ESYZ. #20.

Reminiscing The Past..

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October 27th 1992 may seem to be an ordinary date for anyone but it is indeed a very special one for me. It was the day I was brought into this world of love, joy and laughter by my parents at Thomson Medical Centre. I was named Elaine Soo at birth. The only child then.

However, I could only recall happening after the age of five. During weekdays, I stayed with my grandparents at Tampines. Life there was fun and enjoyable. I could still recall that I would go down to the playground practically every evening to have a game of 'catching', 'three blind mice', hide-and-seek', and those usual childhood games.

And during the weekends, I would return to my home in Yishun to live with my parents and my grandma. Till date, I still miss the memories I had in Yishun. I stayed on the sixth floor and apparently my extended family members occupied that entire floor. To the right, it was a family of four then, two children by the name of Wenjun and Xinyi. They were my main company when I was back at home. On Saturday mornings when the weather was clear and bright, my father would bring the three of us down to the nearby field whereby we would run around and play. Sometimes, my father would permit us to bring along a soccer ball or so. I guess we were able to click that well with one another because of our age. Wenjun is a year older than me and Xinyi is a year younger.

And as for the rest, I'll explain some other time.

It was not until 1997 that I had a younger brother, Kelvin well, he is a noisy child. I could still remember how excited I was when I heard that I was going to have a brother. Someone who would play with me when I’m bored and talk to when I do have problems. However, as time went by, I was proven wrong. I started disliking my brother, thinking that my parents always gave attention to him but not me. And that, he always gets his way no matter whether or not it was me who was right. I really could not stand his presence. During visitings, my relatives started comparing the both of us – as to who is more naughty, who looked better when was younger, etc. however, I do have a different perspective now though my brother is still as attention seeking, obstinate, and unreasonable. I no longer felt jealous what so ever. This is because; I could understand him better now. And knowing, that he is five years younger than me I could not really expect much from him and after all h is still my brother.

Back to when I was in kindergarten. I knew these two friends, Jeanette and Nikki. Both their sisters were good friends. However, I was not really close to Nikki until around primary three. Jeanette and I would play at the playground almost every day after our kindergarten lessons are over. At that period of time Teletubies were I huge craze and we were into it. She owns a ‘Lala’ and me, a ‘Po’ so we would bring them down to play. However, thinking about Teletubies now would send shivers running down my spine, due to the various rumours and stories about them. Together, we went into the same primary school, which is Griffiths Primary. The sad thing was at the end of primary two we moved to Sembawang and was transferred to Admiralty Primary. Despite this, we were still very close. I wrote letters to each other almost twice every week and chat on the phone for hours. All these stop when both of us had hand phones and see no pint in continuing. In addition, we were too busy with our daily lives (maybe this was just an excuse.)

In primary three after Jeanette left, Nikki and I became very close and up to date, we still are. We would have lunch and all those together. I could still recall a stupid incident whereby when I was being punished by my teacher to stand outside the class for not bringing my book, she accompanied saying that she had not brought hers as well. At the year of 2003 I was transferred to Rivervale Primary. We did talk online and I would return during occasions like New Year’s celebration, Teacher’s day celebration, etc.

Now, she is currently studying at Hougang Secondary and me in Xinmin secondary. Well, I guess it is kind of a coincidence that our schools are so nearby. We still do meet frequently now and then and catch up on each other’s on goings in life. I am pretty sure that no matter what we would still be there for each other since we have gone through so much together.

Well, my childhood had definitely left quite an impact in my life and there are memories that I would never forget.