The Day Before The Battle

Since I have been busy preparing for my SPM recently, I haven’t been able to update this blog. For your information, last Friday was the last paper which I have to sit. Now, I’m a free man at last. Every time I sat for the for examination, I tried to remain as calm as possible. I tried not to stress myself out but those endeavours were to no avail. Depending on what the subject I was going to sit for, I can be either super stressed or totally frivolous. Let’s talk about the subjects which did not stress me first. These subjects are what I would like to express as easy and trivial. Those who sat for SPM will surely know what those subjects are. They are the usual modern maths, EST, English, accounts, and moral. For me, I have always been confident I can ace in these subjects. Most of the examinees feel so jittery and afraid when sitting for these subjects. Even on the day we sat for EST, I can see many students reading revision books for EST. At that time, I was like “Oh my goodness!!! These people really studied for EST”. My friend, Lychee also studied for EST. The day before we sat for EST, he read the whole textbook. I on the other hand was only playing computer games, surfing the net, did some add maths, and sleep. If you are a science stream student in Malaysia, you’ll surely understand what EST is like. It is a trivial subject which is totally abrupt. All you need is a good fundamental knowledge of English in order to pass with flying colours in EST. In fact, during the first week, I was so relaxed and nonchalant that I had dreams every time I slept at night. Some of the dreams were so eccentric and hilarious that I briefly typed them on a notepad as soon as I woke up.

This is what I dreamt on the day before I sat for the EST paper:

Nightmare 1
I dreamt that I went to my aunt’s house to have lunch together with other relatives. It was supposed to be like a reunion dinner where all of our relatives came and eat together at one big round table. In that dream, I was so clumsy that I kept being scolded by my aunts. When I helped to prepare the lunch by bringing out the dishes, I dropped the vegetables on the floor. When we ate lunch together, I dropped rice everywhere on the table and the floor like a 5 year old child eating his rice. I got bombarded by my aunts so badly. It was so embarrassing and scary.

Lovely dream 2
After the eating the lunch in the first dream, I washed the plates and the cutleries at the kitchen. Then, all of the sudden, Pei Wen just popped out of nowhere into the kitchen. I was shocked too. Then, I felt this urge in me to tell her how I felt towards her. I felt that as though it was the perfect opportunity to express my feelings towards her. I had totally forgotten what happened earlier in the first dream. I immediately grabbed her hand and told her how much I like her. It was really a wonderful dream. Guess what happened next. She accepted my feelings and agreed to be my girlfriend. As soon as that happened, every thing started to fade away and I woke up after that. When I woke up, I was so disappointed and angry. DAMN IT!!! WHY THE GOOD DREAMS HAVE TO BE SO SHORT WHILE THE NIGHTMARES HAVE TO BE SO LONG!!! I wished that that second dream could be longer. At that time, I really wished that I could experience what it is like to be her boyfriend in my dreams even though I know I can’t do it in reality.

Hilarious dream 3
After the 2nd dream, I went back to sleep as it was only 4 a.m. In my 3rd dream, I dreamt about my 1st day of Form 6. It was early in the morning and I got ready to go to my new school at SMK Taman Tasek. When I arrived at the school, I realised that I went to the wrong school. I went back to my old school at SMK Taman Kosas. Then, I borrowed a few ringgits from my friends and ran out to hail a taxi. I told the taxi to drive me to SMK Taman Tasek. For your information, I watched the news on television on the latest tactics used by some taxi drivers to con tourists before I went to bed. After a sitting in the taxi for a while, I noticed something is wrong with fare metre. The amount of fare rose so quickly that when we stopped at a junction just as the traffic light turned red. In a few seconds, the digits on the fare changed so fast that the fare had summed up to more than RM400. I was so shocked and thought to myself that something is wrong with the metre. Then, I realised that the taxi driver was holding a wire on his right hand and was flickering the wire against a piece of metal which is connected to the fare metre. Realising I was being conned; I immediately alighted from the taxi and ran towards Kah Meng’s house which was surprisingly near that time. When I reached his house, I asked his help as I was late for my first day of registration at my new school. Then, Kah Meng and his mother agreed to help me. They decided to disguise as my parent in order to help me. Then, they took out a book and started to practise to speak in a British accent so that they would appear as noble people. It was really a funny dream. They practised the usual dialogues that you would usually hear in a comedy show on television like “Ooo, how do you do madam principal? Today is a fine day isn’t it? How about a cup of tea?” After listening to them practising their British accent for a while, I woke up, and realised that it was already 8 a.m. and the sun was shining in the sky.

The dreams were so weird that I would laugh whenever I try to visualise the dreams. I hope that I can have the second dream again.