Cover image via Edited by SAYS
Our school days were the BEST days of our lives!
Here are top 28 things secondary school taught us, as shared by Malaysians:
1. "How to tie my necktie."
Image via smkdpk
2. "How to sleep with my eyes open."
Image via Memes.com
3. "To have connections everywhere."
It's important to make friends with everyone. Prefects, librarians, teachers… did we mention prefects?
Image via Malaysia Aktif
4. "To never use the toilet after rehat."
Image via Sinar Harian
5. "How to master the art of lipsyncing."
Image via SMK Cochrane
6. "To be a pro at salin nota."
Image via Giphy
Teacher: Okay, *insert student's name* please help to erase the blackboard.
The class: TEACHER, WAIT!!!!
7. "How to do homework at the last minute."
Image via SAYS
8. "To always be nice and greet my teachers whenever I meet them outside of class."
There could be a 'gift' waiting for us if we didn't.
Image via The Borneo Post
9. "How to lie."
"Why did you not finish your homework?"
"Sorry teacher, I was sick yesterday."
Image via Giphy
10. "That girls cannot get pregnant just by holding hands with a boy."
Thank God for Biology and Chapter 4 of Form 3 Science! :p
Image via doktercinta
11. "How to take a shower, get dressed, do my hair, and brush my teeth in less than 15 minutes."
Image via Giphy
12. "That schools don't test our intelligence, but our memory."
Image via Malay Mail Online
13. "How to hide things in my bra, without them falling out."
Image via Wikihow
14. "That apparently every school used to be a Japanese burial ground."
Image via Photobucket
15. "That my school was haunted."
Image via www.froyoplus.com
Don't look into the mirror when you're in the school toilet!
16. "Nothing."
Image via SAYS
17. "That there is no such thing as a secret."
Image via i1os
18. "To use the other teacher's names to ponteng the class that you dislike."
Image via Harian Metro
19. "That I could do high jump or parkour if I tried hard enough and it was proven true when the pak guard locked the school gates."
Image via Funny Malaysia
20. "That the pengetua never seemed to understand what 5 minutes mean."
Even our teachers knew!
21. "How to cooperate with a stranger."
Remember how we used to leave our books in our table drawers and the *budak petang* would do the same? #sharingiscaring
Image via @syfqqqqqqqqqq/Twitter
22. "That it was hard making a choice between going into the "best class" or sticking with your friends."
"After sitting for (the now-obselete) PMR, I was selected to get into the best pure-Science class but my best friend is going to a sub-Science class?!"
Image via Giphy
23. "That I'll never finish using the exercise books I bought every year."
Image via Blogger
24. "How to look busy when I'm actually just procrastinating."
An especially useful skill during *gotong-royong*.
Image via Blogger
25. "To never, ever, take out my IC to show my friends unless it's for an emergency"
Image via Twitter
We look so much better now than we did at 12 years old.
26. "How to magically make things disappear."
We kind of knew that we have the power to make things disappear since our school stationeries always go missing, but we never knew our full potential until we received a *surat amaran*. 😉
Image via Kompas
27. "To communicate effectively, using 'creative' ways."
Image via Funny Malaysia
28. "That friends from secondary school will stick with me till this very day!"
Image via SMK Simpang Rengam
