Pasal beg duit hilang

Rabu 1996

Dia meraba-raba poket baju kurung sekolahnya. Serta merta mukanya berubah. Segera dia menunduk memunggah segala isi meja dengan gopoh. Kemudian, mendadak dia bangkit, kerusi kayu yang didudukinya tadi tertujah ke belakang.
"Eh, demo ni bakpo?" Kawan sebelah mejanya terganggu dengan tingkahnya yang kasar.
"Wehh.. aku rasa beg pitih aku ilang ar...", sahutnya dengan nada cemas.
"Herk... ghano buleh ile..?"
Dia menggaru -garu kepala yang dilitupi tudung putih. Otaknya ligat memusing semula aktivitinya hari itu.
"Aku rasa aku tau kat mana beg pitih tuh", pantas dia meluru ke muka pintu kelas. Terkocoh kocoh kawannya berlari mengekori.
Koperasi.
Dia ingat kali terakhir dia memegang beg duit itu adalah ketika dia sedang membeli sebungkus kacang kuda pada waktu rehat. Ketika itu pelajar perempuan tingkatan satu sedang berpusu-pusu memenuhi ruang koperasi, dia pula melawan arus untuk keluar dari koperasi.
"Ada napok dok beg duit kaler koko?" Pantas dia bertanya kepada AJK koperasi yang sedang bertugas.
 "Beg duit saya ilang, saya rasa last skali saya pegang mase beli kacang tadi", dia bercerita tanpa ditanya.
"Dok napok pulok...sekarang ni menengah atah tengoh rehat" jawab AJK koperasi itu.  Selang masa waktu rehat menengah bawah dan menengah atas adalah 35 minit.
Dia menyandar di dinding koperasi, kawannya memandang dengan simpati.
"Jong kito gi jupo cikgu disiplin", cadang kawannya. Dia hanya mengikut. Selepas itu mereka pergi berjumpa dengan guru kelas pula. Cerita sama diulang.

Fikir. Fikir. Fikir!

Dia mengheret tangan kawannya memasuki kelas tingkatan satu. Setiap kelas diulang ayat yang sama;

"Saya dari tingkatan tiga. Waktu rehat tadi saya tertinggal beg duit kaler koko di koperasi. Ada sapa sapa yang napok beg duit saya dok?"
Diam.
"Saya dok kisoh kalu awok nok ambik duit, tapi pulangkan kad pengenalan saya, sebab saya nak ambik exam PMR tahun ni".

Dari kelas pertama hingga ke enam. Tiada respon.

Tapi dia yakin, dia ternampak gerak mata di kelas ke tiga dia masuki tadi. Dia pasti. Tapi dia tiada bukti. Harapannya agar budak perempuan itu mengambalikan kad pengenalannya dalam apa cara sekalipun.
Walaupun duit yang ada di dalam beg duit itu adalah duit belanjanya untuk sebulan dan duit yuran asrama, Tapi yang lebih penting sekarang adalah kad pengenalannya. Terbayang kesusahan yang bakal dialami jika kad pengenalannya hilang menjelang peperiksaan PMR nanti; kena buat laporan polis, dapatkan kaki kad pengenalan, belum lagi termasuk bebelan ibunya apabila pulang ke kampung hujung bulan nanti... haishhh...!!

Khamis.

Jumaat.

Sabtu.

Ahad 1996

Ketika beratur untuk perhimpunan mingguan, dia memerhatikan seorang pengawas melemparkan sesuatu kepada rakannya. Hatinya berkocak.
Waktu kedua sebelum rehat, seorang pengawas lelaki menghulurkan beg duit warna koko kepadanya.
"Alhamdulillah...Awok jupe kat mane?"
"Bowoh meja tempat mikrofon". Meja itu berada di koridor berhampiran pintu pejabat sekolah.
"Terima kasih."
Beg duit itu diperiksa. Duit hanya berkurang sebanyak RM8, dan sekeping duit satu ringgit edisi lama yang dia simpan sebagai koleksi. Kad pengenalan dan barang barang lain tidak terusik.
Dia dapat rasa pencuri itu mencuri kerana  ada kesempatan (mungkin juga terdesak), bukan kerana tabiat. Ini kerana dia hanya menggunakan RM8 daripada RM50 yang ada di dalam beg duit itu. Mungkin pencuri itu tersedar tindakannya adalah salah (atau berasa kasihan) lalu dia memulangkan beg duit itu dengan meletakkan di kawasan yang paling selamat (berhampiran pintu pejabat yang kebiasaannya hanya dilalui oleh para guru dan pengawas) dan mudah dijumpai (di bawah meja mikrofon, yang pasti digunakan oleh pengawas setiap hari).

Apa pun dia berdoa semoga itulah kali pertama dan kali terakhir pencuri itu mencuri.
Dia juga berdoa semoga itulah kali pertama dan terakhir beg duitnya hilang....

Baucar Buku 1Malaysia - my story

I am frustrated. I don't know where to start. I mean, what is the purpose of Baucar Buku 1Malaysia actually? I believe one of the purposes is to help students to ease some of their burdens (money-related burdens). Part of students' life are of books and assignments.While books and references are easily accessible online and libraries, one cannot find assignments that readily available online to submit to their lecturers, if so, one still need to make it into hard copy... Can you tell me how you write your assignments with? using computer/ laptop. Very few lecturers accept assignments which is handwritten nowadays. We understand that. Then you have to PRINT it so that your dear lecturers can have the hard copy of your assignments, right..? So ink cartridges, A4 papers and printers are considered as necessities in students' life. There is where the Baucar Buku 1Malaysia should be spent!

 But the rules on "How to spend the Baucar buku" denies that.

"Kalau saya bagi awak beli ink ni guna baucar buku, nanti saya yang kene menjawab dengan bos."- said one of the sales person at one of the bookstores I have surveyed.

I don't know whether the rules really state that 80% of the baucar buku should be used to buy books or the rules are being misunderstood. Either way, it makes students' life suffer.

So, what do you do with your Baucar Buku 1Malaysia?
 Beli novel..hik hik hik..
Yep, i have seen a few students queuing at the Pembayaran menggunakan Baucar Buku counter laden with a basketful of novels.-Don't put he blame on them... That's all the Baucar Buku is useful (can be used) for..
So don't be surprised if one day you  find students drifted away drowning in illusion seas of emotions and fail to be presentable in the real world. They fell into unrealistic world because there is where thousands RM of Baucar Buku are being spent - Beli novel cinta - which have no relation at all with their courses studied.

Kisah baucar buku saya

We spent almost three hours in Popular Bookstore. We scan, take-and-put, choose and re-choose, calculating the prices of items selected. We made a little base camp at one corner of the store, scattered our things, evaluate and reevaluate so that we would not exceed the given value. We were tired. Our eyes getting blurry and teary and red due to strong blow from air conditioning and over staring. My stomach did a few hard notes. My last food was my early lunch at 11.00 am.

So we have decided how to spend my RM150.00 baucar buku.
We brought the basket full with stationary and some books to the counter.
I produced my IC and 3 RM50 baucar buku. I want to spend the other RM100 for printer's cartridge.

"Err.. dik, kalau nak guna baucar, 80% kena beli buku..", the cashier in uniform yang comel told me.

We took the basket off the counter, went back to our little base camp and changing a few non-book items into a few books.

That's how I let go my RM150 Baucar Buku.

I used some of my afternoons to survey which bookstores or computer stores that accept Baucar Buku as means of transaction. I want to buy ink cartridge. To my despair, none of computer stores accept Baucar buku. The bookstores are stick to the rules: 80% must be books. So if I have RM100 Baucar Buku, RM80 should goes to books! and the ink is what? RM20??? Ridiculous isn't it?

I am a part time student, I have a secure job. Extracting RM40 from my wallet to buy a cartridge should not be a problem. But I think the cartridge would be more valuable if I buy it using Baucar Buku...[sigh]

So, please, whoever made the rules about Baucar Buku, please revise the rules. For all I know the Baucar is now being spent in various ways, most of them are not 'intelligent'.

How did I spent my Baucar Buku?
I bought 13 papery items [novels, religious books, recipe book, mags] - none of them have thing s to do with my study (directly)
Pens, mechanical pencils, file and stapler's bullet (dawai kokot).

Happiness in layers.

Just after maghrib my friend sent me a few pictures of her new houses via Whatapps. One of the houses is said to be ready by the end of this year. She is married to a Pahang-born Kelantanese and the houses are in Pahang. So it is clear that she will be 'orang Pahang' soon. My friend already did some surveys and windows shopping. She is happy and cant wait to get 'naik rumah' done.
I'm happy for her.

My younger sister bought a house. Just opposite her office. She said that she will save a lot by buying a property near the workplace. I don't know. May be she wants to spent her whole life in Melaka. I think she just want to be 'orang Melaka', that's why she buy the house.
The house is said to be ready by the end of next year. She also did some buying and surveying already. I know she is so excited and cant wait to get 'naik rumah' done.
I am happy for her.

When my pengetua knew that my sister got hold of the house, he asked me: "adik awak dah beli rumah, awak tak nak beli rumah kat Melaka ke?"
My answer was somewhat in general: 'Takpe la ustaz, saya cari rezeki lain."
He seemed not to satisfy with my answer. "Jadilah orang Melaka", he added just before I left his room.

Jadilah orang Melaka - hm.. that's interesting. -grinning-

oh yes, 
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it is worst to feel worst.

Sometimes when we feel that we are the worst of the worst. Just remember others might be worst than us...Bersyukurlah...