A Pre-Test Weekend
On Early Saturday morning around 6am I was awaken by the washing machine and my maid battling to open the back door. I almost nearly shouted ‘gawd damn it, can’t i NOT go to school for one day?’ before I realised today is a Saturday. And so before my maid finished her battle, I was back sound asleep.
Come 9am, I reluctantly got up and scouted around the house. Dad’s not around as he’s going to KL to meet his ex-classmate from Taiwan, who believed Dad’s praises about Malaysian tourism and came for summer vacation. Mum dragged my sister and me to the mamak stall opposite my house despite we threatened to go to Shangri-La for Dim Sum. I steal RM1.20 from the tosei change for The Star, which I spent another 1 hour reading from cover to cover later. At 11 I started tackling Math questions in Federal. I found some questions to be less difficult this attempt, probably I was very worked-out the last time and my mind sorta made accusations about the author being nuts and thus I cannot concentrate.
I accumulated my first 2.5 hours that morning, and decided to reward myself with McDonalds (ok, my profile says I avoid McD, but then I saw a report on The Star that day which recommends the Chicken Foldover, which is ‘relatively healthy’). I stroll to McD and did my business. Despite 4 Chicken Foldovers lining up along the food counter, the sales assistant told me I had to wait for 4 minutes, while she allows a Middle Eastern man and his 2 girls to choose their Happy Meals.
I had my Foldover (no fries, no drinks), an apple and a slice with peanut butter while watching the first 30 minutes of an Indian movie.
I slept (or sorta slept) for the next 1.5 hours, and woke up to discover I’m supposed to pick my sister up in Pulau Tikus. I excitedly jumped into the car and sped downtown, honking 3 motorcyclists who doesn’t seem to know how to differentiate ‘kiri’ and ‘kanan’. 100 meters before my destination, Mum called and told me my sister is not finished until 30 minutes more. I blew up and told her to ask my sister to walk home instead. She live a life too pampered she wouldn’t appreciate other’s time. Nevertheless I waited at last, and the car was so creepily silent on the way back.
Despite being mentally exhausted from blaming my sister for wasting another 30 productive minutes in my life, I managed to do 78 chemistry MCQs in 2 hours (ok, that’s way too long). Then we had dinner, while I still verbally attacked my sister (ok, Jun Yi is not a nice guy when he’s mad).
I admired the aspiring sentences our past leaders wrote again at night, and discussed with Mum what will us Chinese be soon. That was really intellectual as we touched Chinese Education (Hua Jiao), diplomatic relationships with Singapore and our people’s attitude. ‘Meningkatkan keupayaan pengetahuan dan inovasi serta mewujudkan ‘minda kelas pertama” Abdullah said. Watched ‘Dumb and Dumber’ later while Mum’s struggling with her statistics and our printer, who never failed to do anything, yet.
Today I woke up at 9 feeling like hell (cos I slept at 1 yesterday, Jun Yi cannot miss sleep, he’ll become a banshee if he did), and blur-blurly cycled to USM, typical on weekends. Mum forcibly stuffed breadcrumbs and packed them in a bag for me. I did not eat them, but I fed them to the fishes and turtles in a pond in USM, which I used to 4 years ago. Some turtles are still there, while a lot of fishes had became much bigger (that’s so lame).
Back home, I read The Star again, and was tempted to write to CAP (Consumer’s Association of Penang) to complaint about AirAsia’s misleading advertisement (RM0.99 one way). I checked my mails and skytrax, and was happy to see another 2 passengers writing positive comments for MAS, again. 2.5 hours more on aspiring leader indoctrination, while constantly checking if my sister’s rabbit is eating his carrot and not the potatoes i intend to cook someday later.
I can’t sleep this afternoon, but I inststed on laying on the bed, so another 3 hours passed unproductively. Soon thereafter I did 2.5 hours on Chem again, and was ever so frustrated when I still cannot solve questions on percentage of purity, even it’s like…my 5th attempt since April. Before this I went to aviation-photos.com to check on AirAsia’s planes…they really look like bleeding vampires in red, black and white. Also, initially I thought their Manchester United livery would look nice, but it turned out the opposite. Maybe their aircraft (A320) is not as grand as B747 or A380, that’s why it looked like…forgive me, a bleeding male sex organ.
Just before writing this I fixed my first post-test movie with Soon Khen, and I checked the price of the restaurant which my class would go after the test.
This sounds lame really, forgive me.
August 15th, 2006 at 2:59 am
haha…well…u seems 2 describe out everytin clearly…nice 1…a “special” weekend?