Biking suddenly seems to fun to me, especially after the experience of night biking during my chalet in Pasir Ris. I do miss the times whereby I would ride a bike (not my own though, i can't afford one!) with my friends around the neighbourhood every weekend during my primary school days. soon, we found ourselves venturing into new routes - along expressways and into new areas of AMK that we didn't know they existed at that time.

it's darn cool and fun to be riding at top speeds, having the wind breeze across your face. and best of all, you're not alone. with friends as your companion, it had always been a great time whenever we go biking together. but all that seemed to stop when each of us slowly progressed into another stage of our lives.

no more playing soccer in the void decks, no more biking on weekends. somehow, we feel that we each have our own way to go and our own timetable to follow. it's kinda irritating to have someone missing from our cliche of friends whenever we have somwthing planned out. furthermore, few of us started to part ways in which we can only communicate through telephone cables; by moving house of course.

so guys being guys, we don't usually hog the phones for hours, talking to each other. it's kinda weird, i wouldn't say it's kinda sissy though I am resisiting it. it's just that we prefer to hand around at void decks and playgrounds and have our chit-chat sessions. i swear the longest conversation ever had at that time was when I had to wait for my friend to finish his small business halfway through my "proposal" for him to meet up with the rest of the guys at the void deck. the rest had always gone like this :

Me: "hey, today 1.30 can make it or not ah?"
Friend: "1.30 ah? ok, set."

1330 on saturdays had always been our auspicious time of the week i should say. it was almost telephatic among us that we don't need to be draggy about what we'll be doing when we meet at 1330. soccer had always been our passion and after which we'll be playing games like "block catching", "rounders", "ali-pom" at the void deck and "three blind mice" and "catching" at the playground. of course we did went for biking, but only if our legs can still pedal the distance that we planned to cover.

i know i've digressed into my childhood, pardon me. i can't help it though, haha! my friends and I formed such a big group that we can almost make a football team - complete with reserves! it is so coincedental that we live so near each other; only a one or two blocks away. we got to know people who we didn't know existed or had the same interests as us.

i don't know if we are popular among the residents at that time but we are notorious for sure. we kept having the RC people coming down to warn us not to play soccer at the void deck as it's causing inconvenience to the residents, especially those on the 2nd floor! then police started to patrol the area much more frequently. but who cares! we can't let them deprive us of our childhood!

now as i looked at my void deck, the feeling of deja vu came back to me. pictures of my childhood filled up the emptiness of my void deck everytime i passed by it. the playground. toddlers fill up the spaces as usual, unlike my time whereby even the "grown-ups" act like innocent little children.

currently, there's a small bunch of small kids who i always see playing soccer together. but i bet, with all my money in my account, that they can never surpass my generation. they will never have as many friends, who are their neighbours after all, as I did. they will never get to experience as much fun as what i had gone through. i'm trying my best not to be big-headed here but the "Golden Generation" is gone. everyone has grown up into fulfilling their own passion and dreams.

children now are behaving more materialistically than ever. spending money on such expensive gadgets that they'll eventually get tired of. and their parents? kept bowing down to their kids' demands. no wonder kids are starting to believe in fairytales like the genie in the lamp in story of Aladdin.

for 17 years i have stuck in the same neighbourhood and i have never gone weary of it. in fact, i've grown into it that it has such sentimental value for me. "back to the main point", i should say a big thank you to Elf for rekindling my childhood interest that have been lost for such a long time in me. speaking of which i'd love to learn how to skate now. in-line skating that is. skateboarding is pretty much a secondary interest to me currently. is it too late join skating as a CCA now? i really don't know. maybe i should just give a shot at it....?