Hi everyone!
I just turned ten on Wednesday, yes the BIG 1-0! We spent the day together, my mama, my baby sister and I, just walking about and talking and eating, it was really fun! My mama says I am the luckiest girl alive, because a friend of hers sent us some money for a cake, but it was actually enough to have a sushi lunch with, and I ate so much my stomach was bloated, but a happy kind of bloated. Thank you, Aunty Katja! I’m sorry for not getting a cake because I reeeeeallly wanted sushi for my birthday!
Anyway, having another birthday got me thinking. I have been looking forward to being ten since I was five, and now that I am here, I am going to just enjoy it! My mama and I came up with this really funny thing that we did the whole day of my birthday: we were using my grandfather’s old car that we normally use to go to the supermarket or school and we just know it is going to die sometime soon, but Rusty (we named it Rusty!) is still being good to us, and we still love him because he gets us out of this house when we need to buy something, like wipes or nappy for my baby sister. Anyway, since Rusty is so old, there is no aircond and in Malaysia, not having aircond is bad! It’s so hot! So we roll the windows down, all of it, when we are in Rusty and sometimes the smells are bad or the roads are dusty, but we need the wind or else we can die!
So, we were in Rusty, the windows are down, and my mama started shouting “1-0” like Terry says “9-9” in Brooklyn 99. Brooklyn 99 is one of the best shows ever! My mama says a show is a good show if you can’t choose just one favourite character because they’re all so funny. My favourite characters are Terry (of course!) and Captain Holt and Charles.
So the whole day for my birthday, we started shouting “1-0” every time a car passes by. It was so funny and fun!
And that made me realise that I was in fact, actually ten! And my mind started to go on overwhelm mode again, and this time, it kept telling me all the things that I’m going to miss out on because I am all grown up. That made me sad.
So I thought I’d share these two things here with you, in the form of drawings (that I made when we got back from our most wonderfullest sushi lunch!)
Cuteness\Looks
Babies have it all. All babies are born cute, even the ones that cry all the time, and my mama says babies need to be cute so people would feed them, like if they were left alone or something. I mean, if I saw a baby, I would want to make sure it didn’t cry too, and babies usually only cry when they are hungry, so yeah, that makes sense.
But for pre-teens like me, the babies that are growing can sometimes become ugly. People like your grandparents or strangers sometimes, they just say you are cute and pretty only because they love us (and they don’t want to hurt our feelings), or there is some kind of prank going on.
Attention
Yes I get that babies need more attention because they can’t do some things themselves and when they cry, it is either about being hungry, or because they’re not getting what they want and they just want someone to help them out but what about me???
For new babies, they get cuddled, and even sleep for the ENTIRE YEAR. But when I want to rest, I can’t because there isn’t enough time to do the things I want to be doing and I can’t do the things I want to do because I need help too, or maybe the game I want to play is a two-player game and I don’t have anyone to play it with because mama is busy with my sister who needs her attention AND GETS IT all the time! When that happens I think that my mama won’t even be able to rescue me if I am on fire because she will be too late to come because she was busy feeding my sister and by that time I am already a black corpse.
So these are my two things that I think are important because they are the hardest to deal with. Are there any more? Yes! But I won’t bore you with that. Actually, I can’t bore you with them because I feel like playing gin-rummy right now with my mama and I have to go now before my cute sister wakes up! Bye!
Happy birthday!!