Childhood Memories by HARAS :DD (26)

I dare say that I have had the best childhood anyone could have. It was those growing years which I must say, have made me who I am today. I enjoyed every minute of it with my family members. There were always times where we would play and have fun. But what I feel was the best thing any child could have was the fact that we could all sit down and spend time with each other. I don’t think I would exchange my childhood with anyone else. :D

I have an elder brother, who studies in the same school as me. And he's of great encouragement and brother to me. We both used to make birthday cards for each other (okay wait, we still do) and in each card, we would write 'I thank God that I have the best sister/brother in the world!' And each time when I look through those cards, I would cry. Knowing full well what it means. There has always been love, and well, there will always be love in my family. And that includes my brother and me. It is that sort of sibling affection where we care about each other and talk about practically anything.

I have always loved how my parents met. And my brother and I would pester our mom to retell us the whole story. Starting from when they first met till we were born. They met during a Christian seminar and it was love at first sight. They started dating and went to their favourite haunts and reach home late at night and I guessed that continued till my dad popped the question. It was not long later I came to this world on 1st Sept 1992. I thought I was born in a university since I was born in was the National University Hospital until my mother explained to me; but frankly I'm not even sure of the name because I have long forgotten. LOL.

We used to go to the beach as a family and play with sandcastles and the water. And my father would bring my brother and me to ride in the Big Wheel Beach ‘Tractor’. The wheels were yellow and were very huge and I was even afraid of them.

My brother was my best buddy and play mate and we would spend lazy afternoons playing with each other and would laugh at weird kid jokes we came up with. We went to the same kindergarten, Apple Tree and one memorable thing there was the food they had on Fridays! They would have bread with mouth-watering butter and Milo for our breakfast. I can still remember how the bread tasted like and how I would make sure that not a single drop of Milo would be left after each meal. Kindergarten days for me were the best too. There were always interesting things to do everyday where we would draw, play and make new friends. The best part was that there was hardly any work to complete and even if there was any, I found it fun. My brother and I even set up our very own ‘Samuel and Sarah’s Symphony Restaurant’ and we played using plastic food and food items. We had our very own cash register and classical music! We would take turns to play the cashier and customer. Such activities that my brother and I had when we were little kiddos really made us close and comfortable with each other presence. I once wondered how it would feel if I didn’t have my brother for company.

I went for many overseas vacation trips with my family to places like the Philippines, Thailand, Shanghai but the one place I enjoyed the most was Hong Kong. That was the most memorable family vacation I have ever had during my childhood. I remember going to Madame Tussauds, a famous wax museum and we went around viewing all the wax figures which all looked amazing so real! Some of which were Shakespeare, President George W. Bush, MM Lee Kuan Yew, Arnold Schwarzenegger and even Yao Min! There was even a production studio where the famous people would have their height, body shape, face features, etc all measured out so that those wax experts could make the wax figures. I remembered I actually threw tantrums when the museum was closed on one of the nights when we planned to go for it and we had to change our plans for the rest of the night because i really wanted to go!

Yes, we know we not as tall as Yao Min. I felt so tall until the photographer decided to reveal the secret to our sudden increase of height ://

check this out, Arnold Schwarzenegger! it looks so real and wow, shiny!

We also went to Ocean Park, a marine-themed amusement park in Hong Kong Island. The park has its own cable car system which takes visitors around the park which was separated by hills. I remembered being in the cable car and was so afraid because it was shaking so much and I also was grabbing the camera and busy snapping pictures. It was so high up and down below there was a really dense forest and the cable car faced the South China sea so it was a super amazing thing for kiddos like me. The theme park even has the world's second longest outdoor escalator and my brother and I were running up and down just like any kid would, I suppose.

I’m not sure how many girls grew up liking to play with guy toys but I was always fascinated with toy guns, toy soldier figurines and basically those rough and rugged things any boy would go crazy over. Even my brother didn’t show all that much interest in such things compared to me so it has always made me puzzled, even till today. That leads to one interesting thing about me in my childhood was that I actually dreamt of being a construction worker when I grew up. (I know, I can hear those giggles). As I look back, I really wonder why in the world did I even think that doing heavy work along dusty highways would be fun. And it’s embarrassing for that matter. Well when you’re kid, practically anything is possible. Even wanting to be a construction worker !@#$%^&* hahah.

If someone were to ask me about my childhood, I think I would have said. 'It was one of the best times in my life and boy, I wish I could turn back time and do it all over again' :DDDD