fireflies

okay. miss sleepyhead just told me something i would consider quite shocking - she's never seen a firefly before.

seriously, the myth that city kids are more exposed to the world is so...wrong. in her 20 years on this Earth, poor sleepyhead has never seen/caught/had any contact with fireflies. but come to think of it, you won't be able to find fireflies in the bright city lights huh.

anyhoos, i didn't grow up in the kampung, but i'm more kampung-fied in the sense that i've seen fireflies before! in fact, i've caught them before hokays.

so back in the days when i was a fat, short and innocent (still am all these) lil' girl, my family and I would visit my aunt in Kluang which is like, 2 hours' drive from JB? i'm not sure. so we visited quite often, sometimes during Christmas as she's Christian and she would invite us for the parties which i would say was incredibly BORING because they were all adults and strangers.

one particular Christmas when everyone was asleep upstairs my sister, my cousin and I went to this lil' park opposite their house to catch fireflies. it was awesome! we caught so many! it was fun! and best of all, the adults didn't know what was going cos they were sleeping mwahahaha.

we caught them, put them in jars, and brought them into the house. we closed all windows and doors, turned off all lights except the twinkling Christmas lights on the tree, and...we released the fireflies.

it was AMAZING. it was my first time catching fireflies and i loved the feeling of the firefly in my hands. so we just watched them zoom around in the dark. sigh...those happy days lol. anyways after we finally got bored of it all we opened the windows and doors and let them all fly back to the park. hehe see we're kind souls haha.

that was the first and my last time i saw fireflies. and i would love to see it again; to catch it and feel it in my hands, to see them zooming around in a dark room, and just relive those wonderful childhood days. :)