Name: Childhood Memories
Uploaded: 2021-11-09T09:46:30.000Z
Duration: 8 min 48 s
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and despite having significant events in my life...

I have some pretty random assortment of memories from my childhood.

It's supposed to represent the day I entered adulthood.

But I actually don't remember what I did that day.

It was a Saturday, so I wasn't at school,

but I was in architecture so I was definitely doing homework.

I know I didn't hold a big party so I probably just had a nice dinner with my family.

Except I don't even remember where we ate...

So I don't recall my adulthood gateway birthday from 10 years ago.

But I do remember the last night I was in Philippines.

20 years ago, before immigrating to Canada.

I guess that you can debate that moving away would be a pretty significant event, but

When I was 6, I didn't understand how far Canada was

and how life-changing this move was actually going to be.

Anyway, I remember that night, not because we had a long travel ahead of us...

... but because I was sleeping on the floor in the living room

I guess, so, once we wake up it would be easier to quickly leave the house to go to the airport.

I was a little restless and was tossing around and then turned towards the couch.

And that's when a cockroach crawled out and then disappeared away from my peripherals (oh holy sh-)

That's it, that's my last memory before moving.

In grade 2, when we first moved to Canada,

I made a friend who invited me to come over and play with his Transformer toys.

I get to his house and we go to his room.

And me all ready being a troll at that age, I go straight to his dresser

I find his underwear and pull one out, and yell "OOOOO UnDerWeaR"

Like he's supposed to be embarrassed of it or something...

like ha ha ha, I wear these too, but I'm gonna make fun of you for it!

He laughs nervously, and then we proceed to play with his toys.

a chubby kid with cool toys that wore "tighty-whities" like me (and me)

In grade 4, I was out at recess playing a big game of man hunt with a bunch of kids.

Manhunt is basically just tag, but if you get caught you join the hunter team and help tag the others until everyone is caught. (i thought it was infection.)

I think Americans call them trailers? (Yes they do)

Which wasn't really a great spot because it was a dead end.

If someone found me there, my exit would be blocked.

And indeed, someone found me there and...

There was maybe 3 to 4 meters between the portables

which gave me a tiny bit of room to try and juke my way past the hunter,

except there was a loose nail sticking out of one of the portables

and made a huge tear right under my armpit and also gave me a big cut (childhood flashbacks intensify),

So instead of going to the teacher for some help,

I just... fled and continued playing the game

And even when recess was over, I continued to try and hide my "battle wound"

for the rest of the day, as if it was a sign of weakness like

Classmate: Uhhh, Mr. Sandal, Dominic is bleeding.

There was this one time in P.E., or phys. ed or gym or whatever you wanna call it,

If you've ever met me in person and thought I'm really short,

well, you're right to assume that i was the smallest kid in my class

We were split up into teams and mine had some

At one point we were on the opponent side

and my teammate, Mark, was in a position to either pass to me, or to my other taller and more skilled teammate.

And even though I scored, my teammate still complained like

Black boi: "Hey man, why didn't you pass to me?"

I mean, I was decent, definitely not as good as the other guy,

but I feel like Mark said that to just to justify his choice.

and even though I probably scored like 1 more point for the rest of the game

I had such a huge boost of self-confidence after hearing Mark's encouraging words.

I had such a huge boost of self-confidence after hearing Mark's encouraging words. [Intense screaming]

In Grade 5, I had a crush on this girl in my class: Stephanie.

The same Stephanie from my Crushes video.

It think it was like the last day of class before summer break and we were having a relaxed day.

My teacher had a piano in the classroom and allowed the students to play on it.

During that time, one of my favorite songs was All My Life by K-Ci & JoJo.

And the intro to that song is literally the only thing I know how to play on the piano.

And so I requested to play, sat down, and played the intro to the song

Afterwards, the other kids, INCLUDING Stephanie, cheered me on

because, they thought it was dedicated to Bridget...

Another girl who openly had a crush on me.

And, I guess from my little performance people thought those feelings were now mutual...

But I didnt want to embarass Bridget by trying to correct the crowd so...

This last one was kind of a suppressed memory because I was so embarrased when it happened. Also, TMI (too much info) warning.

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