2010 Annual Family Fund

Dear All,

Happy 2010!!!

The following are the contributors for our annual family fund:

1. NHP - RM1200
2. NHK - RM1200
3. Sam - RM1200
4. Simon - RM1200
5. Nancy - RM600
6. TC - RM600

Please choose either option to make your payment for the 2010 Annual Family Fund.

Bank into Maybank account
Account Name: Ng Shin Hui
Account No: 162487-015204

OR

Kindly make your cheque payable to Ng Shin Hui


Thank you for your cooperation.

-= Shin Hui =-

Peony(牡丹）

Guys, just share with you the 3 photos of Peony(牡丹） I took last year in Luoyang (洛阳)China. Peony is regarded as Flower King.

by NHP

开始人生的另一个阶段

REMINISCING DAD - Part 6

Dad used to have a yearly movie pass to Rex Theatre that was owned by one of his contractor buddies. I don’t think the pass was ever wasted except maybe for the occasional Tamil movies. We will go and watch all other movies. If a Chinese movie was showing mom would accompany him. Mom has no interest in English films, so dad would take me along. They did not sell pop corn, soda and hot dogs then. Melon seeds were the rage. After the show, the floor would be littered with melon seed shells. I remembered dad used to buy us nicely cored and peeled apples.

The cinemas showed lots of Cowboy and Western movies at that time. People used to stand up, clapped and cheered loudly when the hero rode in and annihilate all the villains. One of most talked about movie in town back then was “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” starring Clint Eastwood. There was this scene with a 3 -men shoot out duel and the mesmerizing sound track interspersed with gun fires, whistling and howling coyotes blaring from the back ground.

Once, dad took me to watch an R18 movie that showed scantily clad buxom go-go dancers gyrating on the stage Vegas style. The movie title was called “Show Girls” or something like that. My eldest cousin sister Ah Har who was then working at the ticket counter came in during the screening and reproached dad for taking me to watch this type of adult movie. I was about 13-14 year old then. I felt so awkward and embarrassed but I could not see dad’s reaction in the darkness. Maybe it was intended to be a lesson on the birds and the bees. He never did tell me.

The Sunrise Park bungalow was initially rented out to the British army personnel. When the British army closed down the Kluang Garrison, the house became vacant. It was then that dad decided we moved to Sunrise Park. I think I must be in Form 4 then because soon after we bought a mini motorbike from our cousin in Simpang Rengam. I would proudly drive the motor bike to school everyday after getting my license.

I had my first drinking lesson when I was 15-16. The older children had grown up and had left home for further studies or work. No one was around to drink with dad during the festive occasions, so he offered me my first alcoholic drink. It was then that I had my first taste of beer and rum & coke. It felt great, sitting there drinking with dad. The very act signified that I had been accepted and treated like an adult. So it was like a rite of passage to adulthood.

I only stayed at the Sunrise Park house for about 2 years. After Form 5, I went on to Form 6 at the English College in Johor Baru. Sam was then working for 3rd Uncle (maternal side) who had successfully tendered to supply food stuff to the JB General Hospital. We stayed in a rented house that doubled as an office, store and accommodation. I only stayed in the College for a few months before I went on to High School in New Zealand. It was an eventful short stay in JB, but this is not the right forum to relate the stories…... otherwise I would be digressing from the main theme of REMINISCING DAD…..

simon - 2 January 2010

=D

I am glad everyone supports this blog and writes in here !!

Its already more than 50 posts. I am happy cos' our family members cares about this blog :D

The Chinese New Year is coming soon . I hope we have the reunion dinner together..

After One Week, "Search Needle in Deep Sea"

阿公,永远怀念您...

自从迁出阿公的家以后，除了拜六，礼拜，公共假期和聚餐，其它日子我都很少到阿公家拜访。至于和阿公的对话，比起以往每天一齐用餐，巴仙率几乎重挫100%。近几年，每当星期六放工我稍微晚一点过去，阿公一定会问我“为甚么今天做到这么迟，阿隆呢？”。很奇怪的是，虽然只是一句很简单很普通的话，每一个人都会这样问，可是只有他问的这一句话，几乎变成每当我想起而让我崩溃的事。

阿公，
您好吗？今天又再迈进新的一年了。很想告诉您，不管还有多少新的一年到来，我还是会像今天一样永远惦记着您。

那晚我很大声的在您耳边问您，要求您快点起来，告诉我您下一次聚餐想要买什么，没有您的吩咐，我真的不知道要怎么办。

虽然时间不能再倒流，
虽然我知道您的答案，
虽然我已经不是负责聚餐，
虽然我知道当时您已经不可能回答我，
虽然所有的事情已经过了，

可是我真的希望现在的您可以听到我的心声：
以前您的外表看来不太爱理睬我们，但是您在心里是多么得在乎我们，
这一点我们真的都看得见。

阿公，现在的您不要忘了带着我们给您的“祝福”，一定要过得很好。

永远怀念您，
千帆