Tired but Happy!

Its been a tiring weekend, mainly perhaps because i was sick and eating antibiotics takes some steam out of you. And although its been a busy weekend, I had quite alot of fun amidst everything! Stacey got married yesterday night and i was there at the wedding with my mum.

Stacey's my age... and she's getting married! Hmmm.... She used to a really good friend, we were very close and according to my mother, we bathed together in the same bath tub. But as we grew older and stacey's family left our church for another, we drifted apart because we never made an effort to keep in contact.

At the wedding yesterday, it felt surreal.

My best friend when i was 4 years old is getting married. She's all beautifully dressed in a bridal gown, looking absolutely stunning and glowing and here i am still a struggling student trying to balance both work and play. Stacey used to be a siao char bor, like me. Which is why we clicked and became good friends. I remember spending nights over at Victoria's house where we would have VJ club meetings. VJ meant "Victoria and Jonathan" who were like the two big kor kor and jie jie's of the clique. Stacey and me would follow around, laugh at everything they did and look up to them in everything we did.

We did everything siao char bors did and close to 20 years later, I am still as Siao and it seems Stacey has matured into a woman of a fine character. She's not siaocharbor stacey to me anymore. If we had talked about this 20 years back, I'm sure we would have laughed at the possibility of any of us getting married so early in our twenties.

But funny how two siao char bors grow up to take on different paths in life...

Life's just one big storybook of twists and turns. You try to author your life the way you would author a fairytale and then realise there are many other co-authors out there penning your life too!

I'm not a complicated person but i complicate myself into complicated situations sometimes. Get me? Haha... maybe that's why i enjoy the company of kids. There's nothing complicated about them, unpolluted and unpolished. I love the little children.

And speaking of which! I brought three little ones(Ok, 'little' is rather rhetorical here.) to watch disney on ice last Friday after school. Tickets complimentary of beloved Mediacorp. Some of the great perks of being a mediacorp artiste that i will miss very very soon! BOOhoooo...

I was pretty excited because ever since visiting Disneyland at Tokyo and spending like a month's internship wages on buying products of my childhood fantasies, I've been looking forward to having a chance to relive that experience once again! The stories of Disneyland are so magical, easy to understand and yet often have such strong moral truths!

BUT! Bringing three kids to watch disney on ice is really one experience I will never forget. The indoor stadium wasn't fully seated which means there weren't really that many people hanging around the foyer but when we went in. But children being children, they seem to walk around in Brownian motion fashion. In random particle movement fashion. They NEVER walk in one straight line and they NEVER look at where they're going. So you have kids walking into each other everywhere! ANd can you imagine trying to keep your eyes on three kids walking into other kids walking in random fashion????!!!

I think i almost turned cock-eyed. @_@!!!

And I spent the rest of the show feeding the kids with cotton candy, flavoured ice balls, drinks, cleaning matthews hands because it was all sticky and trying to make sure they were all comfortable. So now when people ask me "So, was 'disney on ice' good?" I ask them "You mean from an adult's perspective or a child's perspective? Becuase i was too busy taking care of the kids to enjoy the show..."

But don't get me wrong. I enoyed myself thoroughly. The whole point of me bringing the kids is so THEY can enjoy the show. Not me. But just before you start pitying me... I did enjoy the who very much. Especially when it was Peter Pan and The Little Mermaid... I felt something tingling in my bones that made me smile uncontrollably.

There really is something magical about disney... that makes it so popular till now.

I wanna be like Peter Pan.

I feel little again. I like.

'Pan, who and what art thou?' [Hook] cried huskily. 'I'm youth, I'm joy,' Peter answered at a venture, 'I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.'