三分钟热度

从小，我妈就说我做事只靠三分钟热度。

Sorry, I am unable to continue in Chinese. But I'm still getting credit for effort, right? I'm game to speak Mandrin and use the Chinese language, okay! People say I 吃马铃薯(jiak kan tang) doesn't mean I don't acknowledge my Chinese roots lor. Just that I'm more fluent with English.

So I'm talking about short-lived enthusiasm now. And as I was saying, my mother says that I have short-lived enthusiasm, especially when I was much younger.

Like the time when I used to buy origami papers like my life depended on it; I mean, they were dirt cheap back in the days, so it didn't really hurt the meagre primary school allowance lah, huh. Paper cranes, paper tulips, paper ball(you puff the folded structure up into a cube-ish looking 'ball') and of course that silly contraption you play with both index fingers and thumbs? The mouth-like thingy you can open and close and stuff.

Oh, then I think the origami square papers went a bit out of fashion, and I moved on to elongated strips of paper—making stars and hearts. Hey, they were 3D okay, it was so much fun back then. I remember chucking out huge containers of stars, hearts and mini-cranes.

Moving on, remember the long and thin straws that were supposed to glow-in-the-dark? You make plastic straw roses outta them. Oh, and sometimes straw stars. Then somehow the hobby kinda dissolved lah. I guess things do get boring and monotonous if they become routine.

So short-lived enthusiasm? I'd probably say it is. Say I'm dismissing the fact, running away from it or feigning ignorance, but why can't it mean that I liked trying new things? I suppose curiosity led me to doing new stuff every now and then, which, as a result, appeared that I have short-lived enthusiasm.

Till now, though, I find myself needing to break monotony as day to day routine really kills me. It's nice to look back and find similarities. Makes me feel more whole. Haha!... You know, at least now I know the三分种热度didn't come from nowhere. Plus, dang!, I've been bloody craft-y since young. It's in my blood to be incredibly hands-on(literally) in everything.