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i remembered that during my high school days, my English was super bad and i meant it was really really really bad. i wrote triple 'really' so that you can imagine how awful and terrible it was.

there was once, during English examination, we were asked to write a narrative essay. we were given few boxes of simple cartoon pictures along with some short notes stated under each picture. it was a story about a thief who entered 'my' house during midnight.

i remembered how struggled i was to write even one paragraph. i had limited vocabulary and limited imagination. well, while writing about the second picture- the picture showed 'me' woke up at midnight to get rid of my thirst, i wrote it till suddenly i stopped. i stopped because i wanted to write that i took a bottle from the fridge but i forgot the word 'fridge/refrigerator'. 

i left it blanked and continued with the essay until i finished it. but still, there was a hole in my second paragraph for the word 'refrigerator'. i even wrote it in my language by using a pencil. 2 minutes before the time ended, i was still struggling forcing my brain searching and recalling for such word. 

it was a very last minute until a word (that i thought was a refrigerator word) pop out from my mind! and i quickly wrote it on the blank place i left before. so, i finished my essay successfully - was what i thought!

until the day we get back our paper after my teacher marked it, i remembered while she was calling my name, she looked at me and grinned. while walking towards her, i was like..what?what? and when the paper was exchanged between us, she said,whispering to me "messy, i never knew that you have to take a bottle of water from your volkswagen at midnight".

i was still confused at that time. i looked at my paper and there was a big circled on the word 'volkswagen'. i mumbled and asked my friend, what was wrong with that word. she laughed till her face turned red.  

she said, "messy, do you know what volkswagen is?" and i replied, confidently, "of course! it is a refrigerator!" (using my language).

arghhh..you know the rest right, readers? that was really embarrassing! i can't forget how red my face was for the whole day and my friends kept teasing me with that word, Volkswagen! (till today)

i wonder, how did that word came across my mind..ohhoo..