Time Management

On Monday.....16th August

I have to attend morning claz at 8am everyday... So all dis while I akan make sure dat I akan keluar dr rumah around 6.40am and by 7.25-7.30am I should reached my claz oridy, as I rili hate to stuck in a traffic congestion. But what happened to me last Monday, rili put me in da big question mark... I hate to be late to attend my claz ,plus if I dtg awal boleh park my car di tempat yg strategik.. :) , I've good record for my attendance all dis while coz I know how to manage my time so far..(wow *_*...). I rili don't like to be late coz I can't imagine to knock da door in da middle of lecture n disturbed other frenz concentration. Foe me as we grow older we need to be matured and should know how to manage da time.

I can't believe dat at 7.25am I still somewhere in Petagas, usually if I left home at 6.40am....at 7.25 I oridy reached my claz. At 8.10am I just reached Sembulan. Then my fren sms me n told me dat our lecture oridy entered da claz. Monday my morning claz with Prof Mat Zin Mat Kib, for Malaysia Premiership Studies. He got his own style to handle his students who came late, right after he entered da claz, he will locked da door. If da students came late 5-10munites I think he still consider them to enter his claz. I reaches students parking area around 8.30am, I so takut if Prof Mat Zin will not let me enter his claz. Then I sms my fren n asked if his in a good mood??? ya la mana tau sudah ada students yg make him angry early inn da morning who came late??? But my fren told me dat there was a group of students who just entered da claz and he opened da door when the students knocked on it.

So I just kasi berani myself to reach in front of my claz door...and knocked on it, then he opende da door n said " Kenapa awak boleh lambat ni??, kalau lambat 30minit tak apa, ni U lambat 45minit, ? I told him dat I leaved early but da heavy traffic rili beyond my control. As dis was my 1st time to be late he allowed me to enter his claz. Ohhhh...wat a relief in my heart.

Masuk kelas 1st time sebagai org lambat rili bikin malu o, never in my life to be part of muka-muka lambat masuk kelas... After dis I should think to go out early than 6.40am... 

She's said, She's Trying

 You & I.... ( A story  about Him and Her...)

Should it be? Or it's all was wrong from da beginning?

But there is no ending without  starting. There is no laughing without tears....

...She said it's OK, dat she will managed along da way. She's tried to stay but she had it enough. She realized dat He's way too good for her, dat they will not make it. But kan why he don't see what she can see at dat very moment. He ignored it and even said in a relationship there should be, must be and will always be a DIFFERENCES between two different people.

Pada mulanya, differences makes them even closer, and both just being themselves not more or less. He such a shy person, humble, RELIGIOUS, sangat penyabar, and he always had the answers for her sometimes silly and "intelligence"  questions. She never be leave without any possible answers dat he will combined with the Science and not for get the religion based. He always be the biggest supporter to her, always....always...and forever.

They were together but its hard to feel each other, one of da thing dat make her rili in hurt as he never...never ...never said .....what she mean for him.... Action was there but, come on la ...let her know... She only can see dat she so important to U. But it's not enough....and yes da world is not enough....(aisehhhhh)

It wont be long, as she was soooo sure dat there will be a day to end all dis. Time anad yes time da main factor here.Walking as far as dis will make sum1 stay and end it as planned but it's been a long journey oridi. When sum1 had it enough nothing can stopped it. Not even da people who will turned and back-up everything for U.

Yeap...she rili pray dat sum1 like U will appear in her life, and it was U. That rili sent her to paradise when da journey had been for almost what? 8 years?8 1/2 years??? Wow long journey huh??? But end up nothing? She's will be sad of coz la, it's a long relationship bah. Siapa tia mau good ending?? Good ending is every body dream, but people U need to be realistic, Islam juga mensyariatkan supaya kita berpasangan dgn yg seKufu. Sekufu  sini bermaksud Jodoh yang sekufu, adalah sesuatu yang cliche. Ramai yang berkata2 tentang jodoh sekufu dan ini memang benar kerana telah dijelaskan dalam hadis Rasulullah SAW berbunyi “Tiada perkahwinan seorang anak perempuan kecuali dengan wali, dan tiada perkahwinan seorang wanita kecuali dengan lelaki yang sekufu dengannya”.

When she said dis and dat U think dat she's not serious, U pikir dia main2 ja....na ni kali la juga she' rili determine to move on and let passed be past. 

One thing dat make da relationship alive till today are the family.... She used to mingled with da family so easy...supposed she leave the family easily. She stuck  right now as she rili missed all of it; da memories, da joked, da advised and all of da talked. She was so thankful to have no problem to mingle with da gurls. Well of coz there was an up's and down along da way, but they learn along the way to take her as she are. All of his Sisters n Ummi are very kind, dun know if she will meet other family like dat.  

She's trying to be strong, so dat she will not keep thinking of U, so dat there will be no tears, no pain, no emotion dat will be drawn into dat path of life. Wished it never happened, but we need to let go. 

She missed U much, but there are things dat are more important beside thinking about what they had dreamed and wished will happened. 

She's decided dat she will "washed" Him away from her life....but she admitted dat it quite impossible, yet she is still trying. Everyday she will try her best not to think about U. But is it enough??? When Ur beloved Ummi n Sisters will be a there to talk to her, . They will make da feelings grow and alive, (aiyo susah ni oooooo)

Syukur la, she had all of her family n friends to keep her real. Some people will loss some of their based in life but she rili manage it so well. Not even some1 can tell how much pain dat she carried, how much tears had accompany her. But it's all OK bah, better she's crying now, she can keep busy with all of her work and stuff, friends to laugh with and family to get da comfort. 

I don't think dat she ever get da problem as other people said to be the symptoms such as " mandi x bash, makan x kenyang" all of dis are rubbish according to her... It's end so what's da point not to eat...or even hurt yourself?  No way...She will do dat. She's very optimist right now...very positive and had found half of her dream, and now another small stage to reach where she want to be. 

No matter what she will do in her life she will be smile and proud dat He used to walk next to her in the journey of love.... the journey of life assist them to be who they are. In love, life as an individual towards family and our love ones. Responsibilities to the religion has improve, thanks for his guidance, trust me people she rili appreciate it.

Yeap ......she's trying to keep herself together, as it rili important not to lost it. Yes she's trying harder...trying harder to what she want to be. 

This life we oridy decided where to go, with who, how it possible and a big question of why????

Why she;s started it? why she ended it? why she failed not to think about him?? Where she got all da courage to let it be??

I'll pray dat she will be orite,.....

Our Plan for the Year: Handwork

Although we live in a very small town, we are very lucky to have an art guild fifteen minutes down the road in an even smaller town. Pamela thoroughly enjoyed the watercolor classes they offered last Spring and now she is trying her hand at pottery. She has not worked with clay in five years, but this is very special clay. Her teacher lives on forty acres where the Santee tribe of Native Americans spent time before the area was settled. After he found shards and pieces of pottery on his family's land, he began investigating slippery spots. Sure enough, he located clay deposits and digs for clay in the winter when snakes are less active. The clay Pamela uses in class is native to our area. What a lovely way to form a relationship with the land!

The first week of two two-hour classes was challenging. Pamela did not care for thoroughly messy hands. She tolerated a little bit of smudge for a little while, which made it hard for her to learn the technique of making a coil clay pot like the Native Americans did. She found decorating less intimidating. She especially loved making different kinds of impressions with the edges and sides of sea shells and snail shells.

Her teacher, who worked with autistic children as a paraprofessional many moons ago, was quite ingenious. The next day, he showed Pamela how to roll out slabs like a pie crust and cut them into squares to make a box container. The next week, I played a variation on his theme and brought in our geometric panels from RightStart. Pamela and I explored shapes until she decided to make a prism container with a triangular base and lid with a knob. You can see the joy and feeling of accomplishment on her face because exploring shapes and spending more time rolling and cutting rather than pinching and smoothing was more in her comfort zone. I just love when God puts kindred spirits in Pamela's path because some art teachers can be rather rigid.

Making pottery is an example of what Charlotte Mason called handwork, another way for children to form relationships with people and materials and to learn how to use their hands to make an object of beauty and value. She wrote,

We are so made that every dynamic relation, be it leap-frog or high-flying, which we establish with Mother Earth, is a cause of joy; we begin to see this and are encouraging swimming, dancing, hockey, and so on, all instruments of present joy and permanent health. Again, we know that the human hand is a wonderful and exquisite instrument to be used in a hundred movements exacting delicacy, direction and force; every such movement is a cause of joy as it leads to the pleasure of execution and the triumph of success. We begin to understand this and make some efforts to train the young in the deft handling of tools and the practice of handicrafts (Page 329).

Mason had quite a long list of possibilities for handwork best fitted for children under nine in her day: chair-caning, carton-work, basket-work, Smyrna rugs, Japanese curtains, carving in cork, samplers on coarse canvas showing a variety of stitches, easy needlework, knitting (big needles and wool), etc. Fellow mother of an autism spectrum daughter Sonya has compiled a long list of handwork for children today.

Unfortunately, our fast-food mentality has caused us to embrace twaddle in the world of crafts. To avoid stepping on any toes, consider the criteria Charlotte made for what passed as handwork (Pages 316-317):

• They should not be employed in making futilities such as pea and stick work, paper mats, and the like.
• They should be taught slowly and carefully what they are to do.
• Slipshod work should not allowed.
• Therefore, the children's work should be kept well within their compass.

I wonder how many crafts made in school, church, and especially VBS pass muster!

In addition to taking advantage of classes offered at the local art guild, Pamela and I are working on three areas of handwork this year: sewing with real wool felt to make things like a pincushion (except we will sew on button to attach the flower), a knitting needle case, a sewing needle case, and, time permitting, a doll pillow, i-Pod Touch cozy, or other interesting projects. Later in the year, we will try our hand at finger knitting (cute scarves for the winter), making wooden knitting needles, dyeing wool yarn, and learning the garter stitch to sew together easy projects out of squares and rectangles. I have to credit my friend Jeanette Tulis who inspired us with these ideas, and more, at her handwork presentation at the ChildLightUSA conference last June.

I will close with another inspiring quote in this era in which college graduates with large student loans cannot find work.

Some day, perhaps, we shall see apprenticeship to trades revived, and good and beautiful work enforced. In so far, we are laying ourselves out to secure that each shall "live his life"; and that, not at his neighbour's expense; because, so wonderful is the economy of the world that when a man really lives his life he benefits his neighbour as well as himself (Page 329).

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Our Plan for the Year: Geography

The benefit of collaborating with like-minded educators is refining my understanding of Charlotte Mason's ideas. Their explanations pointed out areas in Pamela's program that needed tweaking. Implementing a Mason approach doesn't happen over night. It's a lot like being a Christian: it's a journey, a process, a relationship. Nobody can ever be perfect, and nobody can ever turn out a perfect kid. However, we can become more mindful, more curious, more joyful about learning, more humble and understanding as we grapple with big ideas. If you think I'm a slacker, Carroll Smith's blog post on relaxed alertness will help you understand why I'm sleeping peacefully at night, even though I have missed the mark. He wrote, "When expectations are too high or when the expectations are for the adults to show how perfect their school is, children have the same feeling of being threatened. When this happens, learning gets shut down and the children do not respond well or perform well."

We have done many things well for many years: reading living books that are wide and varied, looking up locations and settings in the atlas, studying our routes on maps, checking out interesting sites when we travel, etc. In fact, one of Pamela's favorite web pasttimes is "driving" around old neighborhoods in Google Earth! Mason wrote,

Perhaps no knowledge is more delightful than such an intimacy with the earth's surface, region by region, as should enable the map of any region to unfold a panorama of delight, disclosing not only mountains, rivers, frontiers, the great features we know as 'Geography,' but associations, occupations, some parts of the past and much of the present, of every part of this beautiful earth. Great attention is paid to map work; that is, before reading a lesson children have found the places mentioned in that lesson on a map and know where they are, relatively to other places, to given parallels, meridians (Page 225).

Two things I could have done better: do more hands-on, concrete work in understanding geographic features and concepts and draw our own maps.

Hands-on, Concrete Work

Children easily simulate knowledge, and at this point the teacher will have to be careful that nothing which the child receives is mere verbiage, but that every generalisation is worked out somewhat in this way:––The child observes a fact, as, for example, a wide stretch of flat ground; the teacher amplifies. He reads in his book about Pampas, the flat countries of the north-west of Europe, the Holland of our own eastern coast, and, by degrees, he is prepared to receive the idea of a plain, and to show it on his tray of sand. (Page 277)

Drawing Maps

He must learn to draw a plan of his schoolroom, etc., according to scale, go on to the plan of a field, consider how to make the plan of his town, and be carried gradually from the idea of a plan to that of a map; always beginning with the notion of an explorer who finds the land and measures it, and by means of sun and stars, is able to record just where it is on the earth's surface, east or west, north or south (Page 279).

To gear up for the first day of school this week, Pamela and I spent a small portion of our day drawing the maps we will need in the next few months. To heighten her interest, I called them map scrolls, which made her eyes sparkle. Because of her love of everything B. C. (we are hopelessly old-fashioned here and stubbornly cling to "Before Christ" because He is our Lord and Savior), she made all kinds of scrolls last year so she could read just like Julius Caesar. On the biggest paper we could find at Wal-Mart, we drew maps of the Middle East in the time of Genesis and the time of Jesus, South Carolina, the eastern end of Massachusetts (i.e., Boston), the United Kingdom and Ireland, Europe and northern Africa, the Thirteen Colonies, and southern Canada and the United States. We stored them in the brown paper from a roll of gift wrap, solving the problem of ugly creases.


While I could list nearly every book we are reading because of a remote connection to geoglogy, I will only include the more comprehensive books. We are reading a geographyr book geared toward younger children to solidify a foundation in geography. We are also reading about the Lewis and Clark expedition, a book set in Asia, and another set in South America.