Early Days
To all folks who know me well.... I'm born on 9th August, the National Day of Singapore.
Therefore, I always celebrate my birthday by watching television and watching all the performances, uniform parades and fireworks feeling glad that 4 million Singaporeans are celebrating my birthday haha~
EXCEPT for last year (2002) though, when my unit's stuck in National Stadium doing all the fatigue work but frankly speaking it was fun! Secondly that was also the first time I celebrated my birthday "live" at National Stadium =P
Of course, I wasn't spared from my friends' attacks an we were playing water games at the end of the parade until our uniforms are wet....
That reminds me of a story that happened exactly 20 years ago.... A 25 year old woman and her 30 year old husband were about to travel to National Stadium(was the celebration held there that year? I'm not sure) and suddenly the woman was about to give birth. Left with no choice, the poor bloke had to rush his wife to KK Hospital(where most babies are born) and a baby boy was born at 1917hours....
No prizes for correct answer, that baby is me and the couple is my parents ;>
My very first home is in Kallang Bahru, quite central and also pretty close to National Stadium.... We lived in a three room apartment unitl i was six. During my birthdays I used to watch those beautiful fireworks while eating my birthday cake in the kitchen.
According to my parents, I do not speak my first words till I was three.... Ironically the first words i said is not the usual "papa" or "mama" BUT "jia3 kopi"( it means 'drink coffee' in hokkien). The fact that this is ironic is due to the fact that from young till now I'm always very weak in Hokkien but much stronger in Mandrain and English.
From young I've always been following my mom to eat breakfast everyday at the hawker centre at Kallang Bahru, and I can say that I'm in love with the "lor mee" there ever since. Lor mee is a kind of noodles that is cooked in braised gravy topped with varieties of fried meat, fishpaste and boiled egg. Unlike other lor mee sellers who used braised eggs for their noodles, these hawkers used hard boiled eggs that are softer and tastier than typical braised eggs.
Furthermore their fried meat is fantastic.... they are really crispy and delicious, and they are very generous with their servings. Only $2 per bowl ~hehe~
15 years have passed and my family still patronize the stall without fail every year, even if it means travelling half of Singapore just to get a taste of it.
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