Old Crushes #2

My closest friends and I have been talking about our old crushes in emails. Some of us have never really shared our old crushes to one another, so I suppose it's high time that we shared our "skeletons in the closet". Well, not exactly "skeletons" ha ha ha...but anyhow...

It was interesting to note that some of us don't really know anymore why we ever had a crush to certain boys in the past (this feeling appeared when we looked up the boys in recent years or when we accidentally met them somewhere). However, some crushes are still memorable enough to tell. The butterflies in the stomach, being tongue-tied when we were face-to-face with our crushes, doing silly things he he he...

I remember that when I was around 15 years old, I started having a crush to a classmate. You can read the story here: Old Crushes.





When I met R2 for the first time, it was also VERY VERY nerve-wrecking because I had to suppress my feelings so much. I knew he was the one, but I just couldn't let my feelings control me because we hadn't met in real life yet. But the meeting was really "the final piece of the puzzle" (just like an Aussie emailpal phrased it - read this post to get a better idea: Missing A Friend).

Last night I was rereading my old emails and I found one email I wrote to a Belgian emailpal, telling him about our wedding plan (I wrote the email in 2005). He replied: "What? You're planning to get married already to a guy whom you met only once, and that meeting happened over a year ago? You're a brave girl!"

I didn't feel brave at that time. I just knew in my heart and guts that it was the right thing to do (I didn't think it was such a big decision except for the part where I had to leave my job, family, and friends behind and started life from zero again - but the part about him was something I was so sure about), so I suppose my heart was much stronger than my logic, because now when I REALLY think about it (with my logic), things COULD have gone REALLY wrong...but they didn't and I'm SO THANKFUL for it. :-D But if I had a daughter who said she'd get married to a guy she met once in real life, I would have probably not known what to do or say. Now I'm just stunned to think at how much my parents (esp. my Mom) trusted my judgment and choice. *bowing in respect*





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P.S. Oh yeah, while we were talking about old crushes, come to think of it R2 had it "easy" because he didn't really have to ask my hand to my parents or anything like that. I mean, he came to Indo to meet my parents a few days prior to our wedding day, so my parents had accepted him even before they met him HA HA HA HA HA HA...Lucky him!!! :-D


P.P.S. A few years ago I showed R2 my class picture and told him to guess which one was the boy that I had a crush on. He scanned the pic for a little while and then pointed to the guy. I was shocked. I asked him how he knew. He said, "It's easy. I just picked the most handsome one of the bunch." GAAAAAHHH!!! NOT FUNNNN!!! HE HE HE HE HE...

Whose Tracks Are These?

Last night I remembered something. When R2 came to visit for the first time in Indo to marry me, I gave him all my journal books. I also showed him many pics, including my class pics in Elementary School, Junior High School, and High School.

Then I told him that I had a crush on two boys in my Junior High School pic and I asked him to guess who they were. There were about 20 boys in my class at that time. After browsing all the faces for some time, he picked two of them and that made me STUNNED. He got both of them RIGHT!

I said to him, "How did you know? HOW DID YOU KNOW??????"

At this point, I thought he was psychic LOL LOL LOL!!!

He said calmly as usual, "Easy. I just picked the handsome ones."

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

I refuse to admit that I only had crushes on cute boys he he he he...Besides, they say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so our views on who is "cute" and who isn't may be TOTALLY different, right? I think he was just lucky in guessing he he he...

Anyway, last Saturday I found which we thought would be a hare's (jänis in Finnish) tracks near my in-laws' place. Here's the pic (my shoe size is 37):


Do you think these could be a hare's tracks?

I'd LOVE to take some pics of the hare. I once had the privilege to see one hare stop in front of me for a second before it run as fast as it could to the forest. I had NO time to prepare my camera at all. :-((((

Well, maybe someday! ;-D

Memories From the Past: Schooldays

Let's reminisce again, shall we? I have a funny story to tell about my brother. I'm glad he doesn't read this blog 'coz I think he might kill me if he reads this one ha ha ha ha ha...But first, let me tell you about me.

The other day my closest friends and I talked about our first crushes. One of them had a "boyfriend" when she was as young as 6 years old. I told them that my first crush was probably when I was around 7 or 8 years old. I was still in Elementary School back then and we had two 10-minute breaks during the day or one 20-minute break (they changed the system during the time I was there). As usual, kids would play and run around the school yard. When I had a crush on that boy, I used to suggest playing cops and bandits. I LOVED playing as a cop since I ran pretty fast and then I could catch the bandit (the boy I had a crush on) by hugging him HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI...Ahem!!!

It was an innocent hugggggggggggg!!! And of course he didn't mind it since it was a game and the cops were supposed to catch the bandits by hugging them, OKAY? That's the rule HI HI HI HI HI HI...Doh! Who am I trying to convince here? LOL!!!

Anyway, do you remember your VERY first crush? How old were you back then? Do you remember his/her name? I still remember the boy's name and his face, though he's probably changed A LOT now that over 20 years have passed by he he he...

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Now on to my brother...unlike schools in America, in Indonesia the teachers come to our classrooms, so we stayed in the same assigned classroom all through the school year (except for university students). Most teachers disliked it when the students asked to go to the toilet, since it bothered them, I guess. Usually they only allowed one student or two to go to the toilet, but no more. One time my brother's teacher was unhappy since one student after another asked for permission to go to the toilet. Then she stated in front of the class, "I will NOT allow anyone to go to the toilet during MY lessons. Period."

Being an obedient student, my brother obeyed her. However, one day during the teacher's lesson, a girl sitting next to my brother yelled at the teacher, "Teacher, teacher, he peed on the floor!" while pointing to my brother.

The teacher was shocked, but then she came closer to inspect the situation. She immediately asked my brother to tell my Mom that she had to go to school to have a meeting with her hi hi hi hi hi hi...

You know what she said to my Mom? She said that when she went to inspect my brother's desk, she realized that my brother's pants were dry, yet the floor WAS wet HA HA HA HA HA...And she said that she was sorry for having told them that she wouldn't allow anyone to go to the toilet during her lessons. Oh dear...Actually, my brother had done the act more than once already, simply to obey the teacher hi hi hi hi hi...Ain't he something? LOL!!!

Now I hope after publishing this post, this blog will still be considered family-friendly HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE...

Old Crushes

I've been a member of Friendster for several years. It's a bit like Facebook or My Space. You can find your old schoolmates or old friends there by typing in their names or their email addresses. Funny thing is that over the past week, I've found two guys I used to have a crush on. It was back in Junior High School and it reminded me of wonderful memories of gazing at them (droolingly) from afar, admiring them without their knowing about it.

I don't remember much about one of them since he was a year older than me, so I didn't get to see him often. So when I saw his picture in Friendster, I was a bit surprised since I didn't recognize him anymore. Well, it's been around 15 years. What could I expect, eh?

I remember the other guy perfectly, though. In fact, I have one memorable story about him. We were in the same class on the third grade in Junior High School and I admired the guy since he was funny and cute. He was the class clown, so to speak. He had so many friends and rumor said that he had a girlfriend already, another girl in my class. But I didn't care about that. All I wanted to do was glance at him every now and then and if possible had a chance to talk to him.

You should know that in Indo, we don't have a big indoor cafeteria or dining room for everybody to eat together. We only have some canteens where you can buy food and drinks and you can eat on your own desk or on some benches outside the classrooms. So wipe away the image of a huge cafeteria or dining room from your head. The only chance we get to interact is either in the classroom or in the laboratory or during recess. Even during recess kids usually group with their usual close friends and they don't mingle together too much. School starts at around 7 am and ends at around 1 pm. Sometimes then we have a Physics or Biology lab class starting at around 2 pm till 4 pm (only once a week).

Anyhow, I was thrilled since the guy was in the same Physics and Biology lab group with me. The school coordinated us into groups based on our names in alphabetical order. Since the guy's first name started from A as well, then he belonged to the same group as I did. At least I could talk to him while we worked on our lab assignments. YIHHHAAAA!!!

After having a crush on him for a month or two, I got VERY VERY LUCKY!!! Until then, our class teacher allowed us to sit with anybody we wanted to, and mostly girls sat with other girls. However, upon noticing that our grades had slowly begun to worsen, he thought it was due to the fact that we kept on talking to one another instead of focusing on our lessons. Thus he decided to draw a map of the desks and made sure each girl sat next to a guy. And whom did he assign me to sit next to? YEEEESSSS!!! That guy I had a crush on!!! I couldn't believe my luck.

The day we were supposed to follow my class teacher's order, my heart went pitter-patter when I walked to my classroom. It was just crazy!!! However, turned out I had fun sitting next to him, of course he he he he he...Maybe my feelings were quite obvious to my closest friends, 'coz they started teasing me a lot about him. I never told them that I had a crush on him, though, until years later.

After a few months, unfortunately the teacher decided to give us back our freedom. However, at least I had the time of my life during the few months! I would make sure I wore my tighter skirt and I'd done up my hair nicely (I had long hair back then) and I was ready to help him whenever he needed it. He used to borrow my eraser a lot and sometimes he even put it in his own pencil case!!! Then I would be confused where my eraser went and after a long while, I'd find it in his pencil case. He loved doing silly stuff such as singing in between lessons and then leaning close to me with such a funny face, pretending to serenade me with his voice. My closest friends would laugh at me when they saw me being "cornered" by him while he was doing it as I'd definitely blush. Ahhhh...those were funny moments. ;-D

It's just nice to find my old crushes and finding out how they're doing these days. It's amazing how the internet can connect so many people EVERYWHERE. I still have at least three more old crushes and now I'm also wondering how they're doing. I never gathered up enough courage to do anything much with them, though. But still they were lovely memories. Butterflies in the stomach, blushing every now and then, and the whole shebang. ;-D