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Reading my niece's blog and her friends' reminded me of when I was her age. So young, the time when we learned to NOT be innocent (which apparently, over ratedly showed!).
I stumbled upon words like 'seh' (example : aper seh, boring seh), 'silent break' (when you have a boyfriend and then he avoided you, means he doesnt want you lah, wonder if there was even a relationship? haha), and then this disturbing word 'siak', which is actually a substitute for another bad word. Example of these words, can sound so disgusting when I hear kids saying them back home but...when I chat with Nazrah, once in a while, it was kinda fun rekindling the pass...with Nazrah playing along, testing her adoptive Singaporean bebudak slang hahaha. We always end up laughing when typing such silly words.
Remember when we hated school work so much but loved school cos of our friends? I think all teenagers feel that way. Kakak Mas feels miserable now as she is on winter break and my niece is celebrating today being her first day of school.
I also remember the time when I kept telling my parents not to 'pressure' me and I was already highly pressurized. What was 'pressure' at that time? Well, tonnes of homework, tuition, tests and all. I loved to study when I was in secondary school. Always in my room with the radio blasting, doing my homework and catching up with my History, Math and Literature...to catch up with those chinese classmates who were so kiasu (meaning : scared to lose).
School shoes and bags. Since we wore uniform to school, those were the only 2 gadgets that would measure our coolness. No cell phones then...just those stuff.
And I must admit, having been to an Anglican school with very few malay kids, I was labelled as the 'belacan terselit kid' who dated non malays, dressed and had a haircut like Ah Lians...well it was more 'new wavey' style. I didn't care what people said to me. Some said that I 'tak sedar diri' (forget my roots) and sombong (snobby) as I didn't mix with the malays. But that was not why I did not mix with them.
Some of the malays in my school tend to have the same style. Hair braided in 2, long socks that look like stockings, short skirt 'wannabe' style and talked trash. For me, I had pointy canvas shoes, short new wavey hair, normal looking skirt and Depeche Mode posters on my folder instead of Search...and I didn't really talk trash, well, I spoke how the valley girls say their stuff hehehe. I sounded like an american wannabe eh? No wonder my girlfriends kept telling me that I have the 'Most likely to marry a Mat Saleh and move somewhere else' statement on my forehead.
Oh, talk about dates. I once dated this half malay and half chinese guy who could not speak malay for nuts. Very 'cina' in his style and to me, he was cool! But the malays called him 'ah beng' cos he did not project himself as a malay. I was 14 then. But we broke up after 5 months...maybe he got scared of me hahaha.
And remember the numerous crush we had on boys? Those underaged and under'haired' boys? I once had the longest crush on this guy. He ended up liking my best friend instead who ran away 10 miles as soon as she found out as she totally oh so did not like him hahaha.
Sigh...those were the days...miss 'em so much!
Reading my niece's blog and her friends' reminded me of when I was her age. So young, the time when we learned to NOT be innocent (which apparently, over ratedly showed!).
I stumbled upon words like 'seh' (example : aper seh, boring seh), 'silent break' (when you have a boyfriend and then he avoided you, means he doesnt want you lah, wonder if there was even a relationship? haha), and then this disturbing word 'siak', which is actually a substitute for another bad word. Example of these words, can sound so disgusting when I hear kids saying them back home but...when I chat with Nazrah, once in a while, it was kinda fun rekindling the pass...with Nazrah playing along, testing her adoptive Singaporean bebudak slang hahaha. We always end up laughing when typing such silly words.
Remember when we hated school work so much but loved school cos of our friends? I think all teenagers feel that way. Kakak Mas feels miserable now as she is on winter break and my niece is celebrating today being her first day of school.
I also remember the time when I kept telling my parents not to 'pressure' me and I was already highly pressurized. What was 'pressure' at that time? Well, tonnes of homework, tuition, tests and all. I loved to study when I was in secondary school. Always in my room with the radio blasting, doing my homework and catching up with my History, Math and Literature...to catch up with those chinese classmates who were so kiasu (meaning : scared to lose).
School shoes and bags. Since we wore uniform to school, those were the only 2 gadgets that would measure our coolness. No cell phones then...just those stuff.
And I must admit, having been to an Anglican school with very few malay kids, I was labelled as the 'belacan terselit kid' who dated non malays, dressed and had a haircut like Ah Lians...well it was more 'new wavey' style. I didn't care what people said to me. Some said that I 'tak sedar diri' (forget my roots) and sombong (snobby) as I didn't mix with the malays. But that was not why I did not mix with them.
Some of the malays in my school tend to have the same style. Hair braided in 2, long socks that look like stockings, short skirt 'wannabe' style and talked trash. For me, I had pointy canvas shoes, short new wavey hair, normal looking skirt and Depeche Mode posters on my folder instead of Search...and I didn't really talk trash, well, I spoke how the valley girls say their stuff hehehe. I sounded like an american wannabe eh? No wonder my girlfriends kept telling me that I have the 'Most likely to marry a Mat Saleh and move somewhere else' statement on my forehead.
Oh, talk about dates. I once dated this half malay and half chinese guy who could not speak malay for nuts. Very 'cina' in his style and to me, he was cool! But the malays called him 'ah beng' cos he did not project himself as a malay. I was 14 then. But we broke up after 5 months...maybe he got scared of me hahaha.
And remember the numerous crush we had on boys? Those underaged and under'haired' boys? I once had the longest crush on this guy. He ended up liking my best friend instead who ran away 10 miles as soon as she found out as she totally oh so did not like him hahaha.
Sigh...those were the days...miss 'em so much!
2 comments:
kah! kah! kah! yup...thsoe were teh good old days ya :)
ehem ehem...half the time, i don't know the correct usage...
i miss you lah! aishah dah sekolah tau!
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