Teacher Alex
I was on my way to the pasar this morning when Nizzar called me on my phone. "Mummy, Teacher Alex has passed away." I was like, "What? When? How???" "This morning.." he said. "I don't know much details. Soraya told me as she got the message from Tc Alex's daughter". Then he sent me the obituary page. I was dumbfounded. Utterly shocked. Teacher Alex was my son's Maths tuition teacher. I got to know him from my friend, Intan. He first arrived at my house for tuition in February 2020. He was a short, well built Indian man, aged 63 at that time. He looked serious but quite chatty and jovial. He introduced himself. Told me his background (he was a Johanian), his career (been a tuition teacher for >20 years), his family, his students and so forth. My son just kept quiet besides him at the dining table. Thereafter, i met him again maybe once or twice. Then he stopped coming because of the lockdown and also because he had moved to live...
