At the moment of doing this, I'm sitting at my desk in this stuffy staff room and I've just finished my lesson with the students in class form 2B. That was the only class for me today. Only 2 periods. 

I won't be describing my teaching and learning process in this entry as I wanted to share with you my experience prior the commencement of my teaching practice. Here it goes.

Fact #1

On Sunday afternoon, the owner of the rented car (I am renting a car for 3 month as I do not have my own car here) handed over the car key to me. It was a humble Kancil. A tiny and old car. I was glad to have the car because I was able to move into the rented house. Another thing that bothered me was the fact that there were another 3 persons that were going to move their things into the house. Obviously, the tiny car couldn't fit all the things but fortunately Nad, at that time happened to be renting another car - a sedan - because she was driving her parents over to the airport. So, after that she drove back to campus and helped us shifting the things to the house in Banting.

Fact #2

We were on our way to Banting when suddenly I realized the speedometer on the dashboard indicated I was driving at 60 km/h even though I was pretty much sure I was driving faster than that. The feeling of curiosity suddenly came. I knew something was amiss. Then moments later the car jerked and the temperature meter indicated that the car was overheating. I had to stop at the roadside, turned off the ignition, switched on the hazard light and opened the car's bonnet. Clouds of grey-ish smoke billowed from the engine. Felt bad for not checking the water level prior to the journey to Banting. We waited for the engine to cool down a bit and we opened the cap on top of the radiator and filled it up with water. Then, we continued our journey. The car didn't overheat but somehow the temperature meter was still indicating that the engine's temperature was slightly higher than usual. 

Fact #3

We went back again to UKM to get the remaining items (yes. two cars were not enough to move all the things in just one trip). I also went to fetch my other two friends as they wanted to go to the airport to catch the flight back to KK. Since, it was already dark and everybody was hungry, we stopped by at McD for dinner. To our horror, the sound of boiling water was heard coming from the engine as soon as we turned off the ignition. Crap! Why would that happened at that particular moment when I was extremely busy and I was few hours away from reporting for duty at the school. I didn't want to take a risk for driving the car for a long distance. Therefore, I decided to leave the car at Hentian Kajang and extended the rent for the other car; the one rented by Nad. So, we used that car to drive my friends to the airport and went back to Banting.

Fact #4

I was not sure what was happening to me on that day. Perhaps, it was my unlucky day. My sandal was spoiled. The strap spoiled!

Fact #5

Both Nad and I reached home at around 2 in the morning and we were damn exhausted. I was not able to recall the time but most probably I went to bed (err...mattress on the floor to be exact) at around 3 a.m. and woke up at 6 a.m. I only slept for about 3 hours and got myself ready to report for duty at school.

Fact #6

When I was reporting myself for duty on Monday morning, the principal told me that I was assigned to teach in the afternoon session. So, the first day of practicum I spent the whole day at school from 7.30 a.m till 6.30 p.m!

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