easy like sunday morning.



Its 8 am on a sunday morning and im already up. i havent been up at this hour on a sunday for so long now that i've forgotten how long the day can be if i get up early. Anyway, im waiting for a bookshelf to arrive.


All the shops downstairs are open and numerous people, mostly older folk, are having breakfast or their morning cuppa at the coffeeshops perhaps after their regular sunday morning taichi session with the other enthusiasts, or on their way to the wet market or coming back from it.


i live in a estate where the dominant age group is that of the senior citizen. so, like i jokingly tell people, i run into an old person every five metres i walk. i dont feel out of place in this area. but sometimes i do think about how it would feel to have more people my age around.


Sometimes i do run into my primary school classmates. Most of the kids in and around this area went to the neighbourhood primary school one neighbourhood away. It's now a convent primary school for girls.


i was in primary school through the ages 6 to 12. im 21 now. Its been almost ten years. But when i see my ex-classmates around, we still say hi and sometimes chat. My primary school crush lives in the next block from mine. I dont know if she's still there. As in, is she studying overseas now or if she's in NUS or NTU or...? i had a crush on her for about 5 years, which is pretty long for a young kid i should think. i bet she knew. Everyone in the class knew. But no one knew it was for so long. Its pretty insane when you think about it. A little kid pining away and being incredibly embarrassed and shy towards a girl, and at the same time being into the ghostbusters, star com, ducktales, smurfs and whatever cartoon they had on tv every weekday at 6.30pm and on sunday mornings like this one where they had disney club with mickey mouse and donald duck cartoons and talespin with baloo and his seaplane(remember that catchy theme song?). Cartoons on weekdays at 6.30pm were a ritual for almost all of us. Especially the boys i should think. No matter what cartoon, no matter how lame it was. We dug it all. Everyone rushed back from school if we were in the afternoon session to be in time for dinner in front of the tv at 6.30pm. I suddenly remember another rocking cartoon, He-man.


He-man. Blonde, muscular, and mighty He-man. Fighting a skeleton in a purple cloak, Skeletor.


Who needs 3D animated cartoons?









posted by 86 at 4:38 PM