childhood memories

The year when I was nine, there was a nationwide craze for unicycle riding among children. Suddenly, all my school friends started riding a unicycle, and it became difficult to even play with my friends after school without having one since that was what they played with most of the times. A few months into […]

When I was three or four, there was a time when it was just me and my father at home. My mother was staying at a hospital with my baby brother, who had a special heart condition to be looked after. My father was capable of cooking, but he wasn’t into cooking, so when it

Throughout my childhood, I learned piano at a local music school designed for children and teenagers. The school had a rigorous curriculum, and in addition to the weekly piano lessons, every Saturday, we were required to participate in one choir practice and one music theory class as a way to develop our musical capacity. I

When I was nine, my mother bought me two pairs of shorts. One was dark green colour, and the other was dark red. When I first saw them at store, I immediately fell in love with their colours and shape. When I tried them on, they felt perfect on my body. “I love it, I

On Christmas morning when I was five, I woke up and found everything outside was covered in white snow. It wasn’t the first snow, but it was the first time the snow had stayed on the ground that winter. From the balcony of our tiny half-dilapidated apartment, I saw the white snow shining bright everywhere

My eldest cousin got married in the early summer when I turned eleven. In December prior to that, I visited my grandmother’s house with my family and happened to meet my cousin’s then fiancé for the first time. One of the things I always looked forward to whenever staying at my grandmother’s place was to

When I was little, I had a brother three years younger than me. Since our age difference was small, as soon as he started walking and talking, we became great playmates. We watched TV programs together, played with Sailor Moon toys together, and went on many imaginary adventures together in our tiny half-dilapidated apartment. Although

In the winter when I was nine years old, my family drove to my maternal grandmother’s place for the first time. Her house was a little far away from my hometown, so, my mother and I usually travelled there by trains. But that year, my parents decided that we would try driving there for the

From age six to age twelve, I took piano lessons at a local music school in my hometown. Though the school was designed for children, its program was rigorous, and some of the pupils were there with the intention of pursuing music as career in the future. Twice every year, each student was required to

When I was in kindergarten, there were two kinds of schoolbags that children carried. They were both yellow in colour, but one was a backpack and the other was a shoulder bag. My mother had a firm belief that a backpack was better for my shoulders since it was evenly balanced. So, when I entered