Reminiscing back to my schooling days sometimes makes me smiling alone. Eventhough I pretty much hate it and wanted to get out of it very quickly back then, but after nearly 6 months free from those hell I have to admit rite now I miss my school days a bit. Especially living in hostel of course. Now I’m gonna write my memory about them. Flisterz might experienced some of this also I think. Haha.

In hostel, I’m having trouble to wake up on my own (not just me I guess). Everytime my eyes were closed I’m hardly aware of what is happening around me. You can’t just woke me up easily. I woke up late to school, missed prep class, missed Program Gemilang and many more. That sometimes puts me and the others into trouble with the wardens (mostly our Vice Principal of Student Affairs/HEP -he REALLY cares about the student affairs more than the wardens). So they has several methods of waking the students up (mostly during Subuh prayer):

First they’re gonna come with their motorcycles into our hostel compound and created some noise + smoke with it. Those who stayed on 1st floor were really unlucky when it comes to this. There were several occasions when I saw they pointed the bike’s exhaust pipe directly inside somebody’s room. While the people stayed on the 3rd floor (like me) were not much affected by the noise because they know the wardens were still downstairs and still going on a long way upstairs to them.

Then, they gonna knocked on the door loudly, turned on the lights and turned off the fan of every room. It is damn annoying of course. So most of the students usually woke up by this time and started to get ready for bath half-awake. While some of us still remained on their cozy mattress.

Sometimes (depending on his mood) our HEP will carry a glass of water and pour a little on each and every one’s faces inside a ‘marked’ room. I happened to be experiencing this a lot of times. Huhu.

And then there was our Head Warden, who is quite aggresive. He rarely woke us up during Subuh but when he did, the ‘lucky’ one had the chance to try the feeling of a shoe (he will choose the heavy one) outside your room flying right to their face when they’re having sweet dreams. Oh yeah I’ve taste this one too. A basketball shoe I think.

The best part is when there was no wardens to wake us up. Most of the lights were still off on 6.30 a.m. And it was very quiet. Only 2 rows of students were present for Subuh prayer in the Surau. LOL. And when the wardens managed to bust somebody for not going to the surau, here goes the most popular punishment in MRSM Langkawi, a ‘light’ squeeze/pinch on your tits. (this is only for boys OK) Damn, I hate that. But the students also have many ways to hide from the wardens:

1. Hide behind the doors - this way is very fast but very easy to get busted as you can be seen.

2. Hide under the bed - make sure you don’t keep any spiderwebs under.

3. Sleep inside the bathroom - bring your blanket into the bathroom (usually dry in the morning) and don’t forget to lock. Some of my friends were busted when doing this. I’ve never tried this before.

4. Hide inside the locker - This way is only suitable for smaller people. It is quite hot inside so don’t forget to let some air inside.

5. Sleep inside un-popular/checked room - Move into the room that is not popular about waking up late. But be aware because the wardens were full of tricks.

Now most of the teachers in MRSM Langkawi had moved to another place this year. So I think the situation is quite different between my time and right now. Anyway, I have to thank the wardens for their hardwork waking us up to perform our prayers and making sure we attended to the place we should be right on time. Without them, I’ll end up on my bed all day.

Happy Holiday!

To be continued..