"An Evening with Cikgu Alias, the reader & the stud"

Wife of award-winning teacher Alias Ismail, Rosmawati Abdullah, 41 lamented that there was nothing wrong in talking openly about sex between married couples.
“He is being honest about sex because he is concerned that the social ills among students are quite high. It’s important not to have illicit sex. People should scrap the mentality that sex education is taboo,” she said as reported in yesterday's theStar news: Don’t read too much into hubby’s book and sex story, says wife.

Alias Ismail, 42 a Bahasa Malaysia teacher at SMK Menerong, Hulu Terengganu last week won the inaugural recipient of the state-initiated Tokoh Nilam award as an ourstanding teacher. He was reported to have shared his secret to remaining active -- to read, have an intellectual discussion with his wife and having sex nightly.

TheStar news report: Award-winning teacher’s secret – reading and sex on his confession of nightly sex with his wife received much criticism from readers, especially from the conservative Malaysians who regarded sex as a private matter and that it should not be made public.

A Mysinchew.com article posted on theMalaysianInsider by Tay Tian Yan on 3 June poked fun of his confession with a funny satirical piece: What’s love got to do with it?

Tian Yan wrote:
But he is telling everyone that half his achievement has been attributed to his daily love-making routine. Should other teachers and his pupils take the cue from him? As a teacher par excellence, a prominent figure in the education sector, he should have shared his teaching experience instead, for example, how to advance holistic education and how to prevent our schools from turning into “hell schools” like the one in Rawang, among many other things. Perhaps, Alias should take up an offer to speak for Tongkat Ali products, but where education is concerned, he has been talking nothing but trash. And from the medical perspective, he should consult a physician, or a psychologist, to get his indulgence fixed.

In response to that, Alias said he was disappointed by these people who were attempting to discredit him. He insisted that he was not a hypocrite and was encouraging only legitimate sex.

“Many people in Kuala Berang shook hands and congratulated me after Friday prayers saying that I was different from other teachers. A day prior to that, a group of teachers in Hulu Terengganu threw a party for me for winning the award,” he added.

The couple’s eldest son, Mohammad Sallehuddin, 24, said his father was a “sporting” dad who openly discussed matters that were taboo in other families. “He teaches us to be humble while advising us not to indulge in illicit sexual relationships,” Mohammad said.

Meanwhile, in the latest response to the debate, theStar today revealed that Alias has been offered to conduct a number of workshops for schoolchildren and married couples.

In the news report: Workshop offers pouring in for teacher, Malaysian Public Service Society president Andrew Raju, who is based in Seremban, said he was impressed with Alias’ honesty and wanted him to conduct the workshops at selected schools and venues. Raju said he would approach a corporate organisation to fund the workshops, dubbed “An Evening with Cikgu Alias”.

Meanwhile, State NUTP chairman Awang Abdullah @ Pui Piong Gee said Alias was a dedicated teacher who had contributed towards educational excellence in the country. He said NUTP was proud of Alias who had won numerous awards.

“We are backing him all the way as there is suddenly an attempt by certain quarters to undermine him. These critics are just sour grapes,” he said.

Yeah, sour grapes are not good for health. Go..go... Cikgu Alias, show 'em they are wrong and that there are as much blood in your brains as it can contain in your dick.