of curry puffs and prata...

a typical studying day back in U.

arrive at school at around 9 plus. some of us came even earlier but i believe most would have arrived and seated by 9.30am. of course, with each batch of arrivals, those who were already there, will stop and idle chat for about 10 mins. some of them even brought breakfast and tidbits. that contributed to another 20 mins of time spent on food. we got down to actual studying at around 10am.

at the top of every hour, plus minus 10 mins, i would stop for my 10 mins (sometimes longer) break. the smokers among us would go for their smoke break. the non-smokers usually followed. i guess the 2nd hand smoke did went to our brains and made us smarter, or maybe dumber... hmmm...

12pm, lunchtime. it would take us about 15 mins in order to discuss where to have lunch and another 10mins to take orders from those who wanted to 'dine in'. lunch was usually more than an hour.

coming back at 1.30pm was the norm, and it would take us another half an hour in order to settle down back to our notes and books. the usual hourly breaks took place.
3pm and it was teatime. give it another 10 mins for the volunteers to take orders, typically curry puffs from the north spine capped off with teh terik.

5pm and it was our official breaktime. a whole bunch of us played football while the rest just chatted. no real amount of studying could be done at this time, since the everyone will be making too much noise.

dinnertime brought about another round of discussion as to where would be the ideal place to eat. after dinner, those with living in the hostels would make their way back to take a shower after along day. the rest continued slogging.

come 10pm plus, it was suppertime. all gathered to settle on what sort of prata to get for the night. plaster was a fave back then.
some stayed on after supper to study a bit more and usually ended their day at around 1am. others, like me, who needed my beauty sleep, retired at around 11.30pm.

i guess from the timetable above, you would tell that many of us ended up with below average grades. i was just wondering, could it be because we were eating too much food? hmmm...
:)