School holidays are here and the shopping centres are swarming with kids and teenagers. Oh, wait, the teenagers are there regardless whether it is school holidays or not. Only difference is that during holidays, they aren’t wearing their crumpled school uniforms.
There are some places you should avoid during the school holidays. My friend goes swimming twice a week at a public swimming pool. During school breaks, she skips the pool laps and goes jogging. Unless, she get’s herself ‘invited’ to any of her friend’s private condo swimming pool.
The public swimming pool is full of splashing kids in the shallow end and their shouty parents (‘Don’t pee in the pool! Watch out for the broken tiles! You don’t know what disease is floating in the water!’) and the pimply schoolboys gawking at the girls in their unflattering swimsuits (‘Lenglui! Lengui! Three o’clock! Walau! She goes to my add maths tuition class one…!’).
Another place my colleague told me to avoid like the plague is the zoo. I haven’t been to our local zoo in my life, so I can’t vouch for the crowd situation there, but my colleague tells me even the animals have complained to the zookeepers about the schoolchildren – littering all over the place, screaming and running havoc, taunting the animals when sign clearly says ‘Jangan kacau haiwan-haiwan di sini’ (or something to that effect). It’s no surprise it is during the school holidays coincide with the period that the animals take the most number of medical leave days…
The same rule applies for any amusement park like Sunway Lagoon, Genting Highlands, funfairs, bookfairs, PS2 shops, tourist destinations…
But there are a lot of up sides to it – the roads are relatively jam-free (I said ‘relatively’). And another bigger perk – my boss is on leave for 2 weeks…
10 Comments
Jason
LOL
me and my best buddies used to look for lenglui’s alot .. that was years ago, miss all those moments…
now its different, we look for aunties now 😉 instead of young girls in uniforms .. just looking.. no offense right? beauty is something to be appreciate off
Din
Yup I agree. All the stress seem to dissapper whenever my boss goes on leave. Great eh? Heheh.
yuin
from what you wrote we should avoid all everyplace, cept your office :p
cyber-red
i is no more “holiday” on my own – back to the working life after bumming grr
Ken
Yeah… Everyone’s on holiday and I’m here taking my freaking A-Levels EXAMS!!! But after it all I’ll be freeee until September… Muarhahahar!! *Points at school children and laughs silly*
zyrin
hah. my boss is away for a week. okaylah tuhhh… ekekekekekekeke…
philters
whenever school holidays come, everywhere becomes littered. the zoo animals were talking to the zookeepers eh? i was at the beach (for work!) last weekend and the marine creatures were complaining to the fishermen to take them out of their misery!
inevitable
The only thing I like during SH is the road. Takes me only 20 min instead of an hour to work during non SH…
mama23beas
Want to blog about it, but no time leh…so I add to your list.
You’d see a lot of stickers of directions to Majlis Perkahwinan here and there, at the lamp posts, and traffic lights. A lot of them complete with those colourful, shining mini bunga manggar. They know how to put the things up, but don’t bother to remove it after that.
Anyway, it is rather a post-SH blues for the Majlis Perbandaraan workers. Agree with me;)?
simon
jason – lol that’s why most swimming pools have ladies day already, usually tuesday or wednesday…
din – esp when he goes overseas. without international roaming…
yuin – maybe, but i’d still rather be somewhere else… 🙁
cyber-red – ah, but the holiday was good while it lasted, right? 🙂
ken – good luck with the A levels… dun watch too much bittorent…
zyrin – woo hoo! sama geng!
philters – i was near the zoo the other day, and the carpark was full with school buses!
inevitable – very true!
mama23beas – agree, but usually the rain and heavy wind will remove the signs for them…!