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No accounting for illiterate ‘tali-jera’

The most effective way to do it, is to do it. — Amelia Earhart, American aviation pioneer and author In 1962, I was eight and studying in Primary One at Nanga Assam Primary School in Saratok. That was when my poor dad (Apai) was made “tali jera” (he couldn’t pronounce “treasurer”) of the school committee. […]