i've just had the epiphany that i'm not a kid anymore. you know the expression "she grew before my very eyes"? that's the thing with my niece. i saw her earlier donning this very teenage-higschool-girl dress. i could very much remember when she was an infant and now I'm screening some of her incoming phone calls. you see, she's just eleven but a good number of male classmates have been phoning her. geezers! she isn't even in highschool!

well, she's a popular girl at school. always in girl scout activities, always the leader in everything, always gets a number of gifts froms schoolmates she doesn't know. i dunno but that spells p-o-p-u-l-a-r in my book.

i'm damn proud of my niece. she is everything that i wasn't. i was never the popular kid and my shining moments only happened during the english week. i stood fucking proud whenever i snagged the numero uno in the spelling bees that i've joined, i had my head up high when my essays got picked... mind you, i wasn't a geek.... oh well, just a little and i'm not ashamed at all. though i was mostly associated with the "library kids", i didn't have the problem of adapting to the other student types. i did fine.

this ends my reunion with my flimsy volume of readers and my beloved blog place. (snicker, grin, beam innocently)