I bought this pet week ago on Human Pet. After exchanging a few messages she said she know me from somewhere. She then tells me that I was her primary school admirer. I didn’t buy it at first because I have not the slightest memory of seeing her before as a schoolmate nor as a classmate. On top of that, each time I ask her we were classmates before she didn’t give me a solid answer. She’ll just reply, “Paise lor, like forcing you to remember the past.” She was smart in a sense that whenever I had my doubts, she would mention some of my primary school friends’ names. I had no idea to how she got that information but to belief that she was actually one of my classmates.

I accepted her argument without much thought as my primary school years for me is a struggle and I confess that I do not remember all of my classmates or schoolmates. It’s been awhile since primary school stories past through my mind. I had difficulties conversing in mandarin during my primary year so I was quieter at the time, I think. No doubt that I’ve been more of as asshole after my mandarin got better. =)

Ok, back to the story. We decided to meet up yesterday. We named a time and place and met up. When I arrived there, one of my other primary school friend was there with her. I didn’t put much thought into it either because they are college mates and not taking the same course. The moment I sat down, the 1st thing she said to me was “sorry”. I was like, what the heck?! She then confessed that she did not know me at all. I dug out some information about her and she was from Convent Butterworth. Totally a different school from me. She then reveals that all the information about my primary school like was obtained by my friend.

That was like, what the hell..! Such and embarrassing moment for me as the both of that was like laughing their heads out behind my back all this while. I fell for it…. Such a lame trick and I actually fell for it! ARGH~!!!! GAWD~!!! I still cannot accept that I had the sucker punch right in the FACE!!! DAMN~!!

I still have her as my pet… come to think about it. I’ve buried the thought of my primary years a long time ago. I use to be very discontent about my parents sending me to a Chinese school. The first few years were a torture for me and I have no idea of a word of mandarin. My parents are from English school and we do not converse in mandarin at home. It was really difficult for me to follow up in class.  I fundamental year were partially destroyed because of that. I cannot understand a thing that was thought in class for years. I would be the kid that everyone loved to pick on because of my poor mandarin back then.

I’m really glad I was sent to a mandarin school today. The discipline of Chinese school standards have brought me up well through out these year in my opinion. Being able to speak mandarin has given me a huge advantage as well. I’ve made many friends through out the years and thanks to my mandarin foundation my circle of friends are not limited to just English speaking people. I gave up on mandarin during my secondary years because I could not keep up anymore. I guess at the end of it all, instead of blaming my parents should thank them for throwing me into a Chinese school. They did their part of helping me keep up in class by giving me extra strokes of the “Rod of discipline” every time I fail my Chinese spelling and exams. I guess it my own inability to strive harder to improve my Chinese in my earlier years.