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Today I lost two GC friends. Something I was totally not ready for. Why oh why didn't they apply for the next level? Have they lost the...

Muharram is here- a new year and a new beginning! The second holiest month in the Islamic calendar is surely significant enough to make th...

HRMIS is giving me problems tonight and so I've decided to blog instead. Felt a little sad today when a teacher whom I only got to kno...

(credit: google images) I wish that the New Year turns out to be a very special one for you  filling each day with peak of ...

Friends come in all kinds of shapes and sizes: big, small, fat, lanky...skinny, you name it. As we grow, we realise it becomes less import...

  “Hasbunallahu wa ni`mal Wakil’: حَسْبُنَا اللَّهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ Allah (Alone) is Sufficient for us, and He is the Best ...

In August, I flew business class to Kota Bharu for a meeting for the first time. It was a Malaysia Airlines flight and it was my first ti...

Is this an acceptable  reflection after a revision class? By the inspectorates' standards this would be way off the mark but I'm w...

As I pen down my thoughts tonight, I am thinking of one particular issue related to education. One of the things I realise that is happe...

Going through another phase again? No!! Yes!! Feeling bored with routine and trying to break that routine. Say what? Another project? New ...

I have no quarrel with exam techniques. As a young teacher I conducted many talks...to be honest, they were a training ground for me. As a...

I've been very quiet for months! Been coughing for nearly a month now but on the road to recovery i n sha Allah . Been struggling to k...

Dallah Taibah Medina Approximately 36 hours from now I shall be on Saudi Airlines en route  to Madinah Al Munawarrah for the pilgrimag...

They say age is just a number. Is it really? A young teacher said to me pretty directly one afternoon, "You're old." Yes...

Date: 25th February 2013 ( Monday) Venue: PICC, Putrajaya Alhamdulillah ...I received the appointment letter for Guru Cemerlang Gred K...

20th January was a special day for all of us in the family- Adibah, my only daughter got married to Hayat. Both of them have moved to KL n...

This Sunday, my only daughter, Adibah, and my eldest is getting married! And I will be a mother-in-law to Hayat, a young man who works ...

Tomorrow is the last day of the academic calender and I'm so looking forward to the hols...I can't wait! It's time to take tha...

Scene One: Teaching impacts lives... I recall one female student in particular back in the 90's...when I was a teacher in SM Sa...

What I'd really like to do today is to get back to my herbalife routine and the gym!! What after four days of hotel food...you just bi...