It was an ordinary Friday afternoon. I couldn’t even remember the date. However, the feeling I felt on that special Friday was surely unforgettable.<\/p>\n
Seated next to me was a 12 years old boy. His eyes were brimming with excitement. Sadly, his enthusiasm wasn’t to learn about the Bahasa language class which I was paid for. Instead, he was jumping for joy and eagerness to share with me his first time encounter of “courtship rivalry”.<\/p>\n
This is his story.<\/p>\n
After release of the UPSR trial results at school, I was chilling with my friends under the shade at the field. My friend was walking with his “girlfriend.” An idea struck me and instantly I acted upon it. I walked up to the guy friend of mine and grinned, ” Did you know I touched your girlfriend earlier ?” His face turned red. I could see smoke oozing out from the top of his head. That’s when a sudden voice told me to run ! And ran I did. My good friend chased me out of the field, into the classrooms and across corridors. In between rooms, some others joined the chase. Finally, I was caught ! <\/span><\/p>\n He pointed his breathless fingers at me. “Don’t ya ever touch my girl !” Panting. I nodded. <\/span><\/p>\n At this point when he finished telling his story, he was standing. Showing me the motion how his friend pointed that filthy finger at him. I was noticeably amused. I couldn’t resist my curiosity, so I asked naively, “So, did you touch his girlfriend?” He started laughing hysterically as if I asked the most ridiculous question. I must admit, I was ashamed, being laughed at by my own student. <\/p>\n He motioned his head indicating “No”. My face went blank. I didn’t understand it. Why did he tell his friend that he did so ? Why did the guys chased him? There was no logic behind it. Naturally, I inquired further. “Just for the fun of it” was his plain explanation.<\/p>\n With that, I left that class that day, learning that men will create rivalry among each other when it comes to courtship – just for the fun of it. Not that if it ever mattered if one fancies the girl or otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was an ordinary Friday afternoon. I couldn’t even remember the date. However, the feeling I felt on that special Friday was surely unforgettable. Seated next to me was a 12 years old boy. His eyes were brimming with excitement. Sadly, his enthusiasm wasn’t to learn about the Bahasa language class which I was paid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-in-a-days-work","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}