garlic/bricks
Saturday, November 13, 2010
While helping my mom sift out nice garlic blobs from the slightly more weathered ones this morning at the wet market, I realised hey, this reminds me of the old days when Joel and I would play Lego. We'd be taking anything from a few seconds to whole minutes just looking for a one special piece we would need there and then. Alternative pieces would usually suffice, but then they wouldn't look as wholesome as complete as with the ideal, elusive piece buried underneath so many others in the few boxes of Lego we had.
Then, we tried a few times on separate occasions to build small towns, but we'd always have enough only to build one or two complete structures, the rest would steadily be constructed with more weathered substitute bricks. Of course, many a time Joel and I would quarrel about what to build, with me wanting to construct warlike objects, while he, something more civilian.
Now that time's past though, (and I still haven't gotten down to completing my mech that I started on many, many months ago) and while we don't play with Lego anymore, we can't bear to give it away either. Just taking a look at how much Lego costs now is pretty insane. The pieces, collected for years ever since my oldest brother was born, (now 24) have been cobbled together from various sets deconstructed and then reassembled. Show me some pieces now, and I think I can probably make an accurate guess which set they came from.
I guess I'm rambling here, but I love taking a trip down memory lane once in a while.
Labels: lego, nostalgia, thoughts
posted by joseph at 1:37 PM