Today indeed was a really tired day. A lot of
important things happened in a same day. I would say it is quite a remarkable
and historical day in January. So, let’s start the story with my driving
practice.
Morning just now I received a call from Mr.
Andy, my driving coach. He asked me to go for driving practice. Of course I
said okay immediately. In fact, I had been waiting for his call after such a
long time. I reviewed back my notes and noticed that in average, I will only
having my car driving practice once in a fortnight (literally). We had made an
appointment at 11 am.
But then, around 10 am, he called me again and
asked me to go to the driving institute now if I am free. I guest his previous
learner had done the practice so he called me to go immediately. It is not the
first time also. But I’m okay with that. After prepared lunch for pa and ma, so
I ride my bike and went there.
On the way I went to driving institute, my Weechat
notification sound keep ringing, informing me that someone had start the
conversation there. I only use my Weechat
number when keep in contact with my classmate. So I can smell a rat and fell
that our semakan penempatan is out already. But I just ignored it because I
want to keep my focus to my driving practice.
Well, the driving practice was somehow terrible
and horrible. The coach asked me to drive at road and introduced route A and
route B to me. Oh my god, it is a real road, real cars and people. We drove
through roundabout, junctions, traffic lights, a lot of obstacles along the
road and many more. I was really nervous
since I still cannot control the car steering and balancing my car. And the
coach kept asking me to see the road condition and keep the car straight at
road and in lane. Come on, if I really manage to do these of course I will do
it. But it is just hard and difficult for me now. Of course the car will “die”
once or twice during the practice. But I am glad the coach was quite patient to
me, willing to teach me and not angry with me. Actually my practices only took
around 40 minutes, but trust me, it’s really feels like 2 or 3 hours driving in
the car.
After finished my driving practice, I checked
on my Weechat eagerly. They said most of us and our institute got posted to
Sarawak. I can’t check my posting that time because my phone don’t have extra quota.
So I need to check via computer, or in other words I need to go the library
after this. Although I hope that I will get a posting place in Sarawak, but
somehow I also hope that I will be posted to other states. When filled the
posting form last time, I put Sarawak as my first choice, then Pulau Pinang and
Melaka as my second and third choice.
However, not surprisingly, and no surprisingly,
I posted to Sarawak. They said all of us will be posted to our own states
because the government wanted to cut down the elaun perjalanan and elaun
pengangkutan. Well, I just contented with the result. At least I still got
posting. We will only know which school we are going to teach on this Thursday.
Hopefully my school will be not too far or too “ulu”. At the same time I
actually pray that I will not teach at my hometown. I wish to get a school in
perhaps Kuching, Sibu or Miri. Just cross the fingers and see what happened
next.
Then afternoon just now I had been contacted by
Madam Fam. She was my ex-mentor, during my first school based experience. She
asked some information and resources regarding to her academic from me.
Actually we always exchanged information and resources after the school based
experience. We are actually study the same thing. The only difference is my
course was PISMP and her course is PJJ PGSR. We set a time and place for our
gathering. As a result, we met at 6pm at Sugarban.
Madam Fam treated me a dinner. We shared and
talk a lot about the studies, families and schooling things. Actually I feel
very proud and look up to Madam Fam. Although she already had families and had
a teaching job in school with 30 periods of teaching per week, but she still
manage to seek time to finish her PJJ. Actually it is very hard to balancing
time between teaching, families and studies. But she managed to do it. She
seems like a superwoman for me. I wonder that next time, maybe next year if i
manage to study my master, will I able to balance my time between teaching job
and studies. And it is not include families, dating, and other daily stuffs.
From all this, I can see that time management is really important. Before we
back, she gave me home made Chinese new year cookies to me as a gift. Such a
nice teacher. Hopefully she manages to finish her final semester of PJJ this
year and all the best to her.
To sum up what had happened today, I was
thinking it was actually a new turning point to me. I am no longer jobless and
will start to teach as a teacher perhaps next week or the week after next.
Hopefully I will become a good teacher and able to inspire my students and
colleague. I must make use my time wisely and spent my time on right things.
