sifir 23 dan sifir 17

Seperti sesi-sesi prep malam yang selalunya, malam itu juga kelas hingar-bingar dengan pelbagai aktiviti biasa seperti 'perbincangan' untuk menyiapkan kerja sekolah, jalan-jalan cari pasal ke sana ke mari, dan perbualan tentang gosip-gosip hangat/update terkini.

Tapi tidak seperti selalu, malam itu adalah malam yang senyap bagi Ba'dina. Entah kenapa dia seperti tidak ada mood untuk berhooha-hooha pada malam itu dan tekun sahaja berada di tempat duduknya untuk menyiapkan kerja-kerja sekolah yang diberikan.

Ketika bangun sebentar menuju ke locker di bahagian belakang kelas, Hailwa yang duduk di barisan akhir menggamit Ba'dina untuk singgah di mejanya.

"Toot,,meh la sini...main rambut aku..", kata Hailwa. Entah tak tahulah apa motifnya, pemikiran budak-budak tingkatan 2 memang kadang-kala sukar untuk dimengertikan. Tapi Ba'dina akur sahaja lalu berdiri di samping Hailwa menocang rambut rakannya itu sambil mereka berborak-borak yang entah apa-apa dan bergelak ketawa ria dalam suasana kelas yang gamat riuh-rendah.

Tiba-tiba Haniz entah dari mana meluru masuk ke dalam kelas sambil menjerit cemas memberikan amaran, "Wey..Sally..Sally!!". Secara automatik semua budak bertempiaran bergegas kembali duduk di tempat  masing-masing.

Kecuali Ba'dina yang masih terpaku berdiri terbangak-bangak sambil tangannya memegang rambut Hailwa.

"Apa Sally Sally??!". Secepat kilat sahaja Cik Salmah sudah terpacul di muka pintu kelas dengan muka paling garang.

Dan sebagaimana kilat bertindak, matanya juga terus saja menyambar objek paling tinggi dalam kelas ketika itu, iaitu Ba'dina. "Hah..yang kamu 2 orang tu buat apa?!"

Setiap pasang telinga dalam kelas itu menjadi tegak untuk menangkap sesi soal-bicara tersebut sambil mata berpura-pura menghadap buku di atas meja masing-masing.

Sedang Ba'dina terkebil-kebil dengan tangan basahnya masih di kepala Hailwa sambil teragak-agak untuk memberikan jawapan yang selamat, seperti enau melepaskan pucuknya Hailwa secara spontan menjawab, "Saya tak tau Cikgu...saya duduk je kat tempat saya buat kerja,,tiba-tiba dia datang main rambut saya".

Mata Ba'dina menjadi bulat,,mulutnya terlopong tidak percaya mendengar jawapan tersebut.

"Kamu jalan-jalan masa prep, kacau orang buat kerja...cuba baca sifir 23!", jerkah Cik Salmah kepada Ba'dina.

Dengan muka penuh yakin konon-konon memang hafal sifir 23, Ba'dina  menyebut perlahan-lahan sambil mencongak laju dalam kepala, "23..46..69..92..115..138..161..184..207..230.."

"Sudah!", kata Cik Salmah berpuas hati. Ba'dina menghela nafas lega dengan kepantasannya mencongak. Dan Hailwa menghela nafas lega dengan kepantasannya menyalahkan Ba'dina...

Tapi Cik Salmah rupanya masih belum mahu berhenti setakat itu sahaja. Beralih pandangan kepada Hailwa pula, dia menyambung marah, "Kamu pun sama aja...baca sifir 17!"

Terkejut dengan arahan tersebut, Hailwa berdiri terkial-terkial mengajak mindanya mencongak dalam kadar lumba lari pecut 100m, namun otaknya telah cramped, "17..34..err..51..errr..68..err..errrr..."

"Sudah!", kata Cik Salmah tak puas hati. "Duduk!", arahnya kepada Ba'dina dan Hailwa lalu menyambung membebel kepada seluruh kelas tentang keperluan menggunakan masa sebaik-baiknya ketika prep sambil dia beredar ke kelas sebelah untuk meneruskan pemantauan selaku warden bertugas malam itu.

Huh..gila tikam belakang kawan (tapi secara depan-depan?),,tak ada semangat setiakawan langsung. Dan Tuhan kalau nak balas, tak payah tunggu lama-lama, Dia boleh bagi 'cash' on the spot. Sifir 17 lagi susah daripada sifir 23 okkkkk..huhuhuuh...

"Tapi aku tak tahu kenapa aku tak benci dia ni...", kata Ba'dina.

I love you Toot! Muaahhhs!! :D

stf 959 reunited!

In the contact details card which Muniza asked us to fill up during the reunion, there was one difficult question.

Iya betul susah..anak Rom pun berkerut-kerut nak menjawab nih

Owh..ok,,actually there were 2 difficult questions. The first one, sequentially, was "I am _________ at __________." People got a little confused at first as it could be just anything from "I am flabby at the stomach" to "I am such a drama queen at our high school reunion" to "I am in love at first sight" to "I am a murderer at large" or simply "I am mad at Moon for making us confess things to her!"...before some smart girls figured out that the right answer was supposed to sound like "I am a CEO at the biggest company in the world". Huhuuh..

But the real difficult question in question was "Write down one incident that you remember happened in STF". Man...everybody was kind of went blank looking at that question. Was it because after a whole night  of chit-chattering, screaming, posing, cam-whoring and laughing your heart out, your mind just won't function right,, or was it because when you have so much memories, be them good, bad, funny or scary, your mind would just blend them all together and store it at a small piece of your brain that when people ask "How was your schooling years?" you can only recall it as "the superb 5 years of my life!".

Almost gave up, I just simply jot down "too many!" at first.

But then, considering Moon's effort to compile this contact book (ceh ceh ceh! ;p but seriously Moon, we're thankful of your brilliant idea and efforts), I forced my brain to think of one, and decided to write down whatever incident that crossed my mind.

So the incident that I forced down was "sports day". But surprisingly, after writing that, suddenly all the memories throughout the 5 years spent at STF came gushing through my mind like water flowing rapidly down the stream, that I felt like I almost choked trying to spell them out in words.

"sports day; escape prep petang pastu kena tangkap dengan warden pastu kena prep kat Bilik Warden; kena kejar dengan bapak beruk sampai depan Dining Hall; datang lambat senaman pagi pastu kena duduk kat luar tennis court; escape P.E dekat Gym pastu kena tangkap dengan Cik Ramlah pastu kena lari netball court 12 round; stay-up kat Dining Hall; round compound; hockey practice"...but damn the space on that card was limited! But yeah, Moon asked for 1 incident only after all..

What a school life it had been!

Years gone by and counting, all those now are just sweet memories that may not immediately come up when recalled, but they surely will stay someplace in your mind that maybe on some quiet days, they may just resurface at their own will and bring smiles, laughters or even tears to you.

This lovely Rina's photo is fun!

Moon's STFville :)

thoughts

I'd been thinking about her these few days.

So when I caught her on Facebook the other night, I hailed, "Hey ho!", and told her that I kinda miss her.

And she told me that she'd been thinking about me too lately.

Yeah, I do believe that when you're thinking about someone, there's a highly good chance that one someone is thinking about you too, with or without you knowing it.

And this often happen among friends.

Zan and me.