curiosity kills the cat

i think i had quite a good start for this new term..first lecture was not bad at all..all introductions of the subjects i'm taking went fine, though most inputs came pouring on my face, i think i managed to get em rite..

i finished my class at 12 noon today, i had only 1 pathology lecture though there were lectures on clinical skills and student welfare by Dr.Lavelle and Liz Doyle in the morning..we got a logbook and a clinical manual book for the clinical skills subject before the lectures began..while waiting for my turn to collect the books and while waiting for the whole class to get theirs, i was chitchatting with a friend..we simply took a glance on the people in front and around us and make some simple comments on them..bukan ngumpat aa..haha..we were just amazed by the looks/appearances of most of our classmates..with the new dresscode for attending classes in the hospital, everyone looks so smart and soo..doctorish..yeaaa that's the word (doctorish??adeke??)..it's like u're so used to see u're friends in denim and casual gear and suddenly everyone's wearing nicely ironed shirt and slack with nice tie (for guys) and nice colorful shirt with skirt or slack for ladies (bile nak pakai baju kurung ni shu?)..no piercing and nice clean hair cut (i like this part most for guys..i always hate to see guys with long hair..serabutnye!)..hope the change of look stays for the whole academic year till our graduation day..inshaAllah..

while commenting..ehem..err..while giving my opinion on this one friend of ours (a foreigner) suddenly my friend said "banyaknye awak tau pasal dia..awak ni obses ke ape.."..haha tegelak besar..obses??adeke..i told her one thing that people don't usually know bout me..that i like to observe people and things around me..actually it's not that i LIKE to do it, but it's just my natural habit to do it, which can be so bad in some cases..n it's not like observing people like 'jaga tepi kain orang'..i usually observe people that happened to bump into my life, like watching their behaviours and after that i make inferences of them..i'm also easily to get distracted by people talking or the gestures of people making a conversation..this explains why i cannot sit at the back in a lecture theatre and even if i'm studying in the library, i usually find a place far away from people and i have to get a bookholder to make a sort of partition for me and the people's sitting beside me (like now!)..if not i'll be so distracted by the things the person's doing..and mind you, i have a pair of very sharp ears (not the pointy ones like the elves)..i got that from my dad i think, that's the reason i am so easily distracted by noises and that also explains why i usually know more stuff than one's do because i often overheard nearby's conversations (unwanted conversations that i unlikely wanted to know but i happened to know!)..some are beneficial but most reveal the darker side..

back in high-school, people might not believe me if i told them that i know which towel belonged to one n which was not, whose bucket was that in the shower room and which bucket was this shampoo belonged to, whose telekung n sejadah was that at the rack, and who should i asked to if i wanted to borrow this particular pair of slippers..i knew, i really knew!i dunno why but i just happened to know..while queing for turns in the shower room or while wearing my telekung at the surau, i observed people n things around me..n these things remained encoded in my long term memories i guess..

in my opinion, sometimes being curious is good but as i said up there, curiosity also kills the cat..in one case (this is a hot new case :p) i just happened to bump into this guy when i arrived in the library today, who was my batch's First Prize Winners for most subjects for our last First Professional Exam..he's a Norwaygean guy, a very simple guy, doesn't really have any genius look or wut, n he can always be seen walking with his French Horn (the instrument)---this is also by my simple observation of him..so all these times i was wondering about him, i mean wut is it really his secret that put him forward than other people?i don't really see him much at the college or in the library, maybe some unoccasional conversations with some friends outside the library or so or i see him walking to the room at the coffea dock where people plays their instruments and that doesn't seemed to add some credits to him..so this evening, i JUST knew that this simple guy i'm talking about is not the guy i interpreted earlier..he was sitting with his laptop, i guess he must be downloading today's lecture notes and stuff and later he opened his pathology texbook and did some writings on a paper..clearly he was doing today's stuff and i think an hour later he already packed his things and walked out of the library after stopping a while at the door to greet a friend...and my observation of him tells me that it doesn't really takes hours of efforts to excel, all u need is an updated work and use your brain optimumly..like him! (yet why am i not doing the things he's doing now?)

so the bad side of my curiosity is, sometimes i can be too judgemental and jump into a fast and harsh conclusion without taking any consideration..i have to admit that i am a weak human that makes mistakes..and the bad side of being an observant is i'll worry myself of an unrealistic thing that i overheard or saw and also i tend to know too many irrelevant stories of people..kadang2 tu serabut otak..

and the weird part of being an observant is, I DON'T REALLY SEEMED TO BE A GOOD OBSERVER WHEN IT COMES TO THE RECOGNITION OF ROADS AND PLACES..AND ALSO DATES..which makes me a bad driver (i'm not even one actually, though i have a license) and i can also easily be lost in time and space..don't believe it?try me...

-good or bad, i thank Allah for my curiosity and the ability to observe and hope to use 'em the right ways..