When I need to laugh - Part1

Whenever I am down and in need of a real good laugh, all I have to do is remember the two funny incidents in my life and I always will laugh. Guaranteed punya. I thought I might as well pen them down before old age steals the memories away from me.
But I will only share the first story. Second story later.

Story 1 :

I was a cikgu sandaran in Kuching High School (a Chinese-based school) in 1993. I was the form teacher for a Form 4 class, the class that was most likely will not do well in their  SPM and sorry to say, in their  future careers!! (er, if any of them accidentally found this blog, pls do leave a comment and tell me what you do right now, ya cos I might be wrong about you guys back then. )
Anyway, one fine day I was asked by the headmaster to update these kids' information cards - you know the ones where one of the questions were about our ambitions etc.
Apparently, some of these kids' infos were not updated for like 2 years or so.
One girl, I asked her what clubs she was in that year, she said nothing. I was about to dismiss her when she quickly told me there was one club she would love to be in but had no confidence to join.
Me : which one?
She : Moo-gic
Me : What? You have that club here? (I was thinking Magic)
She : Got but I scared one.
Me : Well, you should be. My school never had that club. (and out of the blue, I just laughed!)
She : Teacher, apa lu ketawa?
Me : (trying to be serious) Ok... so you want to join Magic Club but you scared. Mmm.. I wonder why (and I laughed again!)
She : (laughing too) No, teacher. Moo-gic, not mayy-gic. MOOGIC.
And then it dawned on me what she was saying : MUSIC!!
Both of us laughed!

My next student was a boy named Alex. And my God, this one was one naughty boy. He and the other one (I forgot his name) never got along. All they did was FIGHT. But I tolerated Alex better than the other one because he can be funny too.

Me: So Alex, what is your cita-cita?
Alex : Security
Me :  ???
ALex : like itu guard but jaga swimming pool
Me : Oh, lifeguard. (I could already hear laughter at the back of my own head! And out of curiosity I asked why he wanted to become one)
Alex : Macam bapak saya ma....
Me : But you can do better than that what... (that was me trying to become an encouraging I believe-in-you teacher)
Alex : No lah. Saya tidak pandai. (and in a very broken english he said... ) .... if itu (pointing to his enemy at the back of the class) punya anak mahu drown in the pool, saya no help. Ha... ha... ha  (sinister laugh some more from that Alex!)
Me : (stiffling a laughter, I had to excuse myself from the classroom. And in the school balcony, I could have rolled on the floor laughing! I did not roll on the floor but I laughed so hard, , my eyes were all wet!)

LOL.... those moments in that school will never be forgotten. Too many hilarious stories during my 2-month stint there. :) And sometimes I wonder what happened to some of the kids in that class. The MOOGIC girl had potential if only she socialised a bit.
Alex....I hope he has quit smoking....and not become just a lifeguard. And his enemy, I hope he was never jailed because man, he was Trouble!