The past week has been a recess week for me before the start of term at NIE… Already can feel that NIE is going to be quite hectic…
Took the chance yesterday to do a mini spring cleaning of my room and even though it is a chore, I had a few pleasant surprises as I opened my drawers, cupboard and took out all the accumulated items that was locked out in convenience since a long time ago…
I realised that I still have my sec 4 textbooks all intact and looking good as it was since 10 years ago! The inks were fresh and vivid like I was just studying them yesterday… I found my primary school recorder with its tattered blue cover… Dare not blow it, but still it looks good with the faint yamaha logo emblossed…
My happiest discovery was 2 empty boxes… empty boxes of my car models with the price tags intact.. Friends who have been to my room would notice the Ferrari and Mercedes sports car on display… It originally came with 2 display boxes and stand for the cars, and it has been kept away in my upper cupboard that I dont even remember until yesterday…
the discovery is special not only because the box is nice and in great condition, but rather, because it evoked memories of how I got the car models… It was a day in takashima with my mum in year 2000.. and there was a sale going on in the atrium, and i pleaded with my mum to get the car models for me… 10 years back, I had the vision to become a car model collector… to accumulate as many display models as possible… but the dream was never fulfilled cos my stingyness got the better of me… I decided that each model that cost 40+ is too ex and nt worthwhile… I was also surprised that my mum agreed to buy the 2 models at about $70+. As far as I can remember till today, it was the first present or toys that she has bought for me… I must have put my academic results as a mortgage to get it and my mum must have been very unwilling to part with her $100 then… Since young, I do not have the luxury of nintendos, super genius, sega, or saturn… I also do not have remote control cars etc…
My bros and I always play with lego, police and thief and some card games as far as I can remember… We always have to improvise from the limited toys that we have… Flying kite from our HDB room using strings and plastic bag is one creative but failure invention of ours…. Even the lego that we got was given to us by ppl…
But i realised the less we have the more we treasure… Now I have returned the cars into their original display box and they really look like new again… and of course, I have decided to put the receipt that is still as crisp as ever back to the original place… In my upper cupboard for as long as I can keep… It will be a time deposit for another pleasant surprise 10 years later…
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