Still in Penang

Tak jadi balik Cyberjaya semalam sebab ingatkan takde tempat merempat. Tub Tub pukul 4 lebih Kim msg cakap dah dapat bilik kat hostel. Haih. Bazir duit tiket bus RM 35 je. Takpelah, mungkin RM 35 is the price I have to pay to spend some time with my sister. Oh, btw saya sangat happy sebab dapat bilik ground floor and kat HB3 pulak tu. Lega sikit tak payah naik tangga. Berkotak-kotak barang nak kena angkut.

My sister baru balik from MRSM semalam. Dah lama tak spend time kat rumah dengan adik. Bila saya cuti, dia tak cuti. Bila dia cuti, saya pulak tak cuti. Cuti MMU kan pelik. Selalunya nak lain dengan orang. Semalam adik tanya dah tengok Prince of Persia belum. Dia nak belanja. Baiknya adikku. Terasa seperti saya pulak yang adik.

Walaupun kakak dah tengok Prince of Persia, takpelah kakak teman adik pegi tengok. Kesian Ejah, kalau kakak tak teman, sapa lagi nak teman kan. Ejah belanja movie, nanti kakak belanja makan okay? Walaupun duit pun agak sengkek sekarang. Tapi tak kisah, sebab bukan selalu dapat spend time dengan adik.

Oh and adikku cerita, Add Math dia agak teruk. Cikgu Add Math dia cakap, sapa yang dapat 70 and above je yang akan diajar, yang below 70 tu, cikgu dah taktau nak tolong macamana. Panas hati aku dengar ayat cikgu camtu. Cikgu apa ni macam ni? Cikgu dibayar untuk mendidik murid-murid. Lagi-lagi yang lemah. You gotta find a way to help your students, to motivate them. Teringat dulu time nak SPM, cikgu-cikgu takde pun pilih kasih macam ni. Cikgu math memang buat macam-macam untuk improve students' achievements. Macam-macam program buat. And honestly, it helped a lot. Panggil cikgu pakar datang ajar, buat latihan sama-sama, buat soalan buku analysis tu. Students dibahagikan dalam group kecik-kecik. Yang pandai akan ajar yang kurang pandai. Honestly, I always got bad grades for my Add Math throughout form 4 and form 5. No matter how hard I tried, asyik dapat low marks. But I never gave up. Bengap2 macam tu pun, my teachers never gave up on me. And alhamdulillah, I got A1 in Add Math for SPM.

To cikgu-cikgu MRSM Balik Pulau, tolonglah jangan buat students macam ni. Don't give up on your students like that. It kills their motivations. Even if they're slow, doesn't mean they can't score. You're paid to teach. Jangan bajet kau tu hebat sangat nak pilih-pilih students. Yang dapat 70 and above tu tak bermakna akan mantain 70 in their SPM. We'll never know kan? Haih, sakit hati. Kepada adikku, I hope you don't give up kay. I've been there, I know how it feels, just hang in there and don't give up kay? Prove your teachers wrong.

Kakak sayang adik,
Faridah