Simpler things in life: hobbies.

Hobbies.

When I was younger

I would watch animes.

Gensomaden Saiyuki, Ayashi no Ceres, Slamdunk

are a few animes I've watched.

I started drawing eversince I watched Saiyuki
remember the days when AXN would air the animes?

So eversince that fascination of anime came up

I started drawing furiously.

Like, everyday.

It's like, if there's a paper and a pen in sight

I WILL DRAW.

Good thing I didn't draw on walls.

Dad would have been furious.

Unfortunately, I drew less and less

by the time I entered college.

From studying to assignments to socializing

everything is done on the laptop.

Better-paid kids would do all that on tabs and stuff.

There were a couple of things that happened

that got me pondering on this matter.

Few days back, my mum called her family in Sibu.

She told me that my cousin - she's in primary

has been drawing endlessly.

I was the reason she - and possibly her siblings - started to draw.

Everytime we go to Sibu, we'll look for papers

borrow pencils and colour pencils, and just draw.

Then it hit me - they still draw and I don't. Damn.

And today, barely hours ago

mum watched vids on YouTube

while I tweet/post/tumblring.

My sister then came back from.. God knows where

and went upstairs and change

and came down with her iPad.

So there we were

mum on her netbook

sister on iPad

and me with my laptop

in the living room, TV ignored completely.

I miss the innocent days

where I would draw, draw and draw

every minute, every hour, every day.

It's one of the traditional past times.

I read too.

I have no right to say that I'm different

people on fb and Twitter would know

just how often I update stuffs.

I miss the simpler things in life

where you don't have to worry about your phone

those endless texts and tasks and alarms

or doing assignments

where everything is from Google and Wikipedia.

People say Wikipedia is not really reliable

but dude, please

as long as the assignment is done

nobody gives a damn.

And, one day, insyaAllah
perhaps, I would consider walking at the streets
any street, and gaze at the collision of cultures and personalities
in the city.

People.
They fascinate me as much as they puzzle me.

On this melancholic note

I'll stop here

and read the books I've been abandoning

for longer than I remember.

Feed your soul.

Nurture yourself.