Naughty? Me?

I owe Giddy Tiger 2 tags and this is going to be the first of it. Giddy Tiger asked me to spill about the bad things I did at school.

‘Write about one of your naughtiest moments in secondary school’
‘Story must not be shorter than 20000 words. Jk. Just dont make it too brief lah’
‘Tag bloggers who you think have really interesting stories to tell. Dont go “ah i wont tag anyone”

There’s a bit of a problem doing this tag, which is why it took me so long. You see, I was quite the Ms. Goody Two Shoes in school. In primary school, I might have my share of good and bad times, but by the time I got to the Secondary school, my rough edges had been buffed off and I was quite good.

So, racking my brains for a suitable “naughty moment”, I came up with this one:

When I was in upper secondary, I was in the school debate team. Of the team of 4, 3 of us were pretty close with 2 of us in the same class and another in a different class. I hated Physics lessons, not because I hated the subject, but because I could not stand the teacher. She was nasty (to my mind at the time) and she had a thing against a bunch of us for what reason we were unable to tell.

Anyway, it was debate season, and so, my teammates and I contrived to get out of class during her lessons. We would wait till she came in, then tell her we needed to do research at the library for our upcoming debate competition. We would then gather up all our paper and materials and troop across to the library halfway across the school. There, we would close the library doors, languish in the cool dimness of the library and play games, gossip, chat and do anything except research. When Physics period was over, we would dutifully troop back to class for Add. Math or whatever subject it was that we enjoyed.

I remember clearly that that 1 or 2 months of school was the best I ever had, simply because I had a “get-out-of-jail-free” card to use for anything I did not want to do. And believe me, it was used many a time. Incidentally, we were studying planets and Einstein’s Theory of Relativity as part of the Physics syllabus at that time, and I studied it on my own.

Its about the only bit of Physics I can still remember, which tells you a lot eh? Oh and as for the debate? We emerged District Champions and went on to State Level but fell to biased judging - we weren’t imagining it but were told “You were good, but we had to let the other school win.” The pox on them!

Oh oh! I thought of another!

I was in Form 5 and a close friend at the time was the assistant head girl who was tasked with ringing the school bell to signal the changeover of subject periods. I don’t quite know why we needed someone to physically ring the bell, but there you go. So, since she had power over how long a lesson should last, we would egg her on during boring lessons e.g. Physics (again!) or Add. Math to ring the bell early. To her credit, she did not always give in. But since we were pretty much in the same boat, Physics lessons usually ended about 5 minutes early, and English lessons ended about 5 minutes later. Tells you where our priorities lay, eh?

And there you have it. Not very naughty, but naughty nonetheless. If any of my teachers read this now and recognise the tales I tell, I just want to say “Sorry ah, teacher!”

Now, I want you below to tell us what your naughtiest school moments were - chop! chop!

• Sooyin
• Domestic Rat
• LB

Indulge me - yes?

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