staying together in the hostel, from different hometown, culture and background, hani tend to mellow down a lot and learnt hard to accept one another. ada yang from family susah dan miskin and hailed from hulu or pulau yang hani belum pernah sampai till now, they were just relying on food kat dining hall and duit poket from biasiswa kecil persekutuan; parents and family tak pernah datang jenguk but alhamdulillah, they are now doing very good and helping the kampung folks. they were always on the lookouts for my parents visit and informed me ..
it had been a routine to us, spending most of our time in school, pagi to normal school hours, petang for afternoon prep and after dinner for night prep; being in co-ed boarding school and spending most of the time together, seen many couples and heard banyak love stories but not as bad as new breeds now laa .. back to cerita budak yang dah malukan hani sampai nangis tuu, till today dia belum kahwin lagi and now, is a somebody in the department; bila dah tua2 nii, hani still dapat comment from my boy friends saying that kat sekolah dulu, kita nii sombong and tak pandang the other boys langsung; coupled pun ngan anak cikgu but we'd gone our separate ways then ..
tak boleh bayangkan but we had survived .. before going to night prep, we all rendam packets of maggie mee dalam baldi ngan air paip, by the time habis prep ie: 10.30 pm, all in the dorm boleh habiskan mee yang dah kembang tuu. when we were in form one and masih menumpang kat smip, all of us had walked pegi balik dari hostel in kota bharu to pengkalan chepa to see our new school complex, wow, it's more than 2 x 30 km journey .. we had witnessed banyak kali our boys kena public canings during assembly, majority due to rokok and curi keluar; once there was a riot against the warden and few were expelled. now, we observed those who were expelled are excellent ..
for form 3 students, after completing the LCE and waiting for the school holidays, we were allowed to stay in the hostel and not attending the afternoon and night prep studies, with few fellow dormates, hani had learnt to play cards and dapat champion in gynrammy; now dah lupa camana nak main tuu .. at the age of 17 and after lights off, openly with few dormates, we all nii berangan and said loudly about our future husband and fifteen years later when we met, most of us got what we'd dreamt earlier, how's about that ..
majority of us were given rm30/month as the pocket money, those days, it's a big amount and normally hani will spent a small portion on the baju2 for me and adik2 but bigger portion for the story books, had been spending money on mills & boon love stories since dulu lagi; but now, most had been given away cos my chomel didnot share the same interest .. loved reading the books bila lights off and relying on the corridor light, nasib baik mata tak rosak teruk
who hani is today, is the product of experienced gathered, majoritinya during my secondary school days;
- air dicincang takkan putus
- di mana bumi dipijak, di situ langit dijunjung
- masuk kandang kambing mengembek, kandang kerbau menguak
- hidung tak mancung, pipi tersorong-sorong
- ular menyusur akar, takkan hilang bisanya
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