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Cleaning up the pink drawer
Dedicating this Saturday to throwing out crap from my grade school/high school days.
Starting with the pink drawer in the corner, where there's a leak, so most of the stuff is probably moldy and unrecoverable. I can't keep them around any more, but that doesn't mean I don't want to remember them.
Stationery, glittery things, glue sticks (I used to hoard these: made me feel like a Big Girl!), pencil sharpeners (now rusty, but I hoarded these as well). Oh, why do I have the birthday candles from my thirteenth birthday? (two candles, "1" and "3"(. I think... possibly it's because it was the first year my parents had been home for my birthday in two years (three?) and I was so happy about it?
...a blue piece of crumpled paper. I think it used to contain folded stars that the sister of my friend (phone-almost-boyfriend?) made for me when I was in high school and she was in grade school. She also included some whiteout (brush-type) which should be around somewhere.
Paper bag! I used to hoard these (would you believe?)! Clear glass ashtray someone gave as a present -- I think I thought it was a candy tray? Plastic rulers!!! -- hoarded. Stamps (self-inking) -- same.
Oh dear, golden name stickers. I used to put these on all my school books, except those on which I put on the balloon/cloud variety (with my address). Jumping jack balls. No wait, jackstones? Whatever that game is. I was never good at it.
== And that was drawer #1
Eeh, my mopit (Chinese calligraphy brushes), which I inherited from my sisters! I hated hated hated calligraphy. We had to do it every week, and I was never any good. Ah, there's the inkwell, and some samples of my handwriting.
Grade school graduation pics. We all looked so young. Oh, and pics from the actual graduation. I hadn't realized I was actually thin back then. Thin, somewhat gawky, hah :-)
Corkboard thing that I made and varnished as an arts and crafts project in high school. Somewhat sorry to throw it away, but there it goes. And aww, medals. And oops, old watusi (tiny firecrackers you stomp on?). Probably should not have left that just lying there. An old AM/FM receiver; not sure if it still works. Setting it aside. Medal boxes, from the time when my teachers would enter me into contests without warning me. Some of them still contain actual medals *grin*
== And that was drawer #2
Here are the playing cards from all the airlines I've flown in.
Girl scout notebooks, ahahhah. Oath and law, pledge of allegiance, chant and hymn. I used to have these memorized *rolls around laughing* Which reminds me, I'm still not sure which of the pledges I know is the official pledge. I mean, the earliest one I memorized was the one which goes "indivisible with liberty, etc", but I know it was replaced by one in Filipino some time later, and then replaced again? Or was it only replaced the once? Aw, and these are the notebooks where I actually took the time to write clearly.
Yeah, that pretty much faded before I got to high school.
Diary from when I was in Grade IV (B), with all the interesting pages torn out. Hmm. Forgot what I was hiding. Hm, here's another notebook: contains doodles and math training. Not sure if this was for a specific contest, or if it was the training school sent me to for no reason at all at some point.
There's a test for divisibility for 7? (Group numbers into three digits. Starting from the right, add the odd digits, add thee even digits, then subtract from each other). What is that supposed to accomplish?
GRAND PRIZE: CRAYON SHARPENER *dances* I only ever had one of these. I took such good care of it, so very very good care of it. Oh well. Bye now.
Notepads. Address books. Notebooks. Also hoarded, most never used. Oh, found one which contains actual data, from the time when we were transitioning from six-digit phone numbers to seven-digit ones. This must have been when I was in grade six or so?
I just found letters and cards! Reading them, I see a Christmas card from my sister, from her last Christmas. I... don't remember having seen this before, but I must have, because I kept it.
I found a letter from someone who calls me her best friend, from when I was in Grade 5. Unfortunately, I can't make out the girl's name, and I don't remember who it could be... I'm such a terrible friend *G* Oh wait, found it on the back of the envelope. We drifted apart once we got to high school. I'm not sure she even remembers me now.
Drawings gifted to me as a "token of friendship" from the guy who used to go to my school, who got my phone number from a mutual friend. There is something about about that, which should have tipped me off, but everytime I'd discreetly inquire, he'd laugh and tell me that I was "just like his best friend", so I believed him, until one Valentine's Day, he came to the school gates with a red rose and three pieces of Ferrero Rocher.
=== end of drawer 4
(Drawer three went missing a few years back).
Starting with the pink drawer in the corner, where there's a leak, so most of the stuff is probably moldy and unrecoverable. I can't keep them around any more, but that doesn't mean I don't want to remember them.
Stationery, glittery things, glue sticks (I used to hoard these: made me feel like a Big Girl!), pencil sharpeners (now rusty, but I hoarded these as well). Oh, why do I have the birthday candles from my thirteenth birthday? (two candles, "1" and "3"(. I think... possibly it's because it was the first year my parents had been home for my birthday in two years (three?) and I was so happy about it?
...a blue piece of crumpled paper. I think it used to contain folded stars that the sister of my friend (phone-almost-boyfriend?) made for me when I was in high school and she was in grade school. She also included some whiteout (brush-type) which should be around somewhere.
Paper bag! I used to hoard these (would you believe?)! Clear glass ashtray someone gave as a present -- I think I thought it was a candy tray? Plastic rulers!!! -- hoarded. Stamps (self-inking) -- same.
Oh dear, golden name stickers. I used to put these on all my school books, except those on which I put on the balloon/cloud variety (with my address). Jumping jack balls. No wait, jackstones? Whatever that game is. I was never good at it.
== And that was drawer #1
Eeh, my mopit (Chinese calligraphy brushes), which I inherited from my sisters! I hated hated hated calligraphy. We had to do it every week, and I was never any good. Ah, there's the inkwell, and some samples of my handwriting.
Grade school graduation pics. We all looked so young. Oh, and pics from the actual graduation. I hadn't realized I was actually thin back then. Thin, somewhat gawky, hah :-)
Corkboard thing that I made and varnished as an arts and crafts project in high school. Somewhat sorry to throw it away, but there it goes. And aww, medals. And oops, old watusi (tiny firecrackers you stomp on?). Probably should not have left that just lying there. An old AM/FM receiver; not sure if it still works. Setting it aside. Medal boxes, from the time when my teachers would enter me into contests without warning me. Some of them still contain actual medals *grin*
== And that was drawer #2
Here are the playing cards from all the airlines I've flown in.
Girl scout notebooks, ahahhah. Oath and law, pledge of allegiance, chant and hymn. I used to have these memorized *rolls around laughing* Which reminds me, I'm still not sure which of the pledges I know is the official pledge. I mean, the earliest one I memorized was the one which goes "indivisible with liberty, etc", but I know it was replaced by one in Filipino some time later, and then replaced again? Or was it only replaced the once? Aw, and these are the notebooks where I actually took the time to write clearly.
Yeah, that pretty much faded before I got to high school.
Diary from when I was in Grade IV (B), with all the interesting pages torn out. Hmm. Forgot what I was hiding. Hm, here's another notebook: contains doodles and math training. Not sure if this was for a specific contest, or if it was the training school sent me to for no reason at all at some point.
There's a test for divisibility for 7? (Group numbers into three digits. Starting from the right, add the odd digits, add thee even digits, then subtract from each other). What is that supposed to accomplish?
GRAND PRIZE: CRAYON SHARPENER *dances* I only ever had one of these. I took such good care of it, so very very good care of it. Oh well. Bye now.
Notepads. Address books. Notebooks. Also hoarded, most never used. Oh, found one which contains actual data, from the time when we were transitioning from six-digit phone numbers to seven-digit ones. This must have been when I was in grade six or so?
I just found letters and cards! Reading them, I see a Christmas card from my sister, from her last Christmas. I... don't remember having seen this before, but I must have, because I kept it.
I found a letter from someone who calls me her best friend, from when I was in Grade 5. Unfortunately, I can't make out the girl's name, and I don't remember who it could be... I'm such a terrible friend *G* Oh wait, found it on the back of the envelope. We drifted apart once we got to high school. I'm not sure she even remembers me now.
Drawings gifted to me as a "token of friendship" from the guy who used to go to my school, who got my phone number from a mutual friend. There is something about about that, which should have tipped me off, but everytime I'd discreetly inquire, he'd laugh and tell me that I was "just like his best friend", so I believed him, until one Valentine's Day, he came to the school gates with a red rose and three pieces of Ferrero Rocher.
=== end of drawer 4
(Drawer three went missing a few years back).