SUNGAI CHOH (9) : Once Upon A Time | Soft And Fragile

Once Upon A Time

(Too Humble To Cause Trouble )

Kampung Tanjung

STAR 1964

Wedding Ceremony

Exit Kg.Tanjung

Roadside Shop

That's the  lifestyle of our grandchildren.  Live in a house of well domestic arrangements, surrounded by beautiful landscape with optimistic environment.  Everything up to date with current styles and tastes. Actually different environments create diffferent lifestyles.  However  this modern world make them a bit “soft and fragile”. So  they are too humble to cause trouble and may be they are too conscious not to be adventurous. They just follow the line, going right to school and going straight home. Anyway I still remembered that lyric of wisdom. It manifested the differences between the two ages:   “rumah kecil tiang seribu, rumah besar tiang sebatang. Masa kecil ditimang ibu, sudah besar ditimang gelombang”.

STAR 1963

Kampung Boys

By The Watertfall

Tanjung Shops

Exit Tanjung

Different scenarios actually create different stories. It seems we are separated by time gap. So no wonder there are too much differences. Might be those days we were too daring or robust,  yet it was the characters of freedom. That was a group of Bangkulu boys who had the same touch of nature and the same style of life. Not a group of hooligans or a band of outlaws. Of course we had a leader of the group. Yet it was not because he was big or strong but the scars. Those were  signs of a commando, "tahan lasak ". The more scars on your body the more you were respected.  By then,  respect was a sign of support for a leader.

Happy Moment

In One Family

After Kitchen Work

Welcome Entrance

Cluster Of Shops

Actually the scar itself was an honour. Well, that was our criteria to  be  a leader. Of course he was entitled to be the hero of the group. That’s why the area was in the palm of his hand and all outlets were under his eyes. Anyway we were all teammates. Togetherness in whatever, especially when going upstream or following animal tracks. Of course we had our catapults as our weapons and our courage as our shields. Just in case we would collide with any mishap or whatever.