Famous Five and Secret Seven novels
Things From The Bygone Sixties And Seventies
By admin on September 1, 2012
During the sixties and early seventies, I was a kid living in Binatang. Life then seemed to move at a snail’s pace, compared to life now. There was definitely much less stress then. Traffic jam was totally unheard of in Binatang as there were so few cars. If a modern day teenager who grew up [...]
Posted in Bintangor, Down Memory Lane, Memories Are Made Of These, Ramblings, Sarawak | Tagged "Circle Game", "Day Is Done", "Devoted To You", "Nobody's Child", "Rose Garden", "Twelve of Never", "Whatever Will Be Will Be", "You 've Got A Friend", aeroplane board games, Agnes Chan, Au Yeung Fei Fei, bambo pop guns, Binatang, bing tang hu lu, Bobby, Bruce Lee, Brunei, catching guppies in the longkangs, Chelsia Chan, Eastern Theatre in Binatang, Enid Blyton Books, Escapade Sushi, Escapade Sushi in Kuala Belait, Escapade Sushi in Seria, Famous Five and Secret Seven novels, Fancy Gem Biscuits, five stones, Frances Yip, games of cops & robbers, games of hide & seek, Green Mountain Soft Drinks, Haathi Mere Saathi, Haw Flakes, Hong Kong cartoonist Alfonso Wong, hopscotch, Huángméidiào (黃梅調), Ice Ball, Japanese manga since the nineties, Jenny Tseng, Kantongs, Lady Precious Stream, Lam, Lao Fu Zhi, Liu Chia Charn, martial arts, novels by Chiung Yao, Old Master Q, Old Master Q and his buddy Big Potato, Paula Tsui, Pure Nourishing Vegetable Pomade, Rowena Cortes, Sam Fong Cosmetic Co. Ltd, Sam Fong Hoi Tong Powder, Sam Hui, Seria Plaza, snake & ladder board games, Tancho Pomade, Teresa Carpio, Teresa Teng, THe Big Boss, The Chopstick Sisters, the Sam Fong Powder, Tracy Huang, Wan Bao Chuan, White Rabbit Creamy Candy, Wynners, Yao Surong, Yu Yia, 冰糖葫芦, 王澤, 老夫子 | 4 Responses
Remembering My Childhood in Binatang
By admin on November 19, 2011
Childhood is a wonderful time. It is often one of the happiest periods in the life of any person. As I look back at my childhood in Binatang (now known as Bintangor), I am overwhelmed by nostalgia and fond reminiscence of those almost care-free days. And I feel myself being transported back in time to [...]
Posted in Down Memory Lane, My Life Journey, Ramblings | Tagged 4-wheel carts, Binatang oranges, Bintangor, Bintangor oranges, Borneo Bulletin, both front and back somersaults, Childhood is one of the happiest periods in the life of any person, Chinese romance novels, communist movement in Sarawak, communists in Sarawak, cops-and-robbers, Dolphin magazine, Eastern Theatre in Binatang, Enid Blyton, express boats plying the Rejang River, Famous Five and Secret Seven novels, fun childhood, Gameboy, government curfews, helicopters dropping government propaganda leaflets, Heng Chiong Bookstore, hide-and-seek, hopscotch, ice kacang, Kai Chung Middle School, kompians, Kuching, life as a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, life in the 1960s and early 1970s, Ming Kwong Café in Binatang, MV Pulau Kijang, MV Rajah Mas, MV Soon Bee, my childhood in Binatang, playing with marbles, Playstation, Rejang River, somersaults, St Augustine Primary School in Binatang, swimming in the Rejang River, Wharf Road in Binatang, wooden sampans, yearning for a daughter | 2 Responses
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