Life's long adventure
Born 24th Feb 1985, I was the fattest baby in town. So fat, you’d think I stole someone else’s baby pics and called them my own.
I was the best baby in town. I would play quietly by myself and fall asleep. Mah jong chips were enough to keep me entertained.
It was 4 that I attended kindy and hated it. All I wanted to do was stay at home and play with my Lego. What I can remember is I jus received a cool Lego Technics set for my birthday and was playing with it the next morning and refused to get ready for kindy. My maid threatened me by saying if I do not get ready, she would throw it away. And I said “go ahead.” And she did. And I cried so bad.
But all that changed when I was 6. I met a girl on the bus to and from school. Her name, Sandra. She was a blonde (not a ‘blonde’ blonde) and I can dare say, she was my first crush. Since then, I loved going to kindy. Ooh we were also in the same class. Now this is where you’re gonna laugh your head off. It was this year that I watched ‘My Girl’. And in it, Thomas asks Vada to close her eyes and count to three and at three, he gives her a kiss. So there it was on the bus, after watching that movie, I decided to try it out. “Close ur eyes and count to three.” And it was at three that my best friend yelled out “HE’S GOING TO KISS YOU!!!” I thought she was going to freak out. Well, my best friend did. He was ‘EWW’ing the rest of the trip to school. But all she did was blush and smiled.
This was the time that I was actually cute (unlike now: plain hideous). We were taking our kindy ‘graduation’ pics with full on robes and scrolls. And the photographers liked my smile and actually recommended me to an advertising agency for commercials. Alas, things didn work out. If not, I’d be a child celeb. What happened was, I was an extremely shy kid (very hard to believe). During auditions, they asked me to pretend drinking milk from an empty glass. And my brother laughing behind thinking it was a dumb idea did not help. I was shy and I did my ‘shy’ thing. When shy, I used to bite my sleeves. They said come back in a year or two. But that was when I had the biggest buck teeth ever.
In year 1, I was really eager to go to school. I think it was the new uniforms. I woke up and put them on and waited eagerly for the bus to come. Rumour has it… that I got ready so early and waited so long for the bus that I got frustrated and changed out of my uniform and refused to go to school. When I finally did go to school, I got pushed into a puddle of mud and was covered from head to toe. (I was stick thin then and no longer the fat baby) And mum had to come to school with a new change of clothes for me.
Back to the Sandra episode. I did see her in Year 1. We were in different classes. Once as I was getting off the bus, walking to class, I saw her and she was walking in my direction. When she saw me, she grabbed my hand and pulled me aside. My brother who was in Yr 5, walking right behind, began to tease me with the rest of his friends. And it was then I was so embarrassed that I jus ran as fast as I could. Have not seen her since and have wondered how is she and how does she look like now and what is she doing??
To be continued...
