Recently, a fat malay teacher in my school passed out this new rule...that after recess everyday, the canteen moniter and her whole group for the respective day must stand beside their class tables til she says they cleaned it properly and can go back to class...

My duty day is Friday.

It's a very long walk to get the rag, then to wet the rag, then to clean the tables, to wash the rag and put it back again, especially since there was no major oil stain on any of my class tables. So i just wasted 20 cents on a packet of tissues instead. i wiped all my class tables clean, as well as dry, then stood beside my tables with my friend and chairperson. That fat woman came out and said, herself, "ah...the sec 4s today very good...ok girls, can go back now.."

However, once we reached our class, a prefect came to tell us that that very same fat woman wanted to see the whole Friday group. i was thinking, what for?

But we went anyway, my friend again, 2 other classmates and me.

We entered "her" malay room which overlooked "her" canteen.

The following is what was exchanged between us:

Fat woman(cigku R): why your tables dirty?

Me: they aren't dirty...they're clean...we wiped them...

cikgu R: no...prefect said it was dirty

Me: no it isn't...i checked it myself after I cleaned them...

cikgu R: i dunno...prefect say dirty means it must be dirty...

(i started getting furious) Me: But it's not! i cleaned them! they're clean!

cikgu R: i dunno...maybe you cleaned after the prefect checked... (lame excuse)

Me: in other words, it's clean now, right?

(a prefect comes in with some newsletter in hand)

cikgu R: (reads and looks like she's ignoring us) so how? what punishment?

Me: what punishment indeed! punishment for clean tables?! why?

cikgu Rhesitation) dun be rude to me girl!

Me: but i Know i'm right this time!

cikgu R: your body language is all wrong! the way you speak to me is rude! is this how you should speak to a teacher? am i right or not girls? (looks at my friends who are too scared to disagee with her)

Me: ok...ok...(stand properly)...i apologise....but can you please go check for yourself that my class tables are clean? it's just outside your room!

cikgu R:no i will not!

Me: why? you think the prefect is always right?

cikgu R: yes...i do...my prefects are never wrong..

(she ignores us again and pretends that her computer work is more important)

cikgu R: tell me what is so difficult about cleaning tables?

Me: nothing....that's why my tables are clean! it was so easy i did it myself! and it's clean now! i know! i did it MYSELF!

(that bloody bitch found an opening to use my words against me here)

cikgu R: ah! you see? it's so simple yet your friends cannot help you...why? i know...i kow that you always do your duties (i'm the vice-chairperson)...i know...you always clean your table, always come here....(which is not true...i'd been absent for 4 weeks as i was recovering from an operation)see what i'm scolding you all for? (that was not her original plan though) shouldn't you two be helping her? then you wouldn't have to be here

after that, whatever i say would've been useless....and i was thus defeated....bloody bitch....

my friend told me afterwards that she had been poking me at a point desperately....trying to make me stop as she saw cikgu R's face turn from black to blacker...but i told her, i'm sure my face must've gotten blacker too....i was so pissed i felt confident enough to look her in the eye for 2 min!

this has been bugging me for a week....i had to let it out again...hopefully i can forget about this til the next time i have to go against her again....this is the second time so far...

i had figured that i'd be defeated in the end though....people have told me she is a vindictive person...and i also concluded that if she refuses to lose face to 2 strict teachers in front of her malay class, she definitely won't lose face to me...no matter what...even if it means settling for punishing 2 instead of 4 people...