Sambung walking down the memory lane..

Anyway, sambung balik cite sebelum ia jadi telenovela mengalahkan Dallas lagi yg tak habis2, mati boleh idup balik semua..(psssttt Miss AA, kau tau ke cite Dallas or is it before your time?)

Back at the school, when we have free period in between classes, we are supposed to port kat library. So can you imagine how big the library is...ada 5 tahun and setiap tahun ada dekat 200 orang students and at any one period berapa org the lib can tampung. The geeky Msians (termasuk i le tu) ada favourite place tersendiri...one morning tu si Hugh tu mengekor i ke port we all. I nampak dia cam kucing jatuh anak je...semua buat serba tak kena. Pas tu asik scribble2 atas kertas. Since we were in the library tak boleh le pulak nak sembang cam kat kedai kopi. Then he passed me a piece of paper where he wrote, what do you think of me?

Huh?? Seperti biasa i blur (sama gak dgn case ni). You know, for so many years mak i asik suh i study, jangan nak berboipren2, so that thing sort of dah lekat dlm kepala otak i...apahal lak mamat ni hari ni..So i jawab la, you're my good friend. I've kept that piece of paper in my diary for so long (a ah MG, i kept a diary yg sampai sekarang i tak buang but frankly speaking i don't know where i put it! Oh no!!) Then he wrote some more. 'What do you think if we were to.....'

Hish,..i asked, apa dot2 ni? Fill in the blanks la..takde masa la wa nak melayan uols tau. Ni tengah nak mneyiapkan homework addmaths ku, nanti kang kau jugak nak pinjam. So, i decided to turn the table around, i pulak tanya, so what do you think of me?

I can't remember what exactly he wrote (mana le pulak perginya diary ku) but something funny i think. Pas tu loceng pun bunyi and we had to go to our respective classes. Terbengkalai la misi mamat tu..Lepas tu baru i terfikir, laaaaa....is he trying to tell me something??? oh no...oh yes (teringat sambil tersengih2)...oh no!! I think we avoided each other like the plague the rest of the day. I segan, dia embarrassed...At the same time, i was thinking, apasal la aku ni dol sangat..yes i like him..ok gak la kalau jadi boipren..ghope pun boleh tahan (sekali lagi saya ulangi, mata dia hijau Ok, with some speckles of brown), pandai pun pandai, and he played rugby uols! (tak kisahla 2nd team OK)


This was my boarding house yg sekarang dah jadi B&B ghopenya. Nampak tak the door on the first floor near the landing? That was my room for 2 years. Ni side view of the house.

Back at the boarding house, i pun mencitekan kepada kengkawan what happened that day. One of my housemates said, he's probably going to ask you out. Sekali lagi minah blur ni dgn blurnya bertanya, out? Where to? Duh! he's going to ask you to be his girl! hehehe..itu ke maknanya. We all bersembang2 masa tengah bersantap supper lepas prep malam. Prep ends at 9 and masa tu boleh buat bising, tengok tv, telefon etc. Then the house phone berbunyi. There was only one phone utk kegunaan ramai..i seldom used that phone, only to call home selalunya. Tetiba one of my housemates cakap that there's someone on the line for you. Jantung i berbunyi dgn kencangnya..lub dub lub dub (awat medical books sellau describe yg jantung kita berbunyi lub dub lub dub?? Ye ke?). Sapa pulak le yg call kita memalam ni? (agak2 tau or purak2 tak tau?)

Hello..(btw, kalau kat sana dulu i tak cakap hello cam jello..cakap gaya2 camni hel-low..muncung panjang terjuih ke depan sikit cam Esah selalu cakap). Hi CK, it' me..(kata mamat tu). Look, i don't want you to say anything, just listen. What i wanted to say to you at the library this morning was, i like you very much, and i want to go out with you...'

Terdiam CK sekejap. Sib baik dah established apa 'going out' means..kalau tak mau i ingat dia nak ajak pi beli ais krim or makan pizza ke memalam buta tu..Sib baik jam2 tu jugak baru i establish yg i pun suka kat dia...kalau dah lama i minat kat dia, maunya ada adegan gelak guling2 atas lantai cam first time when i found out MG syiok kat i. So i said, OK, i see you in school trow? Night2!' Skema tak? (sebab tu la bila i buat pesbuk quiz on which desperate housewife are you, jawapannya ialah i'm Bree Van Dekamp. My self control ni ngalahkan org sembelit lagi tau!)

Oh ku rasa sungguh indah dunia ni. Cam org ittew tetiba je bersemangat bangun pagi kerana real life is much better than dreams masa tu (ptuihh!)

Masa tunggu bas nak ke sekolah terpikir2..er...camna nak cakap dgn dia?...apa kitaorg nak buat?...eiii malunya kalau orang tau..( bagaimanakah perasaan anda CPK pertama kali selepas dah declare dgn Kamil?)...are we supposed to be joined at the hips from now onwards??? Can i ask him to draw more than just my chemistry graphs now since that he's my boipren? Kahkah! Kiranya i late bloomer le, dah masuk 19 tahun baru nak berboipren (idak le cam kawan kita tu yg berpacaran dgn budak college masa dia still berbaju uniform sekolah..tak tau le sapa ittew).

For boarders like us, we normally have breakfast in school. The bus would pick us up at 8.10 every morning, reached school about 10 minutes later and have classes from 9 till 3pm (with break or free periods in between). Then after 3pm depends kalau you're involved in games atau saja nak main suka2 (seperti sports dropout cam i ni selalu dihabiskan di library membaca buku and buat homework boleyy??? (damn! I still tak habih2 belajar sampai sekarang..)



(Both pics taken from http://www.hotelscombined.com/Hotel/Chindit_House_Bed_Breakfast_Glastonbury_England.htm)

Ni la tempat we all selalu lepak2 sementara nak menunggu bas. Ni permandangan daripada pintu masuk rumah. see the staircase? I pernah jatuh atas bontot and slide down sampai landing terakhir. Masa tu takde carpet lagi...i was in my socks berkejar nak ke dapur nak supper and the polished wood was so slippery. sakit tulang tunggin (cenonggeng??) for a few days uols. 2,3 hari lepas tu balik sekolah we all tengok tangga tu dah kena carpeted..prihatin ke tak??

Please bear with me...cite i ni banyak melalut..it's like me going back down the memory lane. Punya le susah nak come to the point why Thomas Cup akan sentiasa mengingatkan i kepada this episode in my life.

Anyway, dalam2 i merangka camna i nak tackle masalah segan dgn kawan baik yg tetiba jadi pakwe i, bas pun sampai kat sekolah....and tengok2 fulamak...sapakah yg telah menunggu utk menyambut ku??? Tak lain tak bukan jejaka bermata hijau tu..(he was a day pupil. Rumahnya tak jauh dari sekolah and he drove to school everyday. Most of the times he'd have breakfast in school). So our first date was at the dining hall, we had breakfast..(we as in him, me and mana lagi nak campak 2 org kawan dari tanah malaya tu??)

Btw, kat sekolah tak leh buat hanky panky ye...no holding hands apatah lagi hold tah hapa2 ok..cikgu boleh tangkap under this strict rule of no PA 'public assignation' or something like thatlah...saying that, him and i pernah kena tangkap 2X, ON THE SAME DAY! Ngok ke tak and bukannya kitaorg buat tak senonoh pun! Cite tu masuk bab lain.

Actually, we tried to keep the relationship from being made public. Tak le susah sangat when we have always been together anyway. Dlm class pun duk sebelah menyebelah..the only thing is that bila kat library memang we would sit separately..sib baik, kalau idak, tak berjalan le keroje i dah asik menengok matanya je.

Then one day after about 2 weeks, in Chemistry class (students ada 8-10 orang je per class)...our classmate yg jugak Tok Dalang dlm cite pertama di atas tetiba cakap dia nak buat announcement. Masa tu class dah habis, dgn our teacher sekali dok sembang2. The guy said, a little bird told me today that HughGrant is going out with somebody...'who???' depa yg lain yg sungguhla kepochinya bertanya. jenuh le depa sebut nama one girl after another tapi semuanya Tok Dalang geleng kepala (dalam hati i..wei! Boleh tahan gak mamat ni ye! Banyak nya pompuan yg pernah digossipkan dgnnya!)

Last2 TD said, you have to look at the person sitting next to him and can you see the twinkle in her eyes....

Nooo! CK???! Mereka berkata. Cik Kiah of course la senyum2 cam pijak semut pun tak mati hokay??? I top student class tu, buah hati kesayangan cikgu, malu i because cikgu masih ada kat depan..I buat muka toya je purak2 buat kerja (helloo..like i always do la pun. What is wrong with me kan? Terserlah betul how nerdy i was..i am??)

I thought, laa..no wonder la mamat tu masuk class taditerus je cakap, CK, i'm sorry. I asked, for what? he said, you'll see..Ghope2nya he said after lunch that day he was cornered by some boys and depa bertanya betulkah khabar2 angin yg mengatakan kami lebih dari teman tapi mesra?

I supposedkan because both of us were good students, so our teachers pun takde le marah walaupun lepas2 tu dalam class dok sengih2 private jokes memanjang. I really made sure my grades didn't slip..every night i would get my books and pi dok kat dining room sorang2 menelaah sampai midnight. I couldn't stay in the room because my roomate dah tidur. Sejuk tau bila central heating dah di offkan. I'm quite glad that i had always stayed focused where my studies are concerned. Masa tu cukup cemas kalau MSD dapat tau as if they have nothing better to do than to go snooping around kat public2 schools to see whether the msian students are behaving themselves. I had a guardian last time yg time cuti2 i pi rumah dia. Dia pun selalu ingatkan i, never ever let my grades slip, nanti kang MSD pi deport i balik. And you wonder why i terlebih nerdy kan??

Masa tu rasa cam donia ni milik aku..indah betul! I must thank him also that being with him made me less uptight. Idakle kerjanya bukak buku 24 jam. They played rugby in winter and cricket bila dah masuk nak panas. But i missed the rugby season..mungkin sekali dua i dok bertapa tepi padang watching him play with my friend because masa tu belum jadi pacar lagi. But bila dia start main cricket, aku lak tak kosser! Boring siut! Sampai la ni i tak paham benda alah tu.

During easter hols, i went to stay with my guardian, who lived about an hour from school. he said to me, CK, come meet my parents..

Aiyok!