27th February 2008

OKAY! Had a talk with mum today during dinner about my childhood "passions" and "hobbies", which are none actually. Hahahaha

As a kid, i was involved in a thousand and one things, but evidently, i was never good at any of them. Mum said she put me in those programs to "develop potential hidden talents". Unfortunately, these supposedly "hidden talents" have remained hidden til this very day. Snorts.

Here'a a list of what i enrolled in as a small loisa...

- Piano: alright i might have a SMALL talent for it since i've come so far, but i don't REALLY enjoy it. Maybe i should try harder right? Since it's the only thing i can do so far haha

- Ballet: okay a total FLOP. Don't know what possessed me to go into it in the first place. Apparently, mum said it was what i wanted. And she agreed, hoping it would teach me good posture and to be be more graceful. Well, i thought it did, but as quoted by mum...

Mum: It didn't work for you. You're not any more graceful than you were as a baby. You never could walk the catwalk.
Loisa: Maybe i'm better now?
Mum: Don't even try. You'll break the catwalk.
Loisa: -_-" That's a mother's love for you!

- Swimming: Ahh now that's something i'm proud of. Haha. I'm proud of what i can do NOW. Not the process of learning how to swim. Cause, let's just say it was chaos la ah. Crying in the pool. Drinking loads of water. Near drowning. Plus all the head knocking against the edge of the pool, which is probably why i lost all my baby teeth early.

- Art Class: Don't ask.

Loisa: YOU PUT ME IN ART CLASS? How come i can't draw now?
Mum: Perhaps it's a hidden talent. I suspect it'll remain hidden for a very, VERY long time. By the way, you got it from your father.
Loisa: Hmm...
Mum: Anyway, the art teacher was so frustrated with you, he drew everything for you. I always wondered how you could have brought home such beautiful pieces.
Loisa: HEY!! Maybe i ACTUALLY drew them MYSELF.
Mum: Yeah. Sure. You're eating donuts at every class, sitting there watching the teacher draw your pictures FOR you. Licking the icing off your fingers. ARGH!
Loisa: Uhhh... -_-"

- Abacus class and subsequently, "fast finger" counting in school: Okay i did pretty alright in abacus. Even went for exams to get certificates for them. The failure was in the stupid, and i repeat, STUPID, "fast finger" counting thing in primary school. Basically, we're supposed to count real fast with our fingers. No, it's not "1, 2, 3, 4, 5" then use toes to count etc. It's more professional and artistic. Ask me, and i'll show you how in school, the FAILED version of course. Whatever the case, i used abacus mental calculation to replace the fast finger thing. Ridiculous.

- Chinese Dance: Again, don't ask why i was in it, but i was. I dropped it anyway, cause i couldn't take the stress. We had to use this prop, this string thing, and wave it about we we jumped and danced. Aparently, i used it only to entangle myself, and thus falling about all over the stage. That in turn, made every other chinese dancer fall, SO. I went out.

Mum: Yeah, whenever i picked you up, you were always in a HEAP on the floor, with string all around you.
Loisa: Wasn't it dangerous? I could have strangled myself.
Mum: Nah you wouldn't. You were a professional at messing everything up, but without danger involved. Same with the christmas tree. Instead of decorating the tree, you decorated yourself.
Loisa: I wasn't that vain to decorate myself la.
Mum: No, i meant you were so small, you couldn't reach anything, so you tended to wrap yourself up while jumping to reach something.
Loisa: -.-"

Why do conversations with my mum always end up with me going -.-" ??

Sigh...