I went to school today. and two days ago. well. i couldnt get enough of the place. used to call it a god-forsaken place. oh shoot me. now i'm missin it like crazy.
the school called me home. well, i'm still their star student, am i not? this time, to give a talk. yeah baby, a talk. don't believe me?
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| boy. i look important dont i? |
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| aint a huge fan of candid, but must say i love this one |
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| the one in yellow, my former mandarine teacher. now why does he look annoyed? and mr manivannan, my class teacher in form 4 n 5. proud eh> the female teacher looking at me like shes in love or sth teehee |
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| i used to be among this crowd, sometimes. sleepin. talkin, listening to music. but this peeps were listening to me MAN |
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| i effing love this prncipal. he's a new guy btw |
well. back in school day, i was the talkative, shining one. debate, public speaking, emcee for this and that. and how i miss all that! i mean, we dont do that in college anymore, not in english i guess, and my malay sucks. well never mind.
i talked bout school life. how i wasnt really the best student there, cuz that wud be my best friend Kevin. I got kicked out off Mr Patrick's chem class (the kids laughed when i mentioned this in my talk, so did him--cute), but after all the kickin' and sunbathing for not completing my report, i got an A1 for chemistry. in trial as well as the real one. beat that.
i mean, not to brag here, but all the punishment works, dont they?
they made me a person, a human.
remember back then when i was in form 2, before we had this student exchange to Taiwan? I used to throw tantrums at Ms Woo.
And today, all thanks to her teachings, I'm a B. Ed Tesl students, one of the best student in my batch. Beat that, too.
I brag a lot, dont I?
well sorry. I just wanna say that I dont deserve the credit for all these achievements. The success, the dont belong to me, but my teachers. these success are not mine, but my teachers, they have succeeded in making me a human. a person.
and i'm gonna give back to them.
wow. a little too ambitious over there?
and of course. my teachers are so friggin fun , too!
they treated me and Chrissie like princesses..and said really nice stuffs. i feel so honoured that they still remember me. teehee
mr low, my biology teacher,
"of course! you scored my biology!"
miss yvonne,
"you've grown up! prettily!"
"have you got a boyfriend?"
"you've got an eastern, Arabic look about you"
ah. i scored in Bio. yeah. dunno how I did it, cuz it was friggin tough. Mr Low was this bio teacher of mine. His classes were rather slow, but I loved it. Due to my eyesight I sat at the most front. He used to teach me maths, and I loved him a lot. I mean, the teacher-student kinda love. He used to ride a purple C70, which was effing antique, and an aviator shade. that was cute, really.
miss yvonne said i've grown up. pretty. ah. i blushed. was i really ugly back then? haha
the boyfriend part. what to do. i answered.
"no. sad, aint it?"
"nah..dont marry a typical malay man okay?"
she knows me better than anyone. what typical malay man cud stand Nurul Syuhada Abdullah Attarmizi, the corrupt westernised girl? i mean, in matric they used to hate me for being different. like wth. never mind. its the past. who cares right?
the eastern arabic look. she mentioned that before. which is weird. but i loved it. haha. arabic la sangat kan.
i met my old
i used to picture him as dementors in harry potter than feed on scared souls or sth.
it felt that he hated me so much, and i wanted to do this sweet revenge by making him like me. so i studied hard for chem, paid attention in class, and felt all the attention from him.
he was a little disappointed that i am not doing Chemistry. well, I'm gonna be a teacher, just like you, aint that cool? i thought.
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| awwwwww. he's old already and i look funny |
the sweetest part is that he apologised to me for being so hard on me, all the punishments and all, but man! i said thank you for that. i mean. look at me now. so disciplined. ha-ha that was a joke.
after the talk which was held during assembly, i went hang out with Chrissie around the school and met lots of teachers. and told them the same old thing,
Penang, B Ed Tesl, I4P. Yeah. 5 and a half. 4 more to go. Degree. Yeah. Next year. On holiday.
i even talked to the guard, the kanteen auntie, the makcik sapu.
they cudnt believe i was the little girl. this little girl.
awww i miss school. life was indeed better. way better. but still. we have to grow up.
"life is like a book, with lots of chapters. No matter what happened in one chapter and how important they are, we don't go back and re-read them; we move on"
nurul schuhada abdullah attarmizi, 2010
















