Some of you have known that I had become one among the many victims of the flood that hit Kelantan last December. I was also among the lucky ones since the flood that hit my housing area quickly subsided before it had the chance to go higher than the floor of my house. An inch more and it would have. For the safety of my children, I took them to my cousin’s house to spend the night. It became two nights so that we could be sure that the water was really receding.

Here are some photos taken the day after:

Today is the first day of school here in Kelantan and also in the Terengganu and Kedah. Along and Kak Ngah are both back in their school uniform and Kak Chik joins them this year by entering the pre-school class at the same school. Wish I had taken a picture of her in her uniform but wasn’t able to since I myself was busy getting ready for work.

Had a rather long assembly this morning at school. It has been almost two month of holiday and the admins have quite a handfuls to say to the students so it wasn’t really surprising. Also, finally got the first timetable for this year’s school session. Couldn’t really blame Ustaz Zaidy on the delay. The school got 7 new teachers and 4 of them had reported in only yesterday. There’s no way he could have expected that. What perplexed me though is out of the 7 teachers, we got 2 Early Childhood Education teachers and 1 Special Needs Education teacher. The last one is rather obvious since there are kids with learning impairment in Kemahang who missed out school  but the first two are not. Early Childhood Education teachers are normally reserved for pre-school classes at primary schools, not a secondary school. Probably all the posts at the primary schools have been filled and as a last resort, they had to be placed in a secondary school. Whatever the case, we welcome them into our fraternity.

Till the next entry.

Angah has a graduation ceremony today. I’m so proud of her. Her pre-school teachers had recommended to the school to accept her into Year 1 next year even though she’ll only 6 years old then.

Here’s a number of pictures that I managed to snap:

That’s all for today and thanks for visiting.

The Ministry of Education has posted next years school’s calendar. I post them here for your perusal so that you can better plan your family vacations or other special events that may involve your children or family members that are tied to the school for the whole year. I’ve also included the Public Holiday schedule for both states and national level.

The first two is the school calendars for schools in Kelantan, Terengganu and Kedah (Kumpulan A) and the rest of schools in the other states (Kumpulan B). The next two images are the public holiday according to states and also Persekutuan. As usual, click on the calendars to view them in large mode and click the Close X button to return to normal viewing.

Just came back from a well deserved break with the extended family at Pantai Melawi, Bachok. My sister had reserved us 3 rooms with a local resort operator. Even though it was just for one night, it had helped me unwind. The weather wasn’t really cooperative though. It drizzled when we first got there but the kids didn’t mind at all. It was only after the Jumaat prayer that I allowed them to go down to the beach. Along didn’t waste anytime engaging in his favourite activity at the beach, building a sandcastle. I didn’t bring along my camera with me so Along’s masterpiece wasn’t captured for posterity.

This was the second time for Afif to come to a beach. As was with the first time, he was still afraid with the waves coming up the beach. But he had fun running up and down the sands. I really wish I had taken my camera along but I was afraid that it would get wet in the rain.

As for Angah, Achik and Adam (their cousin), they had swell time playing in the waves. Of course, I had to gave them stern warnings not to go too far from time to time.

All in all, the kids had great a time before I called them in later in the afternoon.

We had brought along some marinated chicken meat and Yusri, my brother-in-law had gone out later in the evening to buy some fish and prawns. We were after all just a stone throw away from Tok Bali, the fishing industy capital of Kelantan. Then my uncle and his family showed up with some more fresh prawns and we had a simple BBQ that night. Simple but really appetising and delicious. We then settled in for the night except for my uncle and his family which headed back home since he had to go to work early the next day.

Rain poured down heavily during the night and this morning. We made up our mind to pack up and head on home, since it would be pointless going to the beach in this weather. The waves also seemed a little bigger that yesterday’s. The kids were disappointed of course but understood the reasons why. All the way home, it rained.

Here are the pictures (click on any to enlarge):

Till then, assalamualaikum and bye.