Last week of December I took 2 days off, to finish up my annual leaves. I was ordered to clean my cupboard by the Home Minister and only then I will get a new mattress as a token of appreciation :) well i did clean my cupboard but yet to get my gift :P ok back to the cupboard story, yes i had a lot of crap in there, not crap crap but more like things you don't use anymore but you just wanna keep them kinda crap. So this time i told myself everything I'm not using GOES!!! no sentiments, no excuses, no buts! So most of the stuff i got rid off was things that i don't wear anymore, big shirts ( i kept them coz i thought one day i can pass them down to my cousins but now its not in fashion anymore n my cousins are picky!), lots of tshirt (kept them coz it might be handy when i paint the hse), couple of casual pants (no idea why i kept them.. maybe also for painting :P), all my vests, about 16 of them, yes once upon a time i was quite trendy oh cmon it was the vanilla ice era!!, few dresses and bags. One of the bag was my school bag, carried it throughout high school from the very 1st day of school till my last day 5 yrs later... yes i stayed loyal to it or is it the other way around... oh whatever, its a black backpack n truly one of a kind coz i bought a spiderman patch / iron on thing n sewed it on the pocket in front. I was so into spiders n spiderman everything i owned had something on it that identifies with spiders :P so yea i kept this bag allllllllllllllll these yrs, which is bout 12 yrs now!!! the bag does look a little old now, still functional except for some ripped material on the inside but u can still use it but i don't use it, i just keep it, its sentimental.... that brings us back to the rule mentioned above, "everything I'm not using GOES!", no sentiments, no excuses, no buts! :( so i told myself i have 2 keep up to my words, if i keep this bag, then i will hand up keeping a lot other stuffs that needs to go as well, so i cannot make any exceptions. Trust me it was hard for me to part with this bag, i have sooooooo many memories...So all the unwanted "goods" was put aside and i left it to my mom to sort which goes to the trash and which is going to be given away to whoever. She knows better, if you ask me, i will take all of them back and rearrange it in my cupboard :P So then that was done, mom was very happy, i eventually became happy coz now i can shop for new things :D lots of space in my cupboard! Then the holidays were over, my regular work routine started all over again.
One day as i was heading to work taking the bus at about 6am. Picked a seat and i sat, what i usually do is i will take a short nap bout 15mins, that's how long it takes me 2 get to my next transit so i got all comfy looking around just before i was about 2 shut my eyelids, i saw something... it was a kid his back was facing me, what attracted me was his backpack, looked very familiar, then i looked harder, i saw SPIDERMAN! the exact iron on spiderman patch!!! IT WAS MY BAG! THE BAG THE KID WAS CARRYING WAS MY BAG!!! i was excited, and very touched and i couldn't stop smiling to myself the whole bus ride. It was nice to see the bag still going strong after all these years... its nice to see someone out there is using it :)
So that day i got back home asked my mom what she did with all the stuff, she told me she gave some of it to the cleaner lady who works in my apartment so i guess she passed it around and the kid took the bag :)
So that day i got back home asked my mom what she did with all the stuff, she told me she gave some of it to the cleaner lady who works in my apartment so i guess she passed it around and the kid took the bag :)
Well i guess rather than me keeping the bag in the cupboard at least now someone is using it.
