Things I never get to do during my childhood years

I'm gonna be a very busy bee from today until end of next week, so u might have to stick with this post for the next 2 weeks or so......I was running out of idea on what to write but for the sake of your and my sanity, I decided to crack open my head, pull out the writer trapped in head and force it to think of something and write. Don't want to bore you guys with the boring printer's dilemma, do I? (Anyway, on that, I'm yet to resolve the issue...shall let it rest for the time being)

What are the things that you used to do or like to do when you were young? (Young as in like in yr pre-teens, before the boys had the croaky voice and the girls the once-a-month dilemma and a good excuse to participate in the PE class) Sidetrack: I wonder why that was a frequently-used-excuse in order to escape the sweaty running around the field activity.

Anyway, the very few things that I never get to enjoy or learn or experience during my days as little girl who loved to wear just the blue pinafore (take out the white shirt) on Fridays:

1) Rope Skipping - I can never get the hang of it. I used to fancy my classmates who can perform a non stop skipping while talking with you.....

2) Rope jumping or Zero Point (is that what it was called??) - I'm only good up to, like 1 ft above the ground??? Some of my friends can actually jump accross a rope as high as their classmates......and then u get to like twist and turn with the rope??? I sure pelanting doing that....Also, there was no shame shame business then....imagine wearing the knee length dark blue pinafore doing the jumping?? Ngai tee......can see all the sloggis, sorella or even some cartoon patterned undies.....(Oh, some even wear the gross nylon type box shorts with 2 white lines at the side)

3) Riding a bicycle - No, I don't know how to ride a bicycle. Not before, not now, not forever.....I'm terrified of falling down.

4) School Prefect - I've always envied the school prefects and has always been my dream to be one..... As a matter of fact, I was made one in primary 4 but only for a month....Nope, I was not stripped of my datukship, prefectship because of misconduct but more of school transfer....Pop was transferred to another department which is further than my old school and sis and I were forced to be transferred to....Sad..I remembered crying for few days....

5) Play with neighbours/cousins - We moved out to the city when we were very young and we don't get up close and personal with cousins or aunties or uncles until very very much later....We played among the siblings (there were 3 of us then). The happies moment was when I've learnt that my childhood friend (whose parents are somehow related to my aunty) decided to move and stay next door to us.....

6) No birthday parties - Would you believe it if I told you that I have never been to a friend/classmate's birthday party during my primary school years???? Either it was not a norm then or my friends' parents were just too stingy to hold one....

7) In addition to Item 6. I have never celebrate birthday too....Come birthday, mom will bake a small cake with the real icing sugar icing and some red eggs....and that's about all.....oh yes, pressie of course but a very simple ones, like pen, notebooks or shirts..

8) Board an aeroplane - The furthest destination was Sibu and that was normally by land. I remembered vividly the first time I was on plane was when we all had to fly back to Sibu when my aunty died in an accident.

What's yours?