2014
A new year, I'm still in the same class as last years and the same teachers but those are the only things that maintained. If I summarized this year in one word, it'll be EMOTIONAL.
It was a rollercoaster ride of feelings in that one year, but I got through it, emotionally stronger.
Mean Girl
One of the biggest changes and one of the worst obstacles of my life was that a new girl came to our school and had to be in our class.
We hit it off at first, we had fun things to talk about and she stayed back after school to accompany me when I wasn't able to tell my mom I had to go home early.
We had a special place at the school sports stand where we exchanged secrets we never told anyone, we had a the same crush and she sparked my rebellious side a bit (by being fashionably late to class, I am not a delinquent). Once, we had a sing-a-long, she played guitar and we both sang, I guess it felt good to have people not critique my singing.
We once walked around the school's track field in light rain and it was one of my fondest memories because I would never walk under rain obviously but she persuaded me and we just talked and talked.
However, while I thought that she was an interesting and exciting friend, the rest of my girl classmates wasn't much fond of her as she has quite an abrasive attitude without herself realizing.
Things got hard when one time, for a school project, I invited my group to do it in my house and then her father came and threaten me that he would call the police if I did anything to her daughter. I didn't know what I was thinking to just nod to his face, if that situation happened now, I would have stood up for myself especially since there are other guys in the project but just so happens I'm the only one who wasn't Malay.
Then she moved school because of her shit grades. I was sad at first and slightly missed her as I still thought of her like a friend. During on of the school's ICAS exams she did come back to take it because she already registered and we went back to the track field and walked along it again.
What really hurt was that she still acted like we were friends. But then, on 2015, I was not invited to her house for Hari Raya even though my other friends were, that was still fine as I thought may be she don't want to anger her dickhead father.
The last straw was what she did on Facebook, my mom had shared and tagged me to a picture with text written on how we should not talk harshly and rudely to our parents, as during those days I was a bit brash, I knew my mom didn't mean to much by it. But the new bitch went and liked the post. Let me get this straight, she never talked to me on Facebook or ever after that, she never liked anything on Facebook, but after a year she liked that one and only post.
I know I have a bad, brash, rude attitude, but not a lot of people care, my family got used to it, my friends put up with it and my best friends enjoy it and let me remind you this girl didn't have to best attitude either.
I was done. I finally saw her for the lying lynx she is. All my girl classmates were right, she was a two-faced bitch. I would never do something as tiring as to act like I'm friends with someone I hate, I would ignore them, tell it to their face or try to make peace with it.
Let's just say this experience too, taught me that you can't trust everybody in the real world.
Emotions: Trust, Betrayal
Best Friends
On the other hand, I made a very important and dearest friendship in 2014 too.
My dear friend Allistar, changed classes so I had no one to sit on my next seat in Biology, so I asked his close friend Jake to sit there.
I would say Allistar and Jake is close because their clique is only the two of them and all they do is just talk to each other.
I kinda thought Jake disliked me because in 2013, I would walk over (Social Butterfly) to Allistar and talk to him and the way Allistar and I talk is like two college girls that haven't seen each other after graduation and we would laugh loudly and brag about nonsense stuff. And I am the king of bragging about little things for the funny dramatic effect that makes it funny.
Jake disliked me for that reason because he actually thought I was wealthy and high class and he would roll his eyes everytime I bragged about crap.
But in 2014, we for some reason talked and talked and talked until he started following me and we hung out together, he really likes cartoon programs and prefers them greatly over real acting shows and I used to watch cartoons everyday when I was in Primary and still do.
I myself like to examine and analyze personality traits of other people be it good or bad and he likes it when I tell him about it.
The thing that makes us able to be good friends is because we are quite opposites. He and I are living proof of Opposites Attract. He prefers darkness as a superpower and wants to be the villan turns good then slightly bad again, he's quiet, anti-social and abhor attention.
I however prefer a blend of mischievous darkness and light-filled goodness and being the goody hero of the story, I can be loud and quiet but am the most happiest being loud, I'm quite sociable and love and crave being in the spotlight. Another thing is that I like to talk and he likes to listen and sometimes vice versa. Listening and no awkward silences is what makes a friendship work.
I also likes that he would follow me because well, I like it when I'm the boss, sometimes he doesn't and I get moody and pissed and give him the cold shoulder for like a class period then forgot about it to talk to him. Sometimes I get lazy and ask him to carry my books when we walked to the laboratories and he never minded, I made sure to make him give me his stuff to carry along with mine sometimes so I wasn't a cruel slave master, but our numbers of being each other's pack mule is barely equal.
In the end, what made our unlikeness not effect our friendship is because when he does something I don't like, I would tell him calmly, cooly and in a civilized matter what that thing was and why I don't like it and if he still do it, I somehow don't care about it anymore. I make sure that he tell me what stupid things I do that he doesn't like.
What really shocked me was that he confirmed it when we were doing an online quiz and the question was "What would you do on your last day on Earth before doomsday?" and he chose "Hanging out with my best friend". Which made me ask who his best friend was and he said it was me.
My history of best friends is a sad one. In my opinion, a true, true best friend other than a partner should be the same sex because it made sense, we will understand each other's guy problems and can hang out with each other without being misjudged as dating. When I was in kindergarten, I told one of my very good friends, Ben, that he was my best friend, he agreed but one week later he moved schools. Then, I tried to persuade Yang in 2012 but Warren got in the way. I never had another one till 2014.
Our best friend-ship got even better in 2015, where we knew more about each other and him opening up and told me stuff no one will ever know.
At this point of the year, I stopped talking to everybody in my class and mostly to him and Crystal and Jessica, the fact that new students from the other class changed class to ours and that I started to realize that quality over quantity mattered made this so. Jake made my 2014 and 2015 less lonely during assemblies and school functions because he would sit near me and talk to me or just knowing he's there when we can't talk. He is my true best friend better than Ben.
"We used to fight with each other, That was before we discovered, That when your friendship is real, You just say what you feel"
Rainbow Rocks by My Little Pony, a song Jake and I describes our friendship as we do discuss about everything, no topics off.
Emotions: Happiness, Trust, Belonging
Reading Is Magic Pt. 2
2014 was special because I got back to reading a bit, 2013 I was too busy talking to everybody during free time to read and in 2015, studying and procrastinating to study for O'Levels took too much of my time.
In this one year, Parvati's cousin Silvia and I became good friends and we both have a mutual love for books and seeing how she balances studying for O'Levels and reading, I got inspired to read. I finished the Hunger Games Trilogy, started with the Divergent series and over a one-week holiday and some school days I finished the entire Harry Potter Series.
Now, reading is not much to improve my English but a hobby and passion, I am not the world's best writer, I still have to learn and reading not only teaches me how to write but is enjoyable too.
Now if only school was like that.
Emotions: Tranquility, Excitement (whilst reading)
My Dad
Like I said, 2014 was very emotional, one day in Biology, we had a lesson on Respiration and talked about lung cancer, I started to cry while the teacher lectured on about the causes, symptoms and eventual death of it.
It's a good thing the teacher was my uncle so he didn't asked questions and Crystal and Jake sitting at my lab bench didn't say anything.
I finally exploded during breaktime before Mathematics D in the maths classroom holding Crystal's hand.
I felt like shit, all the regrets I had came out, all the built up frustration was leaking through my tears and all the sadness enveloped me.
I was breathing heavily like an asthma attack and my hands and legs felt numb and cold, isolated from the blood that was pumping to my face making it red and warm.
My dad died of lung cancer in 2009 and I was such a bane to him while he was going through chemotherapy. He had a short temper at the time which was expected obviously it wasn't easy but my nine year old brain didn't understand, I would do stupid things to make him angry because he made me angry.
On the day he passed, he was not speaking sense and it was night time. All our relatives were there and my sister and brother and mother were by his side at the Bandar RIPAS hospital. I was to hold his oxygen mask near his nose and mouth to not let him breath too much of it but enough so it wouldn't be too painful for him to breathe without it.
My biggest regret was that eventually my hand got tired and I tried to push the mask to his face and I went and sat on the visitor chair to sleep cause it was 9 pm very late for 9 year old me.
My biggest frustration was that I was woken up on midnight and was told to say good bye to my dad. It was the fact that no one bothered to tell me that he was going to die, I thought the cancer could be healed and it would soon be over but no. No one told me.
What saddens me the most was that when my dad's body came to our house for the funeral, I didn't because he died, I cried because of how sad my sister cried.
I finally realized ALL of this on that day, let's just say I cried and screamed more on that day to Crystal than while writing this down.
Emotions: Regret, Frustration, Sadness, Anger
Mr. Player Pt. 2
On May of 2014, I asked Jessica to be my girlfriend.
Now mind you, my relationship with Crystal even though we were a thing still means that we are still friends.
Yeah I'm an arrogant idiot asshole that doesn't deserve to two of them, but I'm a thirteen year old and in love. Stop judging me.
After one month we had a squabble about me wanted to hold her hand in front of the other classmates and she not wanting and after a week of cold shoulders, I supposed we already broke up.
Crystal on the other hand became increasingly more romantic and affirms our relationship. I kinda liked it and feelings sprung. Oh how things are always good in the beginning.
Emotions: Love
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