(The shoebox was a thing to see – the shoe’s features was akin to a car’s specs back then. Badminton Master 2000 – Image source: http://mohdfitri.blogspot.com/)
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 23 – Fast, Clean And Robust School Shoes
(The old neighbourhood – today Institut Megatech stands on its ground and the uncle‘s barbershop used to be where Intec College now stands. The only thing that has not changed in the last 40 years is the Shell Petrol Station. It has been there as far as I can remember. It is a big surprise to see the houses that used to stand between the main road and the river is no longer there. Image source: Google Map)
Still, remember your very first neighbours or your old neighbourhood from your childhood days?
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 22 – The Old Friendly Neighbourhood
(The dependable Sergeant Saunders with his platoon from the TV hit series, Combat! Image source: Pinterest)
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Lately, I have been watching M*A*S*H (the series) – last seen on national TV in the 1980s (or earlier, I can’t recall) and I must say that I almost missed something rather brilliant. Then again, I was too young to understand the double meaning jokes in M*A*S*H. Now it makes sense to me.
(The kind of sleep that every one of us longing for. Image source: Charismatic Planet)
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I must admit that I have been feeling very sleepy at work for the past few weeks ever since I was back from overseas.
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 20 – A Good Sleep At Grandma’s House
(One of my uncles had a second hand white Mitsubishi Lancer as his first car and it was the workhorse of the whole family for many years. Image source: DSF)
Last week I attended my niece’s birthday party and as usual, once the cake has been cut and the dinner has started, my cousins and myself made our way to the outside of the house, set up a table on the porch, rounded several chairs and started to chit chat over a large bottle of liquor and wine. As usual, such chit chat continued until wee hours in the morning.
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 19 – Driving My Uncle’s Gutsy Car
(Toong Fong was one the bus that I took on a daily basis when I was still very young. I was not that old to take this model – lane: Chan Sow Lin Road but the Toong Fong logo on the side of the bus remained until it was absorbed into Intrakota. Image source: here)
Remember those days when some of us “used” to take the BUS? Some of you who use the bus for daily commute to work may be wondering what the hell BJ is talking about but I have to admit – it has been quite a while since I last took a bus (these days the routes have gotten so confusing).
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 18 – Wild Ride On Public Buses
(The start of our journey on the trains, the old train station – Image source: http://spwise.wordpress.com)
These days when I go back to my in-law’s house in Taiping for a well-deserved rest, we usually take the North South Highway and it takes us about 3 hours to reach. But there was a time in the late 70s and early 80s when we used to travel to Taiping by train during the festivals (very rare Deepavali celebrations in Taiping) or when someone had kicked the bucket or when someone very close was getting married.
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 17 – Excited Taking Train Up North
Maggi instant noodles can be classified as the Malaysian dish as an instant, hot meal that you can quickly cook over by just adding hot water and is a life saviour when you are away on an overseas project and you are hungry at night. Image Source: Lazada
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(Thankfully most of us did not spend our childhood times during the tough times during World War 2 – Image source: http://upload.wikimedia.org)
My grandmother – from my mother’s side is about 75 now (75 or 70, she can’t recall for she is not sure which year she was born).
She was born in Malaysia (Malaya back then), lived in Taiping where her father (my great grandfather) had a grocery shop (which meant they had rice for meals). She had a sister and 2 brothers and thanks to her father’s resourcefulness, the whole family survived through the Japanese occupation during the War World 2 (not making any trouble with the Japanese helped too).
Read More »Childhood Memories: Part 12 – History of My Beloved Grandma
(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.
(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
