BITTERSWEET MEMORIES

Name : Monisha Raja Jawahar
Class: 1A
Index Number: 17
Date: 16.04.10
Personal Recount

Bittersweet Memories

Memories are bittersweet. Some are bitter. Some are sweet. Sweet memories are your happy times. Bitter memories are your sad memories. You experience both kind of memories in your life. There is always something that make you happy, and some things that make you sad.

I do have bittersweet memories. My sweet memories are the times spent togather with the people I love, like with my family members and friends. The happiest times with my family are family outings. Especially those overseas trips. They were the best. I loved the times my family and I went overseas. We don't go overseas often, which makes me treasure those memories.

I remember in 2007, we went to Thailand. We stayed in Pattaya for about one week, I think, because I had to go for a chess tournament. After that, we went to stay in Bangkok for about 2 days. We went on a boat for some time, and there were even some shops on water! We bought some souvenirs. They were so nice! I can't remember how long the ride was. Maybe one hour? It was the best boat ride ever I can remember. Well, other sweet memories include the time when we went to Genting Highlands last year. It was so fun there. I loved the Outdoor rides! It was the first time my fear for roller coasters and other such scary rides faded away. I became braver! We also went to Kuala Lumpur last year, we stayed there before we went to Genting Highlands, also for 2 days. There, we stayed at a hotel, or it's not exactly a hotel, actually a residence. It was like our house. There was a kitchen, living room, 2 bedrooms, 2 toilets, just almost like any house. But, of course, as we were only staying there for 2 days, we didn't really make use of the kitchen, but it was still enjoyable there as we went around to places nearby. But sadly, we didn't get to go high on the Petronas tower as there was only a limited number of people who could go up but we were too late. Even then, I enjoyed my time there a lot. There are way too many sweet memories to list on...

My bitter memories include times when we were embarrassed by someone, or our friend ditches me, or when someone makes me cry. All those memories are too bitter to be told out, so I'm not going to talk much about bitter memories.

How I wished, everything that happened to me was very sweet and never bitter...

But that won't give the right flavour to our lives...A life too sweet would be too tiring to live with...but we need all kinds of experiences...