Anak Nelayan

I watched Buletin Utama 12 March 2009 on www.tv3.com.my while I was cooking our lunch today.

It is so nice that for once the main news is not political. It was about the SPM result.

The best student in Kelantan is a girl, Nik Nur Madihah from SM Agama Maahad Muhammadi , KB who obtained 20As! (I took 10 subjects, it was hard enough).

Her father is a fisherman. Very humble looking fisherman.

When her father was interviewed, he just said "Saya sangat gembira, saya bersyukur Allah beri kejayaan pada anak saya, yang hanya anak seorang nelayan"

If you look at his face while he was saying this, you wouldn't see a tiny bit of pride or arrogance; just pure humbleness and gratefulness, almost sad maybe. Don't know what was on his mind.

When the girl was interviewed, she said "saya gembira kerana tidak menghampakan harapan ibu bapa dan guru2 saya"....not something like "saya gembira kerana dapat membuktikan kemampuan saya" or "saya gembira kerana berjaya mendapat bilangan A terbanyak di Kelantan dan seterusnya dinobatkan pelajar terbaik"

You can see that although she is only the daughter of a fisherman, she was brought up really well.

Well done parents of Siti Nur Madihah!

Then the news announced that the highest achievers are 3 students who obtained 16A1s. Two of these students were from SMJK Yoke Kuan, Sekinchan, Selangor. But surprisingly the name of the school was only written on the screen, nobody went there to interview the students or teachers. Surely the school deserves more attention now that they have produced two 16 A1s? TV3 went to SMK Taman Melawati instead.

Then I stopped watching the news and listened to Radio Era at www.dvrplayer.com. DJ Reza was interviewing Mawi. I think Mawi's new song 'Sujud' is quite nice, although it was the first time I heard it. Then Mawi said it was written by KRU, well, no wonder! I'm a big loyal fan of KRU's works.

Speaking of Mawi, I suddenly remembered that I have a new blogger friend that sells 'tudung Ekin' and 'tudung Fareeda' on her blog. They are very very fashionable indeed and I intended to buy 1 (or 2 or 3), but need to see her new collections first. So to all Muslim women of UK, visit Malabiswear Shoppe and see for yourselves! It will be delivered to your door.

Then Adora Svitak (the 10-year-old who is older than me) accepted me as her friend in her Facebook circle.

Then we got a free double bed and mattres from Manchester Freecycle for our new unfurnished home. Quite a nice one, clean modern design (selamat 200 pound!-rezeki baby).

Then I left a comment in the most recent entry of Tun Mahathir's blog on PPSMI.. aaahhh...what an achievement! God bless you Tun!