Memories & Combined Cravings

June Bkk Trip - Birthday Celebration

June 25, 2013

I was finally able to celebrate my birthday back home with my family and friends.

More importantly I was able to celebrate with my cousin Cat who has the same birthday as I do!  I've never been so happy.  And on my mind was I'm going to have a baby!

Ben's son Meod made this for me for my birthday.  He used the play dough that Bayu and I gave him.

My dearest cousin.  Didn't celebrate with her in so many years!

June Bkk Trip - Visits

This is the jungle gym I played on even before I went to school.  Because I lived in this compound since I was born.   And it's still here until now.  

Lots of memories!

I just love street food and fruits!!

I went to visit my cousin's business which is a car wash.  We washed our car and had a drink in the care while waiting for it to be done.  

Oh How True!

Something I found on Facebook:

For all those born in 70's & 80's!

We are the last generation that learnt to play in the street, we are the first who've played video games, see cartoons in color and went to amusement parks.  We were the last to record songs of the radio on cassettes and we are the pioneers of walkmans and chatrooms... We learned how to program the VCR before anyone else, play with the Atari, Super......Nintendo and believed that the Internet would be a free world all on a 56kbit modem. Traveled in cars without seat belts or air-bags & lived without cellphones. Rode our bicycles down the road without brakes.  We never had phones but still kept in touch.  We did not have Play stations, 99 television stations, flat screens, surround sound, mp3s, iPods, computers and broadband...

but nevertheless we had a GREAT time.

Blizzard!

I havnt eaten ice cream from Dairy Queen in a long time. At te airport I got Oreo blizzard which is what I always order although kit Kat and m and ms are also yummy.

You can turn it upside down and it doesn't fall out. :)

Old School!

One of my students brought this old school game to class and it brought back so much memories!

Back in the days without all the technological gadgets.

Precious Blankie

I had a strawberry Shortcake Blanket since I was 4. I had it with me the whole time in college where I had to rescue it from bullies who tried to hide it from me. (ahem!) I brought it with me to Singapore after getting married and well I lost it. As you might have read in previous blogs we dry clothes at the side of building just sticking bamboo stick in holes outside your window. I cried on the phone to my family and they just laughed at me. haha. Bayu was sweet enough to go searching for it that night and the next morning and help me put up posters as if I had lost a dog or something.

Well, I moved on...until I remembered that the same time I got the strawberry shortcake blanket there was another blanket too. I remember it because it had pictures that I was so fascinated with when I was little. I asked my mom to pass it to someone who was coming and she did. And now I have a blankie again. =D I'm never hanging it outside that's for sure!

I'm not crazy...

Ok...maybe I am

My Favorite Poem

This is a poem I had to memorize as an assignment in Grade 8. I have never forgotten this poem until this very day. It is one of my favorite poems. I don't know why. Perhaps because I always wondered if I ever would take the road less taken.

The Road NotTaken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

and sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveller, long I stood

and looked down one as far as I could

to where it bent in the undergrowth;



Then took the other, as just as fair,

and having perhaps the better claim

because it was grassy and wanted wear;

though as for that, the passing there

had worn them really about the same,



And both that morning equally lay

in leaves no feet had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.



I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --

I took the one less travelled by,

and that has made all the difference

Sunscreen

The song playing now is one I heard years and years ago.

Baz Luhrmann
Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen)

I loved that song back then and when it wasn't popular anymore I never heard it again and never thought I would - until now. Thanks to the wonders of the internet!

There's a link below the mp3 player you can click on and read the lyrics if you have no time to listen to the whole song.

Rewind

If I could rewind my life video to a certain point in my life, it would be when I was around 5-7 years old. Well...basically just my childhood time the time where I hate taking naps and love sneaking out of the house to play with my friends or to teach myself how to ride a two-wheel bike.
Remember those time? House-house, boys catch girls, club members, climbing trees walking bare-foot around campus...

The other day I was on my way back home when I saw a group of kids. They were standing in a circle and "talking". Their conversation went something like this: "My mom said"..."Yeah, my mom said..." And well basically it was really "kiddish talk"...Now that's the reason why I wanna rewind my life to see how my friends and I used to talk as little kids. I always thought we talked that same through out life...but of course it doesn't make send if I talked as mature as I do today...Haha...that's why I would love to see how I sounded.

During that time I never got bored! I guess as kids we always find good ways to entertain ourselves. I remember how I used to love closing my eyes while walking. Of course this would be done when I was holding my mom's hand or dad's hand. My sister and I used to lead each other. one would be the blind one for a while and then we'd swap...Oh, OH! And I soooo wanted to be a bus conductor! Have you been on the buses here? you know how they have their "containers" where they put all the coins and then tear off the ticket? I used to dream of having one of those. I even wanted to be a cahsier lady...pressing the buttons and getting money out of the cashier...how fun it seemed!

When my sister was at school and I was at home (still too young to go to school) I would create my own imaginary friends and talk all day with myself and with my imaginary friends. I even had a scene where I hadn't met a friend in a long time and I went to hug her. Of course that frieind was just a post in my house.

What a flood of childhood days flashing through my mind! Just wanted to let some out.

Brick #2

Bringing Back The Childhood Memories

Flooded Thoughts

It rained really hard last night and at lunch time too.
This is the result of it all at home:

Before work.

After work.

In the canteen at lunch time. Notice the waterfall?

Anyways, walking the compound I lived in was pretty flooded. It reminded me so much of my childhood days. I used to LOVE it when it got flooded. I'd put on my boots..or not at all..and just run around in the muddy, dirty, worm/snake/frogs/fish- infested waters and have the time of my life.

But today just passing a puddle made me go "EEWWWWWW WORMS!!"
Puh! Grownups...just can't have fun huh? Where are those carefree , no fear days?

And talking about grownups...I also realized that sure payment comes with the job...but with salary comes bills too!! Ahhhhh....Oh well...still loving the life!...but not the worms.