Ol Skool n Ol frens by Ainon

Zaidah's nephew

I kat Starbucks KL skrg ni tengah boring giler tunggu bas nak balik Alor Setar mlm ni. I think suma tahu kan yang I balik BP on the 31st utk pegi wedding nephew Zaidah. Mesti org ingat I crazy sebab last week baru je balik ni pegi lagi. Tak lama lagi mungkin balik lagi. Anything can happen. Tapi kalau u all ada baru lah lengkap Geng kita. Ni I adventure sorang2 je mana nak best.

U know I tak sampai hati tak memenuhi undangan Zai so I wakili Geng kita lah utk pegi kenduri anak saudara dia. I dengar suara Zai tu macam burung patah sayap je bila khabaq tak dpt dtg . Sooo..last minute I cepat2 pack my bag beli tiket pun at the spur of the moment and off I went down to BP. Mcm tu lah sayang nya I kat kawan2 sume.

Kenduri tu memang best. I sampai BP at about 12.30 then beli tiket bas balik KL n shopping CD lagu2 oldies Melayu dan English. Pastu naik cab pegi rmh Zai. Geng kita yang ada ialah Adie n her 2 kids, Aminora n hubby, Azimah n daughter, Azmah's parents n Syarifa Norela's son n daughter-in- law. Hidangan nasi beriani dia memang class dan menjilat jari tak mcm nasi beriani kat.........

I was pleasantly surprised ada persembahan Zapin live. Pemuzik dan penyanyinya terdiri dari gang veteran manakala penari2nya terdiri dari two teenage boys clad in light green baju Melayu and a sweet girl in pink see thru kebaya. Very professional performance n I was so mesmerized by the gracefulness of the zapin dances and the enticing rhythm of the music.

Oh ya...about the newly wed couples...depa memang sama cantek n berseri bak pinang dibelah dua. Pengantin pompuan hails from kedah. The couples wore gold coloured Malay wedding costumes. Pihak pengantin pompuan sgt terpesona dengan kemeriahan kenduri kahwin org Johor.

Petang tu pulak Adie amik I ziarah Azimah Ayub di rumahnya. Lepas mandi manda n solat maghrib we all balik. I checked into the resthouse bcoz rumah Zai terlalu ramai orang. Adie n anak dia Mimi balik at abt 9.00 p.m.

And then guess what? Ad pulak datang jumpa I. Kita orang pegi minum2 teh je kat Tasik Y. Pls la u all jgn fikir apa2 pulak. Ad tu very innocent guy. We just sembang2 pasal old time n tasik Y tu la tempat dia n u guys main masa kecik2 kan. Tempat I main2 pulak kat Tasik Merdeka kat rumah I. Di Tasik Y tempat I buat science project bukan tempat dating. At 11p.m I balik resthouse. Baiknya Ad, dah dua kali dia amik cuti to see me.

Selalunya malam pun dia keje. He's so hardworking. Masa I nak balik KL pun dia pegi station to send me off tapi too bad, bas dah jalan. Kesian Ad..

Okay lah kalau nak tahu cerita selanjutnya baca pula email I to Azmi. For your info Zul, Aya masih bercuti kat Dubai, Paris n London. Mungkin skrg ni Aya tengah berposing2 keliling Eiffel Tower. Nanti balik mesti mcm2 citer dia. Hopefully dia sihat. Risau juga I kat dia sbb ari tu dia masih tak berapa kuat lagi.

Yesterday I spent hours at Starbucks replying to Zul's email and I'm wondering why it has not reached the Group's inbox yet. I've forwarded it many times and still failed to deliver. Maybe it will reached later... Anyway I'm not goin to repeat my recount of Zai's nephew's wedding so I'll proceed from where I've stopped.

I skrg kat Kedah..baru sampai. Tadi call Ad sbb dia kata dia di Melaka. I suruh dia pegi tempat salim n also contact Zul. Nampaknya geng kita suma dah berjangkit penyakit Azmah pegi rata cari kawan2 lama. I pun hampir cronic ni sbb teringat kat Azie pulak. I dengar Ad pun nak cari Peng Huat, Muhaini, Azie dll. di KL . Kami bincang ni masa kat Tasik Y baru ni. Tapi kami tak pulak plan nak pegi sama2 sbb masing2 ada program sendiri.

Actually masa I pegi BP baru ni I tak ada agenda pun nak jumpa sesiapa except Zai sbb ari tu sume kata ada hal tak boleh datang. So I terkejut gak bila Adie dtg ngan anak2 dia. Pastu jumpa Azimah, Aminora dll. That night pulak Jumpa Ad kat Tasik Y and the next day jumpa Din n dia bawa I pegi rumah Cikgu Md. Said. Actually dia kata dia kena pegi Melaka ada keje tapi last2 tak jadi pulak dan pegi esoknya.

Cikgu Md Said n wife (Cikgu Patonah)

Cikgu Md Said dan Cikgu Patonah wife dia dua2 sihat wal afiat. I pegi rumah dia on Monday at 9 a.m for one hour. I gave him a copy of our group's reunion photograph and 50 Rial as a Teacher's Day treat. Nak belikan apa2 tak sempat nak shopping sbb sumanya tak dirancang.

Tak sangka Cikgu Md Said n wife dia dua2 active dalam penulisan. Infact diaorang dapat pingat for their contributions in their research n writing for journals n books. InsyaAllah tak lama lagi dia akan publish buku pengalaman dia sebagai seorang guru. Salah satu research yg Cikgu Md Said buat ialah tentang Asal Usul Kaum Banjar. Rahilah might be interested because she's doing research on the Bugis People. I guess Rahilah is now in Indonesia for a week for this purpose.

Din (hometown reps) n Cikgu Md Said with wifey

Cikgu Md Said nampak betul2 happy masa kami datang. Syukur dia sihat dan panjang umur. Dia banyak citer pasal all his ex-students dn pengalaman jumpa mereka. Dia tanya I about you all sume so I citerlah serba sedikit. I pun citer pasal mendiang Kesavan. I pun tak sangka mereka kenal my Aruah mak dan ayah tiri. Dua2 Ex teachers. Kegemaran Cikgu Md Said ialah reading the newspapers and he keeps all his favourite articles in his albums. After the Tsunamy Tragedy in Acheh, they went there to witness the aftermath of the disaster and wrote a memoir of it in handwriting. .

We were served with some hot aromatic Jasmine tea and some goreng pisang, kueh keria and curry puffs.. Last Hari Raya, cikgu Md Said kata ada lebih kurang 50 org bekas pelajar termasuk keluarga mrk datang ziarah dia tapi dia kata dari batch 1976. I was wondering if Azmi was among them. Tak puas nak sembang lama2 dengan Cikgu Md Said tapi Din keje ari tu. Depa dua orang lah yg banyak bersembang.

Ol Skool

After that... I pegi tinjau pula all my ex-schools. This time I pegi sorang naik cab. I masuk hingga ke dalam kawasan sekolah di TIPS. Sekarang dah jadi milik exclusive sekolah TMS je. I saw lots of improvement and changes. Old buildings masih kekal lagi dengan painting dan murals yang asal masa kita sekolah dulu. I macam tak caya pulak dan rasa rindu semacam. Kalau tak kerana ada taxi yg menunggu, I sanggup duduk di situ berjam2 sampai puas.

I scrutinised everything and touched the walls, the paintings, the dusts, the tables, benches, pillars etc.till my heart was fulfilled. These are some of the words of wisdom that still exist since our childhood days and written on the walls of the old classrooms

"FRIENDS ARE FLOWERS IN THE GARDEN OF LIFE"

" A Warm Smile is The Universal Language of Kindness"

"He Who Hides His Generosity Is Doubly Generous"

I tinjau di setiap kawasan. Bila I pegi kawasan padang teringat masa PJ dan Sports Day. Terbayang I wajah comel kawan2 sume. Then semasa I asyik melamun dan ambil foto di sana sini I was greeted by a lady. We introduced each other and I explained my reason for being there. Rupanya dia tu GB sekolah tengku Mariam and she thought I ni orang JKR . She was very pleasant and gave me lots of information about the progress of the school.

The bad news to me is that semua bangunan yang asal atau lama akan dirobohkan to make way for new buildings..I reckon it will be multi- level buildings and no more single storey buildings. Segala tempat kenangan lama kita akan musnah dari pandangan tak lama lagi. Pn Rohani told me that the buildings will be demolished this year..I just couldn't believe my ears. I sempat negotiate dengan dia. Pls..pls la jgn roboh kan semua. Sekolah ni ada sentimental value bagi all the ex-students especially me lah. All my childhood sweethearts sume ada kat sini. Okay...dia kata the two main administrative buildings in front will be preserved. YES!!! that's a deal. We'll see if she will keep her promise to me...Nasib baik I datang kat situ sebelum diaorang robohkan semua bangunan lama tu.

So before everything turn to dust, you better take a last look at our beloved primary school. I dah inform Azmah to take photographs of the entire school for posterity sake. Otherwise just pegi tengok2 je. Next year TIPS at that location will be history. Eventhough TIPS has been relocated somewhere else tapi tak sama dgn TIPS tempat asal.

Happy nya petang ni baca email you all. And I juz got a message from Ad saying that he met Salim and Zul in Melacca this afternoon That's Great. Thank you Zul for seeing kawan kita tu yg dtg all the way from BP. Dlm SMS dia I jelas nampak kegembiraan dia dpt jumpa Zul n Salim. At first I told him mungkin Zul BZ bcoz I didn't want to disappoint him. But I told him 2 call you incase you can meet him for lunch.

You know before coming down to BP recently I called up Ramli Zainal. Since I'll be in Bp so I thought of seeing him just for a minute or two to say Hello. But our dear penghulu ni too busy to see me...Nasib baik la masa I call dia terus jawab so kitaorang sembang kat phone. Memang betul la kata Azmi...dia ni kalau bercakap ada protokol.. Dia panggil I Puan Ainon tak abis2 mcm nak buat bisness plak. I pulak panggil dia Dato'...elok lah tu.

Zul, kalau nak tau Aya baru je balik dari holidays in Paris. Tak lama lagi inbox kita ni penuh lah dgn email dari Aya. Azmah pun ada citer dia n still on visits here n there. Okay I sambung citer I masa kat Bp. Lepas lawat sekolah TIPS, I pegi pulak High School. I was there for just two years so not much memories compared to TIPS and TIGS. Anyway sayang the White House has turned to yellow. Yuk ! Tak sesuai langsung. Mana lah pegi Gang I masa Form six dulu.

High School

Masa di BP I stayed one night at the resthouse. From top of the hill, I could see TIGS. Di sinilah tempat jatuh dan bangunnya I. Di sini memories terlalu banyak. Some are best forgotten but some I want to cherish forever.. Friends yang I dah jumpa balik I hope only death will part us...K?

Azmah Rahman a.k.a Noi

Lepas menziarah sekolah2 lama... I took my lunch alone in town. Nak ajak Mek D, she tak boleh datang pulak sbb kunci kete pd anak dia. Then I lepak lah kat Masjid Sultan Ismail for zohor prayer n stayed there till Asar. At 5.30 p.m Din fetched me to meet Zai, Norliza Khalid and Azmah Abd. Rahman at Carrefour.

Mula lah kecoh bila jumpa diaorang tu. Azmah A.Rahman (Noi) makin cun la sekarang. Body dia maintain je n her complexion is so fair. Ya lah mak datin2 ni semua boleh lah jadi snow white sbb tak kena expose matahari spt kita org cikgu2 ni. Budak kawad kita kawad, budak sukan kita pun sukan. Tak ada chance nak manja kan muka ni. Kena dera ada lah.

Noi

I bawa my baby Acer and photo albums so I showed them our photos n also open our blog. So lagi panjang lah citer. Lepas tu terkeluar topic pulak bila buka facebook n tengok one of our friend's profiles n photos. Dia ni hot dari dulu, kini dan selamanya kot. Hmm..mcm artist pulak kawan kita ni. Then tak lama kemudian Noi's hubby dtg nak amik wife dia. In July dia ada jemput kita pegi wedding anak dia in Johor so hope you all can make it.

After Noi balik, kitaorang took dinner pulak kat tempat Mek D keje. I makan satay n yg lain makan fried rice n nasi padprik. Hari tu 31st May was Zaidah's Birthday. Noi bagi dia a lovely red brooch.. After makan2 we all balik n I tido rumah Zai. The next morning, at 8.30 I naik bas pegi KL. Saadiah sempat jumpa I kjap dlm bas tapi when Ad arrived I had already left. Kesian Ad...dia dtg jauh2 just to send me off tapi tak sempat jumpa. Din pula pagi2 dah terpaksa pegi Melaka.

From KL pula I continued My journey to Kuantan. I ada urusan penting kat sana. Tapi Allah mudahkan I kat sana kerana ada saja orang yang nak bantu saya.. From Kuantan I travelled back to KL.. Now I'm already back in Kedah n I feel so lonely here after having such a good time with our frenz. Tomorrow it's back to work. I hope you will all keep in touch to keep my loneliness at bay.