dare you to move.

So in my primary school (Sekolah Tunku Mahmood 1), the boys and the gals in my class were actually not on very good terms since standard two. There was the Boys gang, consisting of Kian Huei, Wee Chiat, Brian, Jia Ho, Vaish, and me of course. I don’t know if I miss any because the gang is always expanding and we have to keep revising our STAR logo (maybe I’ll put up here some day) to accomodate more members. On the OTHER side is the Gals Society (ok I don’t reli know what they call themselves. maybe they just don’t have any.). Members are Wai Chia, Leanna, Sumitha, Shameetha, Vimala, and Lina and anyone else I forgot.

The reason for the boys to avoid the gals is simple: Stay within 2 metres radius of any gal from the opposite gang and you’ll risk being teased and isolated from the rest (just exaggerating. But teasing, yes.) . Whereas the gals avoid the boys because they are cute and will be handsome when they reach adolescence. Ok I made up that last part up. My severe lack of knowledge of the other side shows my strict adherence to our "honorable" code of conduct.

So what do we do? We tease, quarrel and do many things that I don’t quite remember. But I do remember we quarrelled and played tricks on them like throwing paper balls or chalks at each other during class, whack and chasing kinda stuff. And there was once when we sent two of our members to spy and eavedrop on their conversation  (it must have been quite important stuff).

However, during Chinese New year, we do send cards to each other. One year, I sent the gals cards and signed off as some one. Like " Happy Chinese New year! From Someone". And then Wai Chia sent cards back to all of the boys like : "Happy Chinese New Year. Who the PIG is someone?" Of course, being "gentlemen", we retaliated by teasing her and tearing up the cards and throwing up in the air as "firecrackers". She was so ANGRY, she chased us throughout the school using the "penyodok". Haha. Oh yeah, Wai Chia, being the primary school rose (all the male teachers like (to disturb) her.), was always the target of our attacks. Yup, boys like to disturb the prettiest gals because it is in our genes.Poor gal. She had so many nicknames I don’t think she can remember any. One favourite is "Mad Dog". You gotta ask her why. Hehe.

However, during standard 6, we made peace informally and sort of start communicating more. Maybe because puberty was coming. But those were the times eh.

Besides the gals, any other guys outside the gang who disturbed us has the same fate. I think Jia Wei was one of them. Everyday, we used to call him "Ong Tak Mandi" cos he looks so scruffy and sweaty in the morning because he played games.

Vaish also used to be a favourite target when we were in Standard 1 because of his sheer size. We teased till he was so angry that he chased us. Once I got punched in tummy by him. Ouch!

There were also the inter-class wars in Standard 1 where the kids from different classes would fight for unknown reasons. Full weapon arsenals include penyodoks (the all time favourite), brooms, brushes, watercolors (Jia Wei’s favourite), textbooks and pails. The colorful ending is undescriptable.  However, my class, being the wisest class, were always the cleanest because we just stood by and observed the phenomena.

Then there was the STM1 vs STM2 feud. STM 1 which is my school was the earlier occupant of the school area. Some years later, STM 2 started and they shared our buildings with us or something like that so we have to alternate between morning and afternoon sessions every year. So nationalistic STM 1 people sort of feel that  they should be hostile towards the "invaders". On the other hand STM 2 started having their own buildings and they do not like us using their building. We will leave notes on the table with mean messages for the afternoon occupant to see. We have mini-wars and mess up the class just before we leave for home. During sports day we will boo the other school. There was even a time when I saw two kids from both school fight each other using sticks and chairs till they were bloody all over. Towards Standard 6, each school has their own buildings and canteens. Teachers warned us to not even step into enemy territory. Gosh.

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