Fulfillment of my childhood
Posted on 23. Nov, 2007 by dimaks in Life
~Photos by ropeboy and gem respectively~
I came from a family that is financially deprived. Both my parents never had any formal education and they started to live a life that is so remote from the kind of life we can witness at the contemporary. To the best of my knowledge, the best legal document they might have held up is their community tax certificate (CTC), aka cedula, or perhaps the land titles they treasure for so long can be considered as such. For a family with such a fate on material things, you can but expect children deprived of the vast multitude of fancy toys for enjoyment while growing up. But in fairness, I am still amazed how my parents were able to crawl with time to bring me to a university and eventually finish my college studies – the fact that I even enrolled in a private university where tuition fee increase is almost every year.
Until I got my own family and had a son, I never had the thought of having a sort of fulfilling my once-dull childhood. I mean, I never had good set of toys to enjoy and share with my childhood friends. And now, my son is kind of flooded with the things that I was once deprived of. It may seem to you as spoiling but I derive immense happiness by seeing him excited with every toys I buy. And besides, as parents, we try to make it to the point to remind him that there are times when resources are not unavailable, which would make it not possible to buy what he wants. I think it is basically important to instill in him that not all things can be achieved at any time. That way, he would learn to wait and be contented at times. Right now, he’s had several boxes of toys so telling him that those toys that he don’t play with anymore must be shared to other kids too is but imperative – so he would learn to share. Ah yes, kids have this innate attitude to stick to new toys in their collections and eventually get bored with it.
Seeing my son sleeping with his pair of die-cast metal matchboxes makes me shed a tear inside my heart. I never had the chance to get close to my suppose toys like him. It is also equally heart-warming to see him wake up, groping his hands on the bed to grab the toys and play right away. Oh well, how could I know how it really feels like to wake up with toys on my bed? So most of the time, I just end up consoling myself with the thought that my son is just lucky to have a father with some resources to boot for his little boy.
So more on pampering, I have this set of toys as shown in the photo below, waiting. My wife and son will be with me here in Japan by the first week of December, so I am kind of preparing things especially concerning this emerging winter season.
So, this is Kieth Ehsan Ismael, doing some of his famous poses and skill. Kids will be kids I say. And by the way, I have this feeling that he will be complaining to us later on with such a long name.. yay!
Actually, I have been hearing a whisper saying “Playstation Portable”. Hmn, its ok, I can play while my son is asleep 
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K
Nov 23rd, 2007
Dimaks, I love this post, it can relate to me as well (not that I am married and have a son), about growing up as a normal kid – to play with cool toys (blame TV I suppose). I even cried one time to my parents asking to buy me “toys”, like battery robots with lights, etc. (nagkaroon naman sana kaso sharing)but you see, I did enjoy my childhood kahit gawang kahoy or lata lang yung otto-ottohan namin nun.
Now that I have pamangkins, ang toys nila are Xbox, Playstation, nintendo and PC (for games?) I’m like “wow, I should need one too”.
tina
Nov 24th, 2007
haha ang cute naman ng toys niya! yay. i did not grow up with lots of toys… and i wished for more before. i only have a select few as well… pero ok naman ako. hehe. i sticked to paper dolls kasi dami damit and its cheaper. muwahaha. ;p
times change. toys were scarce to most of us before… ngayon.. its different.
Richmond
Nov 24th, 2007
I did not grow up with a lot of toys either. I was mnore into Pantintero and Syato… even Agawan base and tagutaguan.
Richmond
Nov 24th, 2007
Meron naman akong kaklase… umiyak sya ngayong college kami kasi nasira yung gameboy nya. Noong sa Psychiatric Nursing namen we found out na wala pala syang childhood. Marami syang toys pero di nya pwedeng laruin, strict yung parents nya dapat aral lang sya. ayaw nya ngang ipakilala yuung girlfriend nya sa bahay kasi baka daw magalit yung magulang nya.
dimaks
Nov 24th, 2007
K,
now one thing i may not get bored would be PC games hehe.
I agree, kids are very different these times. they have all the access to the techy stuffs, way far from what we can have during our early times
tina,
i saw my girl cousins doing the same.. they cut-out paper dolls and yes, no cost at all
Richmond,
Mahilig ako sa syato noon.. patintero, tamang ok lang, hindi kasi ako agile noon bata pa ako. saklap naman nun kaklase mo, sabagay toy nya yun, pwede nya iyakan kahit kelan lol.
annamanila
Nov 27th, 2007
Kieth is lucky. He has all those wonderful toys waiting for him! Has he by any chance seen his blog?
Btw he’s a good looking kid, your Kieth.
I can imagine the excitement of a family reunited! First week of December, huh? So you think I can meet up with wifey before she leaves?
sasha
Nov 27th, 2007
Yay! Kaswerte naman ni Kieth! Most kids naman can be really creative eh. Kaya even without toys, nakakalaro. Although of course it would have been great to have those toys.
Sa 1st week of December na pala dating ng family mo dyan. I hope they get to adjust well especially sa climate
dimaks
Nov 27th, 2007
annamanila,
thanks.. Kieth has been repeatedly asking his mom, kung ilang tulog na lang daw ba bago sila pupunta dito. he haven’t seen this blog entry yet.
re: meeting them, i will try to communicate with wifey to arrange the time
sasha,
i hope so sasha.. thanks.
kathy
Nov 28th, 2007
Great to hear that your family is coming to Tsukuba soon. Baka sakaling magkita-kita pa tayo before we leave for Christmas vacation. Ayan, may bagong kalaro na si Aya chan, hehe.
Same here with toys. I pamper my daughter with so much toys, because I didn’t get the same privilege when I was young. But sometimes I think she doesn’t really appreciate the value of each toy anymore.
dimaks
Nov 28th, 2007
kathy,
hope so.. so where is the destination by this time? hehe. yeah, it will be good, am sure my son will be happy with his new set of friends here in tsukuba.
i guess they will appreciate the deeper meanings of those toys once they mature.
Zaty
Nov 29th, 2007
aaaaaaaaaaaaah your son is adorable!
the pic with the toy croc, that’s uber cool.
reminds me of the cro hunter heheh =D
my financial situation as a kid wasn’t all that great, but it wasn’t that bad. we did go thru some (really) rough times.. but we somewhat managed to pull thru, alhamdulillah. =)
i love your son’s name! ^_^ and damn am i jealous of the toy collection. if i was a kid i would’ve dived into them or sthg. heheh
dimaks
Nov 29th, 2007
Hey Zaty.. thanks and thanks
do you watch the late Steve Irwin’s show before?
don’t worry, now, you can buy your own set of toys i guess