childhood memories of some sort.

 

"everybody hates me
nobody wants me
i think i'll eat some worms
big fat squishy ones
long thin wriggly ones
itsy-bitsy tiny little worms

eat a worm
eat a worm
i think i'll eat some worms
big fat squishy ones
long thin wriggly ones
itsy-bitsy tiny little worms"

a song i learnt in kindergarten.
quite a premonition of our future eh? i suppose they were trying to prep us up for the disappointment tht is our life as a Singaporean student. merp.

i think it's quite funny that they taught us this waaay back then. at that time, it was just a fun song to squirm along with as i visualized 'eating' and wondering what they tasted like. and whether they still wriggled as they slipped down one's throat. i've always had the idea that it was a crow singing the song. euch.
and a few years later in primary school, i started wondering whether the worms were poisonous and why the crow wanted to commit suicide.

hmm.

some time back last year, the song re-surfaced back into my life. it was during a.maths lesson with our beloved Mrs. Chiu when she got frustrated with our ineptness and started lecturing on how we need to "pull up our socks" [oh, don't the teachers ADORE this phrase]. then somebody sighed and said "ya. all the teachers hate us".
*which is true, they don't really like our class. the teachers aren't happy cuz we're the slackers and the DM ddn either because ppl in our class kept getting into trouble. *coughcough* AND, around that time, all the teachers were kinda pissed with us and kept lecturing.

so after that sigh, somebody started singing the song. one person joined in, then three and bam. the whole class joined in the rendition of how we'll be eating some worms.
it was quite funny really, and i think it touched Mrs. Chiu's heart cuz after we settled back down into our discouraged selves, she tonelessly said that SHE liked us.

aww.

cue squeals of 'wo ai ni mrs chiu' and beams from everyone. we really do adore her. even tho we're hopelessly pathetic in a.maths, she's always there for us.