Imagine being an eight-year-old child receiving the news of school closures one evening. You find your mother confused, sweeping the bookshelf to see if there are enough workbooks and stationery to assist your learning for the next few weeks. The next morning, you wake up to find that the school life you’ve once known is gone. No...
Image taken from NST.com As Malaysians, we all know the year-long suspense and intensity of preparing for an important exam, such as UPSR, PT3, and for some of us, even IGCSE. The 2020 class of Form 5 students faced no different with the long-awaited SPM. But as if the stress of studying wasn’t enough, the COVID19 pandemic brought ...
Picture credits: Veveonah M. Youtube The story of Veveonah Mosibin spending 24 hours in a tree in order to get data connection to take her exams was probably so unbelievable that the Deputy Multimedia and Communications Minister Datuk Zahidi Zainul Abidin mistook it as her doing it for Youtube views. However, once it was proven that she had taken exams that day, many praised Veveonah for...
"Adik sudah bersarapan? (Have you had your breakfast?)" one mentor asked the child on a Saturday morning when the Zoom class began. "Ya, saya bangun awal untuk makan sarapan sebelum kelas (Yes, I woke up earlier to have breakfast before class)," replied the child. Since the Movement Control Order (MCO) to the current Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) phase, many children had to go through...