childhood memories

When I was seven or eight, during the time when I went through a lazy phase of my life, I developed a habit of holding my urine. This happened because I was too lazy to go to bathroom when my body gave me its first signal. As a consequence, I was often found frantically running […]

It was when I was five and my family lived in the tiny half-dilapidated apartment. In the tiny kitchen of the tiny apartment, there was a wooden dining table where we used to eat all our meals and snacks. Though it was a very basic plain table with four legs, it was the first table

When I was in kindergarten, our teachers often took us on a walk in the neighbourhood. Since most of us lived in close proximity to the kindergarten, we almost always encountered some of our family members. Our teacher would say “Oh, there is so-and-so’s father! Let’s say hello everyone!” or “Oh, that’s so-and-so’s mother and

When I was a child, I sometimes travelled by bus with my father. Since my father didn’t drive, whenever we travelled on our own, it was either by bike or by public transport, and we usually took a bus to get to the city centre or the nearest subway station. Whenever we travelled by bus,

Since I was a baby, I was always drawn to round objects and my favourite toys were balls. I was not interested in throwing them or rolling them. All I wanted to do was to hold them in my hands and feel their round surface. When I was about two, my parents took me to

When I was five, I attended a local YAMAHA music school with my two childhood best friends. Every week, the three of us, our mothers and our younger siblings, squeezed ourselves in a small five seater car and droved to the music school in the city centre. Once in the classroom, my friends and I

When I was seven, I went through a phase which I call “a lazy phase” of my life. I was lazy to do many of the daily tasks that I was supposed to do, and I was trying to get around with doing as little as possible. During this period, my school desk was one

My little brother came to my life when I was three years old. I was so excited to become a big sister and meet my first baby brother, but when he was born, I was told that I couldn’t visit him right away. “Your brother was born with a heart disease and needed a heart

When I was five, both my little brother and I carried around chewing gum for our casual snack. Our favourite flavour was Muscat grape. My mother would buy a package of Muscat grape flavoured chewing gum for each of us, and we would chew a piece whenever we wanted. The day before my brother’s last

When I was in primary school, every summer, the local music school I was attending in my hometown hosted special programs for the students during the summer break. The school would invite several professional musicians as instructors, and we could receive or audit their lessons. Many parents were eager to give their child an opportunity