Oh, how i just love my childhood days...so vivid in my mind!!! Reminiscing the past...i have so much that i wanna share...the best 6 years of my life (i am talking abt the age between 6 and 12 here)...
When i was 6 years old (i dont think i should go to the years before that for fear that my memory might fail me terribly...hahaha) my parents sent me to Yoke Meng Kindergarten, Rawang, Selangor...where my first official education began...can't say i remember much about the kids, the class or the surroundings except that there was this dashing looking boy (dear me, at 6 years old?)...hmm..what happened to the rest of my memory...??? hahaha...oh, but i do remember how my kindergarten teacher would look me up everytime she was in town...till i was in my early teens...
Then i was sent to Sekolah Rendah Jenis Kebangsaan (Inggeris) Rawang...quite a distant from my house (during those days lah...but my dad believed that we kids would benefit a lot by going to an 'english' school)...boy, do i love going to school those days...my mum said that even in sickness i still insisted upon going...frankly, i didn't want to miss a single day for fear that my friends might be having fun without my very presence....!!
My love for adventures prompted me to form a small 'all gals' group (and boy, how the boys envied us!! thats the whole point anyway... hahaha)...just like Enid Blyton's Secret Seven...i was hoping to solve mysteries and riddles (as if there was any!!!)...yup, a definite case of too much Enid Blyton's mystery books!!! Talk about my readings...i travelled through age by reading Beano/Dandy Comic books (hey, blame my mum for making me read them!!!... naaa...thanks Mum...thats where my passion for cartoons comes from...even now i still love them)...then books by Enid Blyton...then i started reading Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys....Agatha Christie....Sherlock Holmes (my all time favourite!!!)...that probably explained why i am all glued to AXN.....hey, i have not forgotten who Snow White, Rapunzel, Beauty and others are...oh, and
Pak Pandir, Lebai Malang, Nenek Kebayan.....
When not in school, i would spent time fishing and climbing trees...sorry guys, i mean i did grow up in a kampung where opportunities as such came aplenty...rambutan trees...rambai trees...jambu trees.... manggis trees...no, definitely not kelapa trees (its not ladylike lah..).... fishing near the river behind my house (trying hard not to fish floating 'poopsicles'... hehehe)...looking for spiders to put in matchboxes (all geared for spider fightings)....playing in the rain (i would sit in the little drain that surrounded my house...sort of building a little 'dam'...hmmm...a civil engineer in the making) and playing konda kondi, congkak using biji getah, making rifles out of branches with putik jambu as bullets..wow, that was so military of me!!!
My...i can go on and on about my childhood days....there were so many things to do!!! If given the chance to make a wish come true, i would probably ask to be 'teleported' back to my childhood days...with virtually nothing to worry (except for the usual problems of zits)...i know not everybody out there can relate to all this...but if you can, i think we should be thankful coz we have just experienced something out of this world...and we should really cherish these moments....
People do say that whichever part of life you remember most is the time you enjoy most...and i tend to agree...totally!!!!