{"id":239,"date":"2010-11-20T16:44:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T22:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/?p=239"},"modified":"2010-11-20T16:44:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T22:44:14","slug":"me-the-cheeky-little-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/me-the-cheeky-little-boy","title":{"rendered":"Me&#8230; The Cheeky Little Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was clearing my stuff few weeks ago and recovered some of my childhood photos&#8230; gosh&#8230; time really flies&#8230; and how much I have changed.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back at these photos&#8230; I did realize that I was once a really cheeky little boy, who wants attention and very very daring.<\/p>\n<p>You can see from here&#8230; one of it is taken with my elder brother and the other, my cousin, both of them older than I am.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/http:\/\/www.kenjitay.com\/blog\/public_html\/kenjitay\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DSC00061.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-240\" title=\"Me and My Elder Brother\" src=\"http:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/http:\/\/www.kenjitay.com\/blog\/public_html\/kenjitay\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DSC00061-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/http:\/\/www.kenjitay.com\/blog\/public_html\/kenjitay\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DSC00061-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/http:\/\/www.kenjitay.com\/blog\/public_html\/kenjitay\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DSC00061-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/http:\/\/www.kenjitay.com\/blog\/public_html\/kenjitay\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DSC00061.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Yes.. they are my very best childhood friend I would say.. as we were gap 1 year apart from each other, with my elder brother as the first, my cousin second, and me.. third.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously&#8230; we shared a lot a lot of wonderful times together&#8230; and because they are older and wiser.. and I am the egoistic ones.. I always wanted to be on par with them&#8230; I guess that&#8217;s what motivated me to compete with them as I grew.<\/p>\n<p>I can still remember very clearly an incident that probably best describe how naughty and cheeky I am as a kid&#8230;. <em><strong>GREEDY<\/strong><\/em> in a sense too.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; nobody shares really embarrassing stories&#8230; but these are memories&#8230; and should I grow senile one day.. at least it&#8217;ll still stay online forever&#8230; (now that&#8217;s scary&#8230; imagine reading a blog from a dead person 100 years from now =P)<\/p>\n<p>I was about 4 or 5 years old back then&#8230; and really a greedy little boy. The 3 of us were staying at my grandma&#8217;s place and one day.. I happened to open the fridge and saw a bowl of logans or lychees. You know.. those can sweet desserts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/http:\/\/www.kenjitay.com\/blog\/public_html\/kenjitay\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DSC00127-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-241\" title=\"Me and My Cousin\" src=\"http:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/http:\/\/www.kenjitay.com\/blog\/public_html\/kenjitay\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DSC00127-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/http:\/\/www.kenjitay.com\/blog\/public_html\/kenjitay\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DSC00127-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/http:\/\/www.kenjitay.com\/blog\/public_html\/kenjitay\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/DSC00127-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Greedy as I am.. I tried to have them all by myself.. and decided not to tell my 2 good buddies (brother and cousin). So.. I ate one of them&#8230; and gosh&#8230; it taste horrible.. and I mean.. really bad. At first thought&#8230; I believe they were expired&#8230; and as dismay as I am, I don&#8217;t want myself to suffer alone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So I hatched a cruel plot and went to inform my brother and cousin that there are logans in the fridge ! Well.. you know how kids are.. both of them rush to the fridge and went to eat the &#8220;spoilt logans&#8221; ! Same reaction&#8230; as they went to the toilet to spit them out.<\/p>\n<p>There I was laughing my lungs out&#8230; and we concluded that they were spoilt. So&#8230; to prevent any more &#8220;victims&#8221;.. we actually emptied the entire bowl away..<\/p>\n<p>Later that night&#8230; during dinner&#8230; my aunt told us this in mandarin&#8230; &#8220;Sorry for the lack of side dishes&#8230; Actually.. I wanted to make fish balls for all of you.. but apparently.. I couldn&#8217;t find them in the fridge&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oops..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was clearing my stuff few weeks ago and recovered some of my childhood photos&#8230; gosh&#8230; time really flies&#8230; and how much I have changed. Looking back at these photos&#8230; I did realize that I was once a really cheeky little boy, who wants attention and very very daring. You can see from here&#8230; one &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[54,43],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-kenji-tay","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenjitay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}