dimanche, janvier 02, 2005 Well, not really goodbye, but goodbye to the entire shelf of newspaper and magazine clippings (from both overseas and Singapore) - I've finally sat down, bitten the bullet, and pulled out those pictures of DD and GA and THROWN THEM AWAY. I've kept some which were simply too great to throw, but the rest is history once the garbage man arrives tomorrow.I'm sad. I've got clippings there dated 1994 - that's 10 years ago, when I was in Sec Sch. Kristine, Cheryl, Xi'en, Adeline, Veronica - all my co-conspirators in buying all sorts of X-Files related merchandise without my mom freaking out - everything they ever gave me was in those files. And now, unfortunately, I have to say goodbye, because the time for childish things is past, and more importantly, space for grown-up things is needed. Reading through those newspaper articles made me smile - it's really almost like being transported back to when Cheryl and I would walk down the AMK hill to our bus stop, pausing only at the mama shop halfway down to check out the latest issue of STAR! magazine, to see if the pictures of DD or GA were good this time around (they were famous for printing the most awful photo shoots of anyone this side of the universe.) I would peruse them and ponder, and Cheryl would wait patiently by the side, picking out a Yakult flavour, or one of those long sugus bars for 10cents or something. Finally, when I bordered the "enough is enough" time limit, she'd make a snap decision for me - "Buy it." (or not.) Sometimes I'd listen to her, sometimes I wouldn't. Xi-en would send me stuff she read in etc magazine (oh man, remember those days? Of Lime and Backstreet Boys CDs?) - all folded up into four or six and sent via SingPost at 20cents. Veronica bought me official XF postcards from her travels with her parents. Adeline doing the same. I must have postcards from every Universal Studios in America now. I see the postcards - kept in pristine condition - and I marvel at how we found the time to do all this stuff, and still study our asses off. The junk pile also chronicled my very first experience with eBay - buying the X-Files Expo Pack off someone who attended and grabbed a few extra packs for selling. Smart guy. (I kept the Expo Pack, just in case you're wondering.) This was even before the days of PayPal, so everything was done via bank/mail order, so the eBay experience was followed closely by my first experience with the S$5 surcharge for mail orders (versus $10 for bank orders) and the exchange rate system. (Which gets divided by which again?) So when I went through all this stuff and started throwing it away, it really felt like I was saying goodbye to a piece of my history. I know in my head that this is nonsense, that I would never have touched that pile of stuff again in my life unless it was to move house (and in which case I would probably throw it all away anyway), but still, it was a sad and fond farewell to the pieces of Entertainment Weekly, 8 Days, Etc, Lime (which incidentally featured the best version of all the DD posters I've seen - one still hangs over my bed now), GQ, Cleo, Shivers and all the rest. I'm sad. (But I've got one side shelf half-free now.) [Goodbye, Fox Mulder] |
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