Memories.
Kenangan or in English - Memories are what we have and accumulate over the course of our life. For me, it's something that kinda affected me in the past. To me, it's something bitter, something sweet. Something that I do alone, something that I do and share with people I love, people I hate, or just people I met and then never meet again. Something said. Something that fills the emptiness in me. Something that can mengundang air mata
Over the course of 24 years, I think I'm lucky to have quite a good mix of memories. Some are bitter, some are sweet, mostly sweet, some are better to be forgotten, and some are stupid that if dipikirkan semula will make me laugh.
Memories! Imagine if you lost it. It's gonna suck isn't it?
I think I can separate my memories to four categories so far....ahahha.
First my childhood memories. These are not so clear to me...like I can't remember when and what kinda day it was. But I think i can remember what I did and who was/were involved. Like this time when I was in Kindergarten 1, I used to have long hair. One day, my dad brought me to an Indian barber shop. Since it was my first time there, and I don't really know what sort of place is a barber shop I just sorta not care. But I DO CARE when I found out that my long hair was cut short! really short..it was sorta botak...not just sorta botak I think. I was botak! That got me howling - in other words crying my eyes out. In the car on the way back home, I remembered I was howling like crazy in the car. Until my dad stopped the car in the middle of somewhere (in the middle of nowhere, to me back then) and after several failed attempts to stop me crying he pulled his sternest voice and told me he'd leave me there if I didn't stop crying that moment. I DID stop crying. ehehe Well of course, he didn't mean to leave me there. I can't remember much what happened after that. I remembered the next day, in school, I wore a cap in class. I didn't want my whole classmates to know I was botak!...but then the teacher asked me to put away my cap...after several times being asked by the teacher, I reluctantly put that cap away....and was bracing myself for whatever my classmates would say...surprisingly no one said anything and my teacher said I looked cute..and 'lawa' the haircut...ahaha how can a botak cut be lawa!!?? ahaha...oh well, at least after that I didn't really care about my botakness...afterall, I was four years old, and it just added up to my cuteness...ahah
Also, I was kinda a very manja grandson...still a manja grandson especially to my mum's parents - Nini Aji and Nini Hjh ~I think~ (what do you say cuz? ehhehe). Well, as any other ordinary kids in the world, I had both set of grandparents. I'm more rapat with my mum's parents. But I do occasionally visited my late-grandparents - my dad's parents- (May God rest their souls..Amin!) in Kampong Ayer (the so-called Venice of Asia)...I miss them, I rarely got to see them but I cherish all the memories I have of them...Since they used to live in the water village, I got to play fishing with my uncles who made a made up fishing poles...and one time, I got to catch a live crab! eheh it was fun! After they moved on land, during one raya my late-grandpa gave a me a very big kite!! ~tears~...I miss them so much...I'll remember you in my prayers.
Oh well, the second category is my primary school years, this was when I started my public school life. I remembered when I was in pre-school back in 1990 I kinda had my first experience of 'escaping' from attending the assembly. That time Brunei was shaken by the a tremor of something...I can't remember from what, but being a kid with full of imagination, I took my mum's advice to be careful to the extreme. I managed to convince several friends to take cover with me behind the toilet in case 'an earthquake' happens. I think I was saying something about a monster and there's a superhero (much like Ultraman) that's causing the tremor/earthquake from their fighting...Ahahah...and in the end...my pre-school teacher gave me a pretty good 'rotan' for not attending the morning assembly...:D hehehe I was six then! ehehe
On my performance in school...I guess I was always a good student with good grades. I didn't remember doing much work or study that hard. But I always managed to be ~blush~ the top of the class..every year hehehe. One time when I was in primary four, as usual I was number one and my mum had to sign the report card in school. She had a good talk with my class teacher. At home, my mum scolded me because apparently I talked too much in class ahahahah!...Well, thanks to the effort that I made during those years in primary school, I managed to get into the prestigious and the premier secondary school in the whole of Brunei - Maktab Sains. I never heard of that school until after the last few months of primary six. :D I was so proud of myself to make my mum the proudest mum and dad on the day that I got my result. That was in 1996.
The third category...are my memories when I spent se7en years of almost my entire teenage life in Maktab Sains. I can say that, that Maktab Sains was my second home!..with my own set of family...I met and made and still maintained wonderful relationship with equally wonderful people whom I am proud to call my friends. Of the lot, and initially I was close to just five. And when I am not hanging out with the five, I will always hang out with two. Alright the five are my bestest friends in the whole wide world -Vi, Bukhari, Steph, Izzul and Fadz and later we were joined by Azimas, Faz and Wat (and now there are 9 of us)...the two were my buddies - Azim and Zuraime. Azim and Zuraime as well as me were the three tallest guys in our level. It was 1997, we were new to Maktab Sains, and the three of us were quite popular (ehhehe)...because out of the the rest of the boys who just entered Maktab Sains we, as I mentioned before, were the tallest ones. The rest were still quite short..:D.. Don't get me wrong...I do hang out with the rest of the batch. And one girl who always like my smile was Wana...everytime I smiled she will give this cute girlish laughter/giggle...she said my teeth were perfect..ehhe it was fun and everyone of us were so innocent back then..ehhe She was the first girl that I notice to notice me..eheh. I had several crushes back then but I didn't really act on it..~blush~ ahahha and I never imagined that Mizah (one of the popular girls from one of the popular groups in school) will be my housemate!!! ehhehe I think I did several naughty (not that kind of naughty ehhe) things during my years there...Once, due to peer pressure, we jumped off from the first floor (it wasn't really high)...eventhough it wasn't high, one of us did get injured! Well we were only in form one! and we were bullied by this big bully and bully-friends (plus we were boys, so we don't wanna lose our boy-pride ehehe) to jump off from the first floor. One of our friends broke his leg or tore his ligaments and we all got scared. BUT we were responsible enough to help him! That's what I called friendship! Except for those bullies who ran away like scared chicken!(last i heard one of them became a teacher! hehehe) Ahahah...I think it was sort of a sensational news then...FORM ONE BOY BROKE HIS LEG JUMPING OFF FROM FIRST FLOOR..eheh sorry teacher! and thank god we were not punished!
In form three, I started tuition...ahahaha it was the rage back then for parents to send their kids to tuition school!...I also met Fish during tuition, and as fate would have it, we are now housemates!...I never imagined that we would cross paths back then...:D hehehe
Maktab Sains gave me a lot opportunities, it was there that I first rode on a helicopter on our visit to one of Brunei's Oil rigs in 1999..I had my first time away from my family for ten days in 2000, because I was sent to Singapore for Apec Youth Science Festival with lots of different and new friends. Lost a friend, a dear friend to a car accident also in 2000. Almost the whole of my batch were involved in the APEC choir, in which we perform choir in front of the APEC Heads of Government, this include President Bill Clinton! Also in 2000. Also I was chosen to be the Head Boy in 2002. My first time building a robot...not really real and clever robot..just a basic robot that can differentiate between white and black...well using sensors, when it 'sees' white it'll move, and when it 'sees' black it stopped..!. And thanks to Stephanie who diligently oversaw the preparation of Graduation Night our batch managed to put quite an impression to all the teachers :D. I miss Maktab Sains...I miss you guys!!
The fourth category...are my memories after I finished highschool/form six in which I spent 7 months working and my memories up till now..
but that's another story for another time...for now I think I've written quite a long one ...
Over the course of 24 years, I think I'm lucky to have quite a good mix of memories. Some are bitter, some are sweet, mostly sweet, some are better to be forgotten, and some are stupid that if dipikirkan semula will make me laugh.
Memories! Imagine if you lost it. It's gonna suck isn't it?
I think I can separate my memories to four categories so far....ahahha.
First my childhood memories. These are not so clear to me...like I can't remember when and what kinda day it was. But I think i can remember what I did and who was/were involved. Like this time when I was in Kindergarten 1, I used to have long hair. One day, my dad brought me to an Indian barber shop. Since it was my first time there, and I don't really know what sort of place is a barber shop I just sorta not care. But I DO CARE when I found out that my long hair was cut short! really short..it was sorta botak...not just sorta botak I think. I was botak! That got me howling - in other words crying my eyes out. In the car on the way back home, I remembered I was howling like crazy in the car. Until my dad stopped the car in the middle of somewhere (in the middle of nowhere, to me back then) and after several failed attempts to stop me crying he pulled his sternest voice and told me he'd leave me there if I didn't stop crying that moment. I DID stop crying. ehehe Well of course, he didn't mean to leave me there. I can't remember much what happened after that. I remembered the next day, in school, I wore a cap in class. I didn't want my whole classmates to know I was botak!...but then the teacher asked me to put away my cap...after several times being asked by the teacher, I reluctantly put that cap away....and was bracing myself for whatever my classmates would say...surprisingly no one said anything and my teacher said I looked cute..and 'lawa' the haircut...ahaha how can a botak cut be lawa!!?? ahaha...oh well, at least after that I didn't really care about my botakness...afterall, I was four years old, and it just added up to my cuteness...ahah
Also, I was kinda a very manja grandson...still a manja grandson especially to my mum's parents - Nini Aji and Nini Hjh ~I think~ (what do you say cuz? ehhehe). Well, as any other ordinary kids in the world, I had both set of grandparents. I'm more rapat with my mum's parents. But I do occasionally visited my late-grandparents - my dad's parents- (May God rest their souls..Amin!) in Kampong Ayer (the so-called Venice of Asia)...I miss them, I rarely got to see them but I cherish all the memories I have of them...Since they used to live in the water village, I got to play fishing with my uncles who made a made up fishing poles...and one time, I got to catch a live crab! eheh it was fun! After they moved on land, during one raya my late-grandpa gave a me a very big kite!! ~tears~...I miss them so much...I'll remember you in my prayers.
Oh well, the second category is my primary school years, this was when I started my public school life. I remembered when I was in pre-school back in 1990 I kinda had my first experience of 'escaping' from attending the assembly. That time Brunei was shaken by the a tremor of something...I can't remember from what, but being a kid with full of imagination, I took my mum's advice to be careful to the extreme. I managed to convince several friends to take cover with me behind the toilet in case 'an earthquake' happens. I think I was saying something about a monster and there's a superhero (much like Ultraman) that's causing the tremor/earthquake from their fighting...Ahahah...and in the end...my pre-school teacher gave me a pretty good 'rotan' for not attending the morning assembly...:D hehehe I was six then! ehehe
On my performance in school...I guess I was always a good student with good grades. I didn't remember doing much work or study that hard. But I always managed to be ~blush~ the top of the class..every year hehehe. One time when I was in primary four, as usual I was number one and my mum had to sign the report card in school. She had a good talk with my class teacher. At home, my mum scolded me because apparently I talked too much in class ahahahah!...Well, thanks to the effort that I made during those years in primary school, I managed to get into the prestigious and the premier secondary school in the whole of Brunei - Maktab Sains. I never heard of that school until after the last few months of primary six. :D I was so proud of myself to make my mum the proudest mum and dad on the day that I got my result. That was in 1996.
The third category...are my memories when I spent se7en years of almost my entire teenage life in Maktab Sains. I can say that, that Maktab Sains was my second home!..with my own set of family...I met and made and still maintained wonderful relationship with equally wonderful people whom I am proud to call my friends. Of the lot, and initially I was close to just five. And when I am not hanging out with the five, I will always hang out with two. Alright the five are my bestest friends in the whole wide world -Vi, Bukhari, Steph, Izzul and Fadz and later we were joined by Azimas, Faz and Wat (and now there are 9 of us)...the two were my buddies - Azim and Zuraime. Azim and Zuraime as well as me were the three tallest guys in our level. It was 1997, we were new to Maktab Sains, and the three of us were quite popular (ehhehe)...because out of the the rest of the boys who just entered Maktab Sains we, as I mentioned before, were the tallest ones. The rest were still quite short..:D.. Don't get me wrong...I do hang out with the rest of the batch. And one girl who always like my smile was Wana...everytime I smiled she will give this cute girlish laughter/giggle...she said my teeth were perfect..ehhe it was fun and everyone of us were so innocent back then..ehhe She was the first girl that I notice to notice me..eheh. I had several crushes back then but I didn't really act on it..~blush~ ahahha and I never imagined that Mizah (one of the popular girls from one of the popular groups in school) will be my housemate!!! ehhehe I think I did several naughty (not that kind of naughty ehhe) things during my years there...Once, due to peer pressure, we jumped off from the first floor (it wasn't really high)...eventhough it wasn't high, one of us did get injured! Well we were only in form one! and we were bullied by this big bully and bully-friends (plus we were boys, so we don't wanna lose our boy-pride ehehe) to jump off from the first floor. One of our friends broke his leg or tore his ligaments and we all got scared. BUT we were responsible enough to help him! That's what I called friendship! Except for those bullies who ran away like scared chicken!(last i heard one of them became a teacher! hehehe) Ahahah...I think it was sort of a sensational news then...FORM ONE BOY BROKE HIS LEG JUMPING OFF FROM FIRST FLOOR..eheh sorry teacher! and thank god we were not punished!
In form three, I started tuition...ahahaha it was the rage back then for parents to send their kids to tuition school!...I also met Fish during tuition, and as fate would have it, we are now housemates!...I never imagined that we would cross paths back then...:D hehehe
Maktab Sains gave me a lot opportunities, it was there that I first rode on a helicopter on our visit to one of Brunei's Oil rigs in 1999..I had my first time away from my family for ten days in 2000, because I was sent to Singapore for Apec Youth Science Festival with lots of different and new friends. Lost a friend, a dear friend to a car accident also in 2000. Almost the whole of my batch were involved in the APEC choir, in which we perform choir in front of the APEC Heads of Government, this include President Bill Clinton! Also in 2000. Also I was chosen to be the Head Boy in 2002. My first time building a robot...not really real and clever robot..just a basic robot that can differentiate between white and black...well using sensors, when it 'sees' white it'll move, and when it 'sees' black it stopped..!. And thanks to Stephanie who diligently oversaw the preparation of Graduation Night our batch managed to put quite an impression to all the teachers :D. I miss Maktab Sains...I miss you guys!!
The fourth category...are my memories after I finished highschool/form six in which I spent 7 months working and my memories up till now..
but that's another story for another time...for now I think I've written quite a long one ...
take care..
keep your memories with you
Lufias
keep your memories with you
Lufias
