Old and New

I dream about that dreaded person.
Again.
Seems like its being a ghost now.
Did you die?

Hmm. I just felt numb thinking about that.
I seriously do not care no more.
(Is that too harsh?)

That person is, I'm not going to lie,
is one of the most influential person in my life.
I rather not be.
So this post is not going to be about you.

for just one second, i thought i had my life back.
then you showed up.

let me move on
(because that's what i've been doing the whole time):

a teacher, there was.
---have i gone Yoda on you? haha

and he taught us History.
i'm not going to say that he is a bad teacher.
but he does make us stressed out to memorize
every article in our textbook by heart
(or so we try).

we count our lucky stars that he only has a period
with us for a day. that's how we like it.

but today.
oh no.
two periods.

A new timetable was given out.
And whoo-pee, Wednesday has two History period.
We can barely breathe through one.

i tried to finish my add maths work when i noticed
my school-mates sitting in front of me
avidly reading Chapter 4 of the Form 4 History textbook.

click

"oh-my-gosh!" i spun around to my bag and exert my own
copy of my textbook. "i shouldn't be doing this!!!"
and jammed my Add Maths textbook back in
(sorry Awesome Add Maths Teacher who was still in class
that caught me doing that and said nothing).
i asked the kite-runner next to me to do the same thing,
in hope that she would not be doomed.

we feverishly read through the pages,
reviewing back facts with each other.

my Add Maths teacher began 'rounding' the class.
"Sejarah?" (History.) "Wah, why are you studying for Sejarah?"
"Um...teacher would ask us questions." :D
"Oh really? So good. You even study for it.
When he ask question, you answer.
When I ask question, you don't answer. Hahaha."
And he walks away to the front of the class.
Sorry, teacher :(

( though, in defense, you only need to read History
to understand it. but Add Maths and Physics are entirely
new things. We need to think. Real hard. I'm so sorry that
we are not so educated to please you with enthusiastic
hand-raises. we will try better, teacher. gomenasai.)

anyhow, on to studying in Schumacher speed.


then :

"you know they say we'll get a new teacher."

what?

we looked at the source of this information and ask
"is this true???"
"i don't know. ask the class monitor."
we craned our heads around.
"is this true???" we demanded.
"what?" she asked.
"that."
"what?"
"what?"
"that?"
"what?"
"huh?"
"huh??"
"you know..."
"what?"
"what?"

"okay! enough saying what!!!"
the kite-runner shouted out.
we silenced ourselves.
"is it confirmed that we are really having a new teacher?"
Stephy asked, straightforward as always,
"and if it's the same teacher that comes through
the door, i will seriously kill you all!"
"it's not confirmed yet."

they 'say' that it was going to be a woman this time.
we all started to chatter, wondering if she would be a good teacher.

someone went through the door.

smiles broke out in the room.
new teacher.


oh yeah.







| good luck in your new subject, teacher. teach us well. |