Cik Rathia

I learnt today that one of my former teachers in secondary school passed away last week. Cik Rathia was a feared teacher during my time. She was a massive lady who took us in PE. I remember her always wearing T-shirts which would stretch round her body and 3/4 trousers. She would blow her whistle and shout our her orders, sometimes sat in a deckchair. Us girls would run round the field, or round the neighbourhood, or do starjumps, or whatever exercise according to her commands. Her most famous threat if we disobeyed would be to sit on us! That usually put the fear of God into us and made us run faster (or find shortcuts away from her sight and use those!). It's teachers with personalities such as these that make her memorable. She was loud, obnoxious at times, but within, you could see she was a kind soul.

She taught me from 1993-1996.

Cik Rathia d. 25 August 2006
Eternal Rest grant unto her soul, may perpetual light shine upon her, may she Rest In Peace.