childhood memories...

i spent the whole of yesterday at a mechanic in Pandan Indah, Cheras. t'was my second time there, and i really didn't notice anything unusual the first time. but on this occasion, it was different.

i stepped into the shop, and was assailed with a particular smell from childhood.

the smell/odour/perfume/mywrist was the smell of new tyres.

yes, tyres, the round typr you put on rims and drive around (geddit?). before you think me weird (mostlikelydoalready) let me explain.

the earliest memories i have are all in the same area, my gramma's house off Titiwangsa. my uncles have a business in rethreading tyres, thus, the aforementioned smells. the house died (ask me another time), but i am pretty sure up until it passed on, the smell was still there.

which brings me to my point. i have a list of stuff, see, and there's loads of random ones, like what songs remind me of whom and what occasion, list of places to go before i die, roads to drive in, etcetc.

this is a list of 10 things that remind me of my childhood.

1. the smell of tyres

2. pacifiers (ok, every kids uses it but i was pretty fond of mine)

3. the sound of cicadas in the heat of afternoon (it reminds me of hot, hot days)

 4. grammas chasing the children asking them to eat their food.

5. raw egg on boiled rice
6. the odour of chickens and their s***

7. single storied wooden houses.

8. a whole kampung of half naked doods sitting outside someones house smoking and talking (i swear, only dudes do this O.O)

9. tamiya cars

10. cheery trees.

-jing-