and then finally, it's time for home sweet home. but we got distracted by the beautiful background, as seen below, so we did our very own photoshoot, and everyone started whipping their cameras out and striking the hot poses.

then the twin sisters realised we were both wearing black cardigan over the dress, white jeans and palm shoes! oh yes we rock.

oh oh oh and can you see and guess the guy in green?

and then the next day, the sastera people had a show at MI - Awang Belanga. gosh, did i tell you how great that was? it was really funny, with all the different dialects and how crazy you can twist and turn the meaning of malay words.so these were all that went. j1s were there too, and oh of course, you have the teacher, who sat somewhere on the other side of the world - thank god!

then we went for dinner/late lunch. and because of the long 1 hour ride at the beginning, and getting fed up at the late-comers and we were laughing too much during the entire 2 hours of show, when they said it was 1.5 hours, it explains everyone's huge appetite.

this was farshad's and he even had his chilli like it was his soup!

and finally, even though i was gonna be late for my curfew, i still went to the library with wida to look at some books. of course, this was in the toilet and you know me.

all in all, it was a really nice way of the end of MBT week. Towkay Wayang was on friday night, right after the sastera paper and MI show was on saturday afternoon. sunday was slack day, or should i say the day to prepare yourself for the teachers' reactions on the following day about our performance? i know i am going to get U for all my H2 paper, and mr chen's constant comments on my paper really made me wonder what i really studied for my geography paper. and the thing is, i'm the only one he's saying it to. i must have done really badly, or the others just did too well and i didn't whatever, i accept things as they are.

this whole week has been nothing but going through the answers for the papers, while the teachers (seemed like) taking their time marking our papers. of course, you have their constant nagging and OH one even commented: "sometimes, we feel like we are more worried about the As than you guys." oh please, just because we smile when you scold us doesn't mean we just can't be bothered. it's because we know we didn't study enough and didn't have any rebuttals. if we've had any, you think we'd be sitting there like idiots and just let you tear us down like it didn't matter? but then again, whatever they say are true to a certain extent.

and i hate cancelling my plans because of school! i'm sorry RADIOS because i cancelled our Seoul Garden date, but we'll still have it someday okay? and today my sweet classmate acik planned a quick outing for the express people. and when i say explress, i think they meant 4E3s, 4E4s adn 4E5s. it's really cute when he greeted us in his message: hello my dear express friends. and he did ask quite alot of people but many had other plans. and in the end, those who went were: namirah, diyanah, helina, acik, faiz, gaurav, ismael, kentot(self-promotion from N.A. and idk his real name even after 4 years) and another stranger.

i couldn't make it because ________. in the morning i had a date with hafeezah to help her out with her folio. idk if i gave any good advices but we did quite alot. and i hope whatever i told her to do were the right things to do. i forgot how i did mine, and i hate it when she asked how i did it, because i seriously didn't have any idea or recall anything! and then i purposely hang around century square while waiting for the people to meet up. at first we were unsure of what to talk about, but then soon, we just began talking and laughing. acik needs a girlfriend and ismael needs to talk louder like a man and remember my name and faiz needs to cut his hair and stop acting like he is a mat, because he is not cut out to be one.

acik: eh nanti kau tengok bile faiz datang, macam mat rep. kau tengok and judge.
shafienas: eh? okay okay, bende-bende gini aku bagos!
(and when he arrived)
shafienas: {already laughing without even taking a second look}
acik: eh kau tengok faiz, kau datang je nas dah ketawekan kau!
faiz: {sarcastic} hahaha!
shafienas: eh faiz ape dah jadi? macam mat sak kau!
faiz: eh ape mat-mat? mepek seh.
shafienas: sorry ah faiz, walaupun kau rase diri kau dah jadi mat, pade aku kau tetap kental. HAHAHA.

and of course we then talked about our lives, how we're doing in school, and the girlfriends they have (yes faiz has one!) and what plans we have. in that one hour, it was enough to make me feel so happy and remember yet again the bond that we've had over the course of 2 years or more. i think it was only when we were in the upper sec that we started getting close and seriously, ever since, this is one giant frindship chain to hold on to. faiz was still his usual gay self and since gaurav came late, i didn't get to see once again the ever-so-popular fights between them. i remember how acik would signal to me quickly, and then both of us would laugh at them while they'll be fighting like they're married. in class, where you ahev the forgotten side rows and popular middle row and with the malay community set at the back, acik would either be sleeping or laughing with me about this 2 idiots. diyanah would be sleeping too, and i would be trying to concentrate when i'm not really, namirah would be having her very own 24hours channel newsasia with atiqah, and rashidah also either sleeping or playing SOS with zahidah, and i think it seemed like zahidah was the only one to catch whatever homework we'd have and actually bothered to do them.

let's walk down memory lane. since i'm too lazy to dig out the entire collection, i'll just pick out those from our last meeting - Hari Raya.

even tom, dick and harry didn't go around carrying umbrellas on christmas.these jokers really give great fun to our every meeting. and of course, the girls are always love, we rock even without them, even on our own. but you know, these guys crack lame jokes that you'd never think of, and they'd do silly things without even feeling shy in front of us. and when i look at them, and listen at how they've been together as brothers through thick and thin, all this while, i say i envy them. they still keep in contact and they'd be hanging out every now and then. and above all, they're sweet, though sometimes, they just get on your nerves. you can't expect too much from boys, huh?

usually, i'd hate people who smoke, because i can't take the smell. and i hate it when people smoke in front of me. but these gentelmen, though they are really active smokers, would go one corner and smoke only after kindly excusing themselves from us. and even though they are like mats, which i seriously do dislike very much, they're different. they are friendly and sweet and have a great sense of humour. they cheer you up and talk to you like you've been friends since forever. and because of that, i was willing to ignore the fact that they are smokers and pure mats, because usually, i don't. i can forgive them instantly, and i can proudly say they are my friends, though we aren't exactly close or great for that matter. and when they do outings like these, how they really set aside some time and try to make it happen and make us feel like they still remember us, {well at least i feel that way} it's super nice. i don't give a shit if they annoy me so much sometimes, and i say those who dare turn their back on these jokers (if any) as friends are stupid, brainless idiots who do not understand the true meaning of friendship. you are so wrong if you think they don't want you there, because they welcome everyone. you are so wrong if you think you'd never fit in between them because they'd make you fit in. but of course, if you think you're meant to stand out instead, then what can i say? and up till now, i have never found any other replacements. well at least not where i'm currently at now. i just don't see myself ever being friends with these peopel, and it's not like i didn't try to. and i definitely don't see myself ever changing my stand. and even if there have been instances where people change their mind about those boys and tell me all about it, it's still not going to work. and if one day i give up the chance to meet up with these jokers of mine for any new mat friends i've made, i'm therefore such a SEE-EYE-BEE-AYE-EYE - get it? and if there's one thing i learn today, that'd be:

real friends can grow a part without growing apart.
and GO TO HELL for those who do.