{"id":4334,"date":"2019-09-18T14:39:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T06:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2019-09-18T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T07:04:07","slug":"if-only-i-could-take-a-picture-of-their-amazed-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/if-only-i-could-take-a-picture-of-their-amazed-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"If only I could take a picture of their amazed faces…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something happened today when I wanted to take wudu’ at the usual toilet.\u00a0 I met with some of my TEASLIAN students in the toilet.\u00a0 Since all of the cubicles were full, I proceed to pick up the mop inside the tiny storeroom.\u00a0 Well, the floor was dirty with foot prints and whatsnot.\u00a0 I cleaned the toilet yesterday’s afternoon before I left but as expected, it was dirty today.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of them were disbelieved seeing me holding the mop and starting to clean the floor.\u00a0 Babes, it is normal ok for me to do that.\u00a0 I use the toilet so, when I see it dirty, I clean it.\u00a0 There are no cleaners to do the cleaning<\/a>.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 \u00a0Sigh<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

If you walk around, you can hardly see cleaners nowadays.\u00a0 \u00a0When I went to my alma mater last two weeks, I met with some cleaners at Human Sciences cafe.\u00a0 Apparently, they are assigned to pick up empty plates and cups from the table.\u00a0 This is not a common sight at UTM SUB cafe.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I can guess some of them are started to feel guilty seeing me mopping the floor.\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 Some of them didn’t even dare to enter the toilet after being forewarned by others that I was cleaning the toilet.\u00a0 What a sight to remember for the rest of their lives to see someone who teaches them to clean the toilet!<\/em>\u00a0 (tongue in cheek remark).\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Well, I told them due to limited budget, there are no more cleaners to clean the toilets.\u00a0 I have seen a cleaner cleaning the toilet nearby the Chair’s office though (I know right.\u00a0 It is such a double standard.\u00a0 We have to clean toilets ourselves and those within the vicinity of those with administration position has someone else to do the cleaning<\/em>).\u00a0 Well, that is not the point that I want to make.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I remember what my late mom taught me.\u00a0 If you can do it, do it silently.\u00a0 Don’t complain.\u00a0 When I am writing this post, I am not complaining.\u00a0 It is just to make others know that it is a common practice now to clean toilets at UTM even though we are the academicians.\u00a0 Well, we use the toilets as well.\u00a0 So, no need to feel entitled that we are better than others to avoid doing the dirty works, right?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong> To all of my students, don’t be shocked to see me cleaning the toilet.\u00a0 Don’t feel guilty.\u00a0 After all, I am also using the toilet.\u00a0 If you feel guilty, perhaps you can do your part as well \ud83d\ude00\u00a0 Wait until you be a teacher at a school with limited budget.\u00a0 You will see yourself doing the cleaning too.\u00a0 What a heck!\u00a0 Japanese teachers and students have long make it in their practice to do the cleaning TOGETHER.\u00a0 So, why don’t we do the same, right?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Japanese teachers clean toilet together with students (Photo from Pinterest)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Japanese teachers and students clean together (Photo from Factslides.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something happened today when I wanted to take wudu’ at the usual toilet.\u00a0 I met with some of my TEASLIAN students in the toilet.\u00a0 Since all of the cubicles were full, I proceed to pick up the mop inside the tiny storeroom.\u00a0 Well, the floor was dirty with foot prints and whatsnot.\u00a0 I cleaned the … Continue reading If only I could take a picture of their amazed faces…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-random-rambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4347,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}