Childhood mementos.

We had a major house cleaning yesterday, and it is mainly focused on disposing books, documents and files that we don't need anymore. We were finally able to let go of our collection of japanese manga. Our childhood mementos.

My siblings and I are manga crazy. Back then when we say our hobbies are reading, we meant reading comics.

Well, not that into it like an otaku, just, we hoard mangas. It started with Doraemon, though at that time we don't mind borrowing - used to read it when we visit our cousin Sapphire once in a while in Kota Marudu, which is once every light years - and we don't care whether it is serialized or not. We just don't follow. We read what came across our way.

The first manga that I bought was the 10th book of Dragon Ball. I paid with an assortment of coins saved from my lunch money - I remembered we used to get RM1 everyday and my brother and I have to split that between us. Well, I was a primary 4 kid back then XD

The purchase was on impulse, the grocery store at our rumah pangsa had it on display and I remembered I read a few of Dragon Ball's earlier book. I thought, why not? I didn't know then, but that that was the beginning of our quest to collect every manga that crossed our path - lol, not that dramatic though, we did discriminate a little. We saved, we ask from mom, beg, and on certain occasions even steal money from mom - uh oh, bocor rahsia! - just to be able to own a complete set of manga.

We hoard Dragon Ball - this is standard, kids who likes mangas back then must have at least this -, Dragon Quest, Sailormoon - erkh -, YuYu Hakusho, SlamDunk, GetBackers, Psychometre Eiji, Dear Boys, Detective Conan, Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo, Oh my Goddess, GS Mikami, Hot Dog, One Piece, HunterxHunter and Gempak and Kreko - there's some more titles, especially the Hong Kong's Juara2 Kembar and all, but I can't recall. We bought almost every book but many were lost in between times due to friends borrowing without ever returning and our mom secretly throwing away without our knowledge.

We were furious, but our mom casually answered, "Siapa suruh tidak pandai atur? Bikin semak."

Notice how I used are when describing we're manga crazy. We never grow out of that manga loving phase, it's just that nowadays buying comic books seems redundant when you can get it free online. And because of the limited space in our little house these books have to go.

Below are the remaining collection of manga and comic that survived it all and stuck with us until now. All that was left was 4 boxes and 2 stacks. Many were missing. They're already tied up and ready to go. Sob Sob sedih juga la...

We once thought of selling it RM0.50 or RM1 each to a second hand shop or during a garage sale, or even to ebay of otakus but it seems like a hassle XD

So the least we can do is send it to recycle. Goodbye friends, we will always have you in our memories.