Because of my IMO fantasy I didn’t know which class I belonged to, until Maxis Jaisi (not to be confused with the telecommunication company LOL) handed me the timetable for me to assimilate myself gradually into their society.
The first semester saw several disjoint cliques in our class, and the relationship wasn’t that close. That said, there was occasion when we met together, thanks to Ms. Thanam for her Deepavali open house!
Come semester 2, things changed.
The ‘makan’ session
It’s a one-hour lunch break, which tore few classmates and me between the orange shop located at the corner of the shop lot (nicknamed Orange) and a food court located somewhere further (named Rock Cafe). It’s therefore normal to hear these conversation:
Qi Yao: “Let’s go Orange as we had gone to Rock yesterday.”
Alan (in his usual ‘gangster’-like tone) : “Orange again?!”
(Dudes, because of you two our strides were interrupted at the junction 😡).
Notably, Ms. Amy was with us most of those lunch sessions: this sporting nature distinguished her from some other teachers. In the second week after the orientation itself she already invited for lunch session together. Subsequently, it became the habit of few of us to ask her “let’s ‘makan’ ” after her class with us.
There were some other choices like the Garlic Chicken Rice store, but it was usually full of people and we found ourselves insufficient patience and tolerance to wait for orders and seating. Sometimes we did went lavishly for After Black and My Burger Lab just to say “RM20 well spent” 😹.
The essence of these innumerable lunch sessions was the chatting time we spent together: gossiping among ourselves, lamenting our frustrations, and discussing formal topics (like university applications). To summarize the conversations, we had Maxis’ maverick speeches, Qi Yao’s relentless quibbling of petty issues, Thew’s sentimental talks, Ying Cheng’s carefree opinions, Zhi Yang’s pithy points, Jean straight-and-direct retorts and Mei Yan’s mirthful rhapsodizing. The scant time we had in college was mainly devoted for studying, and lunch break, therefore, was the sole avenue for us to exchange our views with these people of similar interests.
July SS15 (the area Taylor’s College is located in) adventure
That was the good old time when the official taxi booking app (MyTeksi) offered limitless promotion, where we spontaneously said “let’s go SS15 for lunch”, even with the tight constraint of an hour. Few shops were impossible to pass up at that moment: Mr. Rice and “Bak Kut Teh” shops across the main roads.
Make no mistake, July/August was also an IELTS-intensive period for us for some reason, and Fridays were the results-release days. It turned out that IDP (an IELTS exam centre) was located there for us just to see how we and our classmates did. Results of friends were what we cared for, but more interesting was their photo on the results slip (whereby mine showed an “I don’t give a f***” apperance :P).
NUTSSSSSSS-when pictures were the best to describe everything
To summarize NUTS session:
1. When we just finished exams
2. Birthday celebrations
3. When we felt like having it, like going for movie (booooooo for lunacy)
I shall note that Ms Amy was with us sometimes when she’s free, which served as the compensation of the ruthless curtail of our usual lunch session due to time constraint: they usually ended with “what the heck it’s time for me to go into class again?”
The following Karaoke was worth mentioning: a time when Maxis showed-case his EDM passion, when Mei Yan impressed us with her voice and when Chee Hao enlightened me about his love for Cantonese songs.
(Looks like we had a playful A-Levels, but nah. Group 12 contributed well for the A-Level results for our batch).
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Stop, you’re making me miss college 😦
More to come 😛
Wai are you doing this to me ? Imma crai T.T