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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

a few days ago,
watching parent trap,mummy commented:
"no proper father would choose another over their kids,"
momentary pause as i nodded,
"wait,sorry dear. there are fathers like that"

that pretty much wiped the smile off my face
but i held back tears,
i knew mummy meant this statement as a joke.

look at me,
six years after my parents' separation,
i'm stronger,i don't care right?
not completely
Because i still miss my father
i still miss him so very much

y'all don't know how lucky you are to have your father with you,
lovin you,
still being there everyday at home.
you'd never think he's gonna go anywhere.

i wound up the musical clown in my room,
ran i through four,five times as i cried and eventually,
fell asleep.
the familiar tinkling of the doll,
in the tune of an old song "feelings"

Daddy just came back from vietnam that week and he was ill with a fever.
janice and i wound up the doll to listen to while he lay in bed

"feelings,nothing more than
feelings
trying to forget my
feelings of love.."

he had sung in a barely audiable voice,
just above whisper.
i'll always remember him and that song.
whenever he was in vietnam and i missed him,
i'd sing that song.
except at first i didn't know the words so i sang it as
"felix, nothing more than felix"
i miss him you know,
i miss him so much.

teardrops,
rolling down on my face
trying to forget my
feelings of love

oh how these words echo what is inside my heart,
my feelings

- xoxo
charis loves you
9:54 PM

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only yours baby

i'm charis vera Ng,
i'm NOT a Singaporean, i was born in UK
but i spent most of my four years in scotland
i love alastair(:
i'm doing my best to live for God though i often fail miserably

ok,try this:
you're this girl who's flown over to this country when you're no more than four years of age
you resent your dad for it,
and it doesn't help when things between your parents don't work out either.

so you miss your home terribly,
you miss going strawberry-picking,
you miss eating boiled eggs out of egg-cups
and you miss warm and cuddly Uncle John and Aunty Esther.

instead,
you find yourself forced to change
and adapt in a horribly hot place
where in primary school,
you meet cold,heartless little kids who ignore you and don't let you play "family"
just cos your accent is different.
early on,
you get weird looks and you find yourself going for recess breaks alone.
your classmates complain to the class teacher when you call them stupid
because they don't understand what to you is simple english.
but they leave you alone when you call them an imbecile
because they don't know what it means.
your primary 1 & 2 class teacher takes joy in complaining to your mummy
because she detests you.
she detests you for constantly correcting her english grammer and pronunciation in front of the class
you soon realize that you can actually gain and keep friends upon them finding out your mother's an actress
but by that time you've more or less forced yourself to lose your accent which makes communication a lot easier anyway.

that was the little girl charis,
now,
on top of that,
i can be a total biotch sometimes, towards people.
and don't tell me you aren't sometimes please.
but i try my very best not to bitch about people.
im a dangerous shopper(=
i never know what i want or need til i see it.

i don't like television.
now that's a first innit?HAH.
bet you never knew someone who didn't like tv
well i don't
and i'm not trying to be different and difficult
it's noisy and boring
i like music:)
i find eating a chore but i love snacking
figure that out
i find certain kinds of pain addictive,
no, i promise i'm still sane.

which is actually pretty remarkable for someone living here,
in this time and place
where you normally get loads of homework,
tests with questions that look like they're in foreign language,
and where everything's a competition to be the best,
the prettiest,
the most popular,
the most hated,
the thinnest,
the fattest, the coolest
the list goes on.
one shouldn't try to be something you're not,
but everyone knows that's easier said than done.
like duurh.