Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Blast from the Past
Weeks ago, mom stumbled across an old, dusty casette tape which was mysteriously unlabelled, with pink, green and white prints scattered across its surface. You know, one of those casettes of yonder days where we listened to our good ol' Blondie, NKOTB and Abba which those annoying crackly static sounds? Yea, thank goodness for cds and
Anyway, out of curiosity, mom and i then decided to pop it into the player for good measure, to decide whether it was good to go or for keepsakes. As the casette started to roll, high pitched children's chattering emitted from the speakers and caught mom and i off guard. We stared at each other, wondering whether these faceless voices were my sis, bro and i when we were younger. As we proceeded to listen more attentively, i finally recognised on of the voices which was currently crooning - or more like gurgling- a familiar tune, but with alternative lyrics only eu jinn could think up of when he was much younger.
"Twinkle twinkle little star,
How i wonder wonder star,
(Uncomprehensible mumble)
You and i can go to bed."
As mom and i nursed our aching bellies from the racuous laughter, baby eu jinn continued to make really funny and candid snippets of song pieces, including a wierd composition named "Fortita". We recalled that he was actually using the red kiddy recorder and microphone to record his voice but unfortunately, no one taught him which symbol meant stop. So there was actually a snippet in there where jinn actually ran to the bathroom and opened the door while lynn was bathing to ask her. You could actually hear water. How sweet. In addition to that, we also recognised 'ickle lynn's voice making a news reports and interviews with really wierd people, especially a 5-year-old eu jinn who claimed he was 30 instead (after much obvious background prompting from lynn) and loves malaysia very much. Another precious rediscovery was of baby jinn's recitation of all the dinosaur names he knew and remembered very well when he was much younger with precise and crisp pronunciations. Oh, and not forgetting the ear piercing screeches we made while 'negotiating' who gets to use the microphone next.
After we realised we could laugh no more, we mutually agreed that 1) we terrorised the neighbourhood with our incessant bickering and shrieks and laughters 2) eu jinn had in fact, a level of creativity and grasp of the english language way beyond his 5 years of age. Unfortunately, puberty hit and all that's left is a brooding, monosyllabalic tall, dark and handsome chap 3) i was (am?) a big bully and 4) lynn was a mak nenek and still is :P
It's true what mom said, that parents should ENJOY their children while they are young, because you'll definitely miss them when they grow up. Which reminds me, i should invest in a good videocamera and photoalbum.
But at the meantime, anybody knows where i can convert casettes into cds?
