Seeing how today is Children’s Day and that they’re going to declare an unofficial break from their preparations for exams and such, I thought I’d just take a sneak peek into some of the little things which didn’t seem to mean much in my childhood, but are like popcorn, hershey’s kisses and cotton candy compared to my sad existence rite now…

So here are the twenty things that popped into my mind…

1. claiming to go swimming with Gerald but sneaking off to hang out at the old Oriental/NTUC area at Hougang instead

2. sneaking off on detours with Veron and Liyan to the ‘mama’ shop on the way back (it’s the block 526 one at Ave 1/street 21) from school instead of heading home right away, yeah and i think i was about 9 years old…

3. getting to go off lessons up to 15min earlier with Mingda and Peiling (cos we were prefects, albeit abusing our privileges) and using those 15min of freedom from boring chinese lessons to play around

4. getting angbaos containing only 2bux

5. having WW hanging around me during recess, at my duty area, and doing comic antics to get my attention. (it used to irritate the hell out of me, but now that i think of it, it’s super funny)

6. sneaking to Yuying sec sch (next to Xinghua, my pri school) to buy their fries, hell, it wasn’t the fries that was nice, in fact it tasted like soggy cardboard, but we just loved the idea of being rebels… (Is Yuying still there?)

7. threatening to book the little hooligans in my class and level, i love to take out my little blue book and pace up and down the hall before assembly

8. taking out the stigma/style from all the little ixora flowers at my aunt’s place, squeezing those little oranges and claiming the worms came from Jiajin’s stomach to my relatives’ great disgust

9. building my smurf house (it has got poles and smurf pics) when the tent shrunk so it couldn’t fit my ‘house’ anymore, i used blankets and curtains, hung raffia pompoms on poles at the entrance and had a small fan that ran on solar power inside

10. hiding behind the curtains/under the bed/in the maid’s room/in the storeroom/in the drain outside the house/under the stairs whenever my dad came to take me home from my auntie’s place

11. being forced to learn how to cycle and swim… boy i was such a wimp!

12. seeing Junrong howl when we had our BCG jabs. Heh.

13. my bro scurrying around the house running errands for me. though now he’s unlikely to even budge an inch to get his own food

14. biting my cousins. :D perhaps that’s why i’ve got retribution in the form of malaligned teeth.

15. Yvonne declaring that she likes Chee Feng in front of Mr Lin Min and the whole class! *priceless*

16. Every single ensemble practice. Except for the time i got the drumstick thrown at me.

17. Going out for bubble tea/coffee bean with Liz, Sanz, Mich and Laurie almost every Saturday after our respective band, NCC and choir practices, and then Sanz always had to be the first to leave, cuz got -curfew- *haiz*

18. Band practice!

19. Having project after project in sec school, I remember juggling a ‘Horoscope’, a ‘cool house of the future’, a Fibonacci sequence, a lit presentation on symbolism in the ‘Joy Luck Club’ (help!) and making our own English oral exam pictures and paragraphs to test each other… all at around the same time. I love projects! *grinz*

20. my four years in secondary school

Btw, was discussing the typical facie of craniosynostosis with Suzy… and you know what, I think it looks like a Hershey’s kiss! At least the top part does, correct?