Appendix: 2

REPLACEMENT MID-SEMESTER

Your name : Mohamad Salman Hadi

Student No. : H1A119146

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DECLARATION:

Hereby, i Mohamad Salman Hadi, declare that this assignment is truly my

own. I agree my score be cancelled if my lecturer finds our that this
assignment was not mine.

Signature:

Date: Monday, 14 October 2019

 Pinch of Regret

(worlds: 283 worlds)

I received news from home that my father just passed away. I have been
working in a palm plantation in East Malaysia for the last five years. I never back home
during those years.

I made a terrible mistake in my birthplace, impregnating my girlfriend.

I remember our last encounter five years ago before I ran away to Malaysia to be
a migrant worker. We sat on jetty when looking at big waves racing each other to reach
the lips of the beach.

She suddenly said: “would you come with me to meet my mother to discuss
things?”

“what for said i? “then, I threw a stone to the sea.

“you needed to ask her permission to marry me”, she said. I ddn’t get my period
for more than two months. “I’m pregnant she said while sobbing”. I’m carrying your
child.

“what?” I disbelieved what I just heard.

I still remember my reaction at that time. I ran along the jetty: “I was losing my
mind”.

I left her behind when she was still crying and never looked back.

She kept calling my name from a distance.

I never contacted her when I was working in Malaysia.

I have to come home to attend my father’s funeral. How can I confront her
again? Did she keep the baby? The baby must have been growing up now if he or she
still lives. How I she now? Has a she got married to someone else ? there are a lot of
things that come to mind, but I don’t have the answer for them.
 In a few hours, I will be in my village again after five years. How I will face
everything.

My version:

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I will deal with it, first I will apologize to the woman I have conceived, and I
will apologize to her mother and father for what I did five years ago. I will be
responsible for what I did five years ago. I am willing to do what I can so that the
parents and women forgive me for my mistakes.

If they forgive me, the first thing I do is marry her if she doesn't have a new
husband when I go to Malaysia for five years. maybe the child is old, and maybe the
child doesn't know his father's face because she hasn't seen him in five years. I will take
my wife and children to Malaysia to live there and start a new life with him, and I can
still work there. even then if she wants to forgive my mistakes. but if she has found a
new husband I will apologize to her husband what I have done to him and I will make
amends for him if it can forgive me. and if his mother or father also does not forgive me
for what I did five years ago, I will atone for my mistakes whatever the punishment or
the request of his parents, so they can forgive me. which of course they are upset about
what I did to their children and after that I ran to Malaysia to run away from my
problem, and it was very irresponsible, like a coward, run away from the problem to
solve the problem, but that could not solve the problem.

But this time it's different, I'll make up for my mistake, me have thought over
and over again, I have regretted what I did five years ago, I regret it very much, how she
accepted the bitter truth from me. how she faced him alone, how she raised his child
alone without his father, maybe at that moment she was devastated. I have thought
about it many times and this time I will make up for all my mistakes on it. that's what I
will do after I get back from Malaysia and come back for it.