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Everyone came nearer to me. I told them “Mr. Tan told me that your group had made noise in his class. He was very disappointed of you, because your group had spoilt his well planned lesson. Please give me the names of those who had made noise in the class.” I passed them a piece of paper and a pen. They looked at each other, wondering who was going to write. Then Shu put up her hand, said “I know who.” She wrote down the name and later handed it to me.

She wrote “Tan XX” (it was Mr. Tan’s name). I read it out; it made everyone laughed including me. We had laughed so loudly. I realized that we had attracted the attention of others’. So I said “That is enough girls, stop laughing, we are not suppose to speak Mandarin here, please speak in Malay. What would happen if headmistress passed by. Why did you write Mr. Tan?”

Shu was starting to explain “Do You know that, he is the one who had started talking from the very beginning till the end; he spoke the most in the class. So I considered him the noisiest.” Everybody laughed again.

Thank you for your joke that made me laugh. I like your humour, but anyway I have to handle this since there was teacher who referred your group to me.

I parked my car and kept my mobile phone in the cabinet. Brought along my identity card, driving license and credit card. Residents around this park are considered lucky because it has Tai Ji, Yoga and aerobic classes. All these classes run at the same time in the morning. So, I could only select one, I chose Yoga because I had practiced Tai Ji everyday at another place.

Yoga, however is a very healthy exercise, it stretch ones body, make one slim, and maintains a correct posture. After completing my Yoga practice, I have my morning walks.

Back to my car, nothing strange, the car door keeps locking. When I reached home, I realized my mobile had been stolen. I felt upset. I had not saved all my contact number yet. I knew that I have to do so in case, but day after day no action was taken. I contacted the service center to suspend my SIM card, to prevent any one from using my mobile to make phone calls. Or else I need to pay extra bill for this.

Nobody believed or could imagine that I had spoken bad words. Actually I am not that bad but I am naughty. I replied “Certainly. His mother allowed me to do so since he was born.” It confused him.

When I was travelling in India in year 2004. We had hired a driver whose name is Kenneth. His name, however, immediately occurred to me as a bad word in Chinese. If pronounced it slowly. So every morning, when I got up to the mini bus, I greeted “Kenneth, Kenneth, Kenneth good morning.” Kenneth was smiling happily. When I called his name, I laughed in my mind and thought “don’t blame me, you need some one to scold you, or you won’t feel comfortable.” He would never know…ha..ha..

Kenneth was a very expert driver. Once we passed by a very bad condition road. It was under construction, with stones scattered in piles. The road was so narrow that there was barely any extra space for the bus. It was getting dark. Beside the moon, I couldn’t see anything else. Moreover, no lamp post all the way. Everybody kept silent and looked with anxiety. We were on our way to a small town. It was dangerous to travel at night in India. Tourists were advised not to do so. We had been late because of some delay. In case the bus broke down, I was afraid we might have to stay overnight in the bus. It was possible to get robbed. I looked at Kenneth, he was very steadily, steady and drove calmly. Kenneth, Kenneth, Kenneth, I really respect you.

I do not have any potential to learn any language, but to learn bad words, I could remember immediately. I think if I want to share something good, nobody seems interested, but if I want to share something bad, it would attract theirs’ curiosity.

In this Chinese temple, I saw doctors, nurses and staffs from hospital, most are Malay and Indian, those who were donating blood were Indian and Chinese. It was a very harmonious picture. During the Muslim fasting month, all hospitals will be facing shortage of blood problem, because Muslims are unable to donate blood. They could not have any food and even water from sunrise till sunset. But demand for blood is the same, for accidents, operations and so on.

In this country, we are considered very lucky. When Muslims can not run their restaurant businesses, other races will serve the tourists; otherwise tourists could be starving for food. Long time ago, I had met a Japanese. He told me that he was starving one whole day until he heard a song; actually it is a ‘solat’ prayer in the evening. It was his first visit to an Islamic Country – Pakistan, in Ramadan month. At this time, the police force also should work harder as the crimes may increase. While other races celebrate their holiday, the other races are on duty. Isn’t Malaysia a wonderful country?

I called her at 9.30pm last night; her first sentence was “I am expecting your phone call.” We chatted for about half an hour. Long distant calls are costly.

My family members are very introvert persons. We do not know how to express ourselves affectionately. Instead tell her that I love her, in fact I just said “You are my perfect sister, you cared for me since we were young. You are good in every way.”

I put down the phone and whispered “May god bless you for you are a very kind soul. You have worked as a volunteer for 10 years. You looked after sick people in the hospitals when their loved ones couldn’t spend time with them, gave them love, gave them care. You brighten the days of the orphans with delicious food prepared by you.”

Miss Ng wanted us to review ourselves by answering this question. “What did I add to my students’ lives when I passed through their lives?” I think I have taught them the values of life, of caring and sharing, of encouragement, to be proactive, to be positive, to be confidence, to hope, to dream and leave some room for freedom to express their needs. I think that was a lot I have done in the past few years.

The third command was “blow those who have worn underwear”. That time, most of the audience ran everywhere to change their seats. Some still remained at their seats. The speaker said “I need to check properly if any of you has changed your seat even without wearing underwear.”

This was not my first visit to the colleges. Previously I went with a group of students which organized by my colleague and I. This trip, however, was organised by Education Department of Klang.
The coordinator, Miss Rita, reminded us that, if we wanted to know whether the courses are recognize by Ministry of Education, just found out if they were fully approved by The National Accreditation Board.

“Advance Tertiary College” run A level and Law programmes which twin with The University of London. To my surprise many Malaysian students are able to pass with good grades, 90% and above of students pass their paper.

“The Automobile College” trains skilled technicians. Students spend 2 years studying locally and 2 years aboard in Australia.
We were divided into 3 groups for a game. Each group had to select the model of the car that we liked. My group chose the Mercedes. We were given envelopes which contained labels with name of the parts of the car. We had to label the parts of this car, which are assembled differently from the ordinary car. But where is the battery? We scored 23 points, while others scored 28 and 24 points. Oh my! The battery is located under the back passenger seat. How funny and unexpected! Everybody seemed to enjoy the game.

“Unitar”, has consists of few buildings without much compound. Everything is so small because they do not need much space. Everything is done online, such as announcement, notice, e-book and so on. The college has 7 thousand students. Why? The fees are cheap.

Then we went to “Malaysia Technology Park”. It is fully sponsored by the government. It is a very beautiful big building, with a big compound. It is well equipped, high technology and good amenities. I have never heard of it before because they have never promoted it. Such a waste! The number of students is just 400.

“The one Academy of Art” is a place where creative and imaginative students study. The advertisement that was shows on TV about “The Visa card & James bond 007” was produced by them. It was well done, amusing and amazing idea.

The hosts were excited because never before had a big group of counseling teachers visited them. They tried to show the best they have. So we have to delay our exact schedule. We had 4 refreshments and a lunch. We were supposed to reach Klang at 5.30pm instead of 6.30pm.

We were attending an interview to certify our qualifications by Counselor Board. I wanted to register as a counselor for contribute myself as a volunteer worker in future, when the society needs me. So to enable me to do so and to protect myself, I need to register. I had read through books about counseling theories last night.