My childhood New Year

Still remember the time when I was a child.. young enough to keep things into my memories but not old enough to understand things. I was only 9 years old then.

When I was very much younger, I used to hate going to my Grandma's place for Chinese New Year as we had to take a long ride in the car to Pontian, where she used to live. I always had problems with motion sickness and my parents had to stop the car for me to vomit at the roadside. But that place was damn happening and exciting. As I slowly grew up, I began to enjoy the days of CNY there, even started to look forward to it. Those days of playing with my cousins, new year goodies and the fireworks! It was what we could never have in Singapore..it was wonderful and we could go catching fireflies at night too. I remember that when I was in Pri 3 and Pri 4, after the long journey back home on the last day of holidays, I developed a strange feeling of unwillingness to go back to school after all that fun and started crying at home.. The memories of all that tears all came back to me now.

Maybe it's really hard for someone to go back to reality after having so much fun, it's like a sudden change of events that made it really hard to be acceptable at moments, even though beforehand we had been doing it everyday. Hmm.. I'm much reminded of what happened in my childhood days and after having too much fun, I was unwilling to go back to school again. And now I'm still like a child. Luckily, I should say that people adapt really fast and once again, I'm back on track. It doesn't feel so painful anymore to leave those happiness behind and get on with life.


As an afternote.. I should add on that those days only lasted till I went to secondary school. In my teens, I wished that I could go back home when I went back to M'sia for visiting every year. No longer did I enjoy it so much, and I was always looking forward to meet up with friends in school againn or to go for plucking green, after the hols. And we always get an extra day of holiday during CNY. =)