Dear 16 year old pinksterz,
so you made as the best student for PMR in your school and now you are qualified to go into science class to continue pursuing you dream of becoming a doctor.
first of all, due to the random selection of students, you will be placed in the last class out of the four classes, for science stream. you will be dissappointed yes, but fret not, most of the top students are placed into the same class as well, and they're as dissapointed as you are.
and then, for some unknown reasons, you will be chosen with a friend to transfer to the third class and there you will meet a bunch of crazy wacko friends but sadly, you won't get along very well with them. you will instead become close to the chineses and indians which is a good thing because they are the ones that stick with you through thick and thin throughout your high school even standing up for you against the teachers because they know the truth.
oh and also the first three months of upper secondary is going to be hell.
for the first time you will fail a paper reaaaaaaaaaaaal bad. here's a hint. it has something to do with numbers and that stupid scientific calculator. however you will be the top scorer in your class with perfect marks to another paper that is related to the former said paper and make your teacher proud. but this is for just the first few months before you finally get excited at the sight of new problems given by your teacher. yes, you're a nerd in school.
also, for the other subjects you barely standing over the passing line. you barely get an A1 for every subject. and you will never get the hang of chemistry. not until in the next year. howevery despite that, you will still be among the top 10 students i think by the end of the year, and again you will go back into where you belong wtf together with others.
you will still be single for another few years until you further your study (will tell you more on this later, be patient!) despite all of your friends have started dating and you will start thinking that you're not that pretty or interesting or just a loser. for the first time also you will be heartbroken by a boy who somehow misleads you into thinking that he is into you as you are into him but actually are just using you to get close to someone else.
but it's okay. he's a jerk and not good enough for you though i heard right now he's already graduated from a college in london but still the same jerk back then, having break a lot of hearts belonging to your girl friends.
also, you will take a lot of extra classes outsides that you barely have time to spend at home. but you're happy with that kind of life and meeting lots of cool people all over seremban! in the final year of high school you will go as far as into the national competition for - surprise! surprise! - a choir competition. I KNOW RIGHT?!?! there will be a controversy though because you are among the three muslim girls in the team and despite what the others two are telling you, you still go out on the stage on the final night with a shawl covering your head.
you will also make it as a prefect and please accept the offer because this will help you in applying to further your study afterwards!
oh here's another highlight in your 16 year self. you are finally getting rid of that braces and the first day of that you can't stop smiling oh who am i kidding?! you are grinning like an idiot to every single person in your school.
in the next year, while waiting for your SPM result, you will take a driving lesson and successfully get the laminated grant for your to start terrorising the road and living the life just like any crazy teenagers giving heart attacks to another senior drivers. just forget the dream as i can promise you that for another 7 years and counting you still won't have the skills to run on the road.
also you will sign up for an english course just to kill them time and meet someone who you will break his heart later and he will go all emo but of course, both of you're still 17. what does exactly a 17 year old know about? nothing. my point exactly. you will lose contact with this guy but years later somehow you will get close with his other friend and tell you what, you will keep in touch with each other through twitter. he will annoy you alot by copy-cat lots of your fabulous witty tweets, mind you.
anyway, moving on you will become among the top scorers in SPM and i know you will be sad to know that your result will be ruined with your biology paper getting an A2 and that will make your tuition teacher shocks because she expects you to do well in it! but hey! look on the bright side, you get A1 for EST and that's something!!! also for you 1119 paper which you will ace as well.
so you will apply for your tertiary education and you are accepted in pusat asasi sains universiti malaya where you will meet the awesomest people on earth as your roomates and some of them will stay as you really good friends until this day! in fact 30 minutes ago, i just talked to a girl who will be known later as your dinda and you will be her kanda. and nope, i won't ruin the story how you two get that names. you will have to find that for yourself. ;)
just a head up, you will have a hard time during the orientation week during the fourth day i think, and even will cry in front of a male senior one night when your parents rush to you to give you the spare key of your locker which you stupidly left inside it. and also on the final night, you will be rushed to the nearest clinic due to the one of the accidents that happens during one of the game in the morning, with two other seniors. though while you are in pain in the car, this is a good change because after being "jailed" in the college for a week finally you get to see the outside world! haha.
you might have a question in your head right now because this letter in currently being written from egypt. well, a month after you start to adapt to your life in pasum, you will get a surprise call from one of the sponsors to fly here to pursue medicine. yes, you will get to chase after your lifelong dream.
however, you will be torned to make a decision because somehow a new spark has started in between you and one particular famous guy in college which you have an eye for during the orientation week.
you won't tell anyone about the offer until a day before you register out of that place when you give your friends a call that night and everyone cries and speak a lot of gibberish between tears. and oh boy, you will somehow bump into the said guy at the most unexpected place while finishing all your registration business. of course, you will also make a complete fool of yourself in front of him and will feel extremely embarassed thinking about it but somehow years later, you will laugh you ass off thinking how stupid you're. HAHA!
oh not to mention you will make one of your friends crying for days after you left and she is the one claiming to be macho and not manja when in fact she really is. :P
anyway the first year in egypt won't be so good and this is when you will start to blog online as an anonymous with a nickname - to let your frustrations out as you will meet lots of bumps and crashes with few friends along the way and you will also fail your second year. but look on the bright side! you get to join the foreigner program which is in english so you will not have problems understanding the lectures anymore! but put that extra efforts in memorising your new classmates' names!
second year is also the year when you will meet someone new unexpectedly and finally feel how it's like to fall in love and get your heart broken as well a year plus later. as you are getting closer to the final examsfor the third year, that will decide whether you can make it into the clinical years or not, you will face another emotional roller coaster journey. also this time of the year, your neighbours will piss you off to no end. one word, just switch on the vacuum cleaner throughout the night and put it right beside the wall connection your house to theirs. and hammer the wall once or twice whenever you feel like doing so.
back to your emotional roller coaster story. you will be sad as well because you think you will lose a friend after all these happen but things will somehow work themselves out for both of you a year later and you two will somehow be comfortable with each other again as friends though not as close as before but it's good enough.
just, don't cry a lot as that will make your eyes go all puffy and puffy cried out eyes are just... ugly.
also by this time, most of the students here have figured out who pinksterz is, and you will mostly be known as that. and also as Kak Elle. yes yes i know how you don't really like to be known as "kakak" because you're still sixteen and immature you doofus! but later you will somehow feel comfortable being called that, trust me.
but you still have that problem of remembering both names and faces of others especially the juniors. nevermind, just give them a confident friendly smile and then walk away awkwardly like you always do. or when someone walk up and say hi to you just chat up to them as if you know them. the key word here is being confident and i bet you do have a lot of that inyour 23 year old self.
in the third year, you will also join a camping trip to explore the deserts in egypt right after getting involved with a committee consisting coolest people in cairo (at this time around, you will get over your stage fright. FINALLY! SO YEAY FOR THAT!).
okay back to the camping trip story. here i am warning you NOT TO EAT THE FOOD PROVIDED BY THE EGYPTIANS. but of course, you will ignore this. serve you right because you will face with the worst food poisoning ever for two weeks, minimum. you will get to know another blogger in cairo as well from this camping trip and she will somehow become your sister afterwards. now don't do that disgusting face everytime i am writing "sister" here. you are still sixteen of course you think it's gross but years later you will appreciate it as a sign of maturity.
remember how you always dreamt of having hamsters for pet back when you were 11? you finally get to adopt them but after the fifth one dies you will finally decide that you are not made for pets and you definitely don't like cleaning up after their poops and cage. but oh well, knowing you, i know you will be tempted to buy another pet whenever you feel like it. one example, during one of the outings with the girls in citystars you will somehow be tempted to buy a pair of tortoises despite the fact that the prices there are ridiculous. luckily enough, you have gotten enough sense kicked into you as you grown up wtf. or else i betcha i will be there (figuratively) to kick your ass with another future letter like this wtf.
but i think you will need to exercise your patience more in the fourth year. and sometimes, despite the importance of honesty and wanting the best for others, you can't always tell people what you're thinking of them. though sometimes you need to put a step forward, be all strict and push everyone around. you will also be known as lady boss by some people (thanks to your prefect training your will be having later in few months time) but hey, you want to get the work done early and on time and this will make things easier for everyone in the long run right?
as for your anger management, you will start to use twitter again with a second more private account to vent out. but learn to control them at the same time. i know it's hard but do try okay? promise me? because i don't want you regretting things you do in your life in future when you are old and sitting in the rocking chair thinking about your younger years.
you must be wondering why i haven't write a lot of your future love life. well, because you have none!!! ahahahhaah kidding, kiddo.
laa dee dum. actually i am not.
right now, as a sixteen year old girl, love seems like the most important thing to you (no thanks to all those lovey dovey korean dramas you are into during your high school years. luckily, you finally come back to sense and realise what kind of bullshits they have been planting inside your head two years later and ditch it for good.) but trust me, later you will learn that there are many other things you want to enjoy first before committing yourself to one guy for life. you decide you still want to figure out about yourself and what you really want in life and in the future as well, so you put that onto hold for a while.
but trust me, someone special is really waiting for you out there okay? (so that you won't get depressed and commit a teenage suicide after reading this wtf)
see, what a different person you have become in 6 years time span! from a girl who is a hopeless romantic and have quite a low self esteem, you will morph into someone with characters as you grow older and of course a lot wiser (except the time when you're going to buy that skirt 4 years later. SERIOUSLY, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!)
anyway, i do want to write more here but i think that's all you need to know for your preparations to go through another 6 years of life into the future. i shall write back one day when i have the time in between checking and treating the patients in the hospital (hopefully) and let you know how you will do in life after graduating from medical school.
Take care, girl!
Yours Sincerely,
the 23 year old pinksterz
p.s. oh just one more piece of exciting news, you will also own lots of shoes when you're in egypt with one customized shelves for you to have them line up in rows. definitely something for you to look forward to, no? ;)
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p.s. this post is inspired by Jolene.