Sunday, March 05, 2006
Guess who I met at Lowrey Music School today? Lyndsey! After not seeing her for... more than a year, I just learnt that she has been taking lessons there since P1. And I've been there since P3. Wow. Of course, we only formally met in AHS, but knowing her for 4 years in there, and never knowing that she and I attend music lessons in Lowrey. And what's more extreme, is that for the past who knows how long, we've been in the same building, only a few walls away from each other, without knowing it!
I don't know if freaky is the right word, but it's definitely one of those experiences that made my mind jump out of its usual place.
Well, let's see what else happened so far today...
I was at this void deck, and I was browsing at a mamashop while waiting for the bus. There was this series of machines which I don't know the name of... You know those things where you put in a $1 coin, then you turn the knob, and then something random rolls out? Yeah, I saw a 20-cent version outside the mamashop, and inside there were these cutesy plastic rings. I remember that I was crazy about things like these when I was a kid.
I saw another machine that was full of miniature pool balls, $1 each or something like that. I wanted to get one, hopefully the '8' ball, but one thing that has ticked me off ever since I started playing this stuff, is that the machine contains a lot of other things as well. So if I'm unlucky, I'll end up with a transparent rubber ball with a hideous plastic alien inside.
In any case, I didn't buy anything. But I did observe that those machines were quite full, and quite forlorn. Either the machines were newly refilled, or today's kids don't like this stuff anymore. Maybe they're too busy playing with the newest creations by Mattel and Fisher-Price and what-have-you.
And I sound old. Heheh. My generation played with Mattel and Fisher-Price too, as well as those cheap
masak-masak toys. I went to a series of shops with my mum the other day, and I chanced upon a whole shelf of what I used to play with, and one small set costs only $1! So let's say you want your kid to have a more complete
masak-masak set, it'll cost you maybe $5 to $6? While at Toys"R"Us, that kind of stuff could cost around $20. Of course, the quality is much better. (I still remember I had owned a really cheap Barbie-esque doll when I was six or seven, and her head and limbs kept falling off.) But kids grow up fast, and soon you're going to toss them -- the toys, not the kids -- away.
Sigh... now I'm basking in fond memories of my childhood. Somehow, I don't think I ever stopped being a kid.
And you can even confirm that point with my mum, who kept teasing me about looking at those toys at the shop.
♥ The lights faded at
1:08 pm
