Childhood memories

Childhood comes once in a lifetime but the memories stays forever.

-Daniel Lee (7th November 2008)

Woke up this morning and was recalling with The Housemate our childhood experiences. It's always good to reminisce and see how wonderful God has been to us.

-Mum had to always carry my bag for me and walk with me all the way to my class when i was in Standard 1 and i think she had to do it till Standard 3. I remember when i was in Standard 1, mum had to always be at the classroom door or at least the canteen to pick me up. If she wasn't there, i would go throw a tantrum and cry like really really bad. There was once i went berserk and my classmates had to go call her to come personally to pick me up from the classroom. Haha. She told me later how embarassed she was.

-One of the days in primary school i would never forget was when mum came to pick me up from school and she said that her colleague who went to UK for holidays got me what i wanted. My first ever official Man Utd jersey with my first official Man Utd football magazine. I was grinning from ear to ear. That really cheered me up. She didn't know that just before she came, i had a bad encounter with some bullies. All the fear went away went i heard what she said :)

-Another day i would never forget was when i came to school one day and my friends came and told me, 'wei jin, u passed PTS (some exam which if u passed, you could skip std 4)'. how i only wished i could be scoring those kind of results now. But yea, the thing about it that really made me remember it was that the discipline teacher then, Puan Lee said that those who cleared that exam had to donate RM1,000 to the school PIBG. I was like..aiyo..how laaaaa??????

-Ah Ma used to make really good milos and butter toast with sugars. man..i miss her.

-i remember wanting to buy adidas predator football boots so that i could look like David Beckham. I even bought brylcream to centre part my hair. 

-I looked forward to Daddy's return from overseas coz he would get me all these transformers and also Tamiya cars with spare parts. i feel so bad now for not keeping them properly.

-I remember sitting down with Dad in the old house cutting up bamboo trees and making model planes with them. We used rubber bands to hold them together. I also remember playing football once with Dad. He's always very busy with work but that one day when he played with me, i will never forget.

-I remember being forced to eat these really yucky vit c chewable tablets and i would always hide it under my tongue and would then later spit it out into the toilet bowl and flush it away. Not to mention hiding the cane so that our parents couldn't find it.

-I remember telling mum one afternoon that Sherny and me would go mop the kitchen for her. (she trained us to mop floor by going down on all fours and using clothes to wipe the floor) Sherny and i used all the distilled water that we collected to mop the floor and we ended up flooding the kitchen and playing with water in the kitchen. Needless to say, we got our fair share of spankings.

-Not to forget the times when i fell asleep on my workbooks which we would buy from the Formula workshop or Leong agency and salivate all over them...i never finished them. haha

-and not to forget too, the countless fights i had with Sherny and Lyn. We were champion wrestlers then.

What are yours?

i look back and i thank God that He has blessed us so much. I look back and also realize all the energy and effort put in raising 3 children. We only hope that all the sacrifices were worth it. And that when mum, papa, ahma and mama, ahkong and all the aunties and uncles (biological and not biological) look at us, they would be proud.