babies time

i was forced to unpack and to arrange all my beanie babies today and i could not have my own sweet time to cuddle each one of them!!! eeerrrgghhh!!! my brother lah! he refused to move those chest of drawers in the storeroom unless i cleaned the things in the iron table and of course the big box under too.

so that was what i did the whole afternoon and evening. well, my brother also got rid of half of his tee shirts but he finished waaaay earlier than me.

so this is the box which i kept my beanie babies under the table. how pathetic huh. they are so cute and adorable but have to be hidden.

they were in plastic bags in the box.

here are 3 big ones. i dun really collect those big ones and now i have forgotten why i bought them. those in plastic bags are from mcdonalds but i think i dun have the full collection for the bigger ones.

here are the rest of them. 99 .....and i think i still have a few in the chest of drawers in the store room. too lazy to go and check. so you want to calculate?? times that by rm19.90 each. and some i even paid higher price since it also included postage from overseas. yup i used to exchange them with collectors in the USA. i have a few full sets- world cup, birthday bears (all 12 months), flower series, country series, anniversary series, etc. they looked so colourful displayed on the table.

gosh, looking at them makes me miss them so much. i remember i used to go to memory lane stores every time i went out to the mall in my college days and to check out new stocks. then on some days, i had to calculate the allowance i had and decide which i would get when i was short of money. i was always short of money since there were new stocks every month. haha.

then when i started working, i stopped collecting because i realised it was quite a waste of money. you know lah, not being paid for the first three months of your work. since then i have never bought any.

fyi, beanie babies also come in the shape of other animals, but i only collect bears. gosh, i wonder how long they will still be kept in drawers. i tried looking on e-bay and not all bears fetch high prices. the highest is one called princess diana ...yes, the princess diana. you can buy that for US$999. hmmmm....do i have that? i am not sure. gotta check the rest of my collection. i dun think i will be selling even if i have.

so now all the beanie babies are repacked into ziplock bags i got from ikea. poor things. 10 of them are squeezed into a 6 litre bag and then sealed.

ok, while packing, i also found my first branded watch- musical from swatch which i bought using money i earned in form 4 during the year-end holidays working at the sawmill of my neighbour's. nostalgia....and now it is in the rubbish dump. sorry, can't afford to be sentimental and keep everything. it is not working already for ages although i sent it to be fixed in the store.

this is my brother's dragon ball cards collection. at first he told me not to throw them away, then he told me to give them away. phew! and i have found a taker. so these cards will be moving house soon.

so tomorrow, there will be some shifting and moving going on in the store room. somebody has volunteered to take the iron table. yippee!! i don't have to call the recycle truck. will just have to drop the table at my aunt's house opposite the park.

now this was lunch after grandma and grandpa took some. it seems that assam laksa soup is a good remedy to get rid of chesty cough because of all the ginger and lemon grass. so no matter how spicy it was, granma forced herself to finish one bowl and i had to force grandpa to finish his bowl. i just ordered him to finish whetever i gave him. he had no chance to say 'no' at all. haha...

and this? grandma in her delirious state asked, 'is this your dad's big brother?' she was snickering when she asked that. how scary. it seemed that my dad had a 'big boss or brother' now and both of them were scheming and up to no good. waaa.....if he was my dad's big brother..................................well you can finish the sentence for me.

ok i am going to watch another movie now. yesterday was 'the bridesmaid' which was really hilarious. today, it is going to be 'the help' which was not shown in malaysia but i love the book so much. it is a must read, about black maids in america.