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Childhood Memories: Part 29 – The Mighty Fine Tipper Trucks My Late Dad Drove

Tipper Truck Childhood Lorry

A tipper truck, commonly known as a dump truck, is a heavy-duty vehicle designed to transport and unload materials such as sand, gravel, and demolition waste by tipping its cargo bed. The BelAZ 75710, produced in Belarus, holds the title of the largest tipper truck in the world, boasting a massive 450 metric-ton payload capacity. Image source: Reddit

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Childhood Memories: Part 28 – Revisiting Grandma’s Old Neighbourhood With Google Street

childhood neighbourhood grandmother

Continuing with the new idea of going through the neighbourhoods during my childhood, I decided to do one on my grandmother’s (from my mother’s side) old house and neighbourhood. Image source: Google Street.

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Human Relationship 101: Letting Our Loved Children Go

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(There will be time when parents will need to allow their children to stand on their own and make decisions that will determine their own future)

I had 2 phone calls from my dad yesterday…

One call was during lunch time informing me that he had cooked something at home and asked whether I had time to drop by the house for lunch. Given the traffic situation, it was an impossible mission to achieve.

Another was late at night when I was still in the office, asking me to drop by his workplace to pick up something. My dad, these days, works as a night shift security guard to pass his free time (he got so bored sitting in the house) and earn some cash (a far cry from those days when he was young and was driving a 10 tires truck)

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