Well, as I’ve promised my readers that I’ll blog today, as also to apologize for not blogging yesterday since I was really tired.
Actually, I just came back from dinner, didn’t have a rest after meeting up with my sister Pey so I’m actually very tired now, but I still have to keep hold to my promise to blog about the events. And please excuse and forgive me for my language I’ll be using here now, because I tend to not think too well when I’m tired.
Well, it was those normal schooling hours for Fridays, as usual – boring subjects for that day. What’s more?? They’ve changed the time-table for the second semester and now I’m having double add-maths for the first thing in Friday mornings and it ends with double chemistry at the end of the day. In between that, double physics, in which two periods are separated by the recess, so it’s physics before recess and physics after recess. Not only that, I have double PE (physical education) just right after double add-maths. Well, I’m not complaining about PE, but why must it just pop on Fridays?? It’ll make me sticky (because of sweat) and I still have to stay back for Taekwondo later in the afternoon, and we don’t have bathrooms in our school that you can refresh yourself after these sweaty activities.
But anyways, let’s ignore my time-table, it’s not the priority that I want to point out in this post. Well, everything was as usual during the class hours. Just right after school, coming out of the Chemistry Lab, I grabbed my bag and dashed to the canteen, waiting for Voon Pang to arrive at 12.30pm. I waited for her because I wanted to invite her out to have lunch in Pizza Hut with me because I was dreadfully bored with the same dishes my school serves (not to mention the poor choices and the quality of the food).
She arrived at around 12.40pm and that instant I spotted her, I greeted her and asked her out, but then she declined with the reason her parents won’t allow her to leave the school compound. Respecting her decision, I just had to face that fact. Well, actually, a lot of students in our school go out for lunch especially during Fridays (because this is the day they have to stay back for activities) because they’re bored of the school food. Besides, the school does allow us to leave the school compound with the condition we don’t do it when we’re having classes.
If you’re wondering that I’m only going out with Voon Pang, then you’re not too right. I actually asked a few friends to come along for lunch, but they declined because they wanted to go to some other place with other friends. And because I didn’t want to cancel my plan of going out for lunch, I’ll be going out even if I have to go with only one friend.
But at last, I stayed back in school and ate those really dull-coloured curry noodles that contributed two curry-red drops on my school shirt, and making me look as if I’m still a little kid that splashes all the food on my shirt. I had no choice, unless if you considered the choice of me going out for lunch alone – that would only make other people think I’m strange or weird to have lunch alone. But I had lunch in school alone, and I didn’t bother about what other people think about me.
After lunch, I went for a little search for Voon Pang because I felt bored and just wanted someone to chat with. Apparently, the only person I feel that I can actually share my secrets with is her, so it’s natural that I’ll feel more comfortable talking to her. However, I couldn’t find her after searching around the school. So I went to sit under the tree alone and removed my spectacles, and closed my eyes and enjoying the cool air under the tree.
I sat there for quite some time actually, relaxing my mind and kept rereading the Korean phrase from Heaven’s Tree (Nyeol ji gyeol jul kkae yo, mit eo, yeongwonhi. It actually means ‘I’ll protect you, trust, forever’) to myself. I held my hand to my heart whenever I felt my heart is contracting (the painful feeling in your heart when you’re on the verge of tears). I held my hand on my chest when I reread that phrase and telling myself that I’ll protect her forever.
Finally, I spotted Voon Pang when I returned to the canteen to get my tumbler to have a sip of water. I took that small piece of paper that has that Korean phrase and gave it to Voon Pang. That strip of paper has 2 sentences. The first sentence was written in Korean that it says ‘If my feet are cold, so will my heart be’ and the second sentence is ‘I’ll protect you, trust, forever.’ I told her the meaning of the first sentence but didn’t tell her the second sentence, because her friends are just beside her and might misunderstood that I have feelings for her. After that, she and friends went off somewhere.
I just sat on that long chair in the canteen and looking up at the sky. Suddenly, I spotted Leng’s sister with her bag that she’s carrying on her shoulders and 2 hand-held bags with her hands. She looked soo beautiful that I was speechless when I saw her walking towards me, but she was actually going somewhere else, not exactly facing my direction. I faced down and pretended not to see her because I was really shy and when she walked pass me, I looked at her from behind, with so much love that I wanted to be walking and talking with her at that moment and helping her carry those heavy bags. Then I wondered why she came to school at this hour, she usually comes to school really early on Fridays.
Couldn’t stand it anymore just sitting down there and thinking about these things, I stood up abruptly and walked towards her direction and stopped suddenly, heart beating really fast and thinking really fast about whether I should just appear in front of her and greet her. But before I could make a decision, I saw her walking up the flight of stairs, apparently wanting to visit the library (the library had that Egyptian era exhibition, so she wanted to visit it). And because she just walked upstairs, I thought that it’s no good to just follow her up like that and go into the library with her. Apparently, to get inside the library for the exhibition, we’ve got to queue up and the queue was really long. So if I was to stand with her and queue with her, that situation and scene would be very inappropriate, right?? (Inappropriate because of various reasons)
So I took a walk and saw Voon Pang again but merely smiled at her friends and her because I see they’re in their girls’ conversation and it’s not appropriate to just barge in. Thus, I went to sit under the tree again. Suddenly, Voon Pang called me twice. I didn’t respond her first calling because I was unsure if someone was calling me. She asked why I looked soo down but I merely smiled and said nothing happened.
When the bookshop opened, we went inside together (Voon Pang was waiting for it to open). I bought a gel pen and she somehow wanted to buy some key chains but they were out of stock or something. I left the bookshop a moment after they left (because I took a moment to choose which was a good pen) and when I came out, they were gone.
Then I thought I had to tell Voon Pang what the second sentence meant. I took out my wallet and took out a note with some Korean words written on it (yeah, my wallet is full of Korean phrases written on little notes). I turned the note around where it’s blank and wrote in English ‘I’ll protect you, trust, forever.’, folded it and went searching for Voon Pang. I finally found her walking on her way to the School Hall. I gave her the folded paper and she was trying to open and read the folded paper. I didn’t want others to see what’s written on that paper so I took the paper back from her hands, folded it again and put it back into her hands and ask her to read it inside the hall.
And that was about me and Voon Pang yesterday. Nothing happened after me and Voon Pang’s events but something turned up during my Taekwondo training…
I was resting during a break after a vigorous Taekwondo training. I sat down in front of the School Hall (we had training at that spot) and was just relaxing myself. Of all of a sudden, Leng’s sister suddenly appeared. She was walking out of the Girls’ toilet and I was utterly stunned and frozen when I saw her. When she was walking pass me, she glanced at my direction and turned her head to walk again but then in another split second, she turned and look at me and smiled and gave a greeting gesture of a ‘V’ sign with her hand. Usually, people will wave their hands as a gesture of greeting. But this time, she gave a gesture of greeting with a ‘V’ sign with two fingers(the sign you always pose in front of the camera). As quick as she gestured that greeting to me, she stopped gesturing at me and if my memory serves me right, she quickly turned that ‘V’ gesture into a wave of her hand. Well, I think that she wasn’t thinking too much when she wanted to greet me so she just gestured a ‘V’ sign. Sometimes, I tend to do that mistake too. But what I’m trying to say here is that when she actually did that ‘V’ sign and smiled at me, she looked soo cute when she did that. She was just soo cute that I have no other words to describe her anymore.
After she left, my Master (Taekwondo instructor) brought a target for us. Well, a target is actually like a punch bag where you can hit it as hard as you like, and could serve for training purposes or just for fun. Since there were not many Taekwondo students present yesterday, I had more chances to have a go on that target. Usually, when there is a lot of Taekwondo students, your times of having a go on that punch bag is very little as all of them wants to have a go hitting it. However, since I’m also having a higher belt (higher belts usually are given more chance to have a go on these stuffs), I had quite some time with it. Anyways, not many people wanted to try hitting on that target yesterday and I really wondered why because usually when Master brings out the target, everybody swarms there because they wanted to have a go on it. Well, not to brag, but very surprisingly, my kicks gave a quite loud sound and the people surrounding was in awe when I kicked the target a few times. Anyway, I didn’t like that attention (I never liked attention from other people) and they might think I’m showing off (but I’m not) so I just did 4 turning kicks and went off immediately. I came back later and kicked 2 times with a turning kick and did a louder sound with a jumping turning kick. After that, I walked away again because they were kind of like cheering me and that attracts attention and I dislike attention. But what I was most surprised of this whole thing was that only two people really made some attention when the kicks where being thrown to the target. One of them is me, and the other was a friend of mine. But again, I’m just writing this down so I won’t forget it, please don’t have the perception that I’m bragging or whatsoever.
After Taekwondo, I called Dad to pick me up from school. He said he’ll be arriving in 10 minutes. So at the time being, I went to see Leng’s sister having her PE. I looked at her from afar and she looked soo cute when she was trying to throw that ball into that basketball goal. She kept missing it and she looked so cute at everything she does. But I when I turned to go after 8 minutes looking at her, I looked at her the last time and held my hands on my chest and said to her in my heart ‘Nyeol ju gyeol jul kkae, mit eo, yeongwonhi’ and turned to leave.
