Liquid Paper and Joe

Setapak High

Lately I keep refreshing an incident few years back. Or many years back in the first year of my secondary school at Setapak High. Inside my class, I had this classmate of mine by the name of Joe (name has been changed to protect the innocent). Often, he is kind of cool to hang around with. Right now I have no idea his whereabout. The last heard was he been addicted to drugs.

Hence, I wonder if all these time what we did to him were the root caused for him being into such a deep shit. It begins with a innocent intention. He wanted to hang with few friends and I. Most of all, the guys in my class were pretty cool. He wanted to be part of the gang. I wasn’t sure the main deal of it but one fine day, he came to tell us that there is this stationery shop whereby he can shoplift before coming to school.

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He admitted that he had been stealing few liquid papers. Hence, in order to prove to us we requested him to get it more. Get one each for few of us. He told us that he needed some sort of distraction to distract the cashier lady. Thus our help was really needed. I didn’t turn up when he performed the act. But he did manage to steal unscathed. Not being able to be caught and later of the week, he bring the liquid paper to give it to few of the school kids. I didn’t get any from him.

A year after that, he seems like drifting away from school. Spending more time with the alike and finally, he is out of sight. At times, I do wonder if it was the our friends that encouraged him to took the wrong path of life. Become a wicked and crooked man. *sigh*

As I writing this post, I was wondering if the word liquid paper is an acceptable form of saying correction fluid. Not until I google it and found out the history of it - from the Wiki

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One Response to “Liquid Paper and Joe”

  1. Mazlan Abdul Malik Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 9:37 am

    Dear Mr. Tan, someone said “people can blame childhood to a certain extent, but there also comes a point where you have to take responsibility for your own actions.” The past is there for us to learn, but the future is in our very own hands.

    FYI, I’m very grateful that you keep mysetapakhigh.mazle in your blogroll. Regretfully, that link no longer exist, due to technicalities with hosting provider.

    I have moved most of the stuff there to my new home in cyberspace here with not much activity lately, although I try to keep up with small reunions. Perhaps you can join one of these sometime.

    I enjoy your musings here.

    Thank you,
    Mazlan Abdul Malik
    Setapak High School
    1976 (Form 1) - 1981 (Lower 6)

    Sure. it will be like hanging around with those pioneer setapakians. Anyway, its just some sharing and somehow I was reminded another friend of mine which I will tell for some other time. And thanks for enjoying my musings. :D

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