While I am swarmed with work, I shall attempt to blog before this month goes down in history as the first month ever without a blog entry.
My graph theory lecture has ended, so Mondays and Thursdays start slightly later for me now. Today I was riding my father's taxi to school when he mentioned to me that the latest Mediacorp Channel 8 drama, 甘榜情, was filmed in the village he grew up in, 林明村.
I am ashamed to admit, I have never really asked my father about his younger days in Malaysia; I more or less only knew that he came to Singapore at a young age and enrolled in Chung Cheng High. I have always assumed that the village he grew up in was one of many scattered around Malaysia, therefore I was very surprised when his village was picked out of so many others for filming. I mean, Kuantan is nowhere near Singapore.
After his words, I went googling around, and that was when I realised how much I have missed.
I have went to Malaysia, and to that village, with my family when I was very young, when family relations were better back then and we could all sit in the same vehicle without anyone yelling away. Unfortunately, the last time I went back was when I was in Primary 6, when my grandmother died. More than 10 years have passed since, and I have very little recollection of what the place looked like anymore.
I have some faint memories of drinking coke at a coffee shop, because the coke came in a glass bottle haha; the roosters that never failed to wake me up every morning, the poorly paved roads where I would kick little stones around, my uncle's car where one door was spoilt and it could not be open from the inside, some really beautiful views and winds as we travelled from Kuantan to the village, and of course, the rather primitive toilets and bathrooms.
According to my father, the place has changed quite drastically these days; many tourists visit the area now, and hotels have sprung up. Hearing him say all that makes me feel like going there immediately; unfortunately he said that the village is prone to flooding at the end of the year, and he himself has never went back during this period.
Therefore, my next possible period to visit will be during the summer vacation next year, after I am back from the US. Anyone wants to join me?