Seventeen years has gone and passed.
Funny how the mind works.
I can remember what happened a decade ago,
yet not be able to recall the contents of my last meal.
Now then, what have I learnt?

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One year Old



Shiny bottle in the sun.
I like shiny things.
The glass was green, just like grass.
I like grass.

Mummy was in the kitchen,
and Daddy in the study room.
I think this is Mummy's thing;
She always presses a button
and then she smells like flowers.
I like flowers.
I like Mummy.

I held up the bottle,
Mummy's smell is inside!
But, where's the button?
It must be a puzzle!

I turn this thing, and
POP!

Oh, this smells good!
Like those flowers Daddy
always gave Mummy.

The flowers smelt great,
and it tasted sweet too.
So, this water must be...

Flower juice!

I press this button, then
PZZT!
PZZT!

Now my hand smells like flowers, too!

I wonder if flower juice tastes like...

YUCK!


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Three Years Old



DisneyLand Japan was so fun!
I even took a picture with Mickey Mouse!
But why was Mickey so big?
Mummy said that I would only know
When I grow up.

She always tell me that.

But I want to know, now!
She told me it was a person inside Mickey.
It's because of magic, she says.

I don't believe in magic.

Mummy must be bluffing me again.
Like that time she wanted me to eat spinach.
I never got to eat that ice-cream she promised.

The hotel people talk funny.
Mummy was having a hard time talking to them.
Ah Ma tried to help,
but nothing worked.

Hey, a lift!
Wow, it even has golden buttons!
I wonder what would happen if I press this...

1...
5...
12...

Hm, I can go higher!
Yay, 52!

Maybe higher!
61!

Maybe-

Hey, where's Mummy?

Ah Ma?

Why is everything downstairs so small?

Why am I so high up?

... Mummy?!

WAAAAAA!!

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Six Years Old



The shiny metal looked intriguing.
Daddy and Mummy never liked me going near it,
Always snatching it away from me.

Why?

It must be fun to play with,
Because Ah Ma uses it to cut fabrics.
She would then make a clean cut
between those two pieces of cloth.

Very neat.
Very pretty.

Cloth is soft,
And can be easily cut.
How sharp could the "penknife" be,
Right?

And they call it a "knife".
It doesn't even look like one!
This "knife" couldn't be sharp.

It couldn't.

Right?

So I ran my finger across it.

Fast.

OW!

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Nope, didn't learn anything from these incidents.

Absolutely nothing.

Happy birthday to me.