AN INTERVIEW SESSION AT THE COFFEE SHOP AT THE CURVE

   17TH OCTOBER 2025    ~ An appointment was set with Mr. Chang David from Sin Chew Jit Poh newspaper for an interview on the topic of school and students discipline. I was just sharing my personal opinion based on my 30-year teaching experience. It was a short informal chatting at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf at the Curve, Damansara, Selangor.

I will now have to wait for the printed report which will be out real soon.

[READ THE PUBLISHED REPORT HERE]

THE INTERVIEW THAT HAPPENED AT SECRET RECIPE CAFE

The coffee session today took place at Secret Recipe in Taman Suria which is near my house.

The reason: an ex-student wanted to interview me for his college assignment. As you can see, my opinion regarding certain matters are still sought after, even after retirement 😀

It was my pleasure to see Mr. Afif Farhan Zulkiflee, an ex-student of SMK Taman Universiti, to help him with his task. Coffee and cakes were only to help things done smoothly. 😀

AN INTERVIEW SESSION WITH UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF UTM

3rd MAY 2021 ~ I was asked by a colleague to be interviewed by a few undergraduate students of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia [UTM], and one of them is her son. They are studying Mathematics in Education, or something like that, and this must be for one of their assignments. It was about "Effective and Professional Teacher". The Q&A session was conducted on Google Meet - the new normal of doing a coursework for university students these days.

I was not actually sure how it was going to happen but it was all too formal, like a TV live recording. There were actually five of them, asking me questions which I simply answered based on my personal opinion and experience and hope I would not be a bad influence for these future teachers in the making.

It was all over in about 30 minutes. I had to thank them for choosing me for their project work and I was glad to be able to see fresh and eager faces of young people [except for one whose cam was not working] instead of the same, old faces I see in school. 😀

BEING INTERVIEWED BY AN EX-STUDENT

Ms. Mastura and her two friends, who are doing TESL course in UTM, came over to school to do an interview. Too bad, it was not for any magazine, newspaper or television show. It was for one of the assignments they had to complete which had something to do with curriculum design. I hope that I had given you all enough information even though most of it would be based on experience and my own understanding of the subject being discussed.

Use one word to describe how I might feel today: FAMOUS :)