I could still remember their names.\u00a0 From the left standing: Aidil (a very athletic person), Hafid (a very shy but strong-willed student.\u00a0 He is also very diligent), Idham (who happens to be my neighbour, Cikgu Bibah’s son), Hakim (Mr Handsome-guy and the most popular among the girls because of his look and mannerism), Farouq (the champion to fall asleep in my class), Ammar (the quiet with lots of self-doubt boy).\u00a0 On the front: Aidit (an easily-influenced-by-others boy), Hazim (a rebel in searching his identity), Yasser (a very timid and needs lots of assurance), Baqir (who is very talented and artistic) and Halim (Daud’s and Annuar’s brother.\u00a0 A shy boy who thinks that I like to tease him in class by calling his name frequently)<\/span><\/p>\n Why do they look so happy?\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n At first they were thinking that I might give them an ang pau envelope.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 It is a letter<\/a> that I wrote to each and every one of them.\u00a0 Individualised and personalised message from me.\u00a0 I have given the same thing to my former form 4 Sapphire class (which include the girls).\u00a0 This time around, due to time constraint, I only managed to complete the letters to the boys.\u00a0 I will do so for the girls In sha Allah in the future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n With the formal UTM envelope, I hope it might give them a sense of importance.\u00a0 Receiving a letter with important message.\u00a0 Yup.\u00a0 That’s my intention.\u00a0 I hope that the heart-felt message would reach to their heart.\u00a0 I pray May Allah Bless them with understanding and good memory to remember what I wrote to them.<\/span><\/p>\n Well, I went to the school<\/a> yesterday to drop the letters to Teacher Ita (one of the English teacher) and some of them saw me walking with the letters on my hand.\u00a0 I bumped into Halim inside the teacher’s room but he was too shy to greet me.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n So, what happened to another four?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Two students changed schools after PT3.\u00a0 Another two?\u00a0 They changed school because of “a little” incident.\u00a0 Due to the nature of the issue, let’s just say that they did something.\u00a0 I am sad when I know about the incident.\u00a0 I never thought that as young as 16 years old would do something like that.\u00a0 This is the reality that I wish to ignore and yet, I know that I have to do something about it.\u00a0 Thus, I wrote the letters to the rest.\u00a0 I don’t want to punish them because of what has happened even though some of them are involved in that incident indirectly.\u00a0 Yet, I think I need to let them know how I feel about them.\u00a0 It does resonate with this saying<\/span><\/p>\n “Students don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I know is never too late to show how much I care even though I am no longer physically at school with them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I taught them, there were 15 of them but now there are only 11 left.\u00a0 My little heroes! 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