Tuesday, March 10, 2009

When u say "Sweet Dreams", make sure u don't use numbers

I'm a dreamer.

Some people have dreams occassionally, some just once a while, and some rarely. Me? I Dream! I dream almost everynight... I know, some of my close friends who I at times torture with my dream stories are rolling their eyes right now. Mwahahaha.... Like "No, not about your dreams again" Hahahhahaa.....

I dream sooo much... most of the times, I don't pay attention to em. But if the 'storyline' in my dreams involve some friends or sound interesting, they will be victimised with my stories.

I can recall back my dreams from as early as I was 5. What can a 5 years old kid's dream be like? Some 3-4 monsters circling around the dining table. Round and round... and round and round... and... round and... Ok... I think they get the point!


There's one dream that has been bugging me for quite some time though. I just dreamt about it again a few days ago. A dream where I'd be back in secondary school, in Form 5. I love it when my dreams transport me back to the memories of school days because at times, they just felt so real (revisiting places I used to hang out, joking and running around with friends). But sometimes, this dream would be interupted with an anxious feeling.

I would have a feeling that I have not prepared anything for my SPM, specifically for Add Maths. Suddenly, towards the end of the dream, I would be feeling worried-sick that the big exam is just around the corner and I have not studied a thing, especially Add Maths. I dunno how to put this feelings into words... Like "u start to feel butterflies in your stomach"-kinda feel. It feels like my whole future was at stake and I was not ready. Yalaa.. big exam kan.... and it was as if I was totally clueless and unprepared. I'd be awake after a while, feeling a bit anxious. By then, I'd realise it's just a dream and boleh tarik nafas lega.

I don't dream about this very often though. But I have this dream like from time to time... after a few months or years... but the feeling is the same = worried and Not prepared!

Hmmmm.... but why Add Math? This has to go in X-Files.... kan kan....

Since it's a repeating event, I had some time analysing this X-Files of mine. I've thought of some possibilities:

  1. I was a lazy student who never did her Add Math homework. I used to leave my homework blank until the following lesson, I'd be the one asking most questions when Mr.Lo announced to the class "Any questions you want to discuss?" I'd fill in the blanks when the answers were discussed and written on the blackboard. It's weird... I'd do all other subjects' homeworks except for Add Math...Could this be the reason??
  2. I never liked tuitions. But the only subject I chose to enrol for tuition was Add Math... I'd be listening to what Mr.Rao taught and tried to remember and understand them. But.. again.... I never did the homeworks.
  3. For our debate team, we each had our "so-called bombastic" introductions. Elena, first speaker "As long as Titanic remain sunk, and shall never sail again, I will stand affirm with....." Prema, second speaker "As long as the electron....bla bla bla..." and mine was, "As long as the formula of the roots of quadratic equation is negative b plus minus square root of...bla bla bla" (LOOK at the FORMULA wehh... damn long....) Why on earth did I use that as my intro? Never did AddMath homeworks... got guts to use it for some literature purpose some more!
  4. (maybe I should ask Elena if she has dreams of Titanic ship or... Leonardo di Caprio, maybe? :P)
  5. SPM revision? I would do some exercises from revision books, just to get familiar with the structure of the questions and answers. A few days before the paper, I memorised the important formulas for every sub-topics... so even there were certain questions I couldn't answer... I wrote down the relevant formulas and fill in any numbers I'd see in the question, just to bag some marks from my answers... Maybe my method of studies/ answering had violated Pythagoras' theorem or some algebra ethics?? so.. i'm haunted?
  6. Maybe Mathematics keep haunting me because I was supposed to take up Math course in my tertiary studies??
  7. Or... maybe my Soulmate will be a mathematician?? :P:P HAHAHAHA.... oppss... lari topik!
  8. Or is it a sign or a reminder not to take things for granted?


Added: Truth be told, as responded in the comment, I was very playful and kind of carefree during SPM (teruk rite :P). When the whole class would be intensely doing their own revision, I would jump around finding people who I could entertain or sembang2. At home, my sis would be studying for PMR and I would be on TV... Hmmm... Maybe I was too relaxed last time, that the anxiety had been diluted and dispersed into my dreams... possible, no? :S :S but still... why addmath?

But if the Add Math-phobia is a price to pay in order for me to get dreams of beautiful memories of my school days... I'll write the cheque... But then again, I don't really have a choice of what to dream when I fall asleep rite? HAHA....

With That....

GOOD NITE u ollss....

SWEET DREAMS... (or should I say sweet-non-mathematical-dreams) Ahakss....
Sleep tite... ZzzZzzZzzz....

7 comments:

Jessie C said...

alamak, same like me... except that i don't dream in numbers LOL add maths use to scare me too. i think the whole SPM experience must have scarred you for life. hehe maybe say a little prayer to god to release some of that anxiety for you. i always had dream of running away from my town being attack by japanese soldiers... i can hear bombs, gun shots and all. maybe it's my past life... haunts me almost every week until now i say a little prayer, and it helps.

zlee said...

wow... recurring dreams of japanese soldiers... sounds scarry. now that is a real haunting dream :O thanks for the advice jessie ;-)

mine not that often... once in a blue moon... like after a few months or after a few years... but the ending will be the same, like mentioned in the post :S

err... actually... During SPM, I was very2 playful and kind of carefree (teruk rite :P). When the whole class would be intensely doing their own revision, I would jump around finding people who I could entertain or sembang2. At home, my sis would be studying for PMR and I would be on TV... Hmmm... Maybe I was too relaxed last time, that the anxiety had been diluted and dispersed into my dreams... possible, no? :S :S

The funny thing is, I was scared of failing chemistry coz I was never good at it. But no dreams about chemistry. Add math... actually I loved it, just that I was lazzzy to give too much attention to it... but, it's starting to scare me now.

rion82 said...

ah hahaha...
Az, speaking of Mr. Lo.
He still remembers you.
He was aking my sister something i forgot about, and keluar pulak topic about our batch.
And you know what, Mr. Lo said that our batch are smart students.

Wahahahaha~ XD

Shuh Jiuan said...

Tu lah never confess when you had the chance :p I already confessed to him all my perangai buruk in his class. I bet Mr. Lo misses us ler, I miss him too. He was a good teacher :)

zlee said...

smart students? our batch? :P Let me flash back...

1. "God knows who's wrong who's right" - the alltime famous phrase
2. Batman - lock all doors from inside incident

I dun think these affected teachers will agree... not smart... but toooo smart oredi :P:P

ehehhe... but, we also left some good impression and memorable impact on some of our teachers as well.

Mr.Lo is a fatherly figure... been very nice to us. We were his first students when he came to cbm, remember? He kinda like followed our batch through till we left cbm... same like ustazah wahidah... :-)

Ouhhh i missss the school.. the teachers...

jelly elly said...

hahahahahaha so farnie la
brings back memories of us trying to come up wif konon-nya really dramatic intros....lol

zlee said...

Hehe Ele.. and eating asam boi sweets while skipping classes for debate practises... :P:P and Koh Su Boon, Koh Su Kang or was it Koh Su Beng?
eh... so u mimpi titanic ke tak? I need to solve the mystery ni :D