09.04.04, Friday ~ Hyped factor: 4/10

Yucks. gd friday wasnt gd for me. I spent most of the time cursing under
my breath. bad weather. had to get drenched.. then wondered aimlessly.
outing cancelled. missed survivor episode. wats the only gd thing? getting
the name tags for the cadets? thot of revising for chem. but haiz... my
foot giving me probs. haiz.. today my whole inbox kena flood by my bro...
lolx. well tt time promised to gif a history of myself, well here goes...

BLAST FROM DA PAST...
basic info u nid to noe: c",) dad, mum, me, elder sis and younger sis in da
family. many pple dunno.. but my whole family changed names... not tt
we got things to hide but my mum believed in feng shui... so my whole
family undergo name change. dunno whether relevant to type but i juz
type cos i scared next time if i haf loss of memory still can read frm here.
lolx. brackets rep old name... Dad: Chen Yong Fu (Tan Lye Hock)... Mum:
Wang Xiao Mei (Wong Seong Meng Sally)... Chen Mei Ying Joanne
(Tan Mei Xuan Joanne), Chen Xing Tian John (Tan Jian Liang John)...
Chen Qiu Ying Jolene (Tan Ching Mei Jolene)... funny thing. three of us
had 'J' as our christian names. in case u guys dunno. my whole hse,
everything tt is placed or arranged haf to follow the fengshui... initially
i dun believe much, until after i haf shifted to my new hse and use my
new name... i kinda get better... as in luck, opportunties... things
GO ya way.. tats the point. maybe religion does gif u a sense of well
being...

since young, i live in serangoon north ave 1. blk 107, 03-369. it can
be quite a noisy and eerie blk, ironic huh? noisy cos kopitiam is
juz downstairs and lots of provision shops. eerie thing was... there
was one guy who owe loansharks money and got his ear chopped off.
then he went to the highest level and jumped cos he cldnt take the
pain... scary huh... i had a very scary neighbour... they used to practice
black magic.. u can find weird stuff at my doors.. sometimes they even
throw things in. well, i spent my primary schools days there... before
i started schooling, i stayed in bishan wif my grandmother... there i
think i develop the ability to take spicy food. i took spicy stuff when
i was juz three.. i ate n didnt stop. so now i so thin, metabolic rate
so high muz be tt chillies...

primary school days werent the best days... cos i faced serious stress.
since young my mum expected lots from me. can tell u my traumatising
experience... during my primary school days, i feared the day report cards
were out. my dad used to cane us on our palm.. my mum took 1st as a
gauge... so if i am 5th in class, i get four strokes of cane... weird isnt it?
they rarely check the rest of the subjects as they think position speaks
for all... dunno whether is it psychologically or wat, my first two years
i got 1st for my final term exam. then something happened which i
dunno it has any effect...

during my primary three yr, i was at my grandmother's hse... me and my
younger sis as usual like to role play. then dunno wat got into me. i was
sitting on a pile of newspaper in the storeroom. as u noe, the entry is rather
small and made of concrete... then in the verge to chase my sis, i 'superman'
tried to fly out and hit my forehead on the hard concrete. so loud. haiz. next
thing i was bleeding profusely. dumb and naive tt i was, i went up (executive
flat) to the shower room and tried to rinse it away hoping it would stop. but,
no. the whole floor and bath tub were filled wif blood and water. messy.. i
rem vividly i was feeling weak. no choice, i ran down to find my mum. and
she brought me to the closest clinic. it was a super long walk, rem it was
hard to get taxi... i held on toilet paper and blood drip as my mum carried me..
so many pple looking but they were juz blurry images... i think i KO for a while
when i wake up, i had stopped bleeding... the doc told my mum i lost quite a lot
of blood and hit dunno wat. might affect my thinking and stuff...

true enuff, tt final yr i got 4th for mid term and 8th for end term. guess how
many strokes i got :( hitting continued until i was in primary five. somehow
i managed to speak up... i didnt get caned.. but i end up being caned cos
i helped my sis speak up.

well one of the things i rem most, is every chn new yr, me and my sisters
wld lay out mattress out in the living room, lie there, watching tv and tok.
and my parents give us a bag of assorted coins. we haf to use one hand
to dig as much as possible, then u can get to keep wat u haf dug. every yr
we wld challenge to see hu get the most. lolx.

yup in primary school, i was wif the angklung band. first yr play angklung then
promoted very fast to play difficult instruments... i was proud of myself tt time.
lolx. i was also a prefect. lolx. also frm primary sch got my first taste of admiring
girls. lolx. wld normally call my friend and ask her wat homework. then frm there
chat abt lots of stuff... psle was anyhow do... i believe every1 wld say the same
thing... one of my regrets, cldnt go a better sch of 250+... was thinking i shld
haf gone to zhss or catholic but then i wldnt be who i am if i not in skss rite?
well primary sch teachers tt i rem: Ms Sim, Ms Tan Lay Guat (lolx), Mrs Cheong,
Ms Mary Low, Mrs deSuza (boobies), Ms Soh, Mr Choo (PE)

next week coming up: BLAST FROM DA PAST (2): Life of a teenager...