Things you wish it still was

I know I got a lot of reminiscence blogs but wat the heck.

When I was young, I wish I grew up faster so I can do whatever grown ups do. Now I wish I were young again so that I can slowly relish myself of my growing up years.

I remembered my hse in Dungun, which overlook South China Sea. If you were to look further you can see Pulau Tenggol. I was still in kindie at tat time. Mom will always go fishin at nite at the beach, bringin along a kerosene lamp and a rod. I will usually follow her and play with the sand. There was this incident that my mom happen to caught a fish and I ask my sis what fish is it. So she said “Yu bodoh”. I didn’t know it’s the name of the fish and I tot she was calling me stupid and I cried..

When I was staying in Tapah (at the foot of Cameron Highlands), I still recall that the mornings were cold & fresh. Pine trees were all over the garden. Our hse at tat time did not haf any fences around. And at the back of the hse are like secondary jungle wif lots of durian trees. (though it’s kinda scary to think now that there mite be wild animals seeking refuge in there or even theives) When it’s durian season, mom will collect the durians whenever she hear the durian dropped. I had rabbits back then and mom has pigeons. Mine is more of a pet whereas mom’s pigeon serve as tonic nourishment for all of us. My school is located near the Shell petrol station which is on the way up to Cameron. Ayam percik sold at the pasar malam were nice & juicy…I was quite good in ‘main getah’ (a game where you jump over a string made up of rubber bands tied together), playing the piano (I remembered nodding off when I was practicing and even when the teacher was beside me teaching. Given now I wud luv to play more often though my piano is not in good working condition anymore). I was infact very good in playing ‘7 stones’. I enjoyed eating milo powder (who says you can only drink milo?), bread with condensed milk, scoop a big spoonful of peanut butter and eat it.

Later I moved to Kluang. At that time, my hse still doesn’t have any fences around and same thing, behind was a smaller secondary jungle. When dad & mom cleared some of the wild bushes, there was actually a small stream. But each time we cleared the bushes, it grows back quickly and eventually we were lazy. There were lotsa banana trees so we have ample of supplies until we got bored of eating bananas. There were also lots of ubi keledek. Since there are too much ubi keledek, mom will slice and dip in to melted sugar and fry it…yummy. I got my taste of keropok ikan which is fully soaked with peanut sauce here (was sold outside STK at some malay makcik hse).

Boy, did we grew up too fast