Clairine

Today was a day of zero productivity.

Well, maybe I was a little bit productive. This morning, when I attended my Differential Equations class. I rajinly did the work that the lecturer gave and rajinly did a bit of extra work, and rajinly stayed back about 20 minutes after class to continue doing work.

After that, however, was a totally different story. I went to the AUP Office and bumped into Jason. Then we went to the canteen where we bumped into my D.E. lecturer. So the three of us makan and talked until about 1.30 which is when I decided to wander around college aimlessly. Went to the concourse, chatted with Mei Qin, went back to the AUP Office to just walk in and walk out again, went back to the concourse to check on my club’s notice board, went to Student Affairs Office to just walk in and walk out again, went to Lecture Hall 2 to check out the Freshie’s Gathering, lepaked around but didn’t join in the games cos I’m like a super-senior in college terms (lol – translated: OLD), then went back to the concourse to check on my board, went back to AUP Office, went back to LH2, etc.

Finally Jason put an end to my mindless wandering by walking me home. Forcing me to walk home, more like. Anyway.

Went back home and just sort of slept. Kinda lounging and lazing around. Read my room mate’s CLEO mag. One thing about me is I just don’t buy magazines? Because I just wait for my friends/room mates to buy them then I get to read them for free, how nice. So I just sorta read it, more like looked at the pictures of stuff I want but can’t afford until Grace messaged me and told me she was in One U shopping with her sister. Made my shopping pangs intensify. Dang. And she bought sweaters. Lagi dang. I heart sweaters. I wanna buy more sweaters!

Then I just fell asleep after reading half the magazine. Around 5pm I woke up and read another quarter of the magazine then fell asleep again. Then finally I woke up at 7 pm when my parents called to say they’re coming to fetch me home in half an hour. So I finished reading the magazine and started packing my stuff. So basically from about 12.30 noon until 7.30 pm I basically did nothing?

My parents finally reached at 8 pm cos of the traffic jam. It’s been raining kittens and puppies in Subang of late. Two mornings ago I woke up at 5 am just because the sound of the rain and wind was so strong and loud. And yesterday it rained like for the whole day. Monsoon season, I guess. Hey, as long as it doesn’t rain when I am walking to class or walking home, I’m fine with it.

Then we went to Las Carritas at Taipan for dinner. Poor brother of mine. Stuck at home because he came home late from school thus couldn’t follow my parents to Subang to fetch me. Nice place. Should check it out, it’s sorta like Chilis setting, but it’s more personalized and the food is slightly tastier in a way, although the portions are a bit smaller for the same price. By the time we were done eating (actually by the time I was done, since my parents waited about 20 minutes for me to finish eating after they were done) it was 10 pm. By the time we got back home, it was 10.45 pm.

When I got home, I played with my bunnies and watched tv (not really watching, more like just looking) and read the newspaper where I came across this article. I don’t even know where to begin to comment on this article. I don’t know where to start. That i) the mother is 15 and actually allowed to take care of her son by herself, ii) that she actually left her one year old son outside by himself while she went into a shop, iii) that she let him hold her bag containing her IC and his birth certificate, or iv) that she let him do that AND let him stay outside by himself?!?

First of all, if you’re 15 you are hardly mature enough to mother a one year old baby. You should hand over your child to someone more competent, with resources, and the maturity to handle parenthood. It’s selfish. To deprive your child of the opportunity to learn well and grow well if you insist on caring for him when obviously you cannot! This is such nonsense. At 15, you’re still a kid yourself. How on earth can you be a good mother? How on earth are you going to provide even the basic necessities for your baby? Why exactly do teen pregnancies happen? Other than improved sex education in schools, they should start teaching ways to practice self control (they can incorporate this subject into Moral Studies a.k.a. The Most Useless Subject On Earth – how does memorizing a few dozen nilai murni’s make you a moral person? I’m not against the subject but they seriously need to rethink how they’re teaching it). And even if there is no self control because teenagers are naturally horny (???), schools should drill over and over again into student’s heads the methods of contraception. But do Malaysia’s schools do this? No. My form 3 teacher referred to the male sexual organ as “kayu balak” and showed us the transparency for all of 5 seconds then removed it. Maybe instead of “Tak Nak” campaigns for smoking they should  advertise what condoms are for. And what happens to you when you don’t use them.

Second of all, how does someone leave a one year old baby outside by himself? Just, how do you do it? You just tell him, ok, kwai kwai ah, stay here and wait for me ah, I’ll be right back. Then leave. Smart.

Third of all, how does someone leave a HANDBAG with the baby? Then leave that baby outside by himself? For 15 minutes? How??? Tell me, HOW??? How does someone do a thing like that. Just tell me how.

I try to understand, but I just can’t. It sickens me to read this story. I pity that baby. He’s a cute lil guy. I hope and pray that he didn’t fall into bad hands. I hope and pray that he’ll be fine, whether or not he is found again. I don’t even want to think about the worst case scenario. I just really really really hope he will be ok in the end.

Alright then. After reading the newspaper I went upstairs and basically did nothing until current time – 2.30 am. That marks 14 hours of zero productivity. I am so ashamed of myself. I have a D.E. test this Tuesday and seeing as how I have given all my integration methods back to my Cal II lecturer, is not looking too optimistic for me. Furthermore I have to write my last two uni application essays. And I have a slew of other things that I haven’t done that I really have to start doing.

I am such. A. Lazy. Pig.

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