PHYSICS PAPER

This morning the students in the technical stream sat for the Physics paper. I was informed that Cikgu Ishak Ismail, the Head of the Physics Department, was supposed to be on duty this morning but had gone back to Kuala Lumpur to attend to his late wife's funeral preparations. He had asked Cikgu Jalaluddin to take over his duty. I heard from some of the teachers and staff present that Cikgu Ishak was in school yesterday afternoon. He must have gone to see if his students needed last minute advice for the Physics paper. He got the bad news late at night. Later, Cikgu Jalaluddin sent him to the bus station to catch the 1.00 a.m. bus that left for Kuala Lumpur.

Many of the students whom I talked to outside the examination hall told me that they were informed about the death via sms last night. It seemed that some of the students had received the news from their seniors.