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(Way before other fast-food restaurants got our attention, KFC was the only one that we encountered and yet it was a luxury to eat here. Image source: Ktchn Rebel)
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 11 – Our Luxury Once A Year KFC Fast Food
The primary objective of a police roadblock is to ensure public safety by monitoring and regulating vehicular traffic. These checkpoints are strategically placed to prevent and detect criminal activities, such as smuggling or driving under the influence. They also serve as a deterrent against traffic violations, contributing to safer roads. Additionally, roadblocks can facilitate emergency response during incidents, ensuring swift action and aid when necessary. Image source: Photo by Travis Saylor/Pexel
Read More »Enforcement 101: The Evolution of Strategic Police Roadblocks
(VHS cassettes and VHS player was the lifeline for evening entertainments at my Grandma‘s house – image source: Youtube)
Long before we had Astro and the luxury of watching movies in the cinema, we have VHS video cassette rental. And it was more obvious in works at my grandma’s house where we had “Rao Video Centre” couple blocks away from the house.
(A field that is bigger than the school building area and holds a 400-meter track, 2 football fields, basketball court and still had more space to spare. Image source: Google Earth)
When I was in my secondary school (the good old La Salle Brickfields), I was in the Boy Scout (aka Pengakap) – in fact, I ended up as the Boy Scout troop leader at the end of schooling days. And one of the highlights of being in the Boys Scout is going camping at the edge of the school field.
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 9 – School And Huge Football Field
(One of the most iconic shots of the movie that came out in 1981 starring Harrison Ford as the adventurous, not the ordinary archaeologist. Image source: Empire)
It must have been in the early ’80s when this happened.
I was back from school early and after finishing off my homework, I went for my usual evening naps, waiting for my dad to come back home. When I woke up, I noticed my younger brother was not in the house. I asked my mom and she told me that both my dad and my brother had left to somewhere in the car.
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 8 – Indiana Jones, One of the Best Movies of 1980s
(What is missing from the above photo of a traditional sundry shop is the old Chinese uncle wearing a white singlet with khaki short pants. Image source: Wikimedia)
Sundry shops those days, in the early 80s, were nothing like these days’ grand oversized hypermarkets. Small sundry shops were the lifeline to many small residential areas.
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 7 – Old Friendly Neighbourhood Sundry Shop
(Now it is easy to use the calculator to do multiplication but when we were small, we have learned this by heart and we will be punished severally if we make a mistake. Image source: Pinterest)
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 6 – The Tough Hike On Multiplications
My grandmother’s house was heaven on earth but there is one thing that I am truly afraid of is the huge deer head on the wall high up in the living room. Image source: Pxfuel
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 5 – The Scary Deer Head At Grandma’s House
When I was young and my parents could not afford to buy us toys, we had to contend with making our own wooden toys. One of the “usual” toys that we often make is the wooden gun. I know paint-brush skills suck! A very rough blueprint of the wooden gun looks like the above.
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 4 – Going To Bloody War With Wooden Guns
In those days, way before we had the Discovery channel, we had this TV show called 321 Contact and it was a hit with us at home. Imagine source: Fireden
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 3 – Learning New Science with 321 Contact TV Show
(PKNS used similar earthmovers with huge tires just in front of my grandma house to construct their PKNS low-cost houses – they looked scary to small kids when they are driven fast all over the place. Photo source: http://southwood.typepad.com)
My heaven in this world must be my grandma‘s house (from my mother side) and as long as I could remember; I have always been treated with extra care and gentle when I am in her house.
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 2 – Feeling Heavenly At Maternal Grandma House
(My dad’s parents house aka my dad’s side grandma house used to be here somewhere. Now the area has been closed off and redeveloped. The old place has been completely lost. Photo source: Google Earth)
I have been thinking about it for some time – of writing down my childhood memories of people, places and events. I lived in both my grandma houses (one from my dad’s side and another from my mom’s side) and encountered many interesting and hard to forget memories – I might as well, start writing them down before I start to forget it.
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 1 – Paternal Grandma’s Pretty Old House