Your visit Plus > 5987

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Like l said before, l used to stay in a fruit and vegetable plantation when l was 5 to 10yrs old, l still can recall the white wooden house with attap roof, the railway line was about 40meters infront and a river name "Mengibol River" behind which my mom used to wash our clothes on the platform at the side of the river, this river brings back alot of memories. I remember those days some people earn their living by digging up the sand from the river, they have a kind of big platform made out of big drums that act as a sampan to collect the sand they dug up, l used to wait for that so call boat with a few of my friends to have a free ride almost everyday. We used to catch crap and fish and then cooked by the river and eat them....hahaha, used to invite friends to swim and have picnic too.......... sometimes.
Now........ the fruit plantation, basically local fruits like, rumbutan, mangostee, durian, grava, chiku and so on.........., the plantation don't belong to us, it belonged to the landlord and we are not suppose to pluck and eat them, but............we curi curi sometimes........ too tempting especially at night....hahahaha. Do you know that if there are fruits there will be alot of bats and this is scary though when you see them sleeping by hanging upside down, and sometimes they will hide inside our attap roof. We rare almost five thousand ducks in that plantation, from ducklings to ducks..... basically for our own use.......we sell braise ducks and sometime sell them to people who want to buy. We have a little pond for the ducks to swim and wash themselves, there is a very long house for the ducks to stay in with partition to separate the age group of the ducks, when you walk into that house you have to wear a knee high boots hahaha..... duck waste all over as thick as ankle high everywhere.
Sometimes these ducks do have nasty visitor "THE PYTHON".......................................... to be continue.......

3 comments:

i said...

Life is so much more peaceful and simpler back then, huh? The good old days...

"ME N MY MILLION DOLLAR" said...

yeap, the good old days

Redbabe said...

I think it is still in existence in more rural area....

Compared to city kids, we kampung kids are more fortunate as we see more things and have more games.