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viernes, febrero 04, 2005

[ 787. Cold ]

Went down to the shops to purchase two bottles of green tea to entertain my mahjong friends with later. When i was walking back, the cold wind just blew. A casual thought came across my mind. The night seems to get colder, and the days hotter. Chinese New Year doesn't seems so festive these couple of years. Still remembered when i was young, around these days we'll see a lot of cny related tv programmes around. Perhaps you say i watch less tv now. Last time cny decorations were hung up everywhere: be it on the doors, in schools, or even among some estates. But you just don't see them so much nowadays. Didn't even hit me that chingay was around the corner. Well, could the overwhelming world events clouded us from being simple, to remember how to celebrate festivities and to be happy? Perhaps. The older we go, the easier we lose the simple joy that we used to have as children. A simple balloon can light up a child's day, but of little significance to us nowadays. It's just like how fascinating the world used to be, but now everything seems so mundane, so boring.

Remembered that as a child, i used to hate walking to the coffee shop because it seems so far. Granny's place in ang mo kio seemed so far from bishan, that once i get there i'd never fail to stay for the night. Uncle would always bring me to the temple downtown where he'll pray while i gallivant in the library, elated with this giant literary playground. Uncle would borrow a book or two for me, before we headed back to ang mo kio. Whenever we walked pass the arcade, remembered how uncle would hand me ten bucks for me to delight myself in those games. In retrospect, ten bucks really was a lot ten years back, nonetheless he never failed to give me without an expectation of anything in return.

Talking about giving. There was also this instance that granny once took me to bugis to buy some stuff. Remembered how we walked pass a macdonald's, and i asked if i could buy nuggets. She had to dig into her wallet to bring out a two dollar note, and a couple of coins so that i could have my nuggets. I remembered offering her one, and she looked at me, smiled and gently refused. And there i was, happily eating away. I also remembered those days when she brought me down to the bank of china along singapore river, i'd ask her if we could take a ride on the bumboat. She inquired, and discovered that it was expensive and thus we didn't take the ride. As a child i sulked, but she'd always bring me to the riverside hawker centre to eat tao suan, and that will just let me forget about the bumboat ride that i missed out on.

It's great to be simple at times...

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