Born in the wrong era? No. There is no wrong era.

i remember it to be when we were still living at 19A harvey avenue(of course, i've mentioned before that my memories are fuzzy, so maybe i got it wrong again...but anyway...).
it was an occasion when i received a gift, so maybe it was my birthday or maybe it was christmas, but i'm more inclined to think that it was my birthday.
what happened was that i was really looking forward to recieve cool gifts(weren't we all?)
and then what did i get from uncle lennox?
a ZOIDS wind up t-rex toy with purple shiny armour about the height of my current handwidth.
and knowing that it's from uncle lennox, it was bound to be not only cool, but ORIGINAL.
of course with the level of intelligence that i had then, i totally missed the point of it's value and made a fuss about how it was not to my fancy, and that i did not want it.
I WAS SO DUMB AND INSENSITIVE.
i cannot believe i was like that then. i honestly would be pissed off with myself if i saw the 5-year old me.
but what i remember was that uncle lennox graciously tried to persuade me to comprehend it's cool features(something i was not capable of then)...and he did it with a smile the whole time...
in the end i still rejected it, and can't remember if i got anything in it's place.
if i remember correctly, my dad had a word with me after they all left. and my folks weren't the least bit happy with me when i passed ungrateful comments on receiving the gift.
i am sooooo stupid.

Dear Uncle Lennox,
i'm sorry for being a spoilt brat.

interestingly, that's one of the isolated things of my childhood that can remember(though ii'd question it's accuracy and reality), must've left some sort of an impression on me. maybe it was from then on that i started treasuring the things that people gave me more, thuogh i can't really be sure...

and just for the record, it was through uncle lennox that i came to know about MGS.
it was at his condo one day when the rest of the family was there that i first tried it out.
thanks for letting me play.