Tuesday, March 20, 2007 -

Another New Blog post?Oooooo...A miracle or way too much time at home nowadays?I'll forget about the former and put my bets on the latter...haha...anyway this post is gonna be a special one....a photo-heavy post, that's gonna have very little actual text..........minimal text in one of my blog posts?OK.....It really is a MIRACLE after all!!....hahha

Anyway a couple of weeks back,my parents and I were packing up some of our stuff cos my father wanted to get rid of the clutter at home,,,so anyway we brought this absolutely massive collection of stuff to my dad's storage warehouse and among the stuff was this really big collection of family photos that spanned 3 decades...stuff from the time my parents were dating back in the 70's to photos from the late 90's....

Looking through old photos is an absolutely one of a kind experience...it leaves a weird,bitter-sweet feeling with you that lingers for days....one one hand,it makes you feel,warm,fuzzy and nostalgic about the good old days when you were young,excitable, and wore cheap hand-me-downs but was happy as all hell.....it gives you a look at yourself when you were naive,pure and so incredibly innocent.......not a care in the world........and on the other hand,looking through all these old photos can be a sad experience too.......seeing your parents and grand parents young and in their prime back then,full of life and zest in the photos and you just REALIZE how much they've aged since then......looking much older,frailer and just plain tired nowadays.....seeing old family and friends....long gone.....taken by age or disease...........it can be an extremely hard pill to swallow to be honest....even so taking a walk down memory lane once a while can be a very meaningful,poignant experience......

Also somewhere amidst all the old photos I went through......that included stuff like my parent's wedding photos,all my uncle and auntie's weddings,a chronological collection of photos of my brother and I from birth till the end of our primary school.....I also found this bag of cards somehwere in there that contained EVERY single birthday card every received by all 4 members of my family ....from 1975 to 1998......

It was quite a sight to behold........seeing a Birthday card I made for my dad back when I was 5 years old.......a black(DUH!) A4 sized construction paper folded in half with a heart shaped hole cut out on its cover and coated with glimmery,glossy dust.....with the words "TO THE BEST DADDY IN THE WORLD!!" written by me in silver ink.......man I was really sweet back then...what happened?!.....hahah..........another memorable card I managed to dig out was this yellow,duck-shaped card given to me on my 2nd birthday........that read"To Our Dearest Boy Boy from your proud Daddy and Mummy"........awwww.....choked me up it did........err...sand went into my eyes went I read that.....hahaha....makes me wonder what hopes and dreams my parents had for me when I was born and have I even met 1/10 of those expectations?...............I dunno.....it raises existensial questions I have no answers for......sure I've never been a problem child and given my parents any major troubles both academically and personally......but could I have done better,put in more effort in certain things and excelled in other areas?........sure......so I dunno....this is getting too deep for me....then again I AM someone with great depth....ahhahahah....but I digress.....

Which brings me to the meat of my post.....I was tidying up and organizing all my photos from my poly days(circa year 2 till the present) and just thought that it'll be fun to do a blog post featuring certain,selected but kinda random photos of the poly gang during that time arranged in a semi-chronological order.....from pics of old outings and gatherings to the most recent Birthday pictures......to help give me a better overall picture of things....how certain things have changed and evolved over time.....and how some things have always remained constant over the years........

I would have loved to still have a copy of the very first TB31 photo ever taken where Huiling looks like a Ma Jie in training and Wenjun looked like she just escaped from Sheng Zzheng in Singapore on a chinese Junk Boat......It's a classic man.....ahhaha

You know,sometimes people ask me,with regards to both my secondary and poly friends, about why I bother keeping in contact or maintaining some sort of link with past friends whose lives have gone off a completely different tangent then mine or who are now stuck in a rut by their own doing........there's one reason and one reason only........For Old Times sake's......the good ALWAYS outweigh the bad in my mind when friends are concerned......

So the following will be pictures alone.....just pictures...no words needed..........you can form your own thoughts by looking at them....why do a photo-blog post? For the sheer heck of it.........This is dedicated to the poly gang....To the Good Ol' Days...... SALUT!

11:16 AM