13 June, 2006

*097 - dusty albums

I LOVE TUBBY TO BITS!!

Ok now before your jaws drop with horror and images of Tubby Kong (my bodyguard) flood through your mind ...

... I'm talking about my ex-pet rabbit (:

Tubby was our 5th rabbit! Rabbits have short life spans ): We got her when I was 7 or 8 years old, and she lived till a ripe old rabbitty age of perhaps 5 years?

Baby Tubby!





So cute right! (As in, baby Tubby, not me. Hmm, I used to have a rather large head. And droopy eyes.)

Names of all the rabbits we've had, in order: Brighteyes, Specs, Sherrie, Hope, Tubby, Hazel, and Hazel gave birth to Twilight, Oreo, Horlicks, Pudding.

But Tubby was my favourite, she showed us that rabbits can have personality and can love their owners too! (: She would run to us when we called her, and she loved to be stroked so much so that if she came across your hand she would push her head against it and keep nudging it until you started to pet her!

Fully grown Tubby:



She was a beautiful rabbit, not the usual quiet short-furred type but the huge galloping ball of fur type!

(:

What sparked off this entry was flipping through my old photo albums together with Justin, when he last came over for dinner.

Had quite a nice time squawking over what I used to look like! I mean, can you even recognise me from the above picture? Apart from the dimple (in singular, not plural) I think I look completely different now!

Right, here are more old photos!




Wow, my daddy used to be an Attractive Young Lad! So handsome (: And that's a cute fat 1-year-old me by his side! This was in San Francisco, when we were living there.




Me feeding the ducks in New Zealand. I was about 5 years old. I know you can't see my face but I was quite pretty then! I actually morphed from cute baby to pretty toddler to ugly awkward youngster (between about P2 - P4) to relatively normal girl to fat teen (secondary school!) to monster (now) :D

And the next 2 photos delighted me greatly! They are photos from my Very First Ballet Performance Ever when I was 7 years old!!



Me on the bottom left, Evelyn Chew on the bottom right! Here's proof we've been dancing together for 12 years (since P1)! Hehehe. These girls used to be my best buddies (:




A really lousy photo taken during the dance itself. I'm the short yellow girl holding the flower garland, mostly hidden from view by the girl in blue!



Mm.

Snapshots of times when things weren't complicated.

That got me reminiscing about the past.

Nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia.

Years of innocence, of wonder, of simple pleasures. When things that scared me most were monsters in the bathroom and not getting full marks.

Sweet memories, faded pale, now kept away in dusty albums.


I think we grow up too fast.