Skip to main content

Nostalgia // But

I miss the times when i got 31/50 for my LA test.
I miss the times when i got 32% for Chinese.
I miss it when i look at my Chinese Papers.
I miss it when i recall Synapses.
I miss it when i see my timetable.

Because,

I remember the times of DOTA
of Taiti
of Blackjack
of Texas Hold Em'
of Bridge
of Hiding Bottles
of Placing Flutes on Ledges
of Opening one door and running out after insulting a Malaysian.
of Locking one door after seeing boys angering girls.

There were no other joyous times, but the times

When i poked fun at China
I gave you nicknames
I coupled you together
I laughed at two people talking.

Just Talking.

I miss it all, the good, the bad,
Because I had V12.


But it is a time i can never go back to.
It'll just be a memory
Stored away in some crevice in my brain
No longer will there be the laughs like there used to.
The innocence of us children,
Fooling around like mad little clowns.

Growing up means letting go,
Like removing paper from old files,
crushing them and tossing them to the trash bin's side,
its cover slightly open,
like a dazed boy's mouth, slightly ajar,
waiting for someone to close it.

Where i feel horrible,
i feel sad,
i feel happy,
then sad again,
then realise that it might not be so bad after all.

I think of the reunions and timed gatherings when w are old and capable of reminiscing.
I wish i could relive it again.
Yet,
I know I wouldn't want to.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Thematic Summary of The Star by H.G. Wells

H.G. Well’s wrote The Star in 1897, but apocalyptic/disaster fiction had already existed for thousands of years. Well, the authors didn’t think they were writing fiction, but nevertheless, they were still writing speculative ‘non-fiction’. A quick Wikipedia look-up on Google will tell you that hundreds of seers have prophesized the end of mankind. Unfortunately, fortunately, they have all been wrong! Yet, these countless predictions prove a point about our very own human nature: many of us have fetishized the ‘end of the world’. Christians call it the rapture. Vikings called it Ragnarok. Others called it the Apocalypse. All these stories about our eventual end on this earth have a common thread: there is some greater reason for our end to occur – most of the time, it involves the triumph of good over evil. This is where The Star differs in its narrative. Instead of focusing on some grand narrative of good gods achieving a final victory over the forces of evil, it sticks to d...
3 comments
Read more

Thematic summary of When It Changed by Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ’ When It Changed centers on a human society made entirely up of women on a planet called ‘Whileaway’. The human colony is void of men because of a plague that occurred thirty generations ago. The females that remained after the plagued managed to survive without the males by a process that sees the merging of ova. This allowed women to reproduced with women, taking away the need for penetrative reproduction and thereby making redundant the role of men in the human reproductive cycle. The story begins when four Russian astronauts arrive on Whileaway. All four of them are male, which makes them the first 4 men that have set foot on the planet in hundreds of years. Their arrival has a profound effect on the women they meet, and we see this effect from the perspective of Janet, a thirty-four-year-old woman that is married to Katy, with whom she has three children. Upon meeting the four men, Janet is immediately taken aback by their physical size – “They are bigger than we ar...
Post a Comment
Read more

Inheritance [Balli Kaur Jaswal]

I really shouldn't attempt to write this... as if this were an assignment due on Monday. It isn't, so I shall not.  Two days - it took me this to finish my first SingLit novel, as far as I can recall.  It was about a family who goes through tough times. This family was Sikh. This family was Singaporean. This family felt, for a few heart-wrenching seconds, like my own.  Dalveer and Harbeer have three children: Gurdev, Narain, and Amrit. Karam is Harbeer's nephew, but he doesn't get to be a narrator in the story, so, screw him. Also, he's an asshole.  We see their story unfold over a period of twenty years - this is paralleled by Singapore's own growth as a nation. We see the effects of rapid industrialisation on the nascent city state, and we begin to identify some of the more... unspoken problems faced by its people. In its endeavour to grow, advance, burgeon -- people, genuinely good people, are left behind. In our  struggle for success, the few am...
Post a Comment
Read more