahasa Melayu or English. I have an hour of classes everyday from Monday to Thursday.
After class, we (Pak Haji and I) will go out to do purchasing, banking, pay bills etc. Then come back for lunch, check E-mails, pray, rest and take a nap 3-4 pm. Wake up, check the food preparation for tea and dinner. At night Pak Haji and I usually knocked out early! Sometimes we wake up again by 11 pm. Pak Haji will go out to the hostel to check on the boys or to met out punishment if there's any wrong-doings by the boys earlier during the day. I checked on the girls and then we sleep again by 12.30 after the late News.
Friday is my rest day! I am at leisure especially when the all the boys and men go to the mosque for Friday Prayers. Saturday is my marketing day for bulk purcase at Pasar Besar Klang while Sunday is my purchasing day at the Giant Supermarket. Sometimes we feel very tired but Pak Haji and I are both happy doing this job. Syukur Alhamdulillah!
Oh! It's now time for my Beauty sleep ! Bye....
Then I will sit down for breakfast with Pak Haji while glancing at the papers. Meantime the maids have prepared the ingredients for the students makan to be served at 10.30 break.(eg today the menu is Mee Goreng). When the maid announced that the igredients are ready, I will go into the kitchen to cook the item on the menu for the day. Having done that I will get dress up for school to teach the students Bahasa Melayu or English. I have an hour of classes everyday from Monday to Thursday.
After class, we (Pak Haji and I) will go out to do purchasing, banking, pay bills etc. Then come back for lunch, check E-mails, pray, rest and take a nap 3-4 pm. Wake up, check the food preparation for tea and dinner. At night Pak Haji and I usually knocked out early! Sometimes we wake up again by 11 pm. Pak Haji will go out to the hostel to check on the boys or to met out punishment if there's any wrong-doings by the boys earlier during the day. I checked on the girls and then we sleep again by 12.30 after the late News.
Friday is my rest day! I am at leisure especially when the all the boys and men go to the mosque for Friday Prayers. Saturday is my marketing day for bulk purcase at Pasar Besar Klang while Sunday is my purchasing day at the Giant Supermarket. Sometimes we feel very tired but Pak Haji and I are both happy doing this job. Syukur Alhamdulillah!
Oh! It's now time for my Beauty sleep ! Bye....
Sunday, 27 January 2008
My Two Daughters in Middle-East
I have two daughters in the Middle-east, Lia in Irbid Jordan and Yanna in Cairo, Egypt. They have been sending me SMS about their coming August holidays. I told them of my plans that Bapa will be sending Ally to Cairo by June. (Insy-Allah Ally will be doing Al Quran in Syubro a faculty of the Al Azhar University) So may be I could follow as well and spent sometime with Yanna, then visit Lia in Jordan. I told them that if that plan work out then they should cancell their plan about coming home to Malaysia. They both quite agree with the idea and Yanna is looking out for a place to house us in while we are there. Lia is looking forward to our arrival in Amman.
When the other members of the family heard about this plan, they all want to follow. I said "Ok, but expenses are on your own!" He, he, mummy has no extra Rms to spend on them. Three of them, ie, Kin, Amal and Ude are already working, earning reasonable income.
In 2005, we had gone on holiday, the whole family, 10 of us, Yanna in Cairo, Lia flew in from Amman (except for Amal who was in UK). We did Egypt, then did the Umrah. We really enjoyed the Umrah that the children said that in the future for holidays get-together with their siblings, it should be in Makkah and Medina doing the Umrah again. Then we all went back to Cairo, after another week in cairo the children went back to their respective destinations while Pak haji and I continue our journey to UK for Amal's convocation. Then we came back to Egypt for another week and went home after nearly 1and half months away for the whole trip. Naturally the whole trip costs us a bomb! So for this one I am not planning to spend a bomb for the second time!
For this trip I hope to do Jordan, Syria and Turkey. For the 2005 trip we could not do that sector because we found out plane tickets were not available. It seems that during summer a lot of American, British and European tourists fly into Jordan to spend their summer!
So Lia and Yanna do pray for Bapa and Mummy to be able to make this trip, so that we all may go to Syria and Turkey as well. Mummy will try to keep fit for all the intended travelling.
Who is going to look after the school? No idea yet!
When the other members of the family heard about this plan, they all want to follow. I said "Ok, but expenses are on your own!" He, he, mummy has no extra Rms to spend on them. Three of them, ie, Kin, Amal and Ude are already working, earning reasonable income.
In 2005, we had gone on holiday, the whole family, 10 of us, Yanna in Cairo, Lia flew in from Amman (except for Amal who was in UK). We did Egypt, then did the Umrah. We really enjoyed the Umrah that the children said that in the future for holidays get-together with their siblings, it should be in Makkah and Medina doing the Umrah again. Then we all went back to Cairo, after another week in cairo the children went back to their respective destinations while Pak haji and I continue our journey to UK for Amal's convocation. Then we came back to Egypt for another week and went home after nearly 1and half months away for the whole trip. Naturally the whole trip costs us a bomb! So for this one I am not planning to spend a bomb for the second time!
For this trip I hope to do Jordan, Syria and Turkey. For the 2005 trip we could not do that sector because we found out plane tickets were not available. It seems that during summer a lot of American, British and European tourists fly into Jordan to spend their summer!
So Lia and Yanna do pray for Bapa and Mummy to be able to make this trip, so that we all may go to Syria and Turkey as well. Mummy will try to keep fit for all the intended travelling.
Who is going to look after the school? No idea yet!
Saturday, 26 January 2008
Meet The Students' Parents
This morning at the market I met adam's mother. When she greeted the salam to me, I was blinking trying to figure out who she is. When she saw that blank expression on my face, she introduced herself as adam's mother. I smiled and apologised and she understood that with so many new students I could not know all new students' parents at this juncture. Then adam's mother told me that she will be bringing bubur kacang for tomorrow's tea. I thanked her for that and for informing me early so that i don't have to prepare food for tomorrow's tea-time. She further informed me that her son is happy in our school. Of course I am happy to hear that!
Yesterday morning azim's mother met me at the subuh prayers at the masjid. She purposely came all the way from Alor Setar once a fortnight to be able to do the subuh sujud sajaddah prayers and stay till saturday afternoon when she could take her son out for few hours. (parents visiting day is once a fortnight on saturday after the asr prayers)
Hakim's parents who have a cattle farm in Johor have often brought few kilos of beef when they came visiting their son. They also readily hand in financial support when we are in need. (Hakim is a senior)
Elisa's and syimir's parents are model parents. They are very enthusiastic about their childrens' education, have full confidence and faith in what we are doing and gave us all the support, financial and moral which we really need !
Fakhri's mother will follow the events that we are doing in school and she will do all the sunat prayers and fasting and doas that she knows her son is doing in school. And to think that she was the one who apposed Fakhri's enrollment into our school because she could not bear to be separated from her only child.
Not all are such star parents! There's one or two that I would not like to mention here. Insy-Allah with my past years experience, my interview for next year's intake Insya-Allah, I will not make mistake in choosing star students as well as the parents!
And by the way we will start interviewing for 2009 intake in august as soon as after the UPSR exam based on the trial exam result. So look out if you are interested for your children or anak buah.
Yesterday morning azim's mother met me at the subuh prayers at the masjid. She purposely came all the way from Alor Setar once a fortnight to be able to do the subuh sujud sajaddah prayers and stay till saturday afternoon when she could take her son out for few hours. (parents visiting day is once a fortnight on saturday after the asr prayers)
Hakim's parents who have a cattle farm in Johor have often brought few kilos of beef when they came visiting their son. They also readily hand in financial support when we are in need. (Hakim is a senior)
Elisa's and syimir's parents are model parents. They are very enthusiastic about their childrens' education, have full confidence and faith in what we are doing and gave us all the support, financial and moral which we really need !
Fakhri's mother will follow the events that we are doing in school and she will do all the sunat prayers and fasting and doas that she knows her son is doing in school. And to think that she was the one who apposed Fakhri's enrollment into our school because she could not bear to be separated from her only child.
Not all are such star parents! There's one or two that I would not like to mention here. Insy-Allah with my past years experience, my interview for next year's intake Insya-Allah, I will not make mistake in choosing star students as well as the parents!
And by the way we will start interviewing for 2009 intake in august as soon as after the UPSR exam based on the trial exam result. So look out if you are interested for your children or anak buah.
Friday, 25 January 2008
Nasi Goreng Day
For our students one of the highlight of the day is the morning tea-break at 10.30 everyday. They look forward to the tea-break where they have their favourite menu. For breakfast we give them bread and eggs plus butter, jam and kaya. Eggs are served as scrambled, omellette or 3/4 boiled. Some morning they are served with tuna and baked beans and on Sundays Nasi lemak is served.
This morning tea-break they had nasi Goreng, which is much sought after. Tomorrow they will have bubur nasi daging (delicious but difficult to cook as it takes time) or sphagetti ( delicious but expensive ingredients). When sphagetti is being served I had to ask the helper ( whom the students called bibik ) to do the serving or else you will find that the last few in the queue will have none left. On Sundays they get mee goreng, mondays roti jala with chicken curry, tuesdays freid bihun with sotong, wednesdays mee kuah hailam special, and thursday koay teow mak aji special.
It is interesting to note that when they go for the 10.30 tea-break, they had to perform the Sunat Duha Prayers first, you will find that they hurriedly perform the sunat prayers and then make a beeline to queue for the tea-break food. I love to watch over to see how they enjoy their food. It makes me happy to see them eating well with great appetite. No need for anyone to say Mak Aji is a good cook. Looking at how they enjoy their food in evidence enough! And it is very satisfying!
This morning tea-break they had nasi Goreng, which is much sought after. Tomorrow they will have bubur nasi daging (delicious but difficult to cook as it takes time) or sphagetti ( delicious but expensive ingredients). When sphagetti is being served I had to ask the helper ( whom the students called bibik ) to do the serving or else you will find that the last few in the queue will have none left. On Sundays they get mee goreng, mondays roti jala with chicken curry, tuesdays freid bihun with sotong, wednesdays mee kuah hailam special, and thursday koay teow mak aji special.
It is interesting to note that when they go for the 10.30 tea-break, they had to perform the Sunat Duha Prayers first, you will find that they hurriedly perform the sunat prayers and then make a beeline to queue for the tea-break food. I love to watch over to see how they enjoy their food. It makes me happy to see them eating well with great appetite. No need for anyone to say Mak Aji is a good cook. Looking at how they enjoy their food in evidence enough! And it is very satisfying!
Thursday, 24 January 2008
The School Assembly
Last week we had our first school assembly. It was a proud moment for Pak Haji and me. After 2 years of struggling trying to establish the school, we now have a school assembly. We will have the assembly once a fortnight on a sunday morning (our first day of the week) The students take their marching position in rows and then to the order of their commander, turn aroud to face us the teachers and staff. First, the students sang Negaraku, then the Asmaulhusna.( the names of surahs in Al Quran as a song, to be added as the third song later in future assemblies ). The Pengetua then addressed the assembly mentioning how proud he is of his students who has shown good behaviour especially in public and that they are to always matain such examplary behaviour. Then the decipline teacher spoke and then lastly one of the ustaz said the doa and the assemly ended.
The assembly reminded me of my school days when I was a prefect and I did my duties with full responsibilty. Sometimes during assemblies one of the prefects had the duty to raise the flag when the National anthem was sang. So, in the case of our present school, we have yet to put up the flag post!
The assembly reminded me of my school days when I was a prefect and I did my duties with full responsibilty. Sometimes during assemblies one of the prefects had the duty to raise the flag when the National anthem was sang. So, in the case of our present school, we have yet to put up the flag post!
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
Of Swimming, Archery and Marching
Todays cocurriculum activity which starts at 5.30 is marching (usually on Thursdays) The boys enjoy this marching activity sometimes with Pak haji as the Commander. Today they will learn to march to the beat of a drum. They start from the school compound and march along the neighbourhood streets, then they will march uphill and come round in front of our house. When passing infront of our house, they will make a point to shout loudly, as loud as they can, shouting left, right! left, right! They enjoyed doing that and when I heard them coming I would go out and waved at them with my thumbs up! He, he, he! . It does not matter that at that time I happened to be in the midst of cooking their dinner!
Another activity which the students love is swimming. They are so enthusiastic about it that you will find them performing the asar prayers with the swimming suit under their jubah. Then as soon as they finished the doa they took out the jubah, put on normal clothings on top and raced to the waiting Hilux to transport them to the swimming pool. They did not even bother to have their tea first. Swimming is once a fortnight. The boys' swimming day is Monday and the girls' swimming day is Wednesday. The girls have beautiful, colourful bourqini ie swimming suit for muslim ladies which covers the aurat.
Of course, the other favourite activity is archery. Archery is on saturday 8.00 -10.00 am. They have to do their workout for warming up first. Then they will assemble the equipments and lined up to have their turn aiming at the target butt. There are a few seniors who are already preparing to go for competetition! We hope to win a few championships, Insha-Allah.
Another activity which the students love is swimming. They are so enthusiastic about it that you will find them performing the asar prayers with the swimming suit under their jubah. Then as soon as they finished the doa they took out the jubah, put on normal clothings on top and raced to the waiting Hilux to transport them to the swimming pool. They did not even bother to have their tea first. Swimming is once a fortnight. The boys' swimming day is Monday and the girls' swimming day is Wednesday. The girls have beautiful, colourful bourqini ie swimming suit for muslim ladies which covers the aurat.
Of course, the other favourite activity is archery. Archery is on saturday 8.00 -10.00 am. They have to do their workout for warming up first. Then they will assemble the equipments and lined up to have their turn aiming at the target butt. There are a few seniors who are already preparing to go for competetition! We hope to win a few championships, Insha-Allah.
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