We Monkeys?? No Way!!!

I studied in a non-coed missionary school from year 1 till form 5. During our secondary years, we girls sometimes act very roughly probably because there was no boys in our school, thus, no feeling of shyness etc. I still remembered how we used to sit on the floor during recess to have our meal, my sis and her gang loved to sit on the floor under the staircase, holding the plate of nasi lemak (oh, i miss that, it was very very nice) and chatting non-stop.

I was a prefect in school and I remembered one incident during school assembly (when I was in either secondary 4 or 5) which never failed to make me smile whenever I think about it. There was this session where our headmistress was lecturing non-stop to the whole assembly of students at the hall. Me as usual was walking up and down the aisle among the rows of students who was listening to the morning lecture (well this is what prefect normally do during assembly lor). I heard our headmistress complaining on how rough we are, how we crossed the road without looking properly (there is a bus stop opposite of our school), how we chose not to walk on the floor but prefered to walk on the benches :) etc etc. Then she angrily said something like.."perempuan tak macam perempuan, macam beruk!!! (girls not like girls, act like monkeys!!!)". Wow, the word strike me like lightening. Not that I m angry but I feel funny as how all of us were being referred to the 'permanent residents' of the Penang botanical garden (monkeys). I was trying to control my laughter until I bumped into a fellow prefect among the aisle. She has this surprised and puzzled look on her face and said "So, kita nie penjaga beruk lar (so we are the monkeys caretaker lar)". That is when I couldn't control my laughter anymore. We are a bunch of monkeys taking care of another bunch of monkeys. What a joke.........