Hi guys, so harini I have another throwback story to share with you guys. I'm not sure if I've shared this story before and kalau dah, just anggap ni an updated version with new details yang I remember.
Okay so among my friends, I'm known for evading conflict by pretending I'm sleeping. Banyak dah kejadian yang berlaku and my friends menyaksikan bakat I berlakon tidur untuk elak konflik. But what they didn't know is, mechanism ni dah lama diamalkan oleh Faiz Faisal and dulu-dulu punya berlakon lagi severe lah compare to nowadays.
Kisah ni berlaku in 2004 or 2005 macam tu and I was in high school and masa tu I stay asrama. Pagi tu bangun memang tak sedap badan but as usual, kita bersiap je lah nak pergi kelas kan. Masa perhimpunan pun dah start pening-pening lalat and habis perhimpunan pula sambung kelas sejarah. As someone yang tak ada minat langsung dengan subjek sejarah, can you imagine the headache yang makin menjadi-jadi? So I decided untuk pergi klinik.
Masa ni memang sakit kepala betul-betul eh bukan berlakon. Berlakon tu kejap lagi. So I went to the clinic and dapat MC seperti biasa and I told the teacher I need to go back to my dorm lah sebab dapat MC kan. Tapi kalau waktu sekolah, students tak boleh masuk bilik sendiri kalau MC pun. Ada sickbay yang disediakan khas untuk orang-orang yang tak sihat. Maka saya pun menginaplah di sickbay tersebut.
Sampai-sampai sickbay je I terus makan ubat and terlena. Lepastu I dengar bising-bising budak dah habis kelas. Semua berpusu-pusu lah masuk bilik mandi apa semua sebab after kelas ada lunch lepastu terus waktu prep untuk siap-siap kerja sekolah kan. Mulanya I nak bangun and shower lepastu makan lah before sambung tidur. But then ada this one person which I forgot his name, menjengah sickbay tu and tanya "Kau tak sihat ke? Nak aku amikkan nasi dekat dewan makan?" Of course lah bila orang dah offer tu kita akan imediately jadi lebih in character kan. I accept the offer and makanan pun sampai.
Habis je makan, orang lain pun berpusu-pusu pergi prep. I took that time to go back to my bilik and mandi semua. Lepas mandi sambung balik lepak dalam sickbay. Kalau ikutkan tak payah pun and boleh je pergi prep. Tapi sebab bukan selalu kita ada excuse macam ni, kita fully utilized lah kan. Another thing yang paling malas nak buat dekat asrama adalah waktu riadah. Paling benci eh nak kena bermain sukan petang-petang, so I took my meds one too many and tertidur sampai maghrib nak masuk isyak. Masa bangun tu pening dia macam tak ada hari esok.
During that time, budak-budak lain tengah dalam surau baca yasin. Biasalah kita ni budak-budak lagi so memang mengelat lah bacaan yasin and jemaah dekat surau kan. After isyak semua pergi prep malam pulak. So this is when the true acting begins. Masa dorang berdentum-dentum turun tangga tu, I pretended to sleep so that they won't asked me to go to prep lah. Ada senior ni duk panggil-panggil lah aku tanya okay ke tak. Kita in character so harus senyap dan tutup mata serapat-rapatnya.
I thought he left but suddenly dengar tapak kaki lagi berdentum-dentum. Kalini dia bawak another senior and both masuk sickbay tu trying to wake me up. I'm not sure if my body memang panas ke apa, but I heard one of them cakap "weh badan dia panas lah, cuba panggil warden datang tengok". Dah pulak dia nak panggil warden tengok. Imagine eh I was "asleep" sepanjang dorang panik tu. Warden sampai and dia check my forhead and cakap " panas sangat badan dia ni, takut dia dah pitam je ni" "angkat dia bawak pergi kereta saya, saya bawak dia pergi klinik".
Bayanglah masa dorang usung aku pergi kereta warden and lalu pulak depan dewan makan and I can hear budak-budak dalam dewan makan tu bersoseh-soseh tanya "siapa tu, kenap tu". I was the main character lah that time and dah masuk dalam kereta, warden tu suruh one of the senior yang usung aku tu to put something sweet in my mouth to see my reaction. You know what they put in my mouth? Apparently the senior yang usung I tadi tu tengah kemam lolipop and he put the lolipop yang dia makan tu into my mouth! Of coures as disgusted as I was masa tu, I need to stay in character. Senior tu cakap dekat warden yang I'm not responding.
Warden cakap, "okay kita jangan call parents dia dulu, biar doktor check baru call parents dia" Sampai-sampai dekat ER and doktor pun check lah my suhu and mata semua. Lepastu dia ketuk-ketuk my stomach and cakap, dia ni perut kosong tak makan ni, sebab tu pitam kot. Miraculously, I woke up and feeling better. Doktor bagi lagi another 2 days MC and warden called my parents and I got to go home malam tu. Which I didn't planned to do so pun.
So yeah, that was my story. The day I demam sampai pengsan.