Thursday, October 12, 2006
girl
i dug this out from my old blog...
Monday, October 10, 2005
i am the girl who never crawled but instead learned to first move around on her butt.
i am the girl who'd wake up every morning and cry when her mum was getting ready to go to work.
i am the girl whose parents forgot to enroll her in nursery school.
i am the girl who won the erasing contest with her paint palette eraser, not because she had the best eraser, but because she used the most force.
i am the girl who'd do her work first thing when she got back from kindergarten, but i am also the girl who later on played in her uniform until 10 at night before coming home to do her work.
i am the girl who carried her worksheets around in a tattered paper bag. and mysteriously lost the whole bag one day.
i am the girl who tore the corners of her sister's workbook because she wanted her mum's attention.
i am the girl who cried because she didnt know how to spell 'together'. and then learnt that it was spelt to-get-her.
i am the girl who tore up a play script because she didnt get to choose what play her group was going to put up.
i am the girl who lost a wallet every year, and tingxie books and shou ces about 5 times a year.
i am the girl who's pri4 chinese teacher thought she was not good enough for higher chinese, but later on got A1 for alevel chinese (im not sure if that means anything). but i am the girl who couldnt answer when this lady asked her in mandarin how much the fairy costume at disney store cost.
i am the girl who came back from recess every PE lesson with dented specs cos she sucked at basketball.
i am the girl who went to coffeebean almost everyday after school, and sat in the elevators up and down till she felt nauseous cos she was bored.
i am the girl who stood on the escalator and along the walkway to the taka toilets doing funny poses. in her SCGS uniform. *gasp*
i am the girl who collaborated with her friend to boil and decorate eggs, and placed them outside her classroom door, for easter.
i am the girl who carried a basket of muffins to school on valentines day.
i am the girl who skipped school to watch 'the divine secrets of the yaya sisterhood'.
i am the girl who eats all the biscuits in the house. and i am the girl whose family is reminded of her when they see the biscuits piling up.
i am the girl who sets high expectations for herself, who achieved them fairly easily in the past, but finds herself slipping further away from them now.
she jumped off the swing @ 10:19 PM
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i am the girl who loves travelling but is terrible at making travelling plans... that's how i found myself stuck in frankfurt overnight for 12hours with no warning in advance
i am the girl who has learnt to be vulnerable
i am the girl who used to complain about being fat, and now wonders what in the world she was thinking
i am the girl who can take three naps in a day and still have no problem sleeping at night
i am the girl who always leaves things to the last minute, stresses out over it, but never learns her lesson
i am the girl who stops to watch the leaves turn red in fall even though she is late for class
i am the girl who practised her scream before jumping out of a plane
i am the girl who lives life so far out to the edge that sometimes she falls off
who am i?
Labels: a-musing
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