What a cute heading i got up there huh...hehehe....My post this time was inspired by Ayu, when she commented on the new design i chose for this blog..(It went something like this lar...)

Me: Ayu, masuk la blog saya, dah tukar appearance....canteeeekkkkk...
(After a few seconds)
Ayu: Hahahaha....mula2 saya pun nak choose that one tapi macam Barbie sangat...rasa macam blog untuk Barbie plak..
Me: Hehehehehe....Time nak pilih tu memang la nampak cam Barbie sket coz sample tu siap ada pictures yang macam gambar Barbie kan...but...I LOVE BARBIE!!!!
Ayu: Hahahaha.. ;-p

So...here comes my new entry, it's gonna be all about Barbie and I....

Looking back to the times when I was a child of about 6 years old until i grew up to be twelve...I was CRAZY about BARBIE! I loved my barbies sooooo much, they were very precious to me as the ONE ring was to Smeagol (if u watch LOTR, then u'll know how attached Smeagol was to the ring). I loved dressing them up in fancy tops and mini skirts, or beautiful & elegant dresses, slipping their tiny lil' feet into beautiful tiny lil' shoes, trying out different hairstyles with colourful hairbands to match the outfits. Once, I was bored with her having the same length hair so I cut it short. Immediately after that, I realized i wasn't supposed to do that...She looked very ugly with her hair looking as if it had been bitten off by a rat! Thankfully, my mum got me a new one, so i had 2 barbies instead of one!!YeaY!!What a clever scheme!!!hehehe...Anyway, playing with barbies was such a fun, fun way to fill my time.

Since I was and still am-an only daughter,My Barbie playmates were no sisters but my cousins-though we were close like sisters. Yun and Cha had a Barbie and a Kent and we loved playing them going out on a date(kecik2 dah gatai...hehehehe), going for holidays, cruising in their cars (we didn't have a real Barbie cars so we had to use pillows, bags and other stuff)....and BEST OF ALL, marrying them up.Hahaha...as a child i had a very romantic idea that when a guy and a gurl get married, they've achieve the highest state of love...sealing their love with a noble entity called "The Marriage". (Sigh: how romantic!) And until now...I still have a very high opinion of marriage, it's not an easy thing to accomplish. It requires lots of sacrifices...but at the same time...it is filled with joy and beauty...and soooo much LOVEsSsSsSsSsS...(Apala Baizurah ni dok melalut masuk bab kawin la plak... ;-p)

Back to our topic, I used to play Barbie with Dura too(my other cousin from my dad's side). My favourite game with her was to make our barbies swim in the pool (we used a basin as the pool )....everytime she came over, we spent sooooo much time in the bathroom that our fingers always seemed to shrink (kecut) after we finished with it...After the swims, we'd be left with little energy to dressed our barbies and play other games..So, I guess that's why my memories of playing barbie with Dura seemed to be limited to those swimming sessions...hehehehe Dura, sori aaaa...tak ingat la...

I guess to kids like me (at that time) playing with Barbie made us feel perfect. I can definitely say, many fantasized that we would be as beautiful as Barbie, with a perfect home, tons of beautiful clothes and accesories and a charming "Kent" by our side. But growing up....reality really hits you....you realized that life is not as u once pictured it to be. Sometimes, God doesn't give u what u wish sooo hard to get but there's always GOOD reasons for it. Maybe God does not make u grow up to be as beautiful as u wanted to be coz if HE did, u might be vain, snobbish and self-centered...God doesn't give u much money coz it might ruin your life and HE blessed ur life with pain and sufferings to make u grow closer to him. And growing up as I did, I begun to realize that there's more to life than flawless beauty and beautiful clothes and a handsome "Kent"...these, which are even more precious than all those, are called love and friendships....Things that u could only get with God's blessings...

A few months back, when I was at Pakcik Ghouse's house...I was caught in the whirl of childhood memories when a distant cousin of mine (Sophia) took out her cute backpack filled with barbies and its accesories. She had 6 Barbies mind you! Smiling to myself for reasons no one knew except me, I joined her and her other friends in the game. This time, I gave them ideas to make their games more fun and exciting.They were all like"kakak, let's do this!! and kakak, let's do that!!" .I was happy to see them enjoying themselves with it, though I must admit that it was very poignant and heartrending to realize that i no longer felt the excitement i once felt every time i played with my barbies.But I'm glad I still have the memories with me..........

P/S: I met the grass-cutting Man again on the way to the office. Damn, i was scared like s***, it showed in my face. People were smiling at me with amusement in their eyes...uwwaaaaa!!!Malunyaaaa!!