So, we had Mr Nazri for Professional Development lecture today and tomorrow. Boy, he was funny! Not in terms of giving lecture, but in terms of changing people’s name.

‘Let me have your name list and I will call you out. ‘Ainur Rahman. Where are you?’
(crowd laughing, including the owner of the name) ‘It’s ‘Ainur Rahmah, sir.’
‘Oh, ‘Ainur Rahmah binti Ellias? Yes.’

‘Fatimah (long pause, everyone is eager to know which Fatimah he is referring to) Fatima Anne Sebastian.’
(crowd laughing again, since everyone expected the other Fatimah)
‘…………….’ (Anne expressed her opinion)
‘Thank you, Fatima and Sebastian. I think Anne should be spelled as A.N.D and not A.N.N.E.”

‘Lim Tow Suan, what do you think of this?’
‘……………..’ (long explanation)
‘Oh, good. You should really change your name to Lim Tau Semua.’

Haha. OK sir, I think you are really funny.

By the way, this is the same Mr. Nazri who interviewed me in 2003.

‘Focused skill is like having a boyfriend. You can’t teach two focused skills just like you can’t have two boyfriends at the same time.’ (on the teaching of four skills in English language classrooms)

‘Elaborate with examples. For those of you who lack of English, huraikan dengan contoh.’ (on Professional Development assignment)

‘We can work together because I’m an English educated man.’ (on collaboration/working together between the HEP and Cohort 2 students)

‘OK, your reading is not bad after all.’ (during Professional Development tutorial)

‘We have loss our statute and prestige because we have teachers like you!’ (on teaching being a profession)

‘Haa, yang itu, dah sampai Marjon.’ (during Islamic Civilisation lecture, of which I fell asleep)

ainee: u igt x quotation i smlm
ainee: apetah
ainee: psl bintang2
alinyussuff: bile kat langit bersinar, masuk kebumi jadik batu
alinyussuff: amende ntah
alinyussuff: gitu la
alinyussuff: the wall tu atmosphere
ainee: erk
ainee: hahah
ainee: saintis habes
alinyussuff: ye le
alinyussuff: u ckp tu semua smlm
ainee: i rase boleh apply
ainee: utk perempuan yg put her position high above
ainee: and those yg telah gagal meletakkan dirinya di darjat yg tinggi
alinyussuff: ape?
alinyussuff: anytime buleh jatuh?
ainee: jadilah batu buruk yg tak berguna
alinyussuff: explainnn
alinyussuff: yeah
alinyussuff: ok paham
ainee: good girl
ainee: sila caruk2
alinyussuff: yg batu pon sbnrnye leh bersinar
alinyussuff: auuuwww
ainee: hikhik
ainee: no star can shine with a broken heart
ainee: so fix your heart
ainee: yeah

Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are?

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UPDATED

Ainee managed to recall her quotation from last night.

‘Bintang bile kat atas langit cantik bercahaya, bila dah jatuh ke bumi jadi batu yang tak berguna.’

Pesanan dari penaja (Ainee jugaklah),

‘Jadilah bintang di langit. Jangan jadi tahi bintang’