Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Preserving My Childhood Memories
The recent "autograph bk" entry from Kenny Sia's blog prompted me to go on a frantic search for my autograph books. Autograph books were something of the past, particularly for our generation. I dont see my younger brother writing such thing but I guess the reason being is that he is introverted (and he still is.) and he only has eyes on online games. (Anything beside online games he would not have taken a fancy of. Hahaha!) I dont see my youngest sister writing such autograph book anymore but she writes letters to her friends in words which I can barely understand and she blogs too. (But she only blogs about her maple.)I managed to dig out mine which was "well-hidden" (uhhump..) inside my old cupboard. It's not the common cartoon one but a very obiang book that says "Travelling Alone" and a choo-choo train on the cover. Sounded damn sad eh? But I was glad that I wasnt "travelling alone" now. =)
I remembered that this book was given to me free and no way i could have bought this book since i was a poor kid then. Haha! If I have the money, I could have bought a nicer one with my favourite cartoons.
After PSLE, everyone was super free. We spend the remaining days playing games like UNO, chess and of cos, writing such autograph books for others got common too. Our favourite Poem that were duplicated in almost everyone's book was...
" Bird fly high, hard to catch. Friends like you, hard to forget" or the "Roses are red, Violets are blue.."
Haha! This is in additional to many many silly things that we wrote. Best friends, Good friends, Bestest friend, Enemies, favourite food, drinks, colours, actress (everyone likes that usual few.. Zoe Tay/Fann Wong/Ann Kok Etc.) and actors (Chew Chor Meng "Ah Bee" etc).. many many favourites.
Hmmm.. this writing autograph book did not end even until secondary 1. Saw some of the posts written by some of my secondary school friends...and 1 eventually ended up on my blacklist (The one who rolled her eyes at me in SC). There's also one written by a p5,p6 friend (HQ) who also currently a coursemate in my Uni. Wonder how much things have changed. Used to be quite close to her until her attitude kinda pissed me off... hehe!
It was the last (most recent) entry that touched me the most and this deserves a worthy mention. An entry "re-written" by a close friend of 16 years. She kept my autograph book for a good 2 years before returning my book to me. Haha! It was the longest entry in my autograph book.. bringing back fond memories from our kindergarden years all the way to JC. She even enclosed a photo of her acting as a fox during the kindergarden skit! hehe! Re-reading it again makes me feel that I am blessed to have such a friend. Come to think of it, how many friendships in your lifetime that can last that long? IF she's reading my blog from Norway, just want to tell her that she will always be my bestest pal and totally appreciate her all these years. Sorry that I have been neglecting you. =( *Wave wave*
I always laugh at my sister who writes stupid nonsensical letter to her friends. Now looking at those nonsensical stuffs I wrote in the autograph when I was at her age 9 years ago, I shant laugh at her anymore. Haha!
Labels: Friends, Reflections
by ^momo^ at 12:33 AM |
1 Comments:
whoa! you have a 16 year long valuable friendship!! how hard is that to get? must really treasure your darling friend sia~ and also must treasure people like me!!! >.<
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