My Tak-Jadi Leaf

I was scanning through Maddox banging little kids’ drawings  when i remembered my own attempts at creativity in kindergarten

I was 4-years-old and attended Bluebells kindergarten in Penang
My best friends were Hooi Leng and another girl also called Joyce
(Isn’t it baffling how i can remember all this? And then my memory started failing me in college)

We were to have a test.
“A test!” thought i
“A test is important! I’m going to get the best marks for the test,” i said solemnly to myself, “And show everyone how clever i am and Mommy will be so proud of me.”

I sat there plotting and imagined basking in glory when we got back our test results and oh joy, Joyce would have the best results!

The teacher placed a piece of paper in front of each of us.
There was an outline of a leaf on the white sheet.
She then went on to tell us to colour the leaf any way we wanted.

Oh c’mon, we were four.
Though it’s highly possible four-year-olds now have harder tests :p

I looked around and saw everyone grabbing at all the green colour pencils. Light green, dark green, olive, turquoise green, they were all going like hot cakes. Oh well. Leaves are green after all right? And then a brilliant thought hit me.

“I won’t colour my leaf green! Everyone’s doing it. I’ll do something different and colour it rainbow-colour.”

So i gathered all the colour pencils from the spectrum of the rainbow and furiously started colouring my leaf, while keeping an eye on everyone’s progress at the same time. Being four and pretty stupid, nobody ever taught me that to fill in a leaf with various colours, you do not colour pink on top of blue on top of green on top of yellow on top of purple.

My leaf was turning out….. black.

I was horrified and panicked.
In a rush, i started adding in more yellow to make it brighter.
But no no no! It was getting more black!
I coloured in more pink, praying my leaf would be brighter.
It got even more black!

I fought back my tears and thought to myself that it wasn’t the end of the world.

In the end, everyone handed in beautiful green leaves and i handed in my black one rather dejectedly.

After that i learnt never to colour on top of colours again.
And it really wasn’t the end of the world.
Just a good lesson learnt partnered with a bruised ego.

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My Dress Scheme

I really did not want to get smashed last night
So i wore a short slutty dress
And by golly! It worked!

AzwinAndy, FaiTheMai, CheeHooi, Akhi and i went to the Henessy party together last night
Too lazy to put the pics up

I bugged them to go for TAG and to Velvet at around 1 am
But upon walking into TAG for two minutes, i walked out

“Is it because i’m always tipsy in Tag, or is it really smoky in there today?” i coughed to FaiTheMai
“No… it’s really smoky there today,” he confirmed

Is the ventilator spoilt or what?
Fix it yo!

Velvet was so-so

I think we should have stayed at the Henessy party :p