I have a problem of getting up early every morning. No, I am never an early riser. To sleep even the additional 5 minutes of sleep gives huge difference to the state of mind that I'll be in for the rest of the day. I've been told that "early bird catches the worms"... Well let those birds catch those icky yucky worms for all I care.. I'd prefer roti canai or nasi lemak for breakfast anyway.
I was late again this morning. It has been a while since I've last leave the house after 8 am. However, I was lucky enough that my usual road was not affected by the road closure and I managed to reach the office 5 mins after 8.30 am.. Ok laa kan...?
During my school years, I was always one of the last people that arrives at school after the bell rings. Living 5 minutes away from school made me even more liat to rise early in the morning and ended up running all the way to school when I hear the bell rings from the house (yeah I can hear the school bell from my room). My best friend, Shireen, would always try to wake me up every morning when she and her dad went for their morning walk at 6 am. She would throw stones at my window until I get up and show my face. However, I would then sink back deep into the pillow and continue to zzzzzzzzz.... until my mum bangs the door for the 100th time before I actually get up..
When I was in MRSM, my roommate - Lin were my official alarm clock. She would be the 1st to get up (being an ajk surau) and wakes everyone up. While the other 2 members in the room would rise up immediately, I would take one peek at Lin and shove her my towel.. "Lin.. tolong chup kan one shower stall k.. Once dah empty you wake me up yeah.." and zzzzz..... One good thing about being in a boarding school was the fact that you are living on campus, hence you don't need to rush to school amidst the morning traffic. That means more shut eye time for me... And as always, I would be one of the few last people to leave the hostel for the assembly field.
Back in the university days I never have the problem of arriving late for classes. This was due to the fact that we get to pre-picked out classes and arrange our schedule every semester. Hence, all my classes would start earliest at 9 am. Except for one semester where I got separated from the rest of my housemates (due to the subject combinations) and got myself a full week of classes that started at 8 am.. However, I still managed to get myself to class on time.
Nevertheless, there was this one time where my sleeping habit nearly got me into trouble. It was during my final exam - final semester in uni. Oh yeah, it was also the final paper for the entire university years. International Accounting - ACCB433 was the paper I was sitting for that day. Exam time was 8.30 am (i think.. ke 8.00 am?). Since it was one of the subject that I hated most due to the all the theory that we need to hafal, I stayed up late the night before - konon2 nak cram in the extra info in the already tired brain of mine. After 3 hours of sleep, I woke up to perform the subuh prayers and continued studying after that. Baca punya baca, I didn't realised that my eyes were shut after a couple of minutes and my head fell on the comfortable pillow and zzzzzzz.......
Celik2 mata, tengok jam, it was already 8.15 am!!!! Panicked stricken, ran to the bathroom to wash my face, ran into the room again to change.. What? Shower? No time for that.. By that time all the candidates will already be allowed into the exam hall and will be busy filling in all the necessary info on their answer scripts. Luckily I got the car during the exam week. If I were to walk from the apartment to the exam hall, memang tak sempat..
Arrived at the exam hall 10 minutes after 8.30 am and got a seat rite at the end of the hall. Took one look to my right, there was Jigga with a concern face (at first). He mouthed something at me, but I was too panicked to figure out what he said. Just gave him a shrugged and proceed to tembak all the questions in the paper. It was difficult concentrate due to the fact that your brain had just been jumped start early in the morning and suddenly were forced to focus on the theory questions.
Right after the exam, while the examiners were collecting our papers, I was approached by the concern Jigga.
Jigga: Dude, what happened to you laa?
Binx: Errmm.. I over slept laa..
Jigga: What time did you get up?
Binx: Errmm.. 8.15 *wide guilty smile*
Jigga: Sempat mandi tak?
Binx: What do you think? *grins*
Jigga: HAHHAHahahahahHAHAHAHahahhaHAHAHHA
(Note: the laugh echoes until this day)
Oh well, luckily I managed to score a B+ on that paper. Maybe berkat tak shower kut.. *winks*
binx: rockabye binxy on the tree top.... zzzz.....
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