As I remember them

I met Tok Wi yesterday and we rambled on dicipline matter and the life in the Prep School.

During Prep School days, there were sets of rule that we need to follow. I must write this down so that I won't forget these facts.

1) It was hard to eat in a steel tray with your steel fork and spoon without making noice. Thus, we must adhere the rule to our bones to survive the penalty. If you make noice accidently or not, you have to run several rounds following the inside perimeter of the dining hall with soy souce bottle or your fork and spoon holding on to your head. I had it once and I remembered this well.
2) Games attire was quite strict implemented. You needed to wear white shirt (total white) with total black shorts (maximum of 3 different colors stripes on it) and a short socks (total white is best with maximum 3 different colors stripes on it) .
3) Our railings to hang our wet cloths must be organized and commonized. Duty roaster must be followed.
4) We must follow the route or path properly and no green area passing through except with our games attire.
5) If you meet up with seniors, you must give salam or greetings properly with correct pace and intonation. You have to add prefect or teacher if you met one.
6) Every time we must assemble by lining up according to heights; the shorter was at front side while the taller was at the back side. Then we marched together either going to the mosque or class.
7) There were lots of fire drills and common room events. Each session last minimum of 3minutes and max of 2hours. We were asked to assembly in front of TAR hall and purpose was to simulate fire events. However, this is where the prefect drills us up and comments on our behaviors after short comments on fire simulation events. Under the stars was much cooler condition then. I was always sleepy. Sometimes the were three in a row of fire drills in a night espacially weekends. Common room was an assembly inside our common room. Just imagine 100 something people cramped in a room. You can feel heat, odor and sweet. Even with the maximum output of ceiling fan, those things won't wash away. Sometimes there were "meetings" in the surau but I can tolerate it. Normally it was lectures by the prefects but the tone was good may be they respect the place.
8) Do you remember the smells in the toilet espacially those people just forget to wash their clothes and simple soaking and keeping the cloths in a bucket? I wonder there were detergent that can provide the necessity smells even you left the cloth for 10 days. That was so horrible. I normally send my dirty cloths to the laundry and luckily my schoolarship provide me with laundry allowance.
9) Getting your allowance was not easy. You have to request a week prior to your crediting your account. Long ques and some time the clerk just finished the money due to bad preparations! My parent provided me with RM30 per month for 3 months and then I request them to stop sending me after getting my schoolerships.
10) Saturday morning was inspection day and this event was hell. You can get confinement or detention class by this activity. It was so easy to get this punishment. If you get one then, you cannot go to town during Saturdays and Sundays or during public holidays. Luckily the detention class for form 1 and 2, we were exampted from calling out names during school assembly during Monday afternoon and walked to stand in between teachers and students assembly positions. Inspection was conducted by a warden and prefects.
11) My dorm was Dorm C and it was located on top of Dorm A. Unfortunately the stairs was wood. Once we were caught stepping too hard by our prefect and we had to go up and down the stairs 10 times until we make no noice. This was terible. Imagine bunch of people around 30 people line up going up and down the stairs politely for 10 times!
12) One time at the end of 2nd. semester, we had fire drill but this was fun. We had to sing advertisement songs. This was the only fun fire drills I ever had.
13) Pumping and frog jumping was common during the daze.
14) However, the prefect was proper and polite. For me they really had the character for us to copy. They really respected us and we looked up to them too although they were 4 or 5 years senior then us.

May I continue next time...