However (most of the time!), I am glad that I was there in 1990. I will never trade my time spent with you guys in Form One with any other things on Earth (well, a couple of million bucks could do the trick!). It's funny when you think of how we were amazed (or obsessed to be precise) with the newly learnt koleq vocabulary. There were people who without any hesitation would use these words at every opportunity - e.g. label a person as BELL (....poor Rahimi!). And every time I think of this, one person keeps on appearing in my thick head as the embodiment of this obsession. Surprise-surprise; no one can forget Judeath@Codak@Faizuddin. Well, he seemed to be our very encyclopedia on anything 'koleq' in 1990, he was treated as a source of reference on ‘thoroughbred’, ‘green-lady’ and all other things. And God he enjoyed that I tell you!

You could also be amazed at how much time has changed us since our days in Prep School. Among my first best friends were Taufik and Awie. I can bet none of my juniors, or even my friends who joined us in 1993 would have expected this. We were of the same ‘kind’ in 1990 - lost, muddled with a thick sense of inferiority, and we simply needed friends. So, we became the bestest of friends. They would go down in my life history as the only people ever to throw a surprise brithday party for me; modest as it was in 1990 - nevertheless it spoke volume of their kindness and thoughtfulness!

Time passes by so quickly, that only at the end of the year, I started to realise I would be out of the torturous ‘imprisonment’ soon. Before that, life at Prep School seemed to be endless. Amer and Che Tam were still quarrelling every morning on who should have swept the floor, it was still fun rushing after the games hours (though I seldom play!) to get Uncle’s David ‘goreng pisang’ and ‘air tembikai’ (gila katoque dia tu...!) when suddenly I found myself packing. In a few weeks' time, I would no longer be a super junior. At least, I would have another batch to look down to (ha ha).