Sekolah Melayu Labok 1947-1950

I started schooling one morning in January 1947. It appeared that they have decided I was big enough to go to school: of course i was, I was already more than 7 years but school in Labok reopened only in 1946 after the Japanese surrender and they did not have enough teachers to open more than 2 classes so I had to wait. This is from my eldest brother Shafii who wrote in this blog in January 2010: "...Semasa di sekolah melayu kami empat beradik dalam satu darjah ia itu Darjah Lima aku yang tua sekali adek-adek aku Maimunah, Mokhtar dan Ismail." How I remember this well, yes 4 of us: one sister and 3 brothers all in Std. 5 in 1950. It was the highest Class at Labok because after this we had to leave school and wander off elsewhere. I was lucky being the youngest I was young enough to join an English School to open in 1951 in Kuala Krai 22 miles away to the south in Ulu Kelantan. My other 3 siblings continued schooling in Standard 6 in Kg. Machang 5 miles away from home.