| It was on a Monday morning. I was trying to sleep but something kept bothering me from crawling into my dreams. I tried to sleep sideways, and then my stomach facing the bed, and again I tried to turn to the other side. I felt so uneasy, so restless, I just want to get out of bed but I was afraid that I haven’t got enough rest for the night. On the night before, I was studying like as though my brain was able to absorb everything that I’ve learnt, sounds familiar? I was studying but at the same time relaxing. How was that possible? ~Confidence~ So after the whole book-reading + memorising thing, I fell asleep. I could not remember a thing I did before I slept, did not even remember switching off the lights. I woke up later in the morning feeling like it was just another boring day, when I was going to take my exams! This was my first time feeling so unprepared yet confident. After washing up, I ran downstairs to grab my breakfast. I was so fortunate, my long time, faithful maid made a wonderful American breakfast for me. She knew it was my favourite cuisine for a predictable long day ahead. Later, I heard a ‘ting’ sound coming from the door; it was the doorbell that rang in such a still morning. He was my instructor, the person I needed to help me get my driving license. I jumped into his car and took off for the day. As he was fetching me to the “examination hall”, he took a few turns before heading to our destination. He stopped at a house that made me seemed so familiar, like I have been here before. I saw a boy coming out of his big and beautiful house, he was walking towards this car and at a nearer look, I could see his face. No wander, he was my ex-classmate from the same high school we used to attend. Seeing him gives me the opportunity to reflect at our school days where we used to wear uniforms and wind about how come the canteen food is so teruk…. I wish I could turn back the time, just to take a peak on how fun was it to be at school and to mingle around with my close friends. Then when my friend got into the car, we both were surprised to see each other. Of all the driving schools around, why did he choose this? But I was so glad he did; now I have another friend to accompany me. So our instructor drove and picked another friend of mine before heading to our so-called ‘High court’ to freedom or imprisonment. Freedom, which gives us the rights to continue to proceed to the next round of the whole driving class procedure and imprisonment, which will make us ‘donate’ a little bit more to proceed to the next round of the whole driving class procedure. We arrived there safely, but I started to be anxious, wondering if I could pass the test. It was just a theory test, where we just need to select the best answer from the choices given on the computer. It seems easy but it didn’t win me over. My palms were sweating, like always especially when I am scared. The person in charged called out my name with a big smile telling me that I do not have to worry about a thing. I scanned my thumbprint before entering the “Room of Horror”. I sat in front of the computer worrying and praying that I’ll do well. Suddenly, the person in charge came towards me as if I did something wrong to offend her. I was frightened for a while but as soon as she took my water tumbler away, I was relieved. It was taken away from me just to prevent me from spilling the water on the computer. I took the courage and started keying in my important information before taking the test. The first few questions were easy, but as the number of questions decreases, the level of toughness increases. My palms started sweating again and they begin to shake, giving a sign of nervousness. A lady beside suddenly interrupted me, this was because she had poor knowledge in Bahasa Melayu. She kept asking me questions like “Should I press this?”, “What to press next?”, and even to the extend of “Is this the right answer?” I was stunned for a moment, did not expect to have someone asking me such questions in this sacred place. I did help her though; I wanted her to pass like how I wanted myself to pass too. I tried to help her as much as I could, but at the same time I was taking the test myself. So after I finished mine, I went out of the room. Surprisingly, I was the first to leave. Before leaving, I had to scan my thumbprint again, this time, my hands were sweating, like I could use it to produce water to drink if I were to be stranded in the desert, which was how bad they were. Since my thumbs were sweating. The device could not process my thumbprint. It took us a long time until she was so fed up of me. She asked me to wash my hands while she attends the other students in the meantime. I scanned my thumbprint over and over again, hoping that I could just take my results and leave. After so many attempts, seeing the disappointment facial expression from her, my thumb finally stopped sweating for a round 5 seconds. I saw her relieved face and got my results after that. Amazingly, I scored 49/50. I aimed for perfect score but I was happy, as long as I passed. Both of my friends got 48/50 each. We were so happy that we just left that place without thinking of turning back. In the car, we were looking at each others’ result sheet and just talking about the questions just now. On the way back, I suddenly realise that something was missing; it was my water tumbler!! I was so forgetful to have left it there and I told our instructor. He called the person in charge to see whether if it was still there. Fortunately, he said that he will help me get back my new water tumbler. So I was relieved again.
Despite of what happened, we where thinking of celebrating our victory. I suggested that we go to Sunway Pyramid since we had nothing to do after this. So we went there with excitement and anticipation. First, we head to the cinemas to get our movie tickets. We wanted to watch something outgoing and outrageous, something nice and moving, so we bought tickets to watch Step Up 2 – The Streets. Street dancer Andie West (Briana Evigan). After her mother died, she was taken in by her mother's best friend, Sarah (Sonja Sohn). Since West often skips school and spends too much time with the 410, Sarah wanted her to live with her aunt in Texas. However, her friend and older brother figure, Tyler Gage (Channing Tatum) convinces Sarah to give her another chance: she can audition for the Maryland School of the Arts. Though the director of the school was hesitant to accept Andie, she was still accepted. Due to her school commitments, she misses many 410 rehearsals,  The tagline of the movie – It's not where you're from. It's where you're at. And they threw her out. She assembles a new crew of classmates that includes Chase Collins (Robert Hoffman), the schools best dancer; they practice clandestinely in the school after school hours, to compete against the 410 in Baltimore's underground dance battle, The Streets. The 410 crew attacks Chase and vandalizes the school, after which Blake Collins (Will Kemp), the director of the school and Chase's big brother, throws out West and forbids the school's students to participate any competitions such as The Streets. They go to the building where the event takes place anyway, but are not allowed to perform there. Therefore they go in the street, and perform in the pouring rain. Blake, who is observing, is impressed enough to allow West to return to the school, and integrate the dance style into the school program. 
After the movie, we came out of the cinemas with a great passion for dancing, what an inspirational movie I would say. We loved it and were happy that we made a right choice. Later, we had lunch at Ichiban Ramen. It was a delicious one as I was craving for Japanese food.
Next, we just walked around the mall and chat along the way. I was also sending some messages with my phone to a friend of mine who was having some relationship problems. Since he was down, I wanted to cheer him up by giving him a bit of my time. After walking and talking, I suddenly realize that my bag was lighter. I search deep inside my bag and found out that I lost my phone. I panic. I was so scared and I could hear at back of my mind saying: “How are you going to tell your parents now?” That was the only thing I could possibly thought of, as I was still under their guardianship. I could not care less. We tried searching for it around the places we’ve been but we couldn’t see a sign of my phone. Nevertheless, we kept searching. It came to a point where I finally realize hope was gone, that I had to tell my parents and just forget about it. So we sat down at a nearby chair. I was still thinking about it and was doing some imaginations on the replies my parents will be giving me after knowing about this crazy act of mine. I was really scared but one of my friends told me to inform my parents. I thought for a moment but my friend’s persuasion pushed me to tell them. I called up my mum up and her first reply was - “Again?” I remembered losing my phone the other time; it was the same mistake I did just minutes ago. My mum got a little angry but I was really relieved after telling her. So we continued walking but this time in a different mood. I started crying. My friends comforted me for a while, hoping that I will not think about what happened earlier. They were nice people, they tried to helped me overcome this incident, they even brought me to Popular to listen to music. The first song I listened to was Canon in D. It was so different from the various versions I have heard previously. This one was so calm and comforting. I felt like I was standing in paradise, admiring the beautiful view while enjoying the mild wind blowing from the east.
After listening to that song, one of my friends said: “Ok, since you are in such a bad mood, I will treat you doughnuts, J.Co Doughnuts.” I quickly smiled at him as I really wanted to have doughnuts at that time. So we head for doughnuts, this time, with a little smile on my face.  After eating them, we waited for the right bus and went back home. |
