A Tag from Miss Celest,
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Dear 16-year-old Intan,
What the hell are you thinking, going to a private school in KL?!! WHAT THE FREAKING HELL?!!
YOU ARE GOING TO BURDEN YOUR PARENTS..! just name it : money, their feelings, their expectation… everything..! what the hell?!
You are going to put your father in a heated argument with his brother, since his brother seems to welcome you to his house, but in fact, has he has not, since you treat his house like yours. Well, it’s because you have never live with anybody else than your parents before, so you do not know other people’s rules.
Therefore, I presume, that you have to get your uncle to sit down with you, and write down the rules for you so you will remember, instead of bitching about you behind your back, and you have no idea about it.
And you are going to suffer girl. Why? Because in this private school in KL, in this oh-forsaken-school, you are going to get bullied, if you decide to be the Good Girl.
If you are good in sports, you are going to get wank. If you are good in your studies, you are going to be isolated. If you are this girl who wants nothing else than a peaceful mind, you are going to be treated as a weirdo.
You are going to play basketball, and some guys will knock you down until you get your nose bleeding. And they will say “sorry” like they don’t mean to, and just walk away. It’s like its part of their scheme.
And in one fine day, you will look at your friends, who are quite busy cheating in their exams and said “Aish korang ni,” and you will shake your heads.
And the next thing you know, these people will come right at you, accusing you that you are the one that told the teachers about their ‘creative-way-of-scoring-the-exams’.
You do not do such a thing of course. But do they care? They do not of course.
They are stripped from their ranks and duties, and had been humiliated in school. But of course, they will make sure you are going to get the humiliation more.
So you are going to be isolated. Since they have more power in school than you, the school is going to isolate you. You are going to eat your lunch alone. And cry alone.
Yes Intan, you are going to cry every single night. Counting every seconds you are going to leave this place. Begging to go back to Kedah. Because you are going to hate this forsaken place that the whole world is excited about.
After 6 months of suffering, finally you will give in. You beg your dad to go back.
Don’t worry Intan, the school is not going to make you pay them back, even you are under scholarship. Those days of being good at school proves that if you quit that school anytime you want, without paying them back.
I am so proud of you for going back home. Please, when you grow up, tell yourself that you are not going to let your kids go to any private school in KL.
Since you have wasted ½ of your sweet sixteen, please do cherish everything about the other half. Take no hard feelings whenever your friends say something bad to you. Because you know you’ve gone through hell.
And since your mom is a teacher of your school, you are allowed to be this
‘Big-Headed Girl’ in school. Haha. Yes Intan. You deserve it.
All the other teachers are going to love you, since your mom is
Cikgu Norainy, the art teacher yang sangat garang.
Girls from the art classes are going to love you to. But you will not care. You are going to have the time of your life. Because you have a lot of friends with you, and that every minute that you spend in school, you are going to spend that time to gossip gossip and gossip..! You are going to love being in an all-girls school..! You can talk about boys as loud as possible..!
Speaking of boys, Intan, you are going to fall head over heels for this one guy.
You are going to speak of that guy 24/7 in class, until at one point, your friend will snap and said “Haish! Sikit2 pasal that guy! Sudahlah Intan.”
Well, I guess you need to tone it down Intan.
You don’t need to go on a crash diet, just because you have a date with this guy. Although, it does help a lot since your friend who went with you been telling the classes
“KORANG PATUT TENGOK BODY INTAN!”On that note, yes Intan, I guess you should continue on dieting..! Because after that date, you managed to turn yourself into AN ELEPHANT..!
Don’t worry about the guy Intan. Because, ten years later, he is still your friend, one of your best friends in fact.
And he is hopeless anyway, because he does not believe in a relationship. Haha. But he is one of those friends that when you talk to him, he’ll remind you of your own foolishness. That will make you smile :)
Hrmm… what else?
Ah yes, what ever you’ve been doing Intan, you just do it, but please add more happiness in it.
Be an excellent friend to your friend, be the best daughter ever to your parents, and be whatever is it that you want to be.
Btw, you are going to love account, hate physics (but love it later in form 5), thinks that the government is finding ways to make your life miserable by putting literatures in your BM and BI subjects, and hate add maths whole heartedly.
Remember, you are going to suffer for the 6 months, but you are going to have the time of your life, for the rest of your life. :D
From your 25-year-old self.
p/s : I miss those girls back in SNC. Some of them are getting married. Praq is getting married on the 1st of August..! I CAN’T WAIT..!
