Remembering the "A" Level college days. My dear sweet Ann...

Time to continue the remembering process...

Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur...

Towards the end of the article Remembering the "A" Level college days. The radio station at 51C I said this:

While the radio station started illegally only to die out naturally after it was legalised following a visit to our room from a college lecturer, what I do remember was the whole activity was actually stopped when the college guards came rushing into 51C... looking for me after I ran through a girls' dorm...

OK. A weekend was coming and me and the guys were planning our activities ahead. This time we're going to see a movie at the Cathay theatre in Jalan Bukit Bintang. I do remember it was at Bukit Bintang but whether it was a Cathay I'm just hazarding a guess. After all the theatre has been closed since more than 10 years ago when multi-plex cinemas inside shopping complexes began to take over the place of single-screen establishments.

Anyway the plan was to catch a movie and I couldn't remember the title. It was to be played early night-time giving us enough time to head back to the college to refresh for the next activity the very same night, dancing our way at the discos of course. I already have a date lined up for the weekend, a girl which I often like to taunt whose antics I've grown quite fond of. Let's call her Pah. If I remember correctly, she was studying to be a lawyer. I often hanged out at her class during night time just to play around and jest with her and the other beautiful girls. Ah... if I remember correctly, my first girlfriend during the "A" Level days, Az (refer to Remembering the "A" Level college days. Start of the disco fun and girls... ) was also in the same class.

Soon the much awaited weekend night came. Me and the guys were ready to go when Pah declined saying she can't make it. She didn't say why, it seems she just refused to go. Later I learned she declined last minute because I had told the guys I have never been refused by any girl. Hmm...

Never mind, I was confident enough of my own self to get a date in time. Even if I don't get one for the movies, I am sure I could charm one from the disco floors at least to spend the night with. But time was running short and if I remember correctly I've already bought a ticket for a date. I didn't want it wasted. As I was walking around college, I bumped into another beautiful college-mate and decided to ask her out.

Let's call her Ann, sweet dear Ann. Again I suddenly remembered she was gearing to study law. Oh, God... now while writing these very words do I realise that the majority of girls I went out during college days were actually law students! While I'm very much a hard science student. Does that say anything or what?

Anyway, I can't remember what was actually said to Ann. Perhaps having a ticket already bought for the movies with no date in sight yet helped. Perhaps. Never mind that. Ann said yes and in no time she was ready to go for the movies. So there we where, I think a car or two full of guys and girls heading for Bukit Bintang to enjoy the night.

I can't remember all that has happened but I do remember this. After a while sitting in the theatre, I felt some sort of warmth and began to press my body close to Ann's. No, it was not sexual, honest. Although since secondary school days I have developed the sort of skills (apart from an appetite) for using the slightest of touch to practically melt the girls into my arms, that was not foremost in my mind when with Ann.

Yes, the devilish part of me would like to do so. After all wasn't she another girl ripe for conquest? But the innocence that is Ann's face (and the way she carried herself) managed to put the darker side of me away at least at arm's length. Instead I'm afraid, in a funny way I was beginning to fall for her.

When it comes to looks Ann do have it. After all she looked almost exactly like the Malay movie actress of mixed parentage Susan Lancaster which was quite famous in the late 1980s to the early 1990s, so that should say enough.

OK. Let me get this straight. I think by then my relationship with my girlfriend from secondary school, Z was officially over. Refer again to Remembering the "A" Level college days. Start of the disco fun and girls... As for Az, we simply drifted away. OK, I took off for God knows greener pasture or what. Then again, what greener pasture? I don't think I ever went steady again with anyone after Z or the short stint with Az and to be honest, despite the fact that I could still get a different date everyday and sometimes a few in a day, I was beginning to feel lonely at heart.

Ann's always smiling face with her sweet innocence managed to knock a part of my heart which I probably have long left unattended. But I'm already getting ahead of the story. We finished watching the movie feeling quite happy, at least that's what I felt. So I asked her to join me going to the discos later and she again said yes.

We returned to college to freshen up. Ann went up to the girls dorm and me back to the guys'. Soon enough me and the guys were ready but Ann was nowhere to be seen. What gives?

We had a car waiting outside the girls dorm. At the same time we have to make sure the college guard's can't see us as no one is supposed to be out of the dorms after 10pm if I remember correctly. Unless you have written permission to spend the weekend outside. We waited... 5 minutes, 10 minutes. It felt like almost an hour before I lost patience. I didn't know what I was thinking, I decided to run up and enter the girls dorm.

Hmm... I think I should continue this story another time. Adios! :]