Recently I attended Tunku Besar Secondary School (TBS) Alumni Dinner with my dad and bro. Yes my dad is an ex-student of TBS as well :) Seriously, never in my wildest dream, I thought, I will miss my school since I spent extra 2 years compared to most of my friends by doing my STPM there. There were so much of changes in the look of the school hall. The originality is gone but nevertheless it is still the school I studied. It is a pride to be a student of TBS. I am glad that I chose the right school.
I would describe my secondary school life in 2 phase. SPM and STPM. In the year of 2005, i registered myself in 1 Bestari, the second class for Form 1. There are a total of 6 classes per form/year. Two of my friends from primary school joined me in the same class as well. They are Karu and Visa. Mind you, they are still my friends. Did I mention that Karu is my friend since kindergarten time? Yes, we were in the same class from kindergarten up to Form 5. There were other students too my from my school but all of them scattered in different classes. My school life was wonderful. What made my entire school life memorable was my friends. It was a sad case that I came out of my primary school group (girls) as the mentality was differing at a worrying level. I found new friends.
My first girlfriend will be Aswini Freda. She is well, hmm of mix ethnicity. Indian-Indonesian parentage. She is short, fair and have super curly hair. As only Aswini and me were Indians in the class, we hang out together. It took time for me to warm up to her but we did get along pretty well although there were little misunderstanding due to interference of some culprits at first. As time passed by, we realised we were made for each other as best friends. She is my pillar of strength, a sister, a mentor and everything. She played an important part in my life and she is still playing it. From form 1 to form 5 I was sitting beside her in the class. She is the reason why I know about Christianity a little more compared to any non-Christians. Yes she is a great friend :)
It will be so funny to see how Karu, Visa and Sharma disturb Aswini and how she will call me to save her. In short, I was her saviour ;) School days were fun except for the lessons and certain teachers. Some teachers were really great. I owe them so much. Like students, teachers are also have different personalities. Its a sad case that some of them are racist as well. Other than that, we have combine classes for Tamil and Moral, we will join with the Arif class and our Indian group gets bigger and noisier. I was not close to most of them, but I was okay with the girls group. So our group got bigger. Aswini, Yasothaa, Balpreet and Kavitha. It was fun. Other than that, I was close to my other classmates like Fazlinda, Fara, Izzatul, Nazmi, Melvin, Juliana and so on. As time goes by, I became friends with many of them.
All the Indian students and most of the Chinese students from my class and Arif class got to enter 4SC1. It was a bliss. We enjoyed our arse off although most of my friends and I were prefects. I served as a prefect for 5 years in TBS that is from form1. The main reason why i applied to be a prefect was, I hated the pinafore so i opted for the white skirt. I was so chubby when I started my high school that I looked like a pumpkin wrapped in pinafore. I thought the prefect uniform will suit me better. My school prefects' uniform is with light green top and white bottom. Trust me, I had the white skirt with most stains :P.. I never bothered much either. I was too carefree during my SPM time, that I didn't fare well enough like most of my friends. The education system in Malaysia is such that, it requires to remember everything and vomit it in exam. So, clearly it didn't do me any favour as I am more to the understanding type of student.
Life was good yet results were not as expected during SPM. Since, I thought I am much more capable than what I got for my results, I decided to prove myself in STPM. So yes, I went for STPM, something that I told myself I will not get myself into. Never I thought, STPM will be so useful in my life. STPM made me more matured. There were no regrets for choosing to go through this. I had new group of friends as my old friends didn't choose STPM except for one boy and he was in different class too. I got close to Aishah. I have talked about her in depth in my previous post. She is a wonderful friend. I would have been so lost without her. During Form 6, i learned about endurance. Studies got tougher and challenging but I love feeding my mind. The school system was more apparent and transparent when I studied form 6. It was a different level. Our curriculum activities were fun as well. Life was so good with Aishah, Hoi Leng, Ee Ping, Rui Xian and so many of them. I am still keeping in touch with my form 6 group. I love them and value their friendship. Sweet memories everywhere. I was always a target of those naughty heads. People love to disturb me I guess.
Thus, overall life was good during STPM. I had many junior friends as well. Throughout my school life regardless of first phase or second, there were always some downfalls and embarrassing experience. There were all kind of things going on. A first exposure to the world outside you see. Thus, from jealous pricks to hypocrites, I have faced everyone. Striving to survive is the important part of it. If you noticed, I had no puppy love stated. That might be the only thing lacking in my school life I guess. But hey, I dont bother. Schooling is an essential part of every individual. I am so glad mine is over but I do miss the fun. Holidays are lonely too...
A cute collage of my friends, I couldn't find one of Hoi Leng's though :(
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school
~Albert Einstein~
