Paint job

Went to school today to join the CF'ers to paint the school. Well not the whole school but just a few walls and pillars. When I was at the school, the gardener asked us, "Why are we here? You should be enjoying your holidays in somewhere like Cameron Highlands." Then my friend Joseph answered, "Because we are not good enough so we came back to study." There were some renjers here too painting the wall af the teachers staircase.

 

Well the first thing we had to do was to scrape all the paint of first. Well is was no easy job to do. First I did one wall then another. Well to fill our time besides scraping, me and my friends imagined what we are scraping as making oceans around land, which is the paint. We started joining oceans together and got small islands. We found Korea, Penang, Pulau Besar and other more places. Besides that, we were also observing the previous paint. we saw beige, black, grey, yellow, green, red, blue, dark green, and of course the latest colour, pink. We also saw what seems to be like the numbers '101' and a word 'NO'. Wierd.

 

Then we had a break and had some nasi lemak. Some of us didn't go for the break but continued scraping. Well, I was one of them. I have to admit that I can be a perfectionist at some times. I scraped and scraped until the whole part of paint at my section was completely scraped of. Well I also would like the person who helped me.

 

Then at last we can start painting. Worth the while scraping so hardly till my hands so tired. The amazing part about the scraping is that we got to see sparks flying out. Then the name Jordin Sparks came to me. The latest American Idol. We had quite a fun time painting and we also had a cendol break. Then we had a group photo together.

 

After all the painting was done, another side job was done. We had to carry quite many boxes of tiles from the car park to BIlik Seri Mawar. Oh, this is the hardest part. After the endless scraping, now it is this back-breaking task. The boxes of tiles were so heavy. Indeed, eyes can be decieving. This was no comparison to the carrying of the school magazine last year. After three boxes, I gave up and started cleaning the floor that got paint. At first the turpentine wasn't working. Then we tried to scrape it out. After pouring water to clean the residue, miraculously the paint was easier to come of.

 

After a long days work (actually, it was only 6 hours), I went home. Rested and relax and got a nap. I feeled very tired and my back is aching till now.