It was a very awkward last day of college. Unlike in 2008 (during which I illegally brought my handphone to school and barged into the band room and did the hula hula dance and overturned the dustpan) and in 2009 (during which I met Heidi Munan, wrote a letter to my school and thank you notes to teachers), this year, I only did a small commotion in the library and barged into the Specialist Math class and cam-whored.
That short period of time I spent in the class I never took before I had to go meet Kah Yung was definitely the highlight of the day.
The only sad thing was that I didn’t manage to take pictures with everybody because everyone was too busy with cameras here, there and everywhere. But there is always the Awards Night to look forward to and I won’t forget to take pictures then! :)
This is my English class: the class where freedom of expression is truly practised. For a year and a half I was in the company of the most open-minded individuals I will ever meet. We have talked and debated at length about sex, homosexuality, political views and religion. This is a most diverse group of individuals with strong opinions on equality and very different beliefs in religion – Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, atheism, we have ‘em – but who have somehow come together so well, it makes me wonder why such understanding fails to take place at a larger scale.
Truly I won’t forget the moment where Joel identified Naz’s orange underwear in their Korean Home video. Or when Naz impersonated a certain prominent figure in our forum presentation. Or when Ashley came into class as an ahjumma, teaching us how to make kimchi. And especially when Helfie came into class in a long skirt with a flower in his hair, pretending to be a lady-boy from Thailand!
Helfie: Sawadie-kap kap kap kap!
Helfie is very awesome with his Thai slang. :D
There are many, many people in AUSMAT whom I never really had the chance to get close to. My subject combination is a little weird in a sense, so there are a lot of people with whom I have never shared a single class with. So I am really grateful when circumstances somehow managed to allow me to get to know these few people in the last few weeks of AUSMAT.
Then there are, of course, people I have bonded with since ages ago and who feels perfectly fine torturing me. :)
It’s just kinda funny the two K(h)ims seated have different fashion sense. Kim had on a skirt but she paired it up with… *tada* a pair of flip flops. Lol!
Kim: *while hugging me* Just now Sze Hong hugged me very tightly you know!
Me: Really? How come you didn’t hug me very tightly?
Kim: Feels weird ma! Because just now, it was Sze Hong, not me!
Me: You discriminate is it?
Kim: Ok ok. I have to get ready. *takes deep breaths and does some tai-chi*
Me: *collapses in laughter*
The hug never happened. Haha!
And this is Vee Vien, my lab partner and my teman seperjuangan in Math for a year. We’d gone through a lot of stuff together, especially during math test in EE 1.
For all her incessant worries and rants, I’m glad to be one of her friends who know her well enough as to know when I ought to just become pekak badak. :P She once told me that I can somehow know when I ought to pay attention to what she is saying and when I can just dismiss what she says. (=
In the midst of that all is a successful application for bestfriend-ship to a person I’d never shared a single class with. That feels rather like an achievement in itself – and I did it before college ended. Yeah! :D
In series like Friends and How I Met Your Mother, the lasting friendships were all built in college. I don’t know whether it is going to be the case here but I figured that there is no harm trying. Some more right, right here in this batch got barber la, chef la, singer la, diva la, joker la… the whole package so if we get together real well, there won’t be any worry for me to survive in Australia as I can get free food and free hair cut and free stand-up comedies. :D
And then I went to lunch at MOF with Sze Hong. When I got back to SMR, I realised that I didn’t take photos with the people who didn’t go to college. So I purposely strolled to Alexie’s unit to meet my two very talented diva friends. I intend to take as many photos with these people and get their autograph in case they get famous one day and then I can start selling their pictures for money. Tee hee!
Yea, for all the stress this programme has put me through, I have to say that AUSMAT peeps are among the best people I’ve ever met in my life. :D
