Been there; Done that~~
December 24th, 2008 by invaderscrew-emmelyAn old saying once said, when one door
closes, another opens. That is just how I analogize ’08 going ’09. Just how
many times in our lives we realize that we’ve benefited one year for a good
cause and just how many of us have no regrets whatsoever over a year going
away?
A lot had happened throughout my ’08 year,
I was out and about almost all through the year, being in not less than 3
places in total.
First was UNITEN, in bangi. I spent about 3
months there from January, learning basic spoken-Japanese. Not a single weekend while I was there that I went home. I missed out a heck of things at home, for example, my cousin’s engagement. But I met up lots of new frens and had whole new experiences I never thought I would. For the first time in my life I felt a sense of belonging in my life. I dun know why though. But the memories were very beautiful. But what surprises me most was that I had changed. I went from the bad rebellious 17-year-old me to a… well, to a NOT so rebellious me. I got a family there, a ‘Sappororians’ family.
I’m never gonna forget the night my daisenpais came and asked me to take a pix of them in front of the hotel, and
the next day I got a scolding from that freaking irrational encik Arafat for
having so-called relationship with JAD students. WTF. How was I responsible for them knowing my presence in uniten? How in hell was I supposed to know how they knew about me? Yeah, I’m still pissed off with him. Till now~~
And I lost some weights there, due to excessive walking, but it was no pain memory at all.
After the three months course, I went home,
for a slight 2 weeks before leaving to kelantan in April for my national
service training. It hadn’t been 2 days I was there; I had an unbelievably
painful and excruciating food poisoning, puked more than thrice a day, had
three injections at three different places and not cured till the last. That
was my first ever food poisoning of my life. But when I got better, I kind of
enjoyed it there, I made frens, shared new points of view, and I gained some
weight there too, thanx to the six-meal-a-day policy. But when I was there,
there was a point at which I returned to the 17-year-old me. The rebellious,
short-tempered, full-of-swearwords me. I didn’t know why but it happened. So,
when I got really close to a few girls and some boys, I received a study offer,
by the name JAD.
The offer I’ve dreamt of my whole life, the
one that will provide a platform and a chance to pursue my studies in Japan. I was torn. Between my newfound frens and enjoyment and the dreams I’ve always kept nurtured in me. I made up my mind and chose JAD. I might’ve been wrong in making these decisions yet I still know that was real, I would never have know wat’d happen if I chose otherwise.
It was then I realized that when I was all sick and vomiting in klantan, my grandfather passed away, and I didn’t have the chance to come back.
And my cousin got married but I was too far to come home.
It was only two weeks in klantan and the second day after the two weeks, I took a bus home. I had a single seat in the bus and I regretted the decision I made (going home) the whole journey home.
Yeap, I cried all the way. So I slept most of the tym to kill the pain.
I stopped at putra station and my dad took
me home. I spent the next two weeks at home and enrolled myself in unisel shah alam for the 3-years preparations in Malaysia.
Which maybe wasn’t all that bad, I had an all-paid-for-rented new home, a new room and a new life. Free life. AND an rm350 monthly allowance scholarship money from ypm which was allocated ONLY for food. Which I spent for shopping. Haha.
But along with that, there was no more Beep (my uniten roommate) who was also like my twin, we were like one in uniten, couldn’t ever be apart except for classes, she was in Ehime, I was in Sapporo. There was no more Yakult, my group in uniten/agrotek, and there was certainly no more Saufi or Ruby, my two ‘bestest’ sidekicks.
I never thought that JAD was a hell. Okay, it was no hell. The orientation week was a disaster, we all had to wake up at 5 and slept after midnight, it was excruciating, grueling, to say the least. We wentfor a horrifyingly terrible camp in perak for a get-to-know-ur-senior session. The first week of studies were all about revising our uniten syllabus. But this time, it was all real Japanese. No more Syarif Sensei, nor Saido Sensei. No more laughter like the ones in uniten. The workload was tiresome, math was a nightmare, physics was like syllabus for aliens and chemistry was the only one I could afford, though it was merely able to breathe sort of afford. Japanese was easy.
And JAD was where everything started. First of all, was my decision to enter JAD. Jad’s life was by far the worst nightmare of all nightmares. That I reached a point where I really wanted to drop out and wondered if it was better in AAJ? Beep was there, in AAJ universiti Malaya in kl. Also doing preps for pursuers in Japan. What was worse, they were in the HEART of KL, damned the taxi which only cost three bux to Midvalley. That’s how close it was to Midvalley. The first half of JAD life was depressing, and impossible to adapt to. But I got over that and I think if I want to realize my dream, I gotta stay there.
So I did. It was until I went to visit Beep in um that I started appreciating my JAD life. The worst that we are AAJ had it way WORSE. We have a house, an apartment, they only have a dorm. We had hotel beds; they had wooden platforms with thin mattress. But wat I appreciated most was the bond each of my batch hold towards each other. The girls and the boys, we are frens like we are family, very much unlike Beep. Sometimes I pity her. Their bond was only for the ones of the same sex, and the girls n boys seldom agree on each other. So I was really thankful I entered JAD during the overnight stay.
During my JAD first sem days, I kept in touch with my old school’s practical teacher through YM and we got close, like a big brother and his kid sister. Or so I thought. Turned out he had that more-than-frens sort of feeling. And when I turned him down, we kind of stopped communicating. I sent a few apology SMSes and IMed him to apologize, he didn’t reply and I finally gave him the last sms for raya, and that too was a no reply number.
The first sem ended and we went for anothercamp in negeri sembilan. That camp was much better than the one in perak, at least I didn’t have to deal with some kindda emotional-depression problem. Haha. And that camp was only us batch 9 jad. That was the best thing about it.
oh and the end of sem 1 brought a bttr news for all of us JADians. scholarship money raise! we had a total of rm80 increase from the initial amount which adds up to rm430!
which meant: lots more shopping activities!
But 2008 wasn’t all honeys and cherries. This year too, I broke up with my beau; I hadn’t had the guts to say these words till now. It took me the entire time to
get over the break-up blues. But now I’m okay, I can move on and though it
still pricks when I saw his feeds and updates in facebook, I can now scroll over
and read on~~
I too, put a stop on someone’s hopes. He’d been waiting years and years for me, ever since in school, and till now. I know it was painful for him, I left him in the cold night which was about to rain, I felt sorry, and was really really sorry, but that was the only choice I had. I couldn’t keep u waiting for an impossible hope.
Two of the most important people of my life are now no longer here, not that they’re dead, but it’s fact I gotta face, they’re gone and never will return. I’m sorry this happened, part of it involved 29 other people, and it was all probably my fault. But I still couldn’t figure out which part of it was my fault.
Yet I still believe that human conscience is one strong motivator of human. So if they chose the way they did, it wasn’t probably anyone’s fault. It’s just their instinct that told them to do so.
And a part of me still wishes one of them would come back. The latter doesn’t have that much chances as the former, so… do come back when u’re ready, I can’t promise the same ‘ol times, but it’s never too late to build a new one.
JAD now had transformed me to a whole new person, someone I barely know, someone I hardly WANT to know. I am changed. A new person, much different from school or uniten or even the NS me.
But I suppose it’s wat we go thru, changes.
So that’s my 2008 story.
2008 brought me lots of happy things, yet never missing out on the bad. I’ve gained and I’ve lost. It’s a fair game. A fair year.
So I had barely been at home, the holidays, sums up to a total of only 3 months tops at home.
2008 is another year with countless broken hearts, flawed tragedies, and irreplaceable lost souls.
I expect a lot of busy-ness in 2009 and many fresh faces, and tons of never-forgettable ups and downs.
cheers…


