i was at another post...http://forums.delphiforums.com/sammyboymod/messages
and someone replied on my kampong days....my kampong BAN SIEW SAN. It stirs up beautiful vivid memories which i will share with u now...
From: tohgoh 09:47
To: leetahsar 28 of 37
93688.28 in reply to 93688.10
Man shau san kampong. You from there?
From: leetahsar 10:02
To: tohgoh 29 of 37
93688.29 in reply to 93688.28
u definitely r not a hokien....ur hokien very chimp and slang.
BAN SIEW SAN....or HILL OF THE MILLION LONGEVITY...literally translated.
From: leetahsar 10:03
To: tohgoh 30 of 37
93688.30 in reply to 93688.28
oops...sorry...u r not talking in hokien...u jus spoken cantonese...sorry hor...this goon just waken up and haven't washed up yet....pai seh...;9)
From: tohgoh 10:11
To: leetahsar 31 of 37
93688.31 in reply to 93688.29
Yeah, you are right. Me Si Yup. There's cantonese living there at that times. But speak hokkien because surrounding majority are hokkien. My Mom in-herited the pai tee kong practise because in one of the years, she ask Tee kong for help and it did. It's has been some 50 years since, and she would prepare all the yummy fruits on the 8th days of every CNY without fail.
If you remember, there's one very old lady would climb up the hill and pray at the temple on-top of man shau shan virtually every morning. That's my Great grandma. Also, my uncle saw the Laughing buddha appearing at the stairways halfway up the temple.
The altar use to be my brothers favourite hang out. All the kids like them would be made to craw thru and under the altar table for good luck. Then people would buy the huge circular incense coil to hang at the temple. All those ah-soh would then distribute the goodies bag that contain sweet and cookies...:D Too bad, force to move when me 3 years old.
From: leetahsar 10:30
To: tohgoh 32 of 37
93688.32 in reply to 93688.31
u were neighbours to goddess of mercy is it? i mean u lived next to her house...i mean temple?
From: tohgoh 10:45
To: leetahsar 33 of 37
93688.33 in reply to 93688.32
Not very sure, me BB then leh. Should be behind, about 1 house away if I remember my brothers description correctly.
From: leetahsar 10:54
To: tohgoh 34 of 37
93688.34 in reply to 93688.33
meaning ur enjoyment of kampong wild life is quite limited and brief....cos when i was in like primary 6, the bulldozers came.....and my beautiful lovable ban siew san was no more....*sigh*.....:(
From: tohgoh 11:01
To: leetahsar 35 of 37
93688.35 in reply to 93688.34
But now also not bad there. All the 3 temples still there. One along Keppel road, and 2 on the hill. There's a CC next to Yeo Clans building. And those Point blocks are consider prime area leh. :D Ah...I remember my mum mention that she learn how to cook curry from our neighbours, a malay lady. Or maybe nonya? Hahahah....Then my elder sis would tell me which kopi stall she bring me for big bun, those stretch before the cinema (now a church). Last time big bun not like now. I remember it's as big as my head :-) There's lap cheong, pig intestine, pig stomach, fatty and juicy 3 layer pork, quail egg, mushroom, etc....
From: leetahsar 11:13
To: tohgoh 36 of 37
93688.36 in reply to 93688.35
yes..yes...THAt Cinema was called CIROS...i still remember.
when mamalee finished laying 5 of us siblings, lauhankoo used to bring us for chinese swordfighting flims usually starred wang yu or chen pei pei or both.
he always paid only 4 tickets for 7 of us. i would share my seat with carot lee and my 3 sisters would seat on one other seat...those were the days.....
and ticket only cost 50c for ground level seats. the upper or circle seat only $1.
and naughty rich kids who sat at circle seats always spat from above or threw all kind of funny rubbis down...usually peanut shells...unlucky carot - my ding dong brother - once even got a chewing gun thrown from above and stuck to his hair. in the end, mamalee got to snip a big turf off his crop leaving him with an awful exposed lobang on his scalp....hahahaha...;9)
From: leetahsar 11:25
To: tohgoh 37 of 37
93688.37 in reply to 93688.35
...i think u must had also tried my grandma - grannygirl in my UPHEAVAL OF LEETAHSAR - prawn noodles, nasi lemak...ice kachang....oh shit! i said this u sure know who i am now....
anyway, the stalls facing the church METHODIST CHURCH which is still there belonged to PSA....THE whole Market next to the church and the whole long stretch of 2 storeys houses facing the main road up to the TAMIL METHODIST CHURCH...the petrol kiosk...then S'PORE SOKA - however belongs to the church...
my shop was at one of the row there....if u go there now u will see the current "tourists butchering shop" in its place...u will see by the side a majestic royal palm and mango tree. u will also see a rambutan tree which i openly planted along the main wishart road....i was hoping to belanja everyone who would like to try its fruit....damn crunchy and sweet u know...a special breed i smuggled out from the then PPD or primary production dept farm in lim chu kang.
speaking of this bloody church, it conned my old man's business premises after he rented from them for more than 25 yrs...up till now i still can't believe a christian church is just as nasty or even worst then any other avaricious scheming landlord....so did the whole market of hawkers...THE WHOLE BUNCH ALSO KENA CONNED PAIN PAIN BY THIS CHURCH...
AND worst my old man's rented church premises was a property donated away by its former owner whose son one fine day dropped by and told me the whole story that his old man bought the place for only like 60K and it's FREEHOLD some more...and upstair and downstair....THOSE WERE REALLY THE GOOD OLD DAYS!
