Wednesday, September 07, 2005

I am quite fascinated with what I read about these on most of my frens' blogs, so I'm gonna write about them too. However, I know that I tend to write long-winded posts, so I'll break them up into digestable bits and post new ones day-by-day.

20 years ago, 1985

What exactly happened in 1985? How am I supposed to know! Then, I was just a tiny, chubby 4 year-old. I had vague recollections of my "before kindergarten" years. Among the experiences I remember was how I got lost while walking around in Pertama Complex with my parents - I cried and cried and cried and was grateful that a woman came to help me and delivered me to the Information Counter. I don't remember at all how she looked. I was grateful she found me and not some evil crook kidnapper!

And I also remember my first experience of having stitches on my body. And it wasn't just any simple part of my body. It was my eyebrow! I was skipping around the armrests of sofas in someone's living room, while 2 adults are playing chess on the table. It just so happened that I slipped and fell face first ON THE CHESS BOARD! I was soooooooooooooo very fortunate (Alhamdulillah) that the pointed end of one of the chess pieces (I dunno which one - I'm guessing the queen or bishop becoz they're the most pointed one) pierced only the skin and flesh at my eyebrow and not my EYE. Imagine if it were to hit my eye. I would be walking around with an eyepatch for the rest of my life!

Other events? Hmmm... not sure that I remember them vividly though. But when I think back to that year, I realised that I was, at that time, still a person very new to this world, still trying to learn the ropes, trying to familiarise myself with the world I'm born into. Those were my formative years...

Posted by Nikman Shah at 7:45 pm
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