Cikgu Ali
I can still hear his voice reverberating through my head from last week’s highway codes lecture. Brusque like Tommy Lee Jones but without the nasally voice or twangy accent.
He was 101-percent drill sargeant, snapping but mostly booming in his deep voice (and mind you it wasnt a big room) whilst he mercilessly ragged the 20-odd students - but at same time always profusely apologising after when the student started to lean back (either to protect their eardrums or what I dunno) cos he liked to go up to their faces to repeat stuff and ask questions to make sure they’d been paying attention. It WAS five hours.
One girl sitting in front was steadfastly serious the whole time…with the sort of look on her face as though she couldnt believe we were wasting so much time.
Id never been yelled at so much since …….. about 8 years ago. Id never had as much fun at ragging since then.
Id been late coming into class and the lecturer was talking about other kinds of codes for when we have to visit JPJ for testing in the future. There was a long list of no-nos, “No slippers, no shorts, no baju singlets, no mini skirts, no baju tube…YOU OVER THERE! What is baju tube???”
He was asking for it. The class was dead quiet, it was going to be a long, long afternoon (5 hours) and I had to do something to amuse myself. I yelled back, “Baju pipe, SIR!”
Later he went to each student and conspiratorially asked them to call him so he could get them ready for the highway codes test. I think he’s gonna leak the questions. I need 42 out of 50 to pass.
Highway codes test this Tuesday. I HAVENT STUDIED OR REVISED!!!!!!!!!!
