The halcyone days of my childhood…

 

    Past time:

                                                                                                                                                                                        Music

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Playing all sorts of

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Musical instruments.

                                                                                                                                     Piano ,organ, guitar,

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Cello, Gu Zheng,

                                                                                                                                     Yang Qing.

    Winnie has great

     Gusto for music but she

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     is  Jack of All trade but

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Master of  None.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Painting

 

                                                                                                                                     Water Colour, Poster

                                                                                                                                      Colour, Chinese Art,

                                                                                                                                      Landscaping, Sketches

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ( won a few prizes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      in state competitions,

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      and School Competitions)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Winnie knew that Painting

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Hardly earns her a living.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      She could only be amateur

      in  painting and find

      something else as her

      profession in the future.

                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                      Pets

                                                                                                                                      Rabbits, Dogs, fish, little

                                                                                                                                      chicks, didn’t have

                                                                                                                                      Guinea pigs but   

                                                                                                                                      loves experimenting with

      cooking and baking cakes

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      and made people her

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Guinea pigs.

 

 

 

 

 

    Keeping Diaries                                                                   Planting

   Winnie’s intimate friends are her diaries.                                   loves gardening and digging the soil.

    She was a collector maniac for whatever stuff                                              In the evenings, Winnie would let her dogs

    to stick in her diaries. Feathers, blood,                                                         running around in the garden and peeing on

    seeds, finger nails etc. Her diaries came                                                       the plants. There was one baby X’mas

    to be very useful when she traced her lost                                                  tree planted by Winnie in the garden now

                                                    watch or misplaced belongings.                                                                    has grown up taller than her.

   Everyday she recorded whatever she did                                    

   and whatever things happened around her.

   Unfortunately, when the house was sold,

   Her mum had thrown away all her diaries

   not knowing that they are precious to her.

    Albeit the incomplete of the record of her

   Diaries, Winnie believed that she could keep

   A new set of diaries to account for the next

   Stage of her life.

 

 

   Friends

                                      Winnie had a couple of boon companions

  During schooling but she never felt at ease

                                                   Mixing in a large group.  She’s never good

                                                   In playing outdoor games like hide and seek,

  ‘one leg’ or a kind of game played by using joined rubber

                                                   Bands hold by two people and you have to

                                                   Cross over through high jump or banding your

                                                   Back.  Usually, she preferred indoor activities

                                                   Like playing Chinese Chess, ‘Monopoly’,

                                                   ‘Cluedo’, ‘Risk’, Cooking and  singing. 

 

 

                                                 Pen pals

 

                                                  Winnie has a few Pen pals from overseas eg.

                                                  Findland, Australia, United States. They exchanged

                                                  Flowers, stickers, photo’s , sweets, coins and

                                                  Stamps. Every mornings, she would check the post

                                                  Box to see if there were any letters for her.