What's your favourite childhood memory?

Heheh, here's the part where most people will say.

Ahhh....
First time on a swing? First time savouring ice-cream? First time at a theme park? First time......

These are the typical answers people will provide you with, at least that's what I think. Because primary school compos used to have this topic for us to elaborate on, and those were the type of standard answers I could rack my brains with. -.-

Very unoriginal I know, but I am not really good at remembering these kinda moments! :(
Don't get me wrong, its not that I'm not sentimental, but it's just I'm easily satisfied and happy with many things in my life, so I don't really take notice of all of them, or to etch those happy memories in my mind.
As the saying goes, darker moments leave a more lasting impression right?

So.....
Lets see, I've thought up several events, like the very first time i ate jiu-ceng-gao(9 layer kueh, the rainbow coloured one), the fond memories of climbing up and down the stairs of my first house(exec-maisonette), etc!

Really loved crawling up those velvet stairs, and just sitting there reading, or playing with the hats placed on the empty space beside the handrail hehe :)
I MISS THOSE STAIRS!!!
Only lived in that house till I was around 4, so no vivid memories of it.

Anyway, I've been reading this book, 'first they killed my father', and the part 2 - 'after they killed my father'.

It's about this Cambodian girl who had a sad childhood (partly spurring me to blog this entry), yeah.
She kept having nightmares even after the Cambodian-Vietnam war was over, and still lead a hard life in Cambodia for a period of time before taking refuge at Thailand.
From the Thailand refugee camp, she, her brother and his wife were lucky enough to be adopted by an American family, where they moved to Vermont and lead better lives thereafter.
However, during that period, she still missed the rest of her family in Cambodia.
At that time, her brother could only take 1 other sibling to America(due to lack of $$), and he chose her because she was the youngest and most gutsy.
So she felt regretful that her other siblings did not get a chance to move towards a better life unlike her.


Okay, this is a really very lousy summary of the story in my words ._.
My poor summary can never convey the depth of all the events and feelings being portrayed in the autobiography.
That said, please go borrow this book from the library to read. It's really meaningful and inspiring.
MORE USEFUL THAN SOCIAL STUDIES BOOK I THINK.

In part 1 - Many gory details, during the reign of the Khmer Rouge.

(The descriptions were so vivid, I felt like puking at times >.<)

In part 2 - Her life, and her sister's life after the war (Alternating chapters in the book)

Reallyreally love this book! It's amazing this woman can remember everything so distinctly, down to the very minor bits, and she was only so young then!!! 

They did not even have much photographs to reminisce, nor have any clocks to tell the time aiyo. 

And Cambodia has definitely changed, so how is she able to pen this book so many years later with so vivid memories!

I cannot even remember my own childhood properly. If the surrounding has changed, I think it would be even harder to recollect anything

Does the problem lie with me?

Or as time goes by, one really forgets alot of stuff. Heh :/