I went for a hair cut at Yishun, recommend by my buddy as he said the service is good, haircut is decent and cheap. The salon is located very near to his house and to my old apartment, it definitely bring back alot of memories.
My home 8 years ago.Whenever i come to visit my buddy, i will spare sometime to walk around the places where i grew up. Vaguely remember the little interesting details, like during my primary school days, i am very closed to my ah ma, who live just a few blocks away from me. All my cousins will be at ah ma house after school, because all our parents are working. We play, eat and sleep together, those were the times, how i play whole block catching, catch spiders, burn rat holes. The adventures me and my childhood friend had, sneak to the back hill, the forested area across the road close to the present sembawang shopping centre.
We had experienced alot of things, present day kids wont get to feel, like catching fishes in big canal, times when it rain heavily, the water flowing dangerously fast to our chest level but we still manage to get off by climbing roots of plants on the canal wall. Times which i had experienced, stepping onto big white python which resemble ropes and run for our live. Times like we were chased by big stray dogs, and times like we had a great shocked when we saw big gigantic spiders in the forest.
I think only the old days Yishun kids gets to experience as we are last batch of kampong kids. When i was young, people are still very simple, very few teens will start dating before secondary as our parents are very traditional thinking. I still remember the times when me and my young cousins like the age of 10-12 we will peak at our neighbour girl in her teens dating her bf at the void deck, haha so funny. As a kid, i dont have much feelings with the opposite sex, all i know is play, have fun, enjoy life. Never bother about how girls feel, only know to plan what fun we are going to have, soccer? cards? games?
Yishun, Chong pang is a town full of memories, and a very warm hearted town, people know each other as they are from the similar kampong. I used to go out with my grandma when i was a kid to do some regular grocery shoppings, and i see those shop aunties, almost the whole stretch of shops owners will greet my grandma, share the latest gossips ask how each other doing. And because of that, i am very well known in the old chong pang days also, all these aunties know me as the great grandson of my grandma, and i used to get some discount over items at the mama shop, or ask me to past a message to my grandma. I dont think we get to see this type of scene anymore.
Talking about girls, i am not really that cold hearted, haha, used to like a girl in the primary days, but only really started chasing her in my secondary days when we are already not in the same school. I did alot of stupid things, like waiting for her at the void deck and act like i am just coincidentally walk pass when she came down. But i guess i am more confident those days, and also she's quite a good friend of mine already, so things never get ugly. Thinking back what i have done, its so funny, we dont have handphones nor msn those days, so i asked her to be my penpal and we really did exchange letters for a couple of times.
But after knowing she's deeply in love with a guy in her class, i gave up sadly, back to my games and playful days. Till now i still kept in touch with her, no hard feelings, no left over love, its just some beautiful friendship. Memories are the most precious things we earned, and i am a man of great memory, haha, i think at the age of 70 i might still think back of these things, enjoying the sweetness of them, sharing it with my grand children.
After the haircut, i met up with my buddies and we had a dinner at the nearby thai zhi-char restaurant, we were all from the same secondary, same classes, lived in the old yishun, shared the same memories, definitely some good time buddies.
Great food, great buddies, good time at old Yishun, chong pang city.