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A little fading memory -- When I was 4 years old, I still remember my second aunt asked me, "Next year you are going kindergarten year one already, how do you feel?" Hmm... At that time I was not so interested in schools. Sounds lame. Err... Actually now I also feel so. I was staying in Taman Sri Bahagia, Tampoi at that time. Miss that home. Although our house was shabby, it was filled with love and precious memories. Every day there will be a van which sells breads, biscuits, junk food and sweets passed by our home. Our house was located near the bank, grocery shop, pasar malam and clinic too! Those places can be reached by walking a few minutes only, how nice~ Grandma and second aunt often came here and stay for a few days with us. When I was small, I was so filial and would accompany grandma wherever she went, gave her a massage, poured drinks for her and greeted her with a cheerful look. Lol it was exactly like what the Moral textbook has taught us to do. I also often chatted with her using Teochew and I bet my Teochew last time was far more better than now because I seldom speak now and I learned things very fast at time time, now long forgotten already... Sad... =(

As for education when I was small, I'm not really sure when mum bought a full set of Peter and Jane Book for us to read. She always forced us to read especially my brother who always refused to read anything. Yea, we were not bookworms. However, I enjoyed reading it with the pictures along. While reading and looking at the pictures, me and my brother always imagined things and created stories. Those were Children Talk. Love it~ I also remember that we had a collection of books of teddy bear. From A Book of One till A Book of Twelve(Inside the book everything has a number of things according to the title of the book and I was so calculative and counted every single things to make sure the numbers are correct at that time><). Those books were for Vivian. Besides, we also had many other books, eg: The Greedy Monkey(It's about a monkey who ate many rambutans and bananas till its stomach was bloated), A Book Of Dinosaur(Curious about dinosaur at that time, learned many types of dinosaur, but now I don't remember their names already) and many other collection of storybooks, some were bought and some were given by others. Our wall was filled with posters too. Hmm... Remember got one was animals poster, one was Good Habit poster and another one was timetable... == I think I began to memorize the timetable when I was six because I felt that it was lame too... == Oh no! I seemed reluctant to learn proper things! Or perhaps I just didn't like to do what I was instructed to do. Rebellious? Yea, the more you want me to do, the more I don't want to do. Yes I hate obeying others. Don't tell me what to do! Like I said, things are not getting fun when you are forced to do so. Speaking of wall just now, I remember I tore calenders and drew many things(but I can only remember one of the things I drew was fire and woods) and pasted it on the wall using cellophane tape! I pretended my home as a Gallery of Art. But not for long, mum asked me to remove those things as our house was rented and mum scared that the house owner will be unhappy. So, I sadly removed those drawings which were intentionally meant for pasting on the wall. ><

Yes I like to draw since I was small. I will imitate any drawings that I came across. Hmm... Imitator? Indeed, not only drawings, I imitated voices too! Ultraman, X-men, Batman, Spiderman, Power Rangers, Power Puff Girls, Pokemon, Teletubbies, Digimon and too many things I have drawn before! Enjoyed drawing things with my brother too. We played while drawing. We created our own characters and drew and used various cartoon voice to make them speak and we drew whatever actions we mentioned. A continuous drawing using many pieces of papers until our story ended. We liked to create stories at that time. Even when we were eating apple, we made the apple talk until we finished eating. Lol and I remember mum was annoyed and warned us not to play a fool when eating apples. She said, "If you make the apple talk, one day it will really talk by itself!" It was meant to scare us. But we didn't heed it and I continued doing so as I was actually hoping the apple to talk by itself! How naive! Yes but logically I didn't think so but I just can't help myself from living in my own wonderland! I don't know what I was thinking but sometimes I would just stood anywhere and started to imagine things.

Another fun activity that me, Desmond and Vivian had made together was food creation! I'm not sure how old I was at that time, about 7 years old I think... We made fruit-jelly by cutting apples and pears and mixed them with lots of jellies! At that time I remember giving the adults to eat but they refused. == Only mum ate if I'm not mistaken. Emm... But I remember it tasted good.

Another fragment of memories about my home! This is the negative part. I remember my house has many disgusting creatures! Centipedes, Caterpillars, Garbage worms, Slugs, Snails, Millipedes, Fruit Bats(Never seen them but every morning will see their faeces outside our home!) and many strange creatures!

We started to play Library since we were very small too. Since we had many storybooks, we played this among ourselves and our plushies too. I like to play as the Librarian. I liked to sign on the card whenever our plushies borrowed and returned the books. (~.~)

Feel lazy to continue on already... This post is a bit disorder too. Wait till I have the time and mood to write or edit my post. Well, I do reread and edit my posts when I am free. My purpose of blogging was to carve some memories here so that when I read back I can recall those precious memories I had. =)