Monday & Memories

Yesterday Monday, 1 December 2008, was such a beautiful warm day! :) Bright and sunny! :) I woke up to crickets chirping, and I teach a old colonial house at Nassim on Mondays where there are a lot of trees and fresh air (no air-conditioning :)) , and the crickets were chirping there too that day. ;)

I like the sound so much because it reminds me of my childhood in Beijing, where my father was sent to work. So I spent a good part of my childhood in Beijing. We used to live outside the city, in the countryside, where it was more peaceful, and the air was cleaner....although at that time the air in Beijing was pretty polluted too, but mainly because of coal-burning, industry, and sand-winds from the North. One of my favourite memories of Beijing were the tall trees that had leaves shimmering and rustling in the winds during summer, accompanied by the crickets chirping, under the glorious golden warm sun. The leaves really do shimmer....I do not know what species of trees they are, but I haven't seen them in Singapore. The rustling sounds they make were really beautiful too. Throughout Monday I kept thinking how I miss those childhood days.....