Thursday, June 08, 2006
Its like 9am now, and according to my sleeping patterns, this is very very early. And the reason why i am up so early? Haha, that's because i did not sleep the entire wednesday night. Yup, all thanks to a six hour nap and one thick heady brew of coffee. I was supposed to take forty winks but it ended up more like four hundred instead.
But i was glad. Yes, for 2 reasons. The first one being, i managed to finish revising 1st order DE, in peace. Most of the day, my sister would be giggling away beside me watching anime. It is very distracting and i always ended up watching with her. Ha.
The second reason really makes my day. It was about 6am. The only 2 souls that were still awake in the household were my dad and I. Even chowchow wouldn't budge. Haha, but that's because i had disturbed her the whole night while studying. Daddy had watched football throughout the entire night. He came out saw me still awake, so he suggested breakfast together. He asked me where i would want to go for breakfast and i thought the reservoir would be nice.
That place wasn't really called the reservoir or smth, but yeah, its this place in yishun just beside the seletar club where you have a road and pavement in the middle, seperating the seletar reservoir and the sea. So we ta pao-ed some food and teh tarik from the coffeeshop and went there. We sat on some container lids with cushions from the car right in the middle of the pavement, just a few metres away from the sea, eating and waiting for the sun to rise.
That place has an ethereal beauty to it. The sea was right in front and our backs were to the reservoir and golf courses. It was really peaceful, serene. There was a rocky outcrop, which the waves would hit lightly against. And there were these white birds, which my dad said are cranes (though i doubt so) resting on them and pecking agilely at the water, probably hunting for their food. I counted only a star in the sky, which was slowly disappearing into the morning glow.
We ate while taking in the beauty around us. He told me about his work and football. I told him about school, my friends and the future. He listened attentively and tried to identify who and what i'm talking about. Even though i know that he don't know more than 3 of my friends and jc life is alien to him. He only completed primary school. He knew i needed to talk to someone, so he just listen.
Then in front of us, there were many ripplings in the sea. That means a lot of fishes. We promised to go fishing again. It had been a long time since we'd last gone fishing together. I remembered when my sis and i were young, he would take us to the sembawang jetty and catch flower crabs. We would watch enthusiastically as he cast the nets in to the sea and cheered loudly when he hauled in the nets with the crabs dangling in them. Meanwhile, mummy will fan herself, while reading a magazine and complaining loudly about the heat. Haha. When we grew older, he bought us fishing rods. Then we would go fishing during the holidays, squatting and balancing precariously on rocky outcrops by the reservoir, waiting for hours. Most of the time, we would catch those luohan fishes that were once very popular. After comparing who caught the most number of fishes, we would release them back into the reservoir again.
Now, I've no idea where are those fishing rods. They were lost somewhere amidst the moving of houses and in the web of time. We have all grown up and are far too busy to care about them now. Thinking about all these is making me tear because I fear that in another few years, we would all have grown up, grown old. We may not even have time for each other and all these activities that we'd once enjoyed together would cease to exist.