BEING PRODUCTIVE

Hello people! I am back for another entry. For this one, there will be several things that I will be sharing on. It would not be a long one I suppose.

Before I begin, I would like to thank you for dropping by and double thanks to those who leave your comments. I love reading your comments because it keeps me motivated. Thank you.

So, let us begin.

On May 10, 2020 (Sunday), we had the Mother's Day celebration but I think it is not too late for me to once again wish all the mothers out there, a happy blessed Mothers Day! I actually found out about it on Saturday morning when I woke up early and bumped into people's post on social media wishing a happy Mother's Day for their mom. I am so bad with dates and numbers. So, I considered myself lucky because I get to know about it a day before. I was thrilled, so I discussed with my other siblings on what we should do for the celebration. I actually messaged one of the cake seller on Facebook asking for the price of the cake. I was interested to buy one with the supermom cartoon sketch. Unfortunately, when he told me that it will cost me RM80 for a 1 KG cake, I think that it would not worth the amount of money that I will be paying for. I do want to support local businesses but there will be more than ten mouth to feed with the cake later that I think spending that amount for a small cake would be a waste of money. Thus, we agreed on buying the Chocolate Indulgence cake from Secret Recipe. It costs us RM95 for a +- 2KG cake. See the difference in terms of price and weight, not to mention the heavenly taste. We bought the cake on Saturday and celebrated on Sunday evening since my sister was fasting. It was a pleasant one. 

By the way, my siblings and I managed to get the ceiling and main gate painted white. We dd it! That is one of the productive activity we did for the week. 

Are you ready for the BIG NEWS?!

Yesterday, I managed to find my time (midnight as usual) to continue with the novel writing. I am always excited and nervous about getting the novel done and the most nerve wrecking part was to reach my minimum words count goal of 50,000 words count. I managed to add 4270 words yesterday. I started writing at around midnight while enjoying my Korean drama about doctors. It was a distraction because I obviously incapable of writing and watching at the same time. So, I literally spent more time watching than writing. With that 4270 words added up, I finally reached that 50,000 words count target! I stopped at around 7.30 in the morning with 50,675 words. I felt super excited and proud of myself for the achievement. This is one of the most serious project and wish list that I have been putting into my current life priority. I am serious about getting it done and published. I felt drowsy so I went to bed at 7.30 till 10.00 am this morning and woke up to entertain my cousin who visited us, asking for help with his laptop. I had my nap before dinner and here I am now, blogging about it and everything. 

I am truly proud of the achievement on writing up to the 50,000 words count goal but of course the novel is not yet finish. I will keep on writing and try my best to get it done before the end of the latest 5th MCO (9th June 2020). Since I have written up till 50,000 words, I am giving myself a new challenge to write about 10,000 more words and make it 60,000. I may be writing more or less than 60,000 words but the goal for now is to finish the novel, that is the biggest aim of this project. I really hope that you are as excited as I am with the novel. I am not sure if the genre, characters and story lines will suits everyone's preference or interest but I wanted to write a sincere novel as my very first debut. If it goes well then more will be coming under the same genre. If it doesn't then I am still fine with it. As I said, I am writing it with sincerity. For the next project, I may want to write a non-fiction or another fiction on fantasy or romance or anything. Time will tell. Please bear with me and support me once I have got the book published. You may like or dislike the way I wrote the book but of course you are all welcomed to share an honest review and critics on the novel, once I have it published. Calculating the days, weeks and months spent on working with the novel, since I actually wrote the first three pages back in early February, I had actually spent about four months, working with the novel writing. I had no serious intention when I first wrote the first three pages because I just want to write something I feel like writing, something like journal writing and it was buried in my laptop for more than a month when I finally decided to spent my Movement Control Order (MCO) by finishing the novel writing. I am glad that I decided to treat it more seriously because that determination has driven me to go this far (50,000 +) words in approximately four months. I am proud with this achievement considering I spent years with the Malay novel I had been trying to write and after some years, I had only written 55,186 words and it is not even finished yet. Can you see the difference of time spent and words count written? That is why I am proud of myself for being able to take it up this far.

Right now, I should be spending time to add some more stuff to the novel but I am not really in the right mood to do so and if I force it, I may commit more mistakes or worst, write something that might not be favorable to my readers. So, I am writing a blog post instead.

After this post is uploaded, I will be watching the final episode of the Korean Drama (Doctors) and later on watch some videos on books and novels publishing, just to give myself some motivation to keep going.

I guess, that would be a wrap for the post. I did not keep my words when I said this is going to be a short one. Sorry, and if you read from top till this very word, I thanked you very much for dropping by and spending time reading my thoughts.

Till next time,

Adam Geordrey

(Soon to be Author)

New Normal Pros and Cons - COVID-19

Hello readers! I am back for another entry. I was supposed to sit before the laptop to continue with the novel writing but I am not so sure if I have the strength needed for that matter at the moment. Well, not because I am tired of writing or thinking but I do believe that in order for me to have the strength to start/continue writing, I should be in my most comfortable state. Well, I believe every writer would have said the same thing. I mean, I can just push it but that may not be the best thing to do for it will surely affect the way each word are typed and of course the way every ideas are arranged. Getting the novel done is of course the main goal but I do not want to do it just for the sake of doing it. I want to write something that I myself would love and hoping that my readers would love it too. How would I expect the readers to enjoy what I write if I myself are not enjoying what I wrote, right?

Going back to the topic as mentioned in the head above, I believe we all are now having our new normal due to the impact of the Pandemic that we are mostly staying home and adapt to the new normal of doing everything from home. Workers are working from home, students are studying and learning from home and there are also front-liners who may have to work extra hours due to the pandemic. This is our new normal. To me personally, there is a pros and cons in the new normal caused by this pandemic.

On the positive side, as I have mentioned in the previous entry, I get to be at home as this is the longest period I ever spent at home while having no extra needs of waking up early to go to work or even to spend extra hours in the afternoon on the weekdays or weekends as I always would since I am officially working from home. I will normally prepare my online quizzes generated using the google form for my students to learn my subject while staying at their respective home. I have shared one of the quiz I prepared for them in my previous post too. I purposely prepared maximum of 20 Multiple Choice Questions because I want them to learn in a more flexible and less pressured atmosphere. I know that their other subject teachers have been giving them works to do too, so I do not want mine to be a stressful subject or a burden on top of the other subjects. Now that is one of the new normal as an impact of this pandemic.

I was really happy when the book has arrived safely in my hand!

Another thing that I would feel really grateful as an impact of this stay-at-home trend is, I get to read more on Wattpad, my novels (including Chicken Soup for The Soul - the one I least favor) and of course working on my very first English novel. On the writing part, I was super excited when I first began and trust me I still am. I may felt a little tired having the same routine daily which felt exhausting of working the same thing everyday and all are done at home. I kind of blame the 'being at home' all the time while trying to manage everything from works to personal stuff is a little too overwhelming. I am saying this because I literally feel that the only source of my connection with the outside world is by scrolling through my social media account or watching the television. It does not feel as great as compared to meeting real people in the real outside world. But then again, I know that this quarantine and lock down is for the sake of everyone. I am just expressing what I feel personally and it has no intention of blaming anything or anyone. I do not want to be too stressed out with what's happening, so I believe by sharing it on my blog writing like this is one of the way for me to avoid from being stressed out, or worse go nuts. Government offer counselling services if we need someone to talk to. So, if you feel stressed out and have no idea on who to talk to or how to deal with your emotions, please go and seek for their help. Do not be skeptical to see the word HELP because HELP in this sense does not means you are problematic or what, you just need someone to trust, listen to you and understand your situation, there is no harm in that. We all need that someone right? If we could not find one from our circles of family, friends or even social media friends, there are counselors who are more than willing to help. Who knows it may turn into a real friendship? We never know right? So, do not hesitate to call for help if you have such problems or issues. Or you can try to write a journal or just blog it like I am doing right now. You shall feel better after you have done so.

Open it as fast as I could as I was super excited to see how it looks like!

Anyways, I would like to share on the books I purchased online from Bookurve. I have received the parcel and as they mentioned in our WhatsApp messages, they will be sending the first two and the other one shall be delivered after the MCO is ended. Now, on the two novels that I have received. I was so happy when they postmen stopped at our gate and delivered them to me. Being a book lovers much, I could not wait to open the books and so I did. As usual, I never dig into the book before getting them wrapped. Thanks God that I found all the stuff needed for that matters. So I did. 

I never let the book go unwrapped, not reading before wrapping!

Actually, I do not want to start with a new book for my reading routine but I just can't help it. So, I grabbed the one of the book that I purchased online and started reading. To be honest, I do not feel the price RM89 paid for this book worth the quality of what I have received. I am not so sure why; it could be since USD converted into MYR that I have to pay so much for such a thin book. Not only that, the font was terrible to the eye of the reader (me in this case). There are too many repetitive words and narration which seems to be done purposely to make the story longer but obviously not as interesting. The cover was a little to exposing that I have to make it covered with something so it would not seem to be too erotic because the story was not that kind of erotic. Well, can't help it but people do judge the book by its cover. I read about two or three chapters and almost approaching the middle part of the book. I had to stopped before I ended up finish the reading and regret over my RM89. I still have the Chicken soup book and I am still reading one or two stories daily to make it more sense in my reading and of course in the effort of finishing the book.

This is the one I mentioned. Thin, terrible font and sad paper/book quality with the price of MYR89

Now, here's a little update on the English novel writing that I am currently working on. As I typed into this entry I have written about 40,487 words so far in the novel I am working on. The goal is to reach 50,000 words at least or making it goes till 60,000 or 70,000 or 80,000 the maximum I should be writing. It's actually almost there but I am kind of not into into writing as much lately but I must keep writing if I want it to be published as soon as possible. Finish the writing then editing and more works after which is more fun I suppose. Do pray for me so I could have the strength and ideas to keep on writing.

Anyways, I was thinking that I should do book review on the one that I have read. Was thinking of making a vlog for the review. Should I? Well, see how thing goes.

That would be all for now. Till next time.

Love.

Adam Geordrey

(Author to be)

LEARN ENGLISH LANGUAGE VIA ONLINE QUIZ - SOCIAL DISTANCING - MCO- TASK 14

Hello peeps! How are you today? Hope that everyone is in the best state of health. As promised, I will be trying my best to keep updating stuff on the blog So, in this post I will be sharing the task I gave to my students via Google Form.

I believe that there are a lot of teachers out there who did the same, delivering classes as normal as possible despite of having to do it during the quarantine period. This is what we often called as Work From Home (WFH). I also believed that there are many ways that we can keep delivering our teachings and I am using Google Form because I believe it is the easiest way that my students can access the materials since there should not be much internet data needed for that matters.

So, here you are... I am sharing the passage and questions I did today. I have given out the link to my students to answer them. You may go and try to answer it too. Just click on this link CLICK HERE . Remember to write down your name, school (if you are no longer in school just write anything to refer your current place or the last school you attended), and class. I have did 14 Online Quizzes so far and below is materials I used for Task 14 for today. There are 3 passages and 20 questions altogether. Feel free to use them. Do leave me your comments. Follow me on my instagram: mewziqbeads and Facebook: Adamfi Dafi.

Enjoy!

QUESTION 1 - 7 ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE.

I used this photo as to picture the character named Joe.

A high school student called Joe

Joe is a student in a high school called SMK Sebauh. He lives with his parents in a little town far away from the city. Being a student, it means that he really need to study hard and excel in his study. Joe wanted to be an English Language teacher. He know that in order for him to be able to achieve his dream, he needs to master English language well. One of the methods that he used to enhance his English language proficiency is by reading more books written in English. His most favourite book is Harry Potter series written by J.K Rowling. He love reading this book because of the magical elements in the novel allows him to have endless imagination. This also helps him to be more creative. Apart from that, Joe also loves to write. He started writing something short like posting something on his WhatsApp status or Facebook and Instagram post. He writes those posts in English. This is a great start for him to train himself so he could be better in mastering the English Language. Joe loves going to school. Being a hostel student, he gets to spend most of his time around his friends and teachers. In the afternoon, will be spending his time playing football with his friends. At night, he will be studying for at least two hours. Joe knows that he must study hard if he wants to achieve his ambition to be an English Language teacher. Dream is something that everyone must have and work for it is compulsory if we want to change the dream into a reality. Joe hope for the best for his education and future.

1. Who is Joe?

A) A student

B) A teacher

C) A Writer

D) A reader

2. What is Joe’s ambition?

A) to be a writer

B) to be a student

C) to be an engineer

D) to be a teacher

3. What is Joe’s favourite book?

A) JK Rowling

B) Harry Styles

C) Harry Potter

D) Magical

4. How does Joe learn to be more creative?

A) by writing a story

B) by reading a book

C) by selling a magical story

D) by selling a magical book

5. Joe is using English to post on all of these social media platform except?

A) Instagram

B) WhatsApp

C) Tik Tok

D) Facebook

6. Which of the following statements about Joe is false?

A) He always read horror stories

B) He writes his posts in English

C) He wanted to be an English Language teacher

D) He spent at least two hours to study at night

QUESTION 8 - 14 ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE.

This photo was used to picture the character named Jessy

How Jessy cope with MCO?

Covid-19 has affected us in so many ways. It  is hard for us to keep our sanity during this Movement Control Order (MCO) but if we look at it from a positive perspective, we will find that this MCO is actually an opportunity for us to do everything we had wanted to do when we claims that we do not have enough time. Take this for an example. Jessy often busy with school works and other stuff during the school days. She often complains that she did not have enough time to do what she like. So, she is making full use of this MCO to do everything that she never had the chance to. During the first week of the school break, Jessy was still busy doing her school works given by the teacher. She completed everything without knowing that the school will be closed for the next few weeks due to the MCO. She was glad that she had finished all of her works. Since she did not have much school works to do, she decided to spend her MCO by reading all the novels she had always wanted to put in her hand. So far she has read more than ten books and novels during the MCO period. Apart from that, Jessy is also spending her time during the MCO to learn how to weave. She love to see her parents and grandparents weaving product such as basket, mats like tikar mengkuang or beads based products like the amazing necklace called tangguk. She tried her first time doing the basket made out of rattan and she did well for a first timer. To Jessy, MCO means that she get to spend more time at home with her family. It may be torturing sometimes, to not be able going out but she know that this may not be an opportunity that will come again anytime in the future. What keeps Jessy sane is she always tries her best to think positive and make full use of her time during MCO doing all she could to kill the time.

7. What is MCO?

A) Moment Contagious Order

B) Meat Cherry Orange

C) Movement Control Order

D) Movement Calculation Order

8. Why did Jessy complains about not having enough time?

A) She was busy playing netball

B) She was busy with school works

C) She was busy sleeping in class

D) She is lazy

9. What did Jessy do during the first week of school break?

A) Learn how to weave

B) Finish all her school works

C) Watch her parents making baskets

D) Read more than ten books and novels

10. How many book have Jessy read during MCO so far?

A) Five

B) Seven

C) Ten

D) Thirteen

11. Apart from reading, what else did Jessy do during MCO?

A) Learn how to cook

B) Learn how to weave

C) Learn how to make onion

D) Learn how to sell tangguk

12. What is the first craft she tried making?

A) basket

B) mat

C) necklace

D) tangguk

13. What does MCO means to Jessy?

A) She can sleep all day

B) She can eat all day

C) She can spend more time reading her books

D) She can spend more time with her family

14. Which of the following best represent the meaning of “to kill the time”?

A) To waste her time

B) To spend her time

C) To plan her time

D) To earn more time

QUESTION 15 - 20 ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE.

This one was used to picture the character named Edwin

Edwin’s biggest dream!

Edwin has a big secret. It is actually not a secret because there are some who know this secret that he have kept for so long. He has a big dream of becoming an actor. He was inspired by most of the videos he watched on the internet. No one really knows what he actually watched but obviously those videos has made him enthusiastic to be an actor. When their English Language teacher, Mr. Dashon entered their class for the first time, they were asked to write about their life goal and what they wanted to be when they grow up. Mr. Dashon was really helpful to assist them in writing out their essays. This was the time when he actually told Mr. Dashon that he wanted to be an actor. Mr. Dashon has always been supportive towards his students ambitions and life goals. To be an actor, Edwin should be able to communicate professionally in front of the public. Being an actor means that he will have to do interviews on the television or the radio. There will also be meet and greet with the fans. One of the way he could improve his communicative skills is by taking parts in the activities at school One of the example of activity he had conducted was being one of the Recess Deejay in school. From this activity, Edwin learns how to control his nervousness and stage fright. Besides, he has also learned how to communicate with the audience. His teacher, Mr. Dashon told him that he belief in him and that he is confident that Edwin will achieve his dream of becoming an actor one day. Edwin will keep his teacher’s advice and work hard to achieve his dream.

15. Which of the following best describe Edwin’s profession?

A) A student

B) A teacher

C) A Writer

D) A reader

16. Who is Mr. Dashon?

A) A student

B) A teacher

C) A Writer

D) A reader

17. The followings are correct about Mr. Dashon, except

A) He is always supportive of his students

B) He teaches English Language

C) He is the school principal

D) He always give advice to his students

18. What is Edwin’s ambition?

A) He wanted to be a singer

B) He wanted to be an actor

C) He wanted to be a teacher

D) He wanted to be a model

19. What did Edwin learned from the activity such as the Recess Deejay?

A) He learned to sing in public

B) He learned to control his anger

C) He learned to control his stage fright

D) He learned to act in front of the public

20. Why is it important for us to set our life goal?

A) To know where are we heading in life

B) To know when are we going to be rich

C) To know when will our life end

D) To know how much money we can earn

There you go. That's all for this post. I will be sharing more in the future. Do leave your comments and push the follow button. I would love to listen to your comments and opinions.

Love you all.
Adam Geordrey
(Author To Be)

Life during Movement Control Order (MCO) Due to Covid-19

Hey readers (I hope I still have readers). How is everyone doing? I hope everyone stay safe, stay home. I lose count on how many days has it been since the first day of MCO here in Malaysia but we are approaching the end of phase 3 and Phase 4 for this MCO is starting from 29 April 2020 till 12th May 2020. 

Life during this MCO period is a mix of everything. At some point it feels good and torturing at the same time. There have been a lot of stuff going around the media especially on the effects of this MCO. Personally, I believe this action is taken by our government for the good of everyone. Corona Virus or COVID-19 as it is commonly refers to is not a joke. To be honest, I have my own personal view on its effect on everyone's life and everything, mine too.

As a high school teacher myself, honestly it is something that does terrifies me. We are always made to believe that the end of the world will be signed with the earth shaking, rain of fires coming from the sky and so on. But then again, how do we know for sure that it is how the end of the world going to be? I am not a specialist of religions or the bible but then, I do believe that all those things that we are made to believe, mostly comes from human's words and there are indeed signs mentioned yet still, deep down I believe all of the truth about the apocalypse and stuff is exclusively known to God alone. Who are we to tell? Now don't get me wrong. This are all just my personal view and my own personal thinking. I have no intention in twisting the facts or any religious beliefs. The reason for why I am putting all these into words as mentioned above is because I have the fear that while we believe that this may be a temporary period, like who knows this is actually the end of everything, the extinction of human civilisation?

Going back to the 'me as a high school teacher', let me lay out how it all was  before and during this MCO period.

The public school break 14 - 22 March 2020

MCO Phase 1: 18 - 31 March 2020

MCO Phase 2: 1 - 14 April 2020

MCO Phase 3: 15 April - 28 April 2020

MCO Phase 4: 29 April - 12 May 2020

From the list above, the first MCO was implemented even before the school break begins and it is entering the end of Phase 3 and beginning of Phase 4 soon.

During the school break, I was super excited (Before the MCO come into the picture) because I managed to mark all of the exam papers so I would not have to spend my one week school break marking the exam papers. As an exchange, I brought some papers and stuff to do my classroom decoration stuff. I did all the decoration stuff without printers and manually sketch and trim all of them during the school break. As the first MCO phase come into the picture, I put those decoration stuff down as I have only a few papers left. This was actually the time when I had the thought of like what if the school is never going to open? What are all these decorations stuff are for then? And that was also the moment when I had the thought of, what if this is actually how the world end? There are so many things popping out in my tiny little mind. Just so you know, this was also during the month of Lent. I attended my last mass at St. Joseph Cathedral Kuching, Sarawak just a few days before the MCO was announced and I am grateful for that. The fact that we are no longer allowed to be gathered in public due to the pandemic, we are privileged to have the mass streamed online from home and it has become our new normal now. We participate in the daily mass and also conduct daily rosary or Divine Mercy prayer with the whole family everyday. This is one of the bright side of this MCO. We felt blessed.

Handwritten everything

I printed out the template when I was in Bintulu and brought it home to do the sketches

More... Classroom Decoration Stuff

If you ask me whether I have good response or the opposite of this MCO thing, my answer would be I have both. I may have the opposite view on it because I feel like the freedom and life I used to have before this all happens is taken away from me but honestly, that was just me being selfish and not thinking straight. If someone is wise enough to know the reason behind this MCO, they would know that it is not a burden but an initiative made to save our lives. This is the main reason for why we should not take this period of MCO negatively. I am aware that this MCO has also become a financial burden to most of us but still, what would all the money meant to us if we are going to be dead due to the virus? Worst come to worse, what if by not having this period we may have carry a virus that could kill people around us, those whom we love? It would be more painful that being kept home. I am also aware that saying this may make you think that I am lucky to have food and home to live in and I would not deny that there are more people sufferings out there having no food to eat or place to live. That is why, we must work together to help them. Apart from God, we human only have each other to depend on after all despite of having differences in terms of skin tone, ethnicity, nationality, religions and more to go into the list. That is why, never harm others because what human in need is a human indeed and God is what makes it all possible.

We had out Palm Sunday Mass via Live Streaming

I am not going to elaborate more on that because I believe we all have what we have to say on the issue and I respect your views and beliefs. 

As the title of this entry written there, I am going to make this post as to share on what I have been doing throughout this MCO period. I mentioned it earlier that during the school break period I was busy doing decoration stuff for my classroom and sort of finished 90% of the materials I brought home. As the MCO is officially announced, I am taking the chance to slowly read the one and only novel I brought home from my workplace in Bintulu. It was a great novel from my favourite author, Adam Silvera and I kind of having a personal connection with the author simply because we share the same name... hahaha to that... I actually bought the novel back in 15 December 2018 but I never really had the time to read it till the end (being busy may just be an excuse). So, since I told myself to finish it during this MCO period, I started all over and was hooked up with it to the extend that I do not feel like finishing it. This is actually one of my biggest problem when reading a good book, I purposely slow down the reading just because I did not want it to end too soon, which it eventually come to an end. Having nothing much to do and finishing the book at the same time really made me feel lonely. I was struggling to find things to do or things to read. I browse through google for free pdf, audible audiobook, youtube and even had the thought of buying some books online. None of it really make me feel coming back to that normal track of life but I did it anyway. I purchased 3 new novels online, something similar to the What If Its Us novel by Adam Silvera. I bought them online from https://www.bookurve.com/ They have a huge number of books from many different genres. I actually paid RM206 for the three novels and I am still waiting for it to arrive at my doorsteps. The delay is truly understandable due to this MCO period. I contacted them asking about the updates and they were so friendly to entertain me. So, as for today , two of the book are still on its way with the courier service provider while the other one shall be delivered after the MCO is ended. Do you think that amount of money for three books worth it? If you want me to be honest, from the digit of the money of course I would say that it is expensive and those who are not into books may think that I am wasting my money. But this is book that we are talking about, knowledge and appreciating hardwork of the authors. So, nope. For me it is an investment because there are more people who are investing in gadgets, lifestyle, fashions, food and so on where they are willing to pay as much or more and I respect their choice. For me, my choice of investment is books.

My sis made this for her berbuka

Its a family business actually. We are providing caterings.

Bought Sushi King via Food Panda

Treating the family.

Ordered Pizza too for the family.

Waiting for the book to arrive is really a killing thing and if you have bought anything online during this MCO period, you would understand what I am trying to say. So, in my case... I bought books from the overseas and while purchasing stuff from inside the country via online platform cost us to wait longer than usual, imagine how long purchasing things from the overseas should arrive? Well, I am still patiently waiting. Hopefully it will be home by this week. Oh, anyways... To kill the time while waiting for the new books to arrive I actually asked my friend to return a book which I lend him about a year ago. I know I was being bad for asking him to return the book while he have not even reading them but I really need something to read, so I did and he sent it home. Thank you buddy. You are always welcome to borrow it again in the future. When I received the book, I was super happy because I have a new one to read while waiting for the books I purchased to arrive. The title of the book is Chicken Soup for the souls, Tough Time for Teens. I bought this one back in 2015 and have never read it. So, I told myself this time I must. Unfortunately, my biggest expectations on this book was crushed as I read page by page and I only read till story 13 out of 101 stories. I don't really like the way the stories are narrated because as much as they claimed that it is based on true story (And of course it is), I did not feel any connection when reading it. I am feeling tortured to even read one story per day but then I must finish what I started and I must make sure I did before the new books arrive so I would not have to put this one down before it even finish.

The book I am struggling to read.

This is one of the biggest reason I can hardly lend my book to people

My FAVOURITE book! Finished reading at 7.35 in the morning

This is the receipt for the online purchase. Can't wait!!!

Some other blessings that I feel during this MCO period is, I get to spend more time with my family while still able to conduct my teaching and learning online via the WhatsApp group and Google Forms. I know that not all of my kids in school will have the access to the lesson but the fact that I manage to do for more than half of them is more than enough to make me happy. As they said "All of the starfish landed on the shore will be dead and there is no way for us to be able saving them all but the moment you pick one and throw it back to the water makes a big difference."

These are some of the online lesson I have conducted.

I know that working 650 kilometres away from home limits me from spending more time and money with the family. I normally get to spend the most for about two or three weeks with the family, that is the longest and if I were to put it all together, I may only have spend about 2 or three months out of 12 months a year. That is the biggest challenge I have to live with as a high school teacher teaching the exam classes and with the distance of 650 kilometres away from home. So, at time like this I am trying my best to make sure we spent the time well, and we did so far, praise the Lord. I ordered some food for us and we spent our time for at least an hour or two everyday for daily prayers. That is one of the biggest blessings during this MCO.

Oh, I think I should also include this one here for my self record and remembrance. My 2 years contract with the Huawei phone actually ended last month, so if I were to keep paying for the same amount while the contract has ended, it would be some sort of a waste to me. So, I had in mind to get another phone with another 2 years contract. At least I know that I am paying the internet and mobile service for something right? So, after doing some research and asking around I had made up my mind to go for Iphone 11. Why I-phone? Well, I am more like a traditional and village kind of boy, so I always had the thought that I-phone is expensive and I can't afford them. However, there should be no harm in trying right? So after doing some calculation on the expenses and stuff, I have decided. It was not easy because no.1, their store was not really available during the MCO period so I really have to check them on google like almost everyday. No.2, I went there (It was just around 5 minutes away from home) and I could not proceed without a credit card because only Android is allowed for purchase without the credit card. I considered myself lucky since I applied for some credit card before the school break and they are all approved and that is the problem. I must handle the cards well. The biggest problem with the card is, it was sent to the school which located 650 kilometres away from me. After asking and telling, I am allowed to proceed with just the cards photo since the TAC is sent to my phone and it is under my name. Walla! Done! I got the phone with a new 2 years contract on 13 April 2020. I am still learning to use it because I am so used to android. If it goes well then perhaps I will try the camera for making vlogs in the future.

My new baby.

Please be kind. I am not familiar with the functions and all yet... hahaha

Now, this is the highlight of this long lengthy post. I am working on my very first English novel during this MCO period. I haven't decided the title yet but the story is there. The novel was actually initiated on 10-02-2020 yes, this year! I just wrote 1802 words at first and leave it, exactly the way I did to my 11 years old malay novel that has reached page 235 and yet haven't got an ending. After doing all as stated above, I decided to make full use of this MCO period where I actually continued with the writing during the MCO Phase 1, not knowing that it would be extended. I am glad that I took the chance to write because now that it has been a few weeks and Phase 4 is coming, I am truly blessed to know that I have written down 35,191 words as in today 26-04-2020. Wohoo!

I am really serious about getting it published. This time I am very serious about it that my instagram are mostly viewing posts on authors and publishing stuff, same goes with my google search engine and the youtube channel I am subscribing to. I am learning on how to write a good novel, what format should I go for, how to do self publish and all those things related to make the book goes on sale and be available in ebook and paperback. Just to think of it made my blood rush! If I can make this happen, I may want to work on a motivational book next. I had always wanted to be an author. I want to sell a book with my name on it. I want to show my students that dreams are free for everyone and if we work hard, we will surely make those dreams comes true. I am working on it. Do pray for me and do support me once the book is available in ebook and paperback version. I will update on the novel from time to time.

I posted this kind of thing each time I have finished writing for the day. To keep record of the progress. I am going to make it happen this time. Targeting at least 500 to 1000 words a day!

So, I think that would be it. Thank you so much for dropping by this blog. I am trying my best to write as much as I did when I first started this blog. I won't let it die. I will keep updating. Pray for me so I can finish the novel and get it published. If you have any informations on what should I know on self publishing do drop me a message okay. Follow me on my instagram at mewziqbeads and Facebook: Adamfi Dafi. Thank you everyone. Stay safe. Stay home. Make full use of this MCO Period! May this pandemic ends well, soon. May God Bless us all. Amen.

With Love,

Adam Geordrey

(Author to be)

Rejection Hurts

Good day people. This would be my very first post for the year of 2019. Well, obviously there is something strong enough that made me to finally get into this blog to update the happenings in my life so I will always remember what I felt and what happened whenever I log into this blog.

Me on my flight from Kota Kinabalu to Bintulu on 10.06.2019

I did not remember whether I have or I have not mentioned that I applied for this one scholarship to pursue my study abroad. But yeah, I did applied and was waiting for the result. I did the application last year in December 2018 and keep on waiting until just now when they finally picked my call. It is a sad news that I was not selected as one of the scholarship holder but on the bright side, at least I no longer have to hope or wait for that one as I have always did for the past 6 months. Well, it would be a lie if I were to say that I did not hope for it very much because of course I did, why would I applied for it if its were not to be hoping for it right? Anyway, its not my rezeki then. On the other hand, I am very happy to know that my former housemate got his scholarship and will be going to Edinburgh this coming September. May God bless him and his journey in pursuing his Masters in our dreamland.

I will be going back to KK like very soon to get all of my stuff from our former house in Tebobon since they will no longer stay there. I just came back from there like two days ago and yeah, I am glad that this time around that visit is like quite different. Why? Well, I don't really have that reason why but there are things happening that made me feel I should really look back on everything and that I really need to start realising things around me. I admit that most of the time I may be very ignorant towards this and that while I really should not do that. I was wrong and I admit it. Some involved in the recent visit including my two best buddies. That unplanned meet up between the three of us has made me realise how far we have been and how much things has happened throughout each journey that we made. I am feeling grateful for everything.

Moving on to whats going to happen for now. I applied for a transfer back to Kuching for next year January because I need to wait for my little sister to complete her SPM this year in my current school. Well, if my application for that transfer is going to get the approval, I think I will just pursue my masters in the local universities around Kuching. But, I will never give up on looking for other opportunities to achieve my biggest dream.

On the other hand, while waiting for that dream to become a reality and if I were still meant to be serving my current school, I just need to live with it and do the best I could to serve them good. Well, to be honest, I keep on saying that my heart does not really feel like it belongs here but I am not so sure if it is because of the school or is it because of the job or could it be something else. Teaching and educating has always been my passion but it does feels like its fading as time goes by and on my defense I would say it is because of the working environment where I feel like I am the only one who is passionate enough to care for how to make things better and what should be done to help those kids who really can't see how important education is. They do some in my circle who are as passionate as I am but still, too much toxic will kill the whole crowd right? I always try not to be affected by them but it would be a lie if I were to say it does not harm me at all coz it does.

I could still remember when my friends and I keep on saying that "there are too many thing needed to be done yet there are too little time given/left". It may not be as strong during those days but it is true indeed when now I am looking at the rise of the number in age and how long has I been in the same spot. A little throwback here. 

Studied in UMS since 2010 - 2014

Worked Part Time job as dance instructor in a kindergarten in KK in 2014

Worked as Substitute teacher in SMK Tebobon in 2014

Worked as Research Assistant for Prof Vincent in 2015

Worked Part time as Yakin Boleh Tuition Centre Sulaman Central in 2015

Posted to SMK Sebauh, Bintulu in August 2015 

2016 SMK Sebauh

2017 SMK Sebauh

2018 SMK Sebauh

2019 SMK Sebauh

Not so sure will that list of journey has a twist in it or not. Will still hoping for a better journey ahead.

Me with my best mate. since 2014 and counting...

We both are currently serving the government school while the other one behind this lense is currently pursuing her PhD.

Me and my former student in Teluk Likas during my visit there.

He is very kind to offer his help sending me to the airport. It is an honour. I am wishing you all the best for your future. May God Bless you and your life.

I guess that would be it for now.

Thanks for dropping by to read and scroll through this humble blog of mine. Will try my very best to keep things freshened up and come back for more updates. My life my not be as interesting as how others life is but yeah, it the choice that I choose and I do admit that there are good times and bad times and my life may not be fun all the time because it is true indeed, those who managed to keep people around him laugh are usually a kind of person who himself feels miserable about his own life. I truly believe that I bring laughter to those around me including my students and there are also time when I am really a pain in the S. That is true and I admit it.

So, hopefully I will be coming back to share more on stuff related to my personal life. Hope you love those photos of mine.

With Love,

Adam Geordrey.