monday
18th january 2021
1:02 am

i feel like this book was going down a road a little too serious for my liking even though it is supposed to be something lighthearted i can just look back to in a few years and have a hearty laugh about xD plus, it is hard being deadly grave all the time, and i feel like at the point i'm in, it just doesn't do to always be raving on about life lessons and the like, when i could let go and drink life in as it is?

so here we are with two hilariously embarrassing zoom fails yours truly has personally undergone xD zoom was completely alien to all of us before covid and while some of us adjusted to it pretty well, some clumsy others like me just ended up being the reason of hilarity.

the first incident happened around a month into universities being closed. i had an evening class which coincided with the time for asr prayer, and we had presentations that day so i gave mine and muted my mic, making sure i had in fact muted it.

some guy was giving his presentation and i got bored listening so i decided to pray before the time ran out. i muted the mic, set my phone aside and began praying. after i'm done, my mum comes into the room and i begin talking to her about something really loudly. five minutes pass and i notice there's no noise coming from the class. thinking my phone must've died, i go check just as my teacher goes 'aisha, please mute your mic'.

i'm telling you, I DIED. MY SOUL LEFT MY BODY. THE GROUND SLIPPED FROM BENEATH MY FEET.

the embarrassment, omg. i still have not been able to live it down. i was rambling to my mum about mcdonald's and my entire class of 45 students heard it.

however, instead of skipping that class like a normal person would, i still showed up and participated in class more than anyone. maybe to cover up my own shame or maybe to prove to everyone else i'm least bothered about what happened? i guess we'll never know.

the second incident took place not less than five days ago. i am not an early bird and that day, my entire class realized it. the class was an 11 am one and i, having slept quite late after fajr, wasn't able to keep my eyes open for the duration of the class so i joined it, muted myself, and then went back to sleep with my phone right beside me.

however.

however.

little did i know.

my mic wasn't muted at all.

and my entire class could hear me 'breathing'.

please someone kill me already?

please also note that three guys texted me to mute my mic. one of them even called me, goes like 'please mute your mic'. i was sleeping so i woke up to his call and i tell you, i died twice when i saw my mic was unmuted. most embarrassing moment of my life.

i bet it's some really good comedy material in groups or gatherings for the rest of them 😭😭😭 i still think about it and cringe to myself. we've online classes atm but when i go back to real-time classes in university, how will i eve face them all? 😭

the most important lesson i've learnt here is that embarrassing things do happen, and they happen to everyone. maybe theirs wasn't as public as mine. but at the end of the day, no one will remember what happened. they'll laugh, have some fun and then move on with their lives because they're not the ones who lived through it. and truthfully so, they don't care as much as we do.

and maybe in a few years, i'll look back and be like 'at least i'm human :")'

since it is most probable that universities are opening soon, i might not have the time to write these entries any longer. i'm thinking of writing down just a couple more entries so the count goes up to 24 before i mark this book as complete. i do have lots to write about so hopefully i'll be able to complete this in february, in shaa Allah <3