Salaam..
Today on 17th October 2006, on Tuesday is meant for our Islamic Knowledge and Civilizartion (IKC) class with my favourite lecturer this semester, Dr. Hikmatullah Baba (it’s a tie between him and Dr. Baharuddin). All the 10 groups are supposed to present their assigned countries.. and my group.. it’s Tunisia.
So.. our group (Latifah, Amina, Sulafa’ and Asma’) planned to wear red and white attire tomorrow to represent the colours of the Tunisian flag. However except Latifah and me, they don’t really have something red and white so they’ll opt with maroon they guessed. No problem. The thing is.. Latifah and I are the most pshyced ones bout this clothing thing since this is one of our favourite departments! Oh i sound so Chic-Lit
Today.. on the presentation day.. I wore a deep red abaya with white hijab.. and a matching deep red hijab pinned on top of the white and let it hung loose. Oohh i love how i looked that day :p And Latifah… i told you how she looks hot in bright colous.. and man.. when i saw her wearing a white skirt and bright red buttoned top with white hijab.. she just looked smashing. So it’s obvious that we were the most excited ones for the presentation. Nad, Mun and Nik even took photos with me as though i was the star of the day. Well they succeed in making me feel so perasan :p
Ok each group was given 5 topics to explain about their assigned country in the written assignment.. n Dr. Hikmah is so eccentric in its way of teaching.. we felt like we were doing Project Runway instead to make things short :p
The disappointing thing was… Dr. Hikmah was nowhere to be seen! Munibah was delighted coz she hoped that presentations would be cancelled.. but Latifah and I were agitated coz we worked so hard for this assignment and we are probably the 2 abnormal people perhaps according to most people who are crazy in doing presentations (remember Donald Trump?).
Class starts at 10.. but it’s about 1030 am and he’s still nowhere. My group would not allow this to happen! So Hashimah (a girl from another group) n I went to his office n spoke to the secretary. She told that he has a surgery to undergo. Uh-oh…
Then Hashimah called him n he said he’s coming. Later when we went back to the library auditorium.. she told me that he’s actually struggling with a kidney complication. Double uh-oh.. Hashimah knows this coz she’s closer to Dr.. she’s like one of his good students i guess. That was why there were these few times he would not come to class withot any notice that we would be so annoyed for coming.
Man.. i felt awful.. n worried at the same time. He’s receiving frequent medication which means he’s condition is serious. No one would even had a hint.. coz he’s always so jovial… eccentric n energetic. n he’s always mocking students around when they came up with lousy presentations.. he’s damn funny in an eccentric way (i mean he either makes u laugh damn hard or annoys u big time) but actually he’s struggling with a disease..
However as he promised.. he hopped in into the audi and still in his usual not caring manner he told us he had to take a jab for his medication and would undergo for a surgery at 2pm. More like informing us that we would receive our exam results late. We expressed our concern but he said he’s fine and presentations would be resumed.
So our group was the first group to present. We had absolutely no idea how group presentations are going to be conducted with him.. i memorized the historical dates of Tunisia while Latifah memorized the geographical coordinates of Tunisia just in case. But to our surprise.. he asked the 2 groups representing the same country to come forward.. and he chose 2 students at a time (1 from each group) to compete like a game show!! IT WAS DAMN HILLARIOUS!! We were all acting like lunatics trying to get the answers.. Sulafa’ was even sitting on the floor trying to guide Asma’ in answering (Dr. intentionally chose the quietest in the lot) and Tifah coolly answered the geography questions.. as for me.. and Nik from the other group were chosen by him to answer the 1 minute public speaking section since we are considered as the ones who talk the most (!?) As for the rest of the groups waiting for their turns.. they too laughed hardly watching us being whackos. When it was their turn.. we joined the fun too. I have 2 words to desribe the presentation. FUN. CREATIVE. TERRIBLY UTTERLY HILLARIOUS. Ok make that 5.
At the end.. I pointed out to Dr. that we were wearing the colours of the flag to show our high spirits for Tunisia.. so "any extra mark sir??"
He replied.. "I couldn’t see any moon or stars." Ok.. Thank you sir! :/
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And probably I only mention it here.. I pray that your surgery was a success.. and see you next sem for Ethics insya Allah.. I’m really grateful to be destined to be your student.