Ceci est mon histoire de vie dans les terres barrakah. This is a story of my life in the land of barrakah. The story of what I love, what I hate and what I crave....

Saturday, January 29, 2011

schools are force to closed

hallo....

oh no....no..... i want to go to school... i want to sit for the exam... and i want to enjoy the holiday after the exam...
but now the ministry ordered all school to be closed for 2 weeks (yeahhhh....) and the exam to be reschedule after the break (arghhhh...)...
arghhhh..... how am i going to enjoy my holidays... definitely mom and ayah will asked us to continue do our revision...

oppsss... i forget to mention that ayah now join force with mom to teaches along and myself.... and they have Rotan!!!!! (my friends in other houses like uncle zainuldin, uncle eddy and uncle amal also have rotan)

we are now to make 5 times correction for any mistakes and double the corrections for any mistakes in the correction...
enough about it....

i'll tell you about my examination-

here exams are divided into few stages -
we had our lab practical exam for science and computer last 2 weeks;
we had oral exam for english, quran and arabic (last 2 weeks);
we had our practical exams for the arts subject; and
we are in the middle of 2 weeks writing exams for all subjects - english literacy, grammar, writing, spelling and comprehension, french, arabic, maths, science, islam, social studies, general knowledge, computer and saudi culture and history.

the school hours during exams weeks are shorter... it's is between 8-10:30am... the moment you finish your exam, you can go home. mom said its like a university student...

and Allah knows best. luckily we went back at 10.30am.or else we will be stuck in the traffic as last wednesday happened to be the saudi's worst flood tragedy ever..our school is located in bani Faishal district, in the town of Jeddah...

for the past weeks, we were often back early because of rains...(early means around 10.30-11am)... normally my fellow friends who commutes everyday from makkah to alwadi will be sent off earlier as they have a long journey back home...
at the same time, the school called our parents to fetch us...
and whenever its raining, the classes will become noisier with girls crying - afraid of rains...

Nowadays, Uncle Ahmad (our driver) will stayed around the school just in case its rains and we have to leave school earlier..

last wednesday -
the hotel which placed other MAS staff were flooded and black up...
the city was closed by police....
they are person die and many are still missing...
there are house damaged....
the telephone line all over Saudi collapsed
the internet line were also broken...
many flights including MH flight were delayed for 1 day as the pilot cannot go to the airport....(i was thinking why they must be placed at a far away placed from the airport????)

alhamdulillah... there was only little rain at our house...and..luckily our house is situated far away from town...

and on friday night, due to the effect after the tragedy, the ministry of education announced that all school to be closed on saturday -
we're supposed to sit for maths exam today... it's reschedule to wednesday;

and late last night again the saudi ministry of education make another announcement that the school is now ordered to closed for to weeks until 12th february 2010...all exams are to be reschedule after the break...and ...we are now closing our revision book and enjoying our holidays (until ayah and mommy ordered us to sit and study again) !!!!!

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

fun...fun... n lots of fun...






aloha...

hi...happy schooling to all Malaysian students in Malaysia.It's a new term and a new beginning..Differ from what we have here, in Saudi the school begins in September and ends in July. so while you guys are enjoying you holidays, we are at school..

and i would like to share with you all that started from last Monday we are riding a new coaster to school.... yeppi... it's more comfortable and bigger than the previous van...

that's is the adding factors as what i've mention in my earlier post, why life in Saudi is full with fun and colorful...

well... to to recall my life this week: the weather was and is still windy... there are few times ayah got sms from school informing that he have to arrange for an earlier pickup because the school is on caution - they are worried when the rain starts n there are a high possibility of flood..- i guess now is a good time to visit Taif if we want to have snow...

last thursday we have lunch at aunty Aza's house with kak Husna's family... they cooked alots of dishes... mommy cooked rice, BBQ chicken and sambal sotong. - i believe Kakak Husna n mom are now safely arrived home... am looking forward for your family next visit - will it be in September ?

On Sunday night we went to Red Sea Mall with Kakak Aina's family...nothing much to buy. we bought bread n biscuit for school.

on Saturday and Sunday - live is peaceful... i went to school, back, did my homework, read quran at aunty Yumi's house, play, collect our clothes from aunty Ann's house (our dryer - the took for service, n the backyard was still dirty from previous flood n there is no place to hang the clothes, so we have to borrow aunty's ann dryer. Luckily yesterday we get back our dryer..).. and .... memorised my three surah for my final exam..
here - the quran subject is the memorising subject. everybody have to recite n remember the surah according to the grade..i'm now reciting al-ghasyiah, al balad and al a'ala...

on Monday night we have bbq at the poolside..we have ikan bakar, nasi lemak, ayam goreng rempah, cucur udang, keropok, karipap, karamel, jelly, fruits n lots of cakes ... n its... sooooo delicious - we have blackforest cake, fruits cocktail cake n... icecream cake...- two were shared : for adik, along, nana n myself - our belated birthday cake (except for nana the advanced birthday cake) n another cake was for uncle zainuldin's birthday... as if we are at Umbai, Melaka..we ate... we played and we swam. BUT the water was soooo.....coooollllled....
we finish the makan2 early... around 9:30pm-10pm everybody with schooling children and ayah sent along, nana n adik home. I managed to sneak out and joint the other kids playing snooker and went to the gym...mommy sent me home at 10:30pm. The funniest thing was, uncle mail locked our house door n gave ayah the house key. when mommy sent me home, we cannot got inside the house because the key was with ayah. Luckily, along heard mommy knocking his room window.. he woke up, unlocked the door and took the key and slept. And mommy cannot lock the door because along took the key with him...

Lastly, my dearest friend Kakak Raihana n her family are going back to Malaysia today, we don't have much time together...because this time her family stayed in alhyatt...i/allah we'll meet again when you next come to Jeddah or under a new tag of "permanent" ??? either way - we always welcome you...
So to kakak raihana, shahir, abg aril n abang... have safe journey home n happy schooling..

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Happy New Year 2011

Happy New Year 2011 .......

i'm sure everybody are still on holiday... well, me n other kids in Saudi were schooling today....in a new year while other kids all around the world are on holidays... can you believed it? we went to school today...
the school sessions in Saudi are divided into 2 terms - Sept-Feb and Feb-Jul. In between we are having short breaks as what we had last Hajj season.
BUT school is FUN... so its okay we have to go to school today... because we luvs to go to school..

and on tuesday i went to my school trip in Fun time Pizza and my along and other boys went there on Wednesday
... oh... don't get me wrong... it was not a pizza shop... but its a fun place like berjaya timesquare...
each of student were given a credit card amounting of SAR30.. we can play and rides all games available there... I spent all SAR 30.. I ride all games- bumper cars, roller coaster, watch 4d cinema and lots more, ... it was sooo cool n fun...

during the roller coaster riding my friend Khadija was afraid. She shouted " ohhh... Qaisara, we will die..." and when the ride stop... she laught and said "ahh... Qaisara, we will not die..."
we ate pizza, burger and fries.."
we were supposed to be at school back by 1:45pm... but we arrived late - 3pm...sorry uncle ahmad n friends....

oppps...... i almost forgot to mention that we have additional members here - abang afiq, kakak aina, kakak shaza n siblings...


And one more story which i would like to share with you all the events we had last wk- on Sunday nite... we have makan2 organised by MH engineering staff who stay at Al-Hyatt Intercon. Jeddah...I believed aunty Sharifah, aunty Maziah and aunty Mila were the chefs'.
We had nasi tomato, ayam bakar, bihun goreng, ayam masak merah n few other dishes.. it was great...
we had the dinner at the loby at the front of the al-hyatt hall n we had karoake provided by Wak Pong...

overall it was a success dinner.... the kids are happy but we were there for a short time because ayah was tired from a long journey drive from madinah and we had to go to school the next day... so we arrived @ 9pm n were on the JMC with kakak Tihani's family back to compound around 10pm...
may be next time we should have makan2 @ our compound during w/end??? so we can have a looooonggggg fun...

and.... on wednesday, thursday and friday jeddah was flooded...there were "moya"/water every where.....

i believed Anis, Azim and family are now safe back in Malaysia... so to them... happy schooling n we will always welcome your family here whenever you come again...

to Kakak Aina, Abang Afiq, kakak Shaza n siblings - i welcome you to Alwadi International School... we are now having a big groups of MAS children in Al Wadi...
may success belong to us... ameen