Memories

Lately, many childhood memories started to surface in my thoughts. They remind me of how fortunate I am, that I have lived a truly blessed life thus far. Very well to do in my opinion, not financially, just overally (overall-ly, get it? :P).

When I was young, both my parents worked (even till now), so you could say my childhood was spent alone until my brother came to town for his Primary 1 (he was at hometown earlier). I remember those days how I'd wait for my parents at the balcony, they'll bring back supper or just some random snacks. On those days I was lazy, I'd wait for the sound of gates opening then rushed down to greet them. When my brother came along, we would do this waiting and rushing down the stairs together. Oh, memories. Of course there were many days we fought viciously, usually ended up with him crying XD sorry about that lil' bro, guess that molded you into a tough and independent person now, fighting was fun right? Hehe.

I also remember the younger days when our entire family of four lived in one single room, come to think of it, life was like that until about 5~6 years back when I moved out for my tertiary studies and them moving to the outskirts due to work, pity lil' bro had to be transferred there for secondary schooling.

Back to the younger days when lil' bro wasn't in the picture yet, I remember how we couldn't really afford many things, but my parents still tried to give me the best, maybe that's why how I never felt that I was deprived of anything. Given how both my parents worked in supermarket, my playground after school time those days would by default, be the supermarket (Fajar to be precise, they closed down some years back). I had plenty of things to play with, whether was the fresh goods department with fruit and all those, or the toys and stationary items departments with all sorts of things a kid would ever imagined.

You know how kids these days would be deprived of snacks or fizzy drinks, my bro and I didn't have that restriction, perhaps that explains why we are so not rebellious now. Cause we were simply not deprived of all these, a lot of freedom was given to us.

Our favorite toy back then (before computer became a household necessity lol) was Lego. To buy it is very expensive, Lego's not exactly affordable, so we stole it; we actually got them free, either from the old displayed pieces or faulty boxes. Faulty in the sense that some Lego boxes became incomplete when some pieces were stolen or just random loose pieces. That's how we ended with a box of random Lego pieces, those were fun :D It was until later only we can afford to splurge on toys, Lego boxes, Gundam models, Beast Wars figurines and Gameboy consoles; just to name a few prominent ones. Ooh yes, we used to waste money on Pokemon trading card game too; those were the days!

I believe that's it for now, a visit to memory lane :) If you've read through that chunk of texts, congratulations to you, you now know me a bit better (or at least I would want to think it that way). Here's your reward, my moment-song, named such cause it's one of the few songs I like at this moment: