There was some gotong-royong today, as planned. My classmates and I were chaperoned by Pn Norhaida (is that how you spell her name?) and Cik Siti Nor. They were pretty cool, actually. I've always thought of Pn Norhaida as this vicious lioness since she's always so strict, haha. But really, she's a nice teacher! Anyway, we had to do our part in the gotong-royong thing at the old SPBT room, which I've never been to.

I must say that I didn't regret going to school today. I ventured into some of the old parts of the school that I never even knew existed, all thanks to Pn Norhaida for showing us, hehe. The old SPBT room was freaky. It was dusty and covered in muck, and you know what? There was a huge staircase at the back of the room leading to parts unknown. I was so, so curious to see what was at the bottom of the staircase! When I peered down, there was another set of staircase leading downwards. Lagi lah curious!

The staircase was such a cool sight to see. I mean, it was dark and creepy at the bottom, and the stairs were dusted with dust and spider webs and God knows what else there could be! I wanted so much to venture down the staircase, just to see where it would lead me to.

Our task in the SPBT room was pure villainy! There were lots of books and old documents dating up to the 80s on a few tables, all covered with dust and grime. Files and papers were scattered everywhere, all stacked up and tied with a rafia string. And you know what we had to do? Reorganize it! Put it back on the bookshelves! Stat! Simply cruel, I tell you. I mean, come on! Why was it even our job to REORGANIZE THE DOCUMENTS? I thought the clerks were supposed to do that!!! We were really marinating ourselves in sweat and grime and dust.

While I was helping Liyana sorting out some of the files and documents and place them into the bookshelves, I came across a very precious file. Not just any file, it was my mother's file! She used to work as a teacher in CBN, waaaay back in the 80s. It was dated 1981, and I leafed through the documents in the file. Lots of bank slips, and many others I didn't even bother to understand. In 1981, her first child was only a year old. I was so amazed that I found her file that I just felt like taking it home and showing it to my mother. Haha.

From this gotong royong thing, I learned that our school has a lot of secret passageways. A lot of locked rooms, a lot of staircases leading underground, a lot of abandoned rooms branching from other rooms...there are a lot of places in our school that are unknown by us CBN students. It was creepy and eerie, really, but at the same time it's cool because man, which other school has a unique architecture like ours?

Pn Norhaida showed us a really creepy room, heh heh. Beside the old SPBT room, there was another door but it was unlocked. It's not really abandoned, just rarely being used. So she showed us that room, and guess what? There were MORE rooms branching from that particular room. It was a toilet, actually, but one of the doors in the toilet led to a bedroom. A bedroom! How cool is that? As I went deeper down the small passageway that led the toilet to another room, I came across what I assumed used to be a bedroom, which are now stacked with old registers owned by the teachers. There was even an antique air-conditioner, and bloody hell, the room was cold but the air-cond wasn't even turned on! And then, another passageway, go figure. It led to another bedroom, situated just above the restroom we often use.

That room was freaky. There was a tiny bed, with a dusty mirror hanging opposite the bed. There were old hangers hanging from the bedpost, and many other stuff. There was even an old mattress lying on the bed. I imagined the room being used way back when, still clean and pristine and occupied by a solid person, if you know what I mean. Now? I'm guessing that person is see-through. Heh heh. Just my wild imagination taking over.

There are so many places in the school compounds that are unknown and are yet to be discovered. I am an annoyingly curious person, and knowing that my school has a lot of secret rooms and passageways just makes me want to go and find out about them! Heh, and I thought I knew my school pretty well -.-"

Oh well.