Childhood memories by Malcolm(33)

I was born right smack in the middle of the year of 1992, June 15 in Gleneagles Hospital. I am the second and last child in my family, as well as the second grandchild of my grandparents in terms of Chinese and the fourth or fifth grandchild in terms of age. I have one elder brother and two parents. Our family is just like any other normal family, nothing special happening and nothing supernatural happening. As for my name, I do not have a single idea how it came about. There exists a show called "Malcolm in the Middle" and that could be why I was named that, I was born right smack in the middle of the year.

I lived in three different homes up to the current point of my life. The one which left the most impact on me was my paternal grandparents' home. As my family was very big, there would be a lot of people crowding around the dinner table together to have dinner together. Although there wasn't much space for each and everyone, It was a very nice feeling as there was the warmth and comfort of kinship. The other two are my old home at Tampines and the current one which is at Hougang. I lived in Tampines for around one quarter of my life but I can't really remember much about it. I could only remember that my brother and me would run down frequently to the convenient store and buy those ice sticks. However, we would always get "caught" back by our maid who would complain to our mother which would scold us a lot. We of course didn't mind and just did that every time.

I was a very negative kid. However, my perception of life changed as I grew up due to some unforeseen circumstances. I became more and more positive as time passed by as I realized being negative doesn't help much in solving problems and stuff. My favourite food back then was crab. Any kind of crab, any flavour, any style. I loved the "crabby" smell emitted by their hard shell. I also liked to eat mooncakes when I was young but that changed as I grew up. Somehow hating it more and more for some reason.

Well, that's about my life. So if it bored you, then it's because nothing special happened or I was too lazy to type it here.