A few nights ago I was talking to my mom about how giving birth to me was like. Apart from the painful parts of her story, the rest was kind of funny.
Okay then you know how every time you talk about your childhood you somehow start to wonder how you grew to become so big and bulky and annoying? Thereafter you would mentally run through every year that you've lived in your head. For me I can't keep it up there, so I've to put it down here.
So I present, the best of my fifteen years.
When I came out of mom I was the one of those rare babies that didn't cry. How many can say that they're like that huh? Hee hee. One more thing, my eyes were open, huge and staring at mom. Don't know staring at what la. I must have been a breeze to give birth to, being so dead and silent.
A large time of my childhood was spent at my Ah Gong and Ah Ma's house in Bukit Batok, no longer existent because of upgrading works, sadly. That was the place I ate at, slept at and pooped at. That's all you ever do as a kid anyway.
I've always loved bathing, I don't know why. So when my Ah Ma placed me into the red plastic tub I would get damn excited. Then after my bath I would run out with my towel barely even covering me, screaming "I'M CLEAN!" to my Ah Gong. Then my Ah Ma would scold me for wetting the floor. :(
Then my Ah Gong would take out the Lego and I will build houses.
Then when I was too alive to sleep I would jump onto my Ah Gong's bed when he was about to sleep and dream of trampolines. He used to sing chucka-chucka-choo-choo with me while staring at the ceiling. And then one day would pass.
Then when I was feeling bored I'll wear my Ah Ma's over sized wooden clogs and hide in between the laundry out at the balcony. Ah, good times.
When I went to Kindergarten it must have been like a theme park for kids. Hee hee. I remember there was delivery from some mystery man one day and I stole the cardboard box together with my friends, drew a lousy air-con and window on the inside of the box and locked ourselves in there.
When I started Primary one in MGS my first achievement was winning a packet of cheese balls from my form teacher for killing the stupid lizard in the cupboard with the broom. And I don't know why I'm so scared of lizards now. Ah and last time red bowl noodles only cost 60 cents. And the bookshop sold country erasers I always bought and played with. And the scented highlighters that smelled of grape, banana, apple, orange and lemon. My favourite was grape and I hated lemon. And then came water babies. And then came blu-tack lamian- okay my paragraph is too full.
Then when I started Sec one I cut my hair which made me look like a weirdo. (A neat weirdo.) Actually I cut it when I was in Primary five. Macs at King Albert Park was an alien place to me until I went in and screwed up my order. Embarrassing memories are the ones you keep.
And then when I turned fifteen.............................................................................................................
Fast forward.
And then today I'm wearing heels to work and getting blisters. Smart girl. When you grow older do you become more stupid? I wonder.
Okay then you know how every time you talk about your childhood you somehow start to wonder how you grew to become so big and bulky and annoying? Thereafter you would mentally run through every year that you've lived in your head. For me I can't keep it up there, so I've to put it down here.
So I present, the best of my fifteen years.
When I came out of mom I was the one of those rare babies that didn't cry. How many can say that they're like that huh? Hee hee. One more thing, my eyes were open, huge and staring at mom. Don't know staring at what la. I must have been a breeze to give birth to, being so dead and silent.
A large time of my childhood was spent at my Ah Gong and Ah Ma's house in Bukit Batok, no longer existent because of upgrading works, sadly. That was the place I ate at, slept at and pooped at. That's all you ever do as a kid anyway.
I've always loved bathing, I don't know why. So when my Ah Ma placed me into the red plastic tub I would get damn excited. Then after my bath I would run out with my towel barely even covering me, screaming "I'M CLEAN!" to my Ah Gong. Then my Ah Ma would scold me for wetting the floor. :(
Then my Ah Gong would take out the Lego and I will build houses.
Then when I was too alive to sleep I would jump onto my Ah Gong's bed when he was about to sleep and dream of trampolines. He used to sing chucka-chucka-choo-choo with me while staring at the ceiling. And then one day would pass.
Then when I was feeling bored I'll wear my Ah Ma's over sized wooden clogs and hide in between the laundry out at the balcony. Ah, good times.
When I went to Kindergarten it must have been like a theme park for kids. Hee hee. I remember there was delivery from some mystery man one day and I stole the cardboard box together with my friends, drew a lousy air-con and window on the inside of the box and locked ourselves in there.
When I started Primary one in MGS my first achievement was winning a packet of cheese balls from my form teacher for killing the stupid lizard in the cupboard with the broom. And I don't know why I'm so scared of lizards now. Ah and last time red bowl noodles only cost 60 cents. And the bookshop sold country erasers I always bought and played with. And the scented highlighters that smelled of grape, banana, apple, orange and lemon. My favourite was grape and I hated lemon. And then came water babies. And then came blu-tack lamian- okay my paragraph is too full.
Then when I started Sec one I cut my hair which made me look like a weirdo. (A neat weirdo.) Actually I cut it when I was in Primary five. Macs at King Albert Park was an alien place to me until I went in and screwed up my order. Embarrassing memories are the ones you keep.
And then when I turned fifteen.............................................................................................................
Fast forward.
And then today I'm wearing heels to work and getting blisters. Smart girl. When you grow older do you become more stupid? I wonder.
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