Dancing bears
Painted wings
Things I almost remember
And a song someone sings
Once upon a December
Someone holds me safe and warm
Horses prance through a silver storm
Figures dancing gracefully
Across my memory
Far away, long ago
Glowing dim as an ember
Things my heart used to know
Once upon a December
Someone holds me safe and warm
Horses prance through a silver storm
Figures dancing gracefully
Across my memory
Far away, long ago
Glowing dim as an ember
Things my heart
Used to know
Things it yearns to remember
And a song
Someone sings
Once upon a December
i love the song once upon a december..it's so beautiful and graceful and gives me goosebumps when i listen to it...one of the best disney films i've ever seen, anastasia is.
haha yoda speech. maybe i'll name my daughter anastasia next time. it's such a beautiful name.
inspired by kb's childhood memories, i recalled some as well.
- i had a kindergarten teacher called 朱老师. i always thought it was pig lao shi. zhu1 u know? haha...i found out later it wasn't and i felt so proud that i know such a pro surname =P (yeah i know that's stupid). love her though. she's got curly wurly hair. ^^"
- she once told us that when we sing the national anthem, we should stand straight and sing with NO distraction at all. she gave an amusing example that i rmb to this day: "even when a mosquito flies by and tries to bite you, you don't move!" -imagines mozzie flying by with flag in background- (:
- used to take ballet as eca in kindergarten. fun running around flapping our hands pretending to be butterflies. i still have the ballet costume. uh huh. back then there were only two ppl in the class who could do splits. bernice and bernina. bernina was nicknamed banana, and she didn't like it. i pinched her once, she cried and the teacher scolded me, then i cried. from then on i realised the prowess of my pinching. heh just jk
anw bernice does splits in front, while bernina does splits horizontally. i couldn't do splits ):
- once, i wondered what i would wish for if i had three wishes. i wanted
1. to become the proest gymnast ever to live. then i can do all those pro stunts.
2. to become the proest pianist ever to live. then i will always ace my piano exams.
3. to become the proest in my academic studies ever to live. then i will always get 100 for my exams.
-then i had more than 3 wishes, so i made it 5. now i have five wishes. =P-
4. to become the proest ballet dancer ever to live. then i can do all the splits i want.
5. to become the proest ice-skater ever to live. then i can do such beautiful stuff on ice, and i will be able to get first in olympics, and get perfect 10 for ALL my competitions, not just olympics. i would be better than nadia comeneci ^^
wishful thinking.
- i always watched tv with my family, and everytime i see a kissing scene, i'll feel really embarrassed and i'll cover my eyes or look away and go eewwww. i was in p1? and i was always thinking, why isit my parents don't get embarrassed? why don't they cover my eyes and say not for children! they just look amused and continue watching with eyes glued to telly. i was totally pissed last time lahh. shouldn't they be CONCERNED about what their children are watching at such a YOUNG and IMPRESSIONABLE age?
of course now im fine with kissing scenes. after all im all used to it on movies and shows. haha...
- i really loved singing in kindergarten. i rmb all those songs i learnt and i really went and memorised every single one of them. even now, i still love singing, and music. ahh once upon a december is just proof of that...your heart full of music, voice soaring in melodious tunes...
seriously, singing is an ESSENTIAL skill they have to teach in kindergarten! teaches you how to pronounce chinese words, how they look like, teaches you new vocab. like i learnt "以免" in p1 from 茉莉花. P1 and i still rmb it today. i have nv written it wrong. ever. (and it's been more than half of my lifetime)
- i first learnt the pledge in kindergarten. i learnt based on hearing, so i imitated the sounds made. but it wasn't until i came to singapore in p1 and SAW the words of the pledge, that i realised i've totally been reciting rubbish. it was all wrong! HAHAHA and i felt so embarrassed and worried that somehow i will get punished for being so disrespectful to such a "holy" pledge. eg. democracy was pronounced as eh-mou-ka-si b4 that. >.<
- i used to love donuts last time. every saturday when i go home from piano lesson, my mum buys me donuts from this bakery shop that's super biggg and greyy and cool. i just rmb the donuts. ^^
- and then we will go to mcdonald's and i'll always get a cheeseburger without pickles (i couldn't stand it last time. now im okay with it lah), while my mum would get a sausage mcmuffin for my bro and herself. we get nuggets and sometimes hamburgers too! we always take sweet and sour sauce. that was the only sauce i ever knew...then we would takeaway. i totally love the smell of mcdonald paper bags! <3
guess what? i didn't know the existence of mcchicken nor fillet-o-fish. i wonder if they even existed back then? 9 years ago?
isn't hongkong wonderful? they ACTUALLY sell sausage mcmuffins in the AFTERNOON! unlike singapore ): i miss sausage mcmuffins...
- ah much later on i found out that cheeseburgers and hamburgers are really beef. i was so shocked bcos i didn't like the taste of beef. the steely iron-ey taste is eurghh. that's y now i hardly ever eat them now. i eat mcchicken and filet-o-fish.
- used to go to my dad's office on saturdays/sundays in hongkong. it was above a crocodile shop. i mean the clothes brand. ^^" i would play pretend and grab markers and write stuff on the whiteboard in the meeting room. miss those fun times...
- i used to imagine and make up stories in my childhood. loads and loads of it. like at leas 50 over. can't quite rmb all, but they are all somewhat cliché, all with me as the main girl and some handsome guy. i don't do that any more ):
it just seems like once i grew up and became busy i had no more creative juices to churn up more stories.
eg. i used to imagine im a princess and i was kidnapped, then there would be one kidnapper guy who is very handsome and wonderful, and he would fall in love with me. he would protect me from the other kidnappers and stop me from being abused or tortured. then we elope together. happily ever after.
another story is that im a princess who was locked up in a tower, then i managed to escape and meet some handsome guy. then i will return to my palace with the guy. however, the guy is a commoner without a penny, so the king does not want us to get married. we despair and all, then one day we found out that he is the longlost son of some other king, and now he's royalty! and we get to be married. happily ever after.
uh huh. i will totally act out these scenes, and make up lines as i go along. i don't always complete the stories though. hmm...
- i wrote my first film script in p4. i nv finished it. i was inspired by my random stories -above- and so one day i decided i should sit down and write it out. after the first two pages, i got distracted and i gave up on it. well, i guess children are like that. T.T
- i wrote my first novel in p4 too. after that script failure thingy, i decided i should write out a nice story. i sat down and really wrote. finished it that day in hours and hours. it was about 7 pages long. the story is SO crappy and not logical, but i still like it. it shows how creative i was last time.
- i have much more happy memories. they are all of sis and hongkong. the above are all in sis except for those after p1. seems like i kindof had less of my childhood when i came to singapore. what happened?
sigh, now im totally not creative anymore? what happened to the child in me?
