it's friday !
and so im allowed to use the computer
and thus, this post

what do you think im going to babble about in this post?
judging by my post title


well,
its yet
another slow talk

can you just imagine how annoying these talks are
they just seem never ending, don't they

this time,
its about coming back late,
again
-.-

& this time, i know im reasonable & not wrong

attended this leadership workshop from 8am -6 pm in school

on thursday
released at 6.10 pm

otw home,
my dad texted me, asking what time i was dismissed and what time i'll be home
this is the first time he did so
its obvious that he's becoming strict-er on coming home early

got home
asked to sit down with him in the living room after washing up

and the questions starting pouring out and shooting at me

journey time from sch to home : 45 minutes to maybe about an hour
(depends on traffic flow)

the leadership thing ends at 6,
the same as almost every release of band practise

6pm,
peak hours .

people are cramping up the buses to get home from work.
its likely for me to skip one or two buses,
not because i simply want to waste time
or for the fact that i dont like taking single-decked 99s,
but i simply can't !
i cant fold myself like a piece of brown paper and squeeze in, can i ?

almost every band practise
i reach home at ard 7
hasnt he still realised that i just cant get home earlier than that

and on that day i had the leadership workshop,
i reached home at 7
he was not at all happy with it
he only expects me to be home latest by 6.45pm
by hook or by crook

i told him that i had to skip buses cause of the peak hours
he replied saying that waiting for a bus or two
will only take up to 5-10 minutes
he still didnt find it reasonable

& i talked back
" you already know that the journey time from sch to home
is 45 minutes.
ive told you that .
45 minutes plus another 10 minutes -
isnt that near to an hour ?
(that point of time, im quite awed by myself.
i never really spoke in 'math language' )
isnt the time i took to come home reasonable enough ?
and i come home with friends.
obviously i tend to walk at moderate speed,
adding on to the time "

he didnt seem to care,
no he didn't

" you can rush home, cant you !
why must u follow ur friends?
this is what happends when ure close friends are all non-muslims,
prayer times are being neglected .
ive said upteen times,
i want you back by 6.45pm latest . "

he asked for band teacher-in-charge's number
to tell her about the situation
as it also involves coming back home from band practises

i took my phone from the room .
just when i sat down again at the living room
he went
" write it out on paper "

i was like #$%!@&!*@*(!
but only gave out a 'hmph' and went back into the room
to get paper and pen, face so sour

so i wrote ,
with no care about neat and nice handwriting :

MRS ALICE GAN

9191 ...

halfway through,
he reprimanded

" you dont show ur anger to me ah, al-hafiz ! "

(thinking i scribbled with anger purposely
to show that i disrespect and dislike him"

" WHAT, who says im showing my anger to you "

" its obvious through your handwriting , al-hafiz "

" what, i .. "
i stopped my flow of words and just let out a big HMPH,
along with a big gush of air out of my nose,
finishing up the numbers before passing it to him

called mrs gan immediately
he coudnt get through

...

in the night mrs gan called back
& talked to me
asked me what my dad's unhappy about

i told her everything
she even agreed that
as one of the EXCOs in band,
i have to be the first to come and last to leave.
and things drag even further
with announcements,
and i also have to be one of those
to lock up the band room and band store
and return the keys to the teacher-in-charge
or general office

and then,
to please my dad and not make him stay dissatisfied,
she tells me that i dont have to do all that anymroe
i can leave all these to the other EXCOs
i can leave straight after dismissal
and rush for home

pfft !

& oh,
my dad threatens to request my post to be taken away
no matter how high it is

(psst, it's the second highest in band.
not bragging but,
just saying how terrible it is if it were to be taken away just like that
after the hard work i put in to get it,
a hard year's work in secondary two
& the miserable happenings & truckloads of things ive learnt along the way )

he also threatens to not allow me to attend any camps
( i have two this june )
and he doesnt even care if im one of the important
camp organisers
and drills IC for this monday's
training camp .

first ,
im one of the camp organisers.
& even if the other three can do w/o me,
im the drills IC
training camp is all mainly about drills and discipline
hello ??

it just sucks man !


survivors anyone ?
hahh
anyone read through the whole post?
& again, browsing through not counted ! hahha

tag if you are a survivor or
ONE OF HAFIZ'S LONG POSTS
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