There was a Friday when my friend and I did a little roam-about on Jalan TAR to browse through fabrics. I was very convinced that it's my 'lucky day' because I got a parking spot just in front of SEMUA House. We both went to lurking at Jakel and found RM 585/meter hand-made French Lace. When hunger came by, we headed to Capital Cafe [where else?] for some Mee Hoon [what else?]. The tauke sat with us and had his Koay Teow noodles and we had a chat of little things. As a dessert, he treated us with roti bakar with kaya. Oh, dear! Argh! Tasty! Before we left, I photographed this man which had an intriguing build [on the right].
We left the area after visiting Kamdar, before my parking ticket expires. I originally planned to drop by CM Annexe to collect our profit from magazine sales but... we had a detour to CAP Square, a very boring complex where everyone is concentrated at Starbucks. By now, the roads were clogged up with traffic and we know it's very hard to get out of the city. I had a bright idea to travel up the slope near St. John's cathedral. Down the road St. John's Institution and Convent Bukit Nanas [Pineapple Hill, where the KL Tower sits on]. Hm, looks like a nice school to explore. So we got off-board and passed the gates without being called to report ourselves. There was loud rock music being played from a hall... this band was singing a Fall Out Boy song.
I thought we'd be having a fun time watching this showcase but after 5 minutes, the event ended and we didn't bother to collect the door gift, which we don't deserve anyway. Time to check out the corridors and classrooms. The whole school was being rowdy and noisy because it's the last day before their week-long mid-year break. But it's not seen in this picture...
Nor in this tiled corridor...
Nor this teacher's table, with the pile of exercise books, fake flowers and a portrait of Pak Lah...
... because the action is happening at the badminton court.
I took the opportunity to photograph some schoolgirls for a Merdeka special for I Got Shot. Very informative!
Then, right on 6.45 p.m., the final bell rang and everyone stormed for the gates, wishing everyone happy holidays.
Then, my friend and I thought of the boys at St. John's Institution. Should be fun to harass them with our suspicious smiles, right? We discovered this alley filled with graffiti and a group of potentially violent schoolboys were loitering.
The actual school was already empty within 10 minutes, after the last bell and we couldn't go in past this column because the guard didn't like our presence.
Down the road was St. John's Cathedral, lit in fluorescent lamps.
The entire stretch of Jalan Bukit Nanas leading to Jalan Raja Chulan was very, very jammed so we decided to wait it out...
by sitting with these girls at a badly-graffitied wall.
One of them was frustrated with her parents who forget to fetch her because they were busy shopping at Pavilion. We offered her a ride but she decided to follow her grandfather's friend.
Before we left, I took a picture with a group of 14-year-olds, who were also waiting for the jam to clear. Heheh...
Happy holidays, school children!
1 comments:
oh st john! i went to that schl during my schl years you know. and that alley in that pic,we call it "lorong" which is obviously the meaning in malay.haha,but its like when they wanna hang out or do something bad (eg. smoking),they will say "jom sap kok kat lorong". i miss st john,but i dont really have the time to go there and visit it.reading this post makes me really2 wanna go back to school,ahh!
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