KST and me

This is the very private moment when I am introduced to KST.

It's 9 March 2005, around 9:20pm. It's only 12 hours left before the SPM results would be announced. I was all alone with God, worried about my results. I tried to find calmness in the Internet, but to no avail. It was a one-way street for me. If I don't obtain good results tomorrow, I can't even think of the consequences. I loiter around in iRC and MSN, trying to find cure to my worrisome disease, but the search was futile.

It was at that moment, an alert of a new contact pops up. It is from Sno.....hmm who is this? I added her suspiciously. The second I approved her request, she sent me a message, "Hi, I am sno from ReCom." I was pretty surprised but I chatted with her for a while. She too, was looking for comfort in the Internet. Just 10 minutes into our chat, she invited Peter Tok into our conversation. Then the three of us chatted. I found out that all of them are high achievers and they are very friendly. Peter was a bit talkative but clearly he was kind. Then, for the first time, the name KST was mentioned. I was a bit surprised again and was even more surprised when I was informed of the meaning.

That's a brief history on how I joined KST. The next day, I asked for their results. Yin Nin got 11 A1s and 3 A2s and she was so sad...how I wished I had that!! With my results, I have to say that I am the weakest among them all, whom at least three of them obtain straight A1s. Inferiority complex seems unavoidable but I continued to chat with them. They are surely intellects.

However, as I continued to chill out with them, went through ups and downs with them, I find that they are helpful, kind, non-discriminative and of course, very accommodating. I have to agree to that because I received the most rejections and there they are, consoling me and giving me hope everytime I fell to the hard ground.

KST may be childish or playful, but behind and above all that, they are a group of intellects who have the hearts of gold. There will never be another second of boredom when I start to mingle around with them. In the dreadful competitive rat race, there emerge a group who put aside all differences among its members in order to create a lifelong friendship. (Ok, maybe for Peter, a little bit more than a friendship....). Cheers to me, KST, and Malaysia!!