I'm sort of sitting here, looking at the beautiful KL lights from my new bedroom in our new condo unit at Mont Kiara Damai. It's fantastic. The lights are flickering like golden stars. Some move, and some don't. The scattered lights make KL's surface look like a city, 200 years from now. Such golden lights give me fresh and free feeling. I don't feel any regret agreeing to leave our old 48 Jalan Setia Bakti home. I miss it, though.

I arrived home on Friday night, with only 4 hours of sleep under my eyes that day. I began the day with the Year 12s waking us up (using cymbals, blowhorns and speakers) at midnight, playing around with us, and putting us to bed with ice and no pillows. In that time, we had to crawl under tables while being sprayed with water and shouted at; salute the Year 12s (UP-1-2-3 DOWN-1-2-3); worship the Year 12s; kiss the dirty Yr 12 Common Room floor; 'jump a fence'; drink what looked like 5 litres of water to win an early mark; clean the wet floor; get sprayed with fart smell crap.


Notice the face (vegemite-d); the hair (vegemite-d and sprinkled and feathered); the lips (in frowning position)

I had a good 4 hours sleep, and woke up just in time to catch a visit to the toilet before the Year 12s woke us up again. This time, they walked us down to the quadrangle field outside the boarding house. During this time of torture, they:
made us eat jelly (God knows what the hell they put in it); smeared vegemite on our faces (like war paint); tied targeted girls to pillars with rope and toyed with them; dipped some girls' hands into sardines/fish crap; made us crawl through a sardine spread on a mat (with raw fish!); go over and under hurdles with sardines around; put vegemite or honey on our hair, add colourful sprinkles, topped off with some feathers.
We were in hell.

It was all soon over, thankfully. It was already 6am, and we needed to get ready for school and home. I was so tired, I just didn't want to move on. We packed, cleaned up and everything in time for the end of term formal assembly. Oh how boring it was. Riana and I managed to escape near the end to go to the airport with boarding mistress (the sweetest one, ever) Anne Marie. She's such a lovely woman. She's so sweet.

Guess who we saw at the airport. Well, we saw TWO people, but guess the first.

No. Not Johnny Depp.
No. Not Barney the Purple rapist dinosaur.

We saw the guy who helped escort us through the airport before, in Term 1 AND 2! He was doing the flight check-ins. He recognised us, and was so nice to us on the baggage deals. Apparently, there are some real strict rules about how many bags you carry and how heavy all of them are. How lucky of Ri and I to have him there. I had suspected we'd be doom from all the heavy luggage we had.

Said our goodbyes. Went through immigration.

Guess who we saw at Gate 51?

No. Not Alessandra Ambrosio ;)
No. Not the Heffalump.

We saw Sebastian Aw, an old schoolmate from AISM. I was in Year 7 when he was in Year 8. He left the year after that to St. Joseph's College at Hunter's Hill. He was a huge otaku (Japanese anime/manga freak/obsessor/FAN) and loved Ayanami Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion. He called himself Chisato and we played blitzball (from the Final Fantasy X game) together during AISM's trip to Australia.

It was such a surprise. He looked the same, and he acted/talked the same. It was very cute :)

The flight was asdfghjkl;' boring. I read a bit. I math'd a bit, and still, it was very boring. The flight just kept on going. Possibly, the highlight of this flight was Australia's Northern coastline. I saw it! Finally! With my bare own eyes! I've always wanted to look at the Northern coast, where the edge touches the ocean. It's beautiful. The other highlight was this airstewardess, who came up to us and conversed with us.


The Northern coastline of Australia. I found it very cool 8)

Airstewardess: Hi, would you like the beef or the chicken?
Ri: No thank you :)
Rae: I'm fine thanks :)
Airstewardess: Oh~ Have you two been on this flight before?-
Rae: -Yeaaaa
Airstewardess: -I remember you two because you never eat or drink on the flight...
Rae & Ri: Hehehe

Three people. In one day. Wow.

Eventually, we arrived. How scary it was. This guy at the customs/immigration place had put his passport in the scanner the wrong way, so we had to wait for so long. I told the guy, POLITELY, that he had put it in the wrong way. He persisted to believe me, the bastard. So I screwed off to another queue, and ended up on the other side in no time. I watched a guard or office staff move over to the bastard and he said "Err, kamu passpot mesti letak sperti ni..." (Err, your passport must be put like this...). I couldn't stop laughing. I whispered under my breath, 'smart ass'. What a doofus. Malaysia was already getting into my head. While waiting for the luggage at the conveyer belt, these extremely logical people came right up to the conveyer with their trolleys' head-on with the side of the belt.
I asked myself: how the hell are they going to pull their bags over and onto their trolley, without any trouble and hassle? Note, I called these people extremely logical.

Outside the luggage claim was a nightmare. We stood around looking for mum, while all these freaky men came up to us asking us if we wanted a taxi. Before they could even start offering their wonderful and efficient services, I shot them with "No thanks". I might have hurt their feelings X) There was this guy who came up to me and asked me, with a smirk on his face, "Teksiiii? Yu wan teksii?" (You want taxi?) I said the usual "No thanks", and he starts asking me about the blue mark on my forehead (which read 3661, written on by the Year 12s). I was beginning to feel very awkward and scared.

I'm in my 3rd day of the holidays and so far, it's been great. The unit's fantastic. We had a wonderful dinner cooked by mum with the help of Inday, our beloved maid, and we invited the Wongs and Carol and her son Johnathan. It was fun, so to speak.


(From left) Our living room, Dining room


My bedroom

I'm going to head off to sleep. My left eye is far too weak to carry on. I must sleep.

The lights are now fading away. They hardly flicker, and the city of 2205 is now asleep.

and all of the stars
are fading away
but try not to worry
you'll see them some day...
Cheers.