Essei 2 : My Nostalgia

If I talk about memories, we always recall our nostalgia which already happens before this with sweet or bad memories. I guess all people have their memories and very hard to forget.


I still remember my sweet nostalgia with my friends in the hostel of SMK Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah, Kajang. At the hostel I have eleven group members including me. We are very close like siblings, even though we are different in class an different dorm, we always study together, go to dining room together, do exercise together and sometimes we also bathing together and play water in space made by cement. The water is very cold every time especially in the morning. I do not know how we can be close like one family. I thought maybe we do a lot of things together.


After go back from school. Take lunch and pray. All of hostel students must go to the study room for preparation class “prep”. Who can imagine, we were forced to study in the evening after lunch. It is so hard to do it, because in the evening our eyes become sleepy, our stomach do their job to process our meal and become lazy to study. Sometimes we feel very sleepy and hard to open our eyes, we sleep under the table but by turn to make undercover from warden. At the time is very funny, bump at the table if heard sound from warden’s high heel and if remember again, like we do foolish thing and still childish.


At SMK SAAS, not all students stay at the hostel because it is hard to get it. Only the best among the best student will get it. After qualified to be one of the hostel student, we must maintain our performance and marks in every test or examination and must get 60 percent and above for each subjects. If we get below 60 percent, all of us already know we must dismiss from the hostel. Because of that, we study hard to achieve success with flying colours in test or examination. At school, hostel students were famous with title “kaki tidur”. Every day, after enter the class and start our lesson,our eyes become small, smaller and closed. All teachers very kind and sporting even though we always sleep in class we still do homework and also get high marks in every test and examination. We know our habits so rude and can make our teachers grieved and also not respecting them. But it is under control. Forgive us teacher….


We can go back to home to see our family, only one weekend per month. We are always going back to home together with KTM. As usual on Sunday at 6.30 pm all students must arrive at hostel. After go back from home, we always gather together and brings meal to share with others. Everybody busy to tell what was happen in the two days at home. Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cried and sometimes we can only smile….


In 2006, we were seniors. We can bully our junior. Hahahahaha..just kidding. As a senior we never bullied our junior because we loved them. Sometimes we just ask them to help to take hot water at the dining room only, not more than that. We want to be a good role model to our junior. Moreover this year we will sit for SPM examination and we don’t want do bad things to people because we afraid they will wish bad luck and we will get bad result in SPM. In this year, we must study harder and struggle to succeed in SPM. As usual, we still sleep under table during “prep”, and we still sleep in the class. But it was not like in form four, still honeymoon year we pay more attention in class, go to tuition at night and stay up for do revisions. We sacrifice our time to sleep because we know SPM is important to us.
SPM result will determine our future, it is as a ticket to enter any university.


Ramdhan appeared, month for all Muslim compulsory to fasting. In Ramadhan school did not break yet. We still go to school as usual but it was so tiring. We wake up at 4 am to go to the dining room to eat together. Eat together in Ramadhan months is very different from other days. Maybe have blessing from God. We also pray “terawih” together and because of this, our relationship become closer.


30 October 2006. The date will not I forget from my mind. At 8 o’clock, we are from form five students has tuition for mathematics at the dining room. We just do revision and do exercise because SPM is around the corner. At 10 o’clock class ended. Suddenly, my leader for girls hostel ask me as the treasurer about the money that I collected to make the party for the “aspuri” on Saturday night. Then, I went upstairs to go my dorm to take the money to give to the wardens. While I opened my drawer to take the money and saw the money was gone. I become curious, because I always lock my locker, my heart goes faster and very worried because the amount of the money is RM800, it is a lot. All my friends looked at me and they start not believes me. One of them blame me and said I was stole the money. I felt very sad because my friends not believe me. Without feel ashamed, I cried in front of them, all my friends not persuade and back up me. They only looked at me then one of them brought to toilet to wash my face and just follow her. Suddenly, when I washed my face all my friends sang “Happy Birthday”. I really appreciate it and it was like a dream. Actually, the money with them and they take the money from my locker during I took a bath. All my friends said sorry to me and what was happen is just trick to celebrate my birthday. The next day, I go o school with bloated eyes.


On 16 of November until 6 of December, we sat for our SPM examination. About one month we are in tension and serious condition. Everybody wanted to achieve their aim to succeed and want to prove to our parents. On Tuesday last paper was “Ekonomi Asas” and our examination ended. We were very thankful to God because we can answer with calmness. On 8 of December everybody wants to back home. We felt very happy because after this we do not go to school anymore. But I felt sad, like missing something. We cannot stay together like before this, we must leave our dorm and our lovely hostel to go new life after this.


Many students said stay at the hostel is very bored and not free. But it is not for me. Stay at the hostel is very interesting experience, very happy and make we more matured and can be independent person. Hostel of SMK SAAS, Kajang is sentimental memories with my friends will I keep in my mind forever and ever. Hope all of you remember our memories together and hope our friendship until the end.