Wednesday, June 4, 2008

The Girl In Me


When I was a lil kid my mom told me that i was a very naughty, clumsy, but talented and smart girl. I am impish to the point that I even crawl up to stairs carelessly that I tumble so many times. I even play munggo seeds then put it inside my nostrils. Gosh! what a kid! I was ran into the hospital when that happen. I also play with electrical plugs and it was countless times I experienced grounded. Then there was this one time when my nanny was ironing clothes, I went over to what she was doing when she was back off. Perhaps due to my playful curiosity, I thought that iron was a new stuff to play. Oh-my-god! My very first burn! That memory will never be forgotten, I got a mark forever in my behind arms. It was a big remembrance of my carelessness placed above my elbows. From then on, I was afraid to hold that stupid man-made creation. And even right now at my age, I still dont know how to use it well. That thing lead me to some sorta "__burnphobia'. Also I remember how I love to draw at the wall of our house, but not at this time where my mom got mad at me. I used not crayons but pentel pens and drew a BIG portrait of an aquarium filled with fishes of different types. I didn't remember how I got that idea.. maybe because i was watching lil mermaid that time. HEhe:-) But in fairness in the age of 4, I can say that i have a talent in drawing. HAhAa! every time I remember how I drew that big fishes I am really laughing-because mom can't erase those non-living marine animals. Until we moved out here in Laguna we leave the old apartment with fishes on the wall. Another one is I liked to fool around my dad's big chest. What i will do is pinch his tits from time to time then I love it when I will seat on his feet as he was lying crunched and then he will stretch my arms like I was a flying girl then swing it. Well, I admit I am a daddy's girl before. -not now. But I know that despite of my rebellious act my dad still loves me so much and I was still his lil girl. Oh i forgot to tell you, supposedly I should have an elder sister, but mom miscarriage her so I became the first born and the eldest of my siblings. But after my birth it was a couple of years before my brother came out in the world. I can say that at the time that I was their only child,... im an ultimate spoiled brat!

Mama and Papa loves to bring me at malls. Almost everyday I have new dresses, shades, shoes, blings. Name it. That time since my parents had only me and my brother, my parents still have a well-off and prosperous life. I have a lot of pictures in my photo album where almost 1/2 of my "solo"-toddler-to-childhood-existence is in different places. Though some of them are with my brother. That time my utmost rascal as a kid still shines. Hehe! So here it goes: While I was growing and being a spoiled brat kid, I got what i want instantly. I will just simply blurb to my papa and yahoo got it! My brother's birth brings me happiness because I will have an ultimate playmate, but somehow I think attention to me wouldn't be the same anymore. Even the focus of attention of my parents was now for the their two children, I was still happy because I love my baby brother and I love to be ate.

I grown totally as an extrovert kid and a bibbo one. Maybe I can't blame myself, but I will not blame my parents. Being an extrovert as a kid is actually one of the best way to develop a kid. (well, this is actually my opinion as a grown up not just because this is actually me before.) Since my parents always bring me to different places specially at malls these are the things that influenced my grown-up: cinema malls and tv at home-(which is entertainment), shopping of new garbs at mall again -(which is fashion), and oh i forgot to mention these two good people who also cared and stay for me when I was a toddler. My auntie's. Auntie Sussan, sister of my mom- an ultimate fashionista. That until now at the age of 40's she still stay slim,stunning and never out of style. And my Auntie Clarisse, sister of my dad. She was a fine-arts graduate. Real artist of painting, sculpting and calligraphy writing. I have a cousins with them which is almost my same age. I was just older than them.

I love singing and dancing as well as posing infront of camera. That time my parents was clueless on what their daughter wanted to be with or to become in the future. One thing they're sure at: im a bibo girl, confident and talented and that's what they want to develop more. I am honestly saying this because these are what I am when I was a kid. I still remember some of those days and pictures that still reminds me of me.

Manilyn Reynes and Aiza Seguerra were one of my influences on my childhood performer career. They are at their prime that time. I sang the songs of Manilyn Reynes while Aiza Seguerra wons the Lil Ms. Philippine title and became a child star. I idolized them both. That time my parents let me participate in different types of activities while at the same time Im studying in a nursery school. Outside and inside the school, I already had a hectic schedule-wow! parang artista! harhar! See, I was a real spoiled brat here, and a real active and extrovert lil girl. My activities are as listed below: Ballet lesson, Piano lesson, dance activities in school, Singing rehearsal for my talent in Baby SM competition and always practice performance at home. Then after a year I joined Little Ms. Philippines. I remeber how i performed in the stage with a huge audience watching.. and I was confident. Unfortunately...and maybe this field is not a God's will for me. I got a chicken pox exactly on the date of the Finals of Little Ms. Phils. So of course, I have a high fever and can't make it anymore for the finals. When i turned grade 1 (7years old) I was put in a magazine with a picture of me and short feature of me as one of bibbo kids in the existence of that time. My dad has a friend in that publishing magazine company and ask my dad to let me in their mag. wow! I dont know how I got such ala model pose when I was a kid! Mom told me that know one taught me to do such poses and she even wonder how I develop that kind of camera portrait. Evertyme they will shot me a pic, automatically I always have a ready pose. Actually different pose. But unique and quite odd pose as for my age.

Even if i have a hectic schedule in my outdoor activities I still have time to my friends. Yes, I have "tropa" na! heheh! My childhood neighbor and even my classmates are my circle. I love to hangout with them in the playground. Hide and seek, patintero, Langit lupa, 10-20,tumbang preso, moro-moro, jolens, text, cards name it almost all kinds of game that even guys used to played. I remember one time when my mom got really mad at me and hit me because after dismissal in my kinder days, I didn't yet go home and it was already 6pm i am playing in the playground still wearing the uniform. I am too grubby and sweaty. Plus I haven't yet ate a meal-just to play. I cried not because she wants me to go home and my playtime ended, but I got mad at her to hit me in front of my playmates which is actually my classmates too. I cried until we reached home. Their are also some activities at school I participated like poster making where I won 1st place at the first time of experience, essay writing and at intrams I always join obstacle relay. Okay, one thing isn't all about me- SPORTS LOVER. I didn't like sports, or maybe sports doesn't like me. But I say to myself that one day I will try mountain climbing, scuba diving, wake boarding. The only sports I knew how to play, but Im not good at is: volleyball, bowling, badminton. That's it.

I do not have any idea about liking an opposite sex, or what we called "crush". Not until I reached the third garde. But that was too far off my story here. Altough I used to be closed with guy friends before and have a best guy friend that time. Even I was still an innocent girl I have this love team my parents used to teased around... duh. His name is Nonoy. Shucks totoy na totoy tlga! hahaha! (This was the time when we still live at manila). He was a chinito boy, quite cute though. But after leaving Manila I do not have any idea about how was him and what does he look like now. Though honestly too, I already forgot him and I d dint even have an effort to remember him. I dont even know his real name. I just remember his existence due to the pictures that we have in my photo album. Their are alot of pictures of ours. Like we are kissing in lips, holding hands and hugging! gosh! I cant even remember how I did that! maybe our parents taught us what to pose every time they will took us a pic. His parents and my parents are closed as a neighbor. When we move here in Laguna another so called boyfriend my parents used to pull again to me. His name is Arel. And later... on my 4th yr high school he became my classmate. He is so different now and I cant imagine his changes- why? Because now HE is a SHE! hahaha! My mom and his mom are co-workers and we are at the same village. We became close friend and I always play with him together with other kids. But that's just it. But still our parents took the opportunity of our innocents to play and pull us again by having pictures of us like lovers. Hay...

Now my mom told me and realized that no wonder how I became right now, and what I became now. The me when I was a kid was still "QUITE" me in the present. But of course sometimes things change, and need to be changed. As I grew up and I learn to know little by little the right and wrong, bad and good, if it makes the people happy or sad and mad, and make my own decisions, and to understand others then I realized that I am thankful to have a good parents like them who taught me and develop me in someone they wanted me to be me. Because those things really have a big help for me in terms of almost everything: not just about me, on what i want and have, but also sharing my life with other people as I go along with them. Right now I already started to make my own decision. I am somehow glad I have an understanding parents that are always there. Now I can say that I enjoyed those years that gone by as a kid. The little girl that i was before. Now I am not girl anymore, but sometimes the girl I was before is still in me. So I might as well say, maybe Im still that girl...


A little bit. ^_^