Manipal- part 1

hi hi. well, it's been 2 weeks since i stepped on this foreign land. it's been soo hectic n busy n hot n sweaty. it's march n i have to wait til august before i can have a taste of the rain, which by then, i would wish it's the dry season again. 4 those that dont know, in manipal we have 6 seasons. beginning from march, it goes- "hot, hotter, hottest", till august. then it becomes-"wet, wetter, wettest". lol. from what my lecturer said, the winter has ceased to come since he was a young kid. (he's bout 40++ i think)

anyway, i arrived here, not knowing ANYBODY n i was like soooo alone. lol. cant even see anyone i know. haizzz... after few classes, knew that mostly sunway, taylor, taylor, sunway. == n most also only 19. took sam or cimp, all 1 year pre-u. very few a level (exclude the jpas) so i m one of the oldest. lol. but it doesnt matter. i dont think i regret entering a level or inti college. =)

so, there i was, alone n single. scrutinizing around, most were busy blabbering with each other, or there were a few like me also. felt like going to them to say hi, but failed in the end. hahaa.. my mind shifted back to may 2008 on the first class of alevel. lol. all of u having the first impression of me being a snobbish, rich, pompous brat, when later u all found out i m actually a humble, poor, good friend. hahahah... well but i know at that time n now that eventually i will get to know ppl, so no rush to speed things up. but i doubt i wil know everyone in my batch. total 126, n seems like 12 more coming in. O.o now i barely know 30%. lol. after 2 week of class, it seems that i m seeing new faces everyday. hahaha.

so, alot of things had happened, n i have alot to share actually. but due to time n space constraint, i shall just cut it short. my lessons have started, n it's a hectic schedule. 8-4/5 everyday. worse still, i also have to wake up early on sat. == well, i think that's medicine. lots of new things to learn, lots of new vocabulary that are to be squeezed into my tiny, miny brain. T.T

n let's just come to the interesting part. dissection. =) we get to dissect by the second week we are here. got a fresh male body. (indian of coz.) total of 8 bodies i think. 7 male, 1 female. most of them are skinny. clearly, lived a whole life of destitute n poverty. =( besides one who is quite fat. goshhh his breast region got so much fat, that upon dissection, his nipple region got a whole chunk of yellowish fat, which clearly reminds me of durian. haha. i wil sure take that pic n upload it to fb one day. =P (n i m sure i wil receive lots of complains. i already do, when i told that to my friends here. )

then, to resolve some misconceptions, when i say dissection class, we dont really get our own cadavers, which we can play around, cut here n there, poke out the eyeball, n put it in fren's fishball noodle during lunch hour that sort of thing. it's done by the lecturers themselves, n we would just observe n learn from the side-all the positions of the organs, nerves etc etc. seems like no one fainted in this batch. (previous batches has got multiple cases) just that the formalin (preservative) is too strong, it always irritates our eyes- which disturbs my concentration most of the time. by now, everyone almost got used to it already, n many can be seen taking pictures. (my frens intend to pose with the corpse n upload to fb. lol)

so, i guess thats about it. soon i wil get sooo busy, i doubt i can online much. soo many things to memorize, i think i might as well memorize every single word from the first page to the last. lol. for pics, refer to my fb, though i hadnt really taken many photos up to date.

oh yah, thank God, i haven't really gotten diarrhoea. must be the prayers before i eat. hehe. Power of Prayers!!! got to go. been procrastinating for sooo many hours. goshhh!!! bb!!

Food

well, since it's cny n i will be going off soon, i had to do a thorough house cleaning (more to rooms) n while ransacking n throwing my old stuffs, i found back my form 4/5 english exercise book. i browsed through it, n found an essay which i wrote at that time. lol. is it just a coincidence that i wil befriend a cow later in the future?? i guess only God knows. anyway, just a dedication to SOMEONE (or somecow) for scoring so well in exams. haha..

Food

"AARGGHH!!! How will i ever know the meaning of "FOOD"??!!" I bellowed while regurgitating curds on the greeny hill. I had been cracking my brain since the past few days, trying to find its meaning. This foreign word was introduced to me by my mother. However, she refused to disclose its meaning to me, causing me to have a severe headache now. All this had started a few days ago, when I was having my meal with my mother in the barn. Then, I began to realize that something was wrong with my mother. She was NOT having her meal!!!

I was taken aback. "How could she??" my mind wondered. "Impossible!!" My 500 pounds, fat, gluttonous mother is not eating??!! N to think that this meal is fodders from Switzerland, the "Heaven" for us cows??", I whispered in my heart. "What happened, ma?" I asked. She stared at me with a crestfallen face, curling her thick mouth, n broke down tearfully. "Boo hoo hoo, I can't tell you, Baby, u are now too small to know the Fate that will befall on almost every cow." She ended her speech n refused to say anything more.

No matter how I forced her, she was reluctant to tell me. However, later during midnight, I found out part of the reason. I woke up as usual as her deafening snore reverberated in the small barn. Subsequently, I heard her moaning in her sleep, "PLEASEE! Please do not make me into 'Food'! I DONT WANTT!! ARRGHH!!" I could see that she was indeed having the worst nightmare ever. The barn then began to smell terribly as my mother urinated in fear due to the nightmare.

Since then, I began to ask other cows but most do not know while some older ones repeated what my mother told me, "You are stilll too young to know."

This is the fifth day since that day. Nobody would help me clear my enigma. "Mum? Mum?" I mooed, looking for her. "It's all right, mom. I will not force you to tell me anymore. Just come out. Don't play hide-n-seek with me anymore. you have been playing for a few days already." My mother has been missing since 2 days ago. I trot towards my aunty, asking her about my mother. "where is mom, Aunt Cowie?" "Sigh... Baby, your mother had met her fate as a cow. She had been turned into 'Food' 2 days ago. Just live on, without her, Baby Siang." she sighed heavingly.

Upon realizing that I could never see my mother anymore, I begin to cry. It lasted for a few hours. "Ring! Ring!" Looking up, I exclaim with joy as i hear the bells ringing. "TIME FOR MEAL!" The word 'Mother' was then obliterated from my mind since then.

Time passed, n I followed the advice of my mother n aunty n lived my life to the fullest in these 5 years. "Eat, drink n be merry" was my motto. N i simplly loved the phrase 'Hakuna Matatta', meaning, "no worries".

I m now a full-grown cow. Looking at my baby cattles, I begin to reminisce the most enjoyable period of time in my life. My puberty life. It was certainly just like yesterday when herds of bulls whistled at me as I gorgeously strode by them, swishing my tail to n fro in a dazzling-like manner, just to make them faint with ecstasy. I was the most beautiful n graceful cow n was even crowned the title 'Miss Cow Universe' by other cows n bulls. All the envious n jealous looks that arosed among other cows gratified me. How the bulls had fought each other just to copulate with me. All that was the glorious days of mine. However, I am now getting older. "sigh. all good things must come to an end, it seems. " I mumbled regrettably.

I m still retracing my past when the mortal who is responsible to feed me came n began to lead me somewhere. I wondered where he was leading me when old Aunty Cowie rushes towards me. She is crying n she bellows, "BABY! You re now receiving the fatal 'Fate' that befalls cows!! I escaped it through my sickness n skinny physique, but YOU, the healthiest, fattest cow will now be turned into 'FOOD'! We eat grass as meals, they eat us as FOOD!!!" I am flabbergasted. I stare at the mortal with horror. Pleadingly, I said, "please dont eat me. I still have my cattles to attend to. I thought we have been good friends all this years? how we spend time together while u feed me my meals? I am already on the verge of tears. He stares back at me blankly n mutters something in his foreign language.

Nevertheless, it seems that this time, for once, I could understand the meaning of his speech. I can certainly swear that he was saying, "I have been feeding u so much, now it's your turn to feed me back, with that juicy thick flesh of yours, of course." He then licks his lips with his wet tongue.

"NOOO!!" I shout as I breathe my last. "SLAKKK!" I managed to catch a glimpse of my decapitated body in a pool of red thick fluid before realizing that I will then be gone forever...."


The end

oh well, i know after reading it, u might wonder that why such a story to congratulate a friend on achieving straight A's?? lol. well, it's just R-A-N-D-O-M. Hahaha..