#2 Err, What’s Your School Again?
Assalamualaikum
w.b.t
What is a
school? How school can shape someone?
What alma mater that you dreamed?
As I said in the first post, I will tell about my secondary schools. Let’s start with the first one, Sekolah Menengah Sains Tun Syed Sheh Shahabudin. Payah nak sebut kan? So every SBP have their own school acronim, and as for this school, it is called soksek, but later own it changed to Tun Syed for a few reasons.
Aku pilih
sekolah ni masa form 1 dulu sebab sekolah ni dekat ja ngan rumah aku. Thats it.
No other reasons. Aku tak tau pun sekolah ni macam mana, ranking dia macam
mana, perangai student dia macam mana. All in my mind was just pursuing my
secondary studies there. But when I came there, it changed my mindset
completely. From there, I knew how’s SBP is all about, how’s the students look
like (more to bad than good) and subsequently, I became one of them. Aku bukan
nak kata sekolah ni teruk tapi entahlar, only students here can describe it.
Everything
changes when I received a letter from the PERMATApintar, offering me to pursue
my upper secondary there. Before receiving that letter, I feel like I want to
get out from this school, because the environment doesn’t suit me anymore.
Entahlar, maybe I can’t cope with it. Upon receiving the letter, the feeling is
like ‘orang mengantok disorongkan bantal’. All I can say is Alhamdulillah to
The Almighty for helping me in turbulence.
I showed
the letter to my parents, and they said, “hang pi lar mana2 yang hang nak, kami
tak kesah”. So after solat istikharah and hajat, I made my mind. Migrate to a
new school, as well as my mind and soul that had been lost searching for His
faith. Even though sekolah ni dah ajar aku banyak benda buruk, tapi sekolah ni
jugak ajar aku benda paling berguna: how to survive in life. Aku rasa sekolah asrama
lain pun macam tu. Kena raging tiap2 hari, terpaksa fly beli rokok, roll call
all the time, benda2 tu secara tak langsung ajar aku untuk lagi berdisiplin.
Tak caya? Bila keluar sekolah nanti, baru akan rasa.
So that’s my first school. Now
heading to my second school, Pusat PERMATApintar Negara.
Cantik kan gambar
ni? Tangkap sendiri atas tangki. Back to topic, I migrate here, hoping to find something new and can
answer many question regarding my soul, and to know Allah as well. Aku mula
belajar berfikir lebih kritis dan lebih bebas. Dengan internet free terpantas
dalam negara, surfing web dah jadi macam makan minum aku dalam mencari apa2
jawapan kepada persoalan dalam minda aku. Tapi sebab sekolah ni masih baru, so
di sini lar aku applykan apa yang aku dah belajar masa kat tun syed dahulu,
like hidup independently – basuh baju, string katil, tak selalu homesick.
I still
remember during my orientation week in form 4, when other people asked me my
former school. Upon hearing my answer, they asked me, “eh, asal susah sangat eh
nak sebut nama sekolah kau? Tak ada nama pendek ke?” I was dumb, saying the
name ‘soksek’, and it sticks to me when they want to call me, until now. -_-
Anyway, I’m
not annoyed by that name. Yeah, a little bit at first. But then I realised
that’s the way they want to recognised me from other Amir’s in this school, so
I just go on with the flow.
Talking
about the life here, maybe some of other people out there said, “alar, sekolah
pintar, mesti pintar semua benda, mesti boleh buat anything”. Yes, this is
reality that PERMATA students need to bear. We here, need to take every single
problem and challenges willingly or unwillingly. Tons of assignments and school
works, plus the position held in student bodies and school events, all at the
same time. It’s ridiculous. Yes, it is. Tapi sebab persepsi orang luar, so kami
kena jugak handle semua benda tu. It’s like being a multitasker all the time.
Though the
life here is tough, but I like to be here. Maybe sebab kawan2 and cikgu2 yang
sporting, environment pun not bad. Teringat kata-kata Imam Syafie, “jika kamu
tidak tahan lelahnya belajar, maka kamu akan menanggung peritnya kebodohan”.
Wallahua’lam.
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