Faris going to Boarding School

31 March 2021, Wednesday

The result of the MRSM entry application was released on 10 March 2021 and Faris didn't get it. There's not even an appeal button to click on, unlike some of my friend's kid that I asked. I accept the result, I redha cause I have prayed that Faris be given the best school for him. So MRSM might not be it. I will wait for the result of SBP application. Whatever the result is, it will be the best as I had prayed for Faris, Insya Allah.

I am a bit worried for Faris because he's not consistent in his exam, sometimes good, sometimes not too good. I dont know how he fares in his SBP exam that he took at Sek Seri Puteri last month as hubby's the one who brought him to the exam. What worries me is that they seems to have problems with some document that hubby brought, saying that it's not the one they wanted. 

But the consolation is hubby thinks Faris did well in the exam as when he interviewed him about the questions Faris seems to be able to answer well. And so we wait. 

19 March 2021

We had to go back to JB and applied for surat merentas negeri from the police as Selangor is still in PKPB. We left the kids at home with bibik as we're afraid the approval might not be obtained. 

And today is the day the result of SBP application is released. However we are not able to check with the link given by Pn. Rose the admin of the kids' tuition centre. And so we wait for later to check.

Later in the afternoon CY Mas message in and asked whether Faris got SBP and I said I cannot go in. She gave me a link to check and I dutifully did as she asked. We were dumbfounded and can't believe our eyes when the page says "Tahniah! Anda ditawarkan ke Tingkatan 1 Sekolah Khusus Tahun 2021 Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia.

And we were further dumbfounded upon further checking that he got Sekolah Dato' Abdul Razak! All the while we had been thinking that if he fails to obtain admission, I will appeal to my school via our Alumni as Alumni's had 10% quota for admission  of our kids. 

We actually choose Sek Sains Alam Shah in Cheras, SASER in Seremban and Samura my school during application as MCKK, SAS and SDAR cannot be chosen. We cannot click at the school's name so we understood that those schools will be allowed to choose its own student. 

We told hubby's family and I think my BIL will be the most happiest as SDAR is his alma matter and he always talked about the school. 

When we broke the news to Faris, his response is: I don't want to go to asrama. Huhu. So the days after that was spent brainwashing him to accept the fact that he will go to asrama, whether he likes it or not. Alhamdulillah he seems receptive after a while.

We started preparing things for his school, baju and seluar sekolah (3 sets), kasut hitam macam orang kerja (we bought 2, 1 of it is RM70 at Bata and the other one hb bought online for RM29), slack hitam and other colors (4 pcs), songkok, t-shirt collar putih, singlet putih (3), track bottom (3). The bills is RM198 (+ Ariana's kain pengawas RM41.90) + RM260 paid by hb). Other things like cadar, sarung bantal, baldi, tie, selimut etc need to be bought at the school's koop as some of it has the school logo on it which bills will come to RM659.

Other than that we need to pay yuran makan of RM3 per day for those with income RM5000 and above. If your household income is below RM5K you only need to pay RM1 per day. 

Today I asked a friend to help CTC'ed the documents for registration and we need to do a few more things like medical check up, take passport photos and buy toiletries and snacks for Faris. I also need to fill up various forms that my hb will not do as he hates filling up forms.

Registration will be on 6th April 2021 and my BIL will tag along. He must be excited to go to his alma mater again hehe.

My hope is for Faris to be happy at the school, to learn properly, to cope with any difficulties, to manage on his own, to be independent and hopefully he will receive help in the event he's not able to. I hope he won't miss home too much and that we will be able to visit him often. It will be Ramadhan soon and it worries me somehow. You know Faris never wake up for sahur on his own huhu. I hope everything will go smoothly, Insya Allah.

Till then.