The announcer started the introduction,." this young recipient for the Maal Hijrah SPM award was born in Johor Bahru.." I cant helped feeling a bit emotional as i saw my little girl now a full grown teenager standing up there on stage with the honoured guests including the Sarawak Governor listening to a brief on her and her achievements. It was just like yesterday when still working in Johor Bahru and with the wife pregnant expecting our second child that we decided not to go back to Kuching for the customary Hari raya holidays break because of the imminent birth of Diyana our second child and also due to my heavy work schedule. I still remembered vividly that night when she was born at Johor specialist clinic. No other family members around but the birth was a breeze because of her small size(but how she has grown now!!). The date 15.4 was best remembered for the day Titanic sank but for me and the family it was simply Diyana's birthday. Have we raise her well? I cant really tell in all honesty , sometimes i feel we(read I..) spoilt her but as always we try merely to be her friend and confidante. Her school days were always packed with extra curricular activities, sometimes one wondered how she copes, she was in the school band orchestra,Deputy Head prefect, debating class and takes her piano seriously. She can be absent minded though. I can tell she is not perfect and one hopes that all the discipline and commitment that she learns at her school and now college will bring her in good stead as she face the adult life later. When she got 12A1 in her SPM nobody is more pleased than her two grandmothers and as all grandmothers do they never stop bragging about their grandchildren. Her achievement is owed to the mother of course who will always be there to ferry the children to endless tuition classes, always ferreting if they slacked a bit and giving all manners of encouragement and support. We gave her the name Diyana after that Princess and as she grew tall (for her age) one cant help pondering the right choice of name(just a dad's biased opinion). Her elder brother Azri has also been a mountain of support for her. To Diyana the award is just a small reminder that in life one can be rewarded if one works hard enough and in this sometimes cruel and artificial world, the ingenuity of real achievements is a wonderful solace for one's enhancement and preservation of self esteem. Good luck to you as you continue to counter the roller coaster of a teenager's life towards adulthood.
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