Reading .. reading ... baca baca

Malam tadi saya mengajar anak membaca. Teacher nya kata naureen masih kurang dalam bacaan bahasa inggeris. Dalam kelas, naureen mmg pandai .. melukis berbakat... menulis cantik tulisannya, pengenalan nombor sudah mahir ... independant katanya... cuma reading kurang sekiranya dibanding dgn rakan rakan yg lain. Katanya lagi, rakan Naureen bernama Kaseh sudah pandai membaca..dalam bahasa inggeris. Sebutan pun betul.

Jadi emaknya malam sudah nekad supaya naureen mahir membaca dalam bahasa inggeris. Oh mmg speaking in english sudah fasih ...70% lah .. ada setengahnya dicampur aduk dgn bahasa melayu. Tetapi Reading masih kurang... to me .. I would rate her as less than 40%. Mula jam 8.00 pm tadi, Naureen pun ambil QDees Reading Book Number 1, mula mula penambahan vocabulary .. mengeja cat, hat dan mat .. kemudian mula membaca ...

Who is this
This is Ritty
Who is this
I am Ritty
Who is this
This is Alzy
Who is this
I am Alzy
Who is this
I am Naureen
Who is this
This is Whizzy
Who is this
This is Bubbly

Perkataan di atas di baca berulang ulang .. sehingga Naureen boleh kenal ... sebutan. Inilah caranya belajar bahasa inggeris.

Kalau Bahasa Melayu ... naureen sudah mahir dua suku kata .. tapi sukar mengingat suku kata pertama ...
sudah tahu mengeja .. GIGI, MATA, BUBU, MEJA, DADU, SUDU, PIPI, MAMA, ATUK, API, IKAN, SAYA, DADA .. kena selalu diulang supaya tidak lupa.

Kami ajar secara tradisional .. old school .. formula baru membaca pada kami (emak, anim and myself) rasakan tidak berkesan. Pelajar patut mengenal huruf terdahulu kemudian sebutan.. Zaman sekarang terbalik..itu yg terjadi masih ramai yang masuk Darjah satu tetapi tidak tahu membaca...

My target - end of 2010- naureen perlu mahir membaca dalam bahasa melayu.. end of 2011- mahir membaca dalam bahasa inggeris.

Sekolah ... nak hantar naureen ke sekolah mana? Abah kata .. boleh daftar dah .. sebab dah 5 tahun...
Emak sarankan hantar IIS ... abah tak kisah .. janji belajar agama. Saya pula suka SRK Taman Setiawangsa yang merupakan sekolah contoh Zon KL...ttp malas la pula nak hantar sekolah agama pula .. membebankan anak... Jadi saya mungkin ingin cuba masukkan Naureen ke Sekolah Al Amin di Gombak. Saya tanya rakan ... mereka kata nak masuk Darjah 1 di Al Amin bukan senang. Ada saringan ... pelajar perlu ambil ujian .. Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Inggeris, Iqra dan Jawi. Selalunya daripada 200 penyertaan .. hanya separuh yang dapat masuk kerana kelas yg dibuka hanya 3. Mereka amat menjaga kualiti pelajar dan mengambil yang bagus sahaja. Saya termenung kejap... Naureen Insyaalahh .. bahasa tu OK. Hmm .. jawi baru belajar sampai Kho ... Iqra belum lagi .. baru belajar baca doa.

Ini belum lagi abah tanya bila nak masukkan Naureen ke kelas mengaji.... Aduhhh pening .. peninggg....
zaman sekarang tak macam dulu ... semua nak kena advance .. kasihan pula pada naureen.. kalau tak dibuat nanti ketinggalan.... aduhhh aduhhh

Happy as a honey bee..

This morning.. I received an email from Dear Hubby ... he said he sent a wedding anniversary present and its due to arrive today! Whatt??? I told him not to buy anything but he was quite adamant and to post it was a risk. What if it got lost en-route? It did happened to Naureen's birthday gift .. I remembered checking DHL tracking and saw that the present was wrongly sent to London instead of Kuala Lumpur. Even big companies screws up :-).

Well .. I waited and waited. My friend then told me that there's a package at the counter. I didn't check the recipient address and started tearing up the plastic and box. I was expecting a watch that Dear Hubby had couriered. I got a shock of my life when the content of the box was unveiled. Oh man it was funny! 6 pieces of Wifi antennae!!! I was getting confused and thought of calling DH enquiring why he posted a wifi antennae.. was he trying to joke around??? Then my friend suggested I checked the label... waduh . waduh ...the sender was not from Saudi Arabia but from a company in China. Saya sudah salah buka itu kotak!!! Dahla kotak hancur .. macam mana ni?? nak minta maaf pada siapa ni?? So I opt for emailing the whole office that I accidentally tore up a box containing something which does not belong to me... maaf ya ! :-)

My package did arrive late that evening. Dear Hubby was telling me to take a picture of my hand with the watch .. I laughed like crazy ... my answer was NO.. come home in June and see the watch in person .. Thank You pumpkin .. I love it alot .. I showed it naureen .. and she was brimming with joy .. "Mama its beautiful" Then she started looking for her watch and wore it until she slept.. Yep .. She is now on my bed sleeping soundly with the watch on her right hand wrist.

Okay got to finish up a proposal. There's a meeting tomorrow and I need to present a paper...

*** New Phase of my life ****

Well guys .. just want to let you know that 1 1/2 months ago, I attended an interview for a scholarship to pursue a full time Postgraduate study locally. Then, three weeks ago, I received a letter from MOHE informing me that I have been selected to receive the scholarship from MOHE but I have to make sure that my study will commence by the end of 31 December 2010.

Prior from receiving the good news, I submitted the application form to UTM and InsyaAllah, I'll be receiving the offer letter to attend Graduate School in April!!!

What would be my next step? Apply for study leave for 1 year.

hmm come December .. i will bid "sayonara" to everyone at ITD.

Sometimes I do feel a bit worried on whether i'll be able to pull it off? I mean it has been part of my career path to obtain a Master's degree and a PHd before I turn 40 but then its been ages since i stepped into a lecture hall. 9 Years to be exact ... will i pull it through??? Insyallah ... make dua for me people!

Excited to the core ..ME!

Zee Avi's Bitter Heart