There were so many cliches when it comes to secondary school type of boy girl relationships.

One of the main consequences when a young girl and a young boy get together would be immense popularity. Somehow or other, all the couples in the school are known to everybody.

Most relationships from school days won't last the test of time. Kids usually break up over the most trivial of matters. And get back together. Drama-mama then break up. Back together. break up. backtogetherbreakupbacktogether .. *jolene walks away from the show, bored*

The situations I mentioned below are based on the assumption that it is very rare for relationships in school to be of real devoted love. I am not being patronizing but just how mature can the average 17-and-below-years-old teenager be about a serious relationship? What's that word again.....ah, yes. Puppy love.

However, the three of us agreed on this scenario as it seemed like a constant in all our old schools.

Senior boys prying on junior girls.

While a year or two below is acceptable, a form5 boy trying for a form1 girl is just weird. It makes you think, "Why?!"

But the answer is usually obvious. Usually these type of guys have a lousy reputation with girls in his own year(who can gossip to the closer junior friends hence this rules out the girls who are in a year or two below) and they have all labelled these guys as "loser" material. Hence these guys usually do not stand a chance with girls their own age. So they go for the easier targets. I'll get to that later.

Oh you know the type. Lame jokes, trying hard to be cool, picking up smoking at too young a age even if it doesn't go with his image, join gangster(and swagger around with the impression that his balls are too big), skipping classes and stuff.

On the other end of the spectrum, you have the form1 girls who have form5 boyfriends. Can really garner alot of respect from your peers if you have a form5 boyfriend. To the other form1 kids, it's like you've seen the world. There is this great big aura radiating from you if you have a form5 boyfriend when you're in form1. So what if he is not cute? He is in form5, damnit!

Form5 boys, to a form1 girl, are usually the-out-of-reach boys. Somewhat like a popstar. Someone whom you will never get to touch. I'm describing the average form1 girl here. Unless you are the next big thing to hit that secondary school, then good for you lah. You're probably rejecting form5 boys while your college boyfriend picks you up from school.

Which concludes the form5 chasing form1 girl theory, due to the novelty of it. For the girls, that is. It's an ego thing for the boy because someone is finally paying him attention! As for the girls, most of them have never had a taste of these things, so it's quite special.

But have you ever heard of a form1 boy who could snag a form5 girl? Now HE would be a legend.

What about the senior girls who have college boyfriends? Those are well respected as well. It was all a status thing back in those days.

College boyfriend..? 10 points.

College boyfriend who is NOT a lala chai...? Another 10 points. (meaning that the boy has class and is of good quality.)

College boyfriend who has a car..? 5 points.

College boyfriend who has a car AND is not a lala chai..? RESCEPT!(you have to watch Ali G to know this).

A college guy getting a girlfriend who is still in secondary school would not be perceived in the same light as a form5 boy cradle-snatching a form1 girl. At least the former has grown boobs already.

But a college guy(or older) who decides to 'fall in love' with a form1 girl should be reported to the police immediately.

Yeah, I get you about how age should not matter when it comes to love. But just how many form5 boys from your school truly madly deeply loves a form1 girl? Not a common occurence, that's for sure.

This type of guy usually thinks of himself as "Player" material. Just because he can snag a desperate young child, it doesn't makes him Casanova. Those are easy targets. They don't count.

Every school will have their official hamsap lou who will go around scouting for all the chun girls. He will attempt to woo each and every hot chic in the school and fail miserably.

Number One: Face problem.(most of the time this is is true)

Number Two: Face problem nevermind, but at least be sincere when it comes to these things.

Number Three: He would aleady have gotten himself a very very bad reputation among his peers. Nobody would give him the time of her day.

That being said, there are of course the normal couples who date within their age range(plus minus 1 or 2 years). However, majority of the students are single back in school.

At the end of the first college year, almost everybody would have paired off. Heck, even in my class(university).. there are only about four single girls and 2 single guys left.

The other day at Swensens, I overheard Sing Foong and Edwin discussing this.

Edwin: Eh, Sing Foong, you know ar, now we like girls who are our age..When we all 28 that time ar...SURE like girls who are 20, 21 etc again one.
Sing Foong: Yalo. Confirm.

Dirty old men theories are a whole other ball game. Let me live for a few more years to observe this age old phenomenon and I shall come back to give my two cents.

I finally got around to doing the meme mybrotherasked me to do.

Go over and read "Planning My Own Funeral".:)

Enjoy!

*continues editting redang photos and studying*

I better lap up anything the university throws at me.

Extra tutorial, take.

Waste one month's worth of holiday to mug, take.

Anything to pass this time!! :(

When I told my father that the university called to tell me that they are having a tutorial session for those who would have to resit the biochemistry paper, he immediately booked two plane tickets from Air Asia to Kedah for me and my mum.

Yeah, I also don't know why he did that since I've been taking the bus ever since I came to Kedah. But if that's my father's choice, I shall play the filial daughter and just accept whatever he gives me. *bows head down*

It's strange because I've never taken a plane to go to school. Hahaha. I climbed up the plane with my biochemistry notes in my hands, it's almost as if I was boarding a school bus.

Oh yeah! While waiting for the flight, Chee Kiang smsed me and told me that one of his classmates asked him if he has a girlfriend who is doing dentistry when he told her his name. Apparently she knows that they would be in the same course since I mentioned it in my blog. Okay.

And then when he was walking with an old college friend and they casually mentioned my name, a new friend who is doing law at NUS asked, "Jolene, as in Jolene Lai?" 0_0. Also reads my blog, apparently.

Wow.. I know that most of my friends read my blog but this...is something. If I had balls they would be SO big by now. But since I don't have any, there's only one other place left to inflate. *meraba-raba buah dada*

My house is now dust free thanks to my wonderful mum. She sweeped and clean and mopped for me. She even scolded me for not cleaning the bathroom well and then proceeded to wash it when she took her bath. It makes the whole Kedah experience less daunting! Thanks Mum!

Somehow Kedah doesn't suck so bad when I have my mum around, not just the cleaning part, mind you. Sheesh. At least I have my mother with me. You know, it's  a whole different feeling. :) My mummy is here with me.

I'll be coming home today by plane too. You don't have to tell me that I'm mad. I know it myself.

Here are some photos I took from the KL to Alor Star flight.

Leaving KL

Sunset.

Can you see the waves on the sea?

So nice right?

Another view of the sunset.

Check out the burning plantation.

Would you believe that this air port is in Alor Star? So pretty! Apparently it was built for the SUKMA games. I had an impression that all other airports aside from the ones in KL are dingy and old. Like the one in Terengganu which looks like the ferry terminal at Langawi. No air con one.

A few weeks back, I sent in my blog to be reviewed by the folks at Bolehland.org. This site is runned by Nix, Mervkwok and Skyler.

Having read how blatant they can be, I knew what I was getting myself into. Really, I knew very clearly.

If there was such a thing as Blog Idol, this would be it. Albeit there wouldn't be a blog which would be crowned Blog Idol at the end of the day. But what I mean is that the attitude they adopted to review blogs with was akin to the one Simon Cowell used to assess so-so singers wannabe.

So that makes me a blogger wannabe. Haha. Ok. lame. *clears throat*

Sarcastic and nit-picking, they were kind enough to take the time to review me. You should try it too! Most probably you'll get a better review than I did. :) But don't keep your hopes too high.