Word: fathom
Let me relate this incident which taught me how to do the New Age ideas of "putting self in other people's shoes" and "viewing a matter from another angle/perspective":
I burst out of my parents' room after admiring my little brother's new book - a thick tome with BrainQuest stamped on the front and lots of colorful pictures - and automatically exclaimed at Mum, "Eh lawa buku si Wafiq ah!"
She had this blase so-what? expression on her face while she replied, "Apa lawanya?"
And I fidgeted, thinking, "How do I go about explaining a bookworm's fetish to a non-bookworm?"
"Lawa lahh. Banyak colors ah." Totally the lamest excuse I've ever concocted in my whole lifetime.
---- No reply. Sigh.
But thinking back, I realized it could have been a perfect rendition of a reverse situation.
Like how when Mum croons over a seemingly 3B (bland, banal, boring - and YES! credits to Amy Sutton from Sweet Valley, ha-ha) kain or an obviously fugly one, and I'd be going all "Ohhh what the heck is she ON about?"
On another note altogether, I hate AS Level. Leaves me completely exhausted at the end, makes me feel so anti-social 'cause am too tired to pick self up from bed to go out and partayy.
