20 years ago – 1985
i was a third former in an all-boys boarding school in seremban. this was the time when you self proclaim that you are a senior among the puny juniors. this was also the year when i escaped a major thrashing by a bunch of fifth formers from a dorm in a neighbouring house. i can’t for the life of me remember what the root of the problem was. and for some reason we knew that something was brewing that would possibly lead to the entire dorm being summoned by these pailangs. a mate of mine and i quickly filled in a borang balik kampung. we weren’t taking any chances, even though the rest of the guys in the dorm felt nothing was gonna happen. come the following sunday evening, i got back from KL to see one of my dorm-mates with a face as large as house. what followed after that was a dismissal of the pailangs. a massive one too, i think that fifth form dorm lost like 25% of its population. permanently. preserving a code of honour among one’s schoolmates, regardless? not this time.
10 years ago – 1995
hidup grunge. hidup alt-rock and anything of its ilk. vitalogy came out. got the CD but i still had no ongkos for a CD player. this was the final leg of a half-decade of not having a life, aka medical school. group revision sessions which involved buckets of KFC (*lalalala*) and apple pie. which probably explains why nothing in this year really stick out in my mind. and as luck would have it, i got that pretty piece of paper with the four letters that fitted nicely behind my name. my folks came over for like two weeks and a bit for the grand day.
20 years ago = 15 years old.
*sambil mengira2*
Err… hmm… *masih lagi mengira2*
Ish… *kira balik semula* hmm…
err.. takpela….
Hidup boarding skool!!
eh?:?:
you’re pretty damn lucky to have all your old old pictures lagi. Mine semua dah berterabur sini sana when my parents moved house hari tu.
Anyway, where are you la in that gambar sekolah?Duduk, hujung kiri?And what’s a pailang? This is like that appointment pukul 12 ke?
double eh? ❓ ❓
Itu Mr Foo Cho Ming ka?
Kudz,
next year new job apa? 24/7 rock star ke??? 😉
t: nope. its mohd noor hassan @ mat tulang, biology teacher.
lisa: hahaha. i wish.
Time really does fly fast eh? Seems just like yesterday that we were chilling in Newcastle with pizzas after the gig. And how things have changed. Well, as AnuarFariz might say, que sera sera. Hmm… now I’ll have to go have a think about what I was doing 15 years ago…
pailang tuh macam penyangak ala-ala Shariff Dol – Samseng Kampung Dusun :+:
ohhh yeah, mat tulang! yup2
im still looking for the european PJ teeshirt