Son Of The Estate

My old boy, Harry had just graduated in the University of Malaya on 7 August, 2008. Promised to attend to his graduation ceremony on the day but unfortunately the convocation fell on a Thursday which was a school day, and thus I could only send him my best regards through his parents who traveled all the way from his hometown to attend his graduation ceremony.

Harry was one of my students during my first posting in SJKC Ladang Pengkalan Bukit, a mini size school in an oil palm estate. He came to my class with his brother as a 'squatter' a year earlier before he started his primary one lesson. And thus we had been together for a total of 6 years though I left them a year before they graduated.

We had been getting along very well throughout those years and I could still remembered how he won me a 3rd prize in the district level English Elocution Contest, and that's an unprecendented achievement of the school too!

I could still remember how I squeezed my brain to write him a simple article entitled ' To Live is To Love' for the contest, how he started the elocution with a verse from the song 'Nobody's Child', how he was scolded when he was unable to pronounce and sing the song well, how he tolerated me though he was sad to be scolded, and that's all because of love, he worked hard because he loved his teacher, and eventually, he didn't disappoint his teacher, and I am proud of his achievement till today!


We had lots of beautiful memories together in those days. And now he is graduated, a son from the Pengkalan Bukit Estate!
Congratulations, boy! SJKC Ladang Pengkalan Bukit is proud of you, the Pengkalan Bukit Estate is proud of you, and we the teachers from SJKC Ldg Pengkalan Bukit are proud of you too!

Good luck and all the best to you in every walk of your life!