SCHOOL'S OUT

It was rather quiet in the library this afternoon as the school holidays have begun. Only Naqib came to do his revision and Puan Khairah came to read the newspapers. Later Ustazah Roslina came with three of her children as she has some work to complete.

LEAVE THE FRUITS ALONE

The calabash plant in the Fruit Garden is bearing fruit and I have put up a sign to remind people not to pluck the fruits as we wish to dry the fruits eventually to make into water gourds. The first few water gourds would be kept so that we can use their seeds for replanting next year.

CIKGU RAZAK'S LAST DAY

Clocking out for the last time
See the sad look on his face

Cikgu Razak's punch card

Cikgu Ishak bidding farewell to Cikgu Razak

Picture with Puan Siti Arfah for momento

LIBRARY IS OPEN DURING HOLIDAYS

The school term may have ended for the year but the library will be open throughout the holidays. Form 5 students can come here to do their revision. The staff and teachers can also make use of the library as Puan Asiah will be working as usual. Ustazah Roslina, Puan Bazuaniza and I will be coming on and off to complete our work for the library as well.

SPRAINED ARM

I sprained my right arm a few months ago while trying to uproot a dead plant from the Herb Garden. Ever since then I have been having pains in that arm. The injury would heal after I take medicine or go for massage but then I find that arm get sprained again.

This morning Puan Latipah, our lab assistant, helped me massaged my sore arm. Hopefully I will heal completely.

CANTEEN HELPER

Puan Ros is the canteen helper who is in charged of preparing drinks for the teachers and students during school days. Besides that, she is also the one who does the calculation of the bill for the teachers besides Puan Rohana and Encik Salleh.

MORNING ASSEMBLY

Our Form 5 students who are boarders attended a brief morning assembly this morning which was held at the school field. Puan Siti Arfah and Cikgu Wan were the two administrators who addressed the students.

LAST MINUTE TUTORING

Before Sharveen went into the examination hall to sit for his SPM EST paper, he went to Puan Kamariah's room to ask her to tutor him on some of the questions that he was unsure of. He is the only candidate in our school who is sitting for this paper.

PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS

At around 1.15 p.m. all the lights went out in our school. There was a blackout and we had to carry out our work in darkness. The lights only came back on at 3.45 p.m.

HISTORY CREATED DURING HISTORY PAPER

I am sure that all our Form 5 candidates will remember this day very well as they had to answer their History Paper II without lights or fan from 2.00 p.m. until 3.45 p.m. this afternoon as there was a blackout. History was created during the History paper. How poetic!

A SUB LEFTENANT COME A-VISITING

Puan Siti Arfah had a visit from Sub Leftenant Madya Wan Mohd Afiq bin Wan Mohd. Sallehuddin who was a student in our school from 2004 - 2005. He had no idea who I was and neither did I recognise him as I was reading for my Masters degree full-time during that period.
I was told that Afiq was the best National Service Trainee for his batch and we keep a record of his achievement in our school gallery. It seemed that Afiq who is attached to KD Indera Sakti of the Malaysian Navy went with his younger sibling to get the UPSR results today and dropped by at his alma mater to visit our Master Principal.

TO DO LIST

Puan Zainura and Puan Asmariza were discussing about the things that were listed in the To Do List given to the teachers at the end of each school year. The checklist would include things that teachers need to hand in to the office before they go for the year end holidays and also tasks they need to complete.

GETTING HIS CERTIFICATE

Kalairasan came to get his Sijil Penghargaan as a librarian from Ustazah Roslina in between English language papers this morning. There are a few more boys and girls who have yet to come get their certs.

GOOD BYE AND GOOD LUCK CIKGU RAZAK

Cikgu Razak will not be with us next year as he has gotten a transfer to Sekolah Menengah Teknik Lebuh Catur. This is actually his last day here in STESMA as he has to go to Ipoh for some official business tomorrow.

INJURIES

As far as I know two of our students who are sitting for the examination have injuries because of accidents. The boy above from the vocational stream fractured his leg. There is another boy from the technical stream whose right hand is injured. And we have a girl who is sitting for her examination in the hospital because she has a back injury.

DAY 3 OF SPM EXAMINATION

This morning our students sat for their English Language Papers 1 and 2. Some approached the students approached Puan Kamariah and Miss Cheah to ask for confirmation about the format for directed writing. For your information, quite a number of our English language teachers are invigilating the SPM examination in other schools. Those involved are Tuan Haji Ahmad Hasnin, Puan Fatihah, Puan Hafizah and Cik Irma Suriani. Cikgu Sabri as usual was checking the body temperature of everybody.

LAST EXTRA CLASS FOR 5JER

Only 4 students came for my extra class tonight. This is because a few of the students wanted to do revision for Sejarah and a few were sitting for their examinations in other centres and are not staying in school.

DAY ONE IS DONE

All our students safely sat for the Bahasa Melayu Papers 1 and 2 and Sejarah Paper 1 today. Tomorrow they will be sitting for the two English Language Papers an Sejarah 2.

BETTER ALREADY

Cikgu Ishak Salasa was down with the red eye disease or conjunctivities last week. He is much better now but his eyes are still a bit reddish.

EX-STUDENT

This is one of our former students from last year's batch. She had come to school to get some documents and was going to the staffroom to see some of her teachers. Our girl is in Form 6 now.

SPM BAHASA MELAYU PAPER 1

Immediately after the students finished sitting for first Bahasa Melayu paper, Puan Khairah and Puan Bazuaniza were busy looking at the question paper to see whether what they taught had come out. From their happy faces, I could tell that they would have discussed quite a number of the questions that came out today with their classes.

STILL ANOTHER 8 MORE TO GO

This afternoon Asri came and got his Sijil Penghargaan from Ustazah Roslina. There are about 8 more who have yet to come claim their certificates. We are waiting for them to come.

RETURNING LIBRARY BOOKS

Immediately after they finished their History paper, these two boys returned the books that they borrowed from the library to do their revision. I guess they thought that it was best to give the books back to Puan Asiah instead of keeping the books until the end of the examination. Then they might forget to return the books and will have to pay a hefty find when they come get their SPM results next year.

REPAIRING ELECTRICAL DEVICES

The spring for the starter of one of the air conditioners in the library has come out and so Encik Sukri came to check on the damage. He will be repairing it soon.

DO THE BEST, BE THE BEST, YOU'RE THE BEST

"Do the best, be the best, you are the best", are inspirational words usually spoken by our Master Principal, Puan Siti Arfah Ibrahim, when addressing the teachers and students during the assembly or meetings. It is these very words that express the hopes of all the teachers and staff of Sekolah Menengah Teknik Seri Manjung for our Form 5 candidates for their SPM examination.