One, two, three,...?
Okay, I lost count how many of them addressed me as 'Cikgu'. As Christina pointed out,
"We call them adik-adik and they scream for a Cikgu!"
Will someone get them their Cikgu before they start stampeding us to get to the staff room, please?
It went without saying that nostalgia got the best of most of us when we stepped in. Even if we didn't walk through those hallways with our PMR, SPM or STPM books, it still hit us. I bet it hit a tad harder for Christina since she had walked the halls with a prefect uniform knowing which stairways to take to avoid certain nutto teachers. Yes, school does this to one even if one's schooling days cannot be categorized as the best times of one's life.
Telling young little Form Two girlies that bullying was not cool turned out to be more fun than anyone would have thought. We asked the kids the type(s) of bullying that went on in their school. The answers shocked.
Tarik rambut (pull hair)
Cubit (pinch)
Panggil nama (name-calling)
One answer in particular, got Jessica, Christina and me staring wide-eyed at the girls.
Tarik skirt (skirt-pulling)
Apparently, everyone does this to everyone else. Hands shot up faster than we could ask if anyone in the class had ever done it or had someone do it to them. And where do skirts get pulled up? Out in the open, at the canteen. Whoa! They were even shocked that we were shocked 'cause to them it's so 'normal'.
Okay, we said, if you girls insist.
We did as we practised two weekends ago and managed to get a handful of honest confessions. Of bullying and being bullied. One was just too sad. She was constantly told off for being ugly. She couldn't sit with the others much less talk to them. She nodded painfully with a smile when I asked if it was a real experience. I felt like hugging her and telling her she is pretty, 'cause she was. In so many ways.
I guess ones like her make the nerves, energy and missed spelling quizes worthwhile forgoing. Why Ms. Winnee?!
It rained on the way back to college. Thank you, God! I needed it badly. Not because of the scorching hot weather but for the constant shifting ground underneath me. If it means a rainy day or two, I don't mind if this earthquake keeps on going. Even if it's forever this high on the Richter scale.
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This is the legendary deck that I could spend my endless waiting hours on if only the old horny uncles would stop bugging the living daylights out of me. -_-"
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HELP's very own Stonehenge. Got friends coming over for Visit Malaysia Year 2007? Show them that we too have cool prehistoric sites to visit..jpg)
See how pretty a sports medicine center can look?
The rain is just the coolest. Puddles are gifts that force you to see the world around you in a different light. Angle. Everything.
*loves*
minx wrote at8:19 PM
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