Thursday, January 04, 2007
2nd day of school (for the kids)

Yesterday was the first day of school for all school going kids.

Now as some of you know, my parents are away on pilgrimage and won't be back till January 21st. That means I'm on driver duty and I have to send my sister to school every morning.

You see, my sister doesn't wake up easily, I do, but when there's no incentive for me to wake up, I'll shut off too. But yesterday, since it was the first day of school and all, my sister was up and running by 5.30 am, and when nenek called at 5.45, she was already bathing and by 6.15am we were sitting in front of the tv eating cereal, then we leisurely strolled out of the house at 6.30am.

For once, she didn't sleep in the car. We were singing along to tunes from the radio, while dancing once in a while. And we chatted as well.

My sister reached school by 6.50am.

I told her, "Wow! Lets see how long this ready by 6.15am thing will last!"

TODAY.

My grandmother called at 5.30am.

Nenek: dah bangun?

Me: dah.. (I meant, *I* woke up already)

Nenek: ok syukur alhamdulillah...

-puts down phone-

-nudges sister who at that time switches off the alarm clock and remained motionless-

Me: -sleepily-If you switch off the alarm clock and you go back to sleep, that means you're not going to wake up. -goes back to slumberland-

The next thing I hear is a loud,

"KAK!!!! 6.50!!!!"

har, engkau, terberak sekali.

Well done la. She ran to the toilet, bathed in what seemed like seconds (lucky both of us weren't able to pray) and got dressed. By 7am we were out of the house.

School bell was at 7.25am.

Traffic conditions after 6.45am is HELL.

Suddenly it was jammed EVERYWHERE. The road outside my house jammed. The road leading to PIE entrance was jammed. PIE was relatively ok but had to watch out for that camera at BKE exit. Thank God my parents bought a 2000cc car.

AND THEN *insert evil music*

STEVENS ROAD EXIT (where I was supposed to exit)

WAS THE WORST. The car pile up started at least 150m away from the freaking exit. And by then it was 7.15am. My bladder was throwing tantrums, I suspect because of the speed I was travelling at. My heart was racing, my head was pounding. I drummed my fingers impatiently on the steering wheel.

My sister was wide awake, formulating plans to dodge the prefects who would book the late-comers.

Sister: Okay kak! I have a plan. We just wait by the teacher's gate until assembly is over then I just run in towards the hall.. I'll blend in with everyone!

Me: -a scene from Prison break flashes through my mind, when Michael told everyone to bleach their blue prison uniform so they could blend in with the people from psych ward who wore white unif..*mind wanders to how hot michael scofield is..BACK TO REALITY* -nods to acknowledge sister's plan-

The freaking SJI traffic light sucks cause it stays green for like what? 2 milliseconds?

And then at the road after SJI some taxi in front of me decides to show attitude and be in the yellow box and refuse to give way to the freaking bus, and the bus driver was dangling out the window scolding the taxi driver and pointing to the yellow box on the ground.

Driver of SHC 1036C should go back and take basic theory again.

Then the freaking driver, instead if driving off decides to taunt the freaking HUGE bus by attempting to bang into the front door and travelling at the speed of a tuk-tuk.

LIKE WTH! MOVE ALREADY!!!!

And because of that the light at SCGS turned red.

BLOODY SHC 1036C.

When the light turned green, I switched to the right most lane and sped off.

It was 7.24am.

School bell in ONE minute.

"We can make it, we can make it," I told myself.

When we came around the bend to the junction turning into RGS, cars were lined up till at least 70.37m from the junction.

CRAP.

7.26am and I made the turn and sped off to the front gate.

"Quick see if there's prefects"

My sister looks out the window..

"Okay YES! NO prefects, ok just stop here, just stop here..Okay thanks bye.."

She raced to the gate and I don't know if the prefects got her or not. I sped off because I actually stopped in the middle of the road. Mwahhaha.

As a matter of fact, my father DOES own the road. (I'm going to make that sign and hang it on the car)

And that was how the second day of school went.

I hope nothing like this ever happens again.