A Photo Of Me Taken 20 Years Ago

Oct 25, 2011 by Paula

Remember when we were little and digital cameras haven’t been invented yet?

Getting the pictures developed then was something I dreaded. What if my hair was a mess? What if there’s smudge on my face? What if I looked short of a monster?! LOL!

Our children are so lucky they have lots of baby pictures. We now have mobile phones, digital cameras, iPads, webcams, and DSLRs to capture our children’s milestones. We now have more pictures than ever that organizing them has even become a problem. For the first time in our lives we can actually screen and discard the pictures showing our not best self like accidentally showing a peek of our ladies underwear during Aunt Martha’s wedding reception.

Anyway, so here’s a photo of me taken 23 years ago. Thank God it’s a decent picture. I am the cute one in the middle. LOL!

We were singing the alphabet song and I was holding the letter T. Funny because all my life I used to think I was holding the letter J. I guess it just proves we really can’t trust our childhood memories. Now I wonder if I got other memories wrong… LOL!

See my beautiful braided hair? That was courtesy of my beloved grandmother. She used to braid my hair during special occasions and she was good at it too. It used to take ages for my hair to be braided and I had to sit still. Sometimes it would hurt but I always liked it whenever she braided my hair.

See my black and white shoes? Those shoes were a gift from my mom from Japan. She was working in an electronics company at that time and she was one of the few sent to Japan for training.