Aktiviti masa cuti semasa kami kecil ada banyak. Hanya terhad oleh imaginasi & season.
Dry season( March to June)which is also fruit season, there's a lot fruit trees(ours & others) ; mencepu,rambai,rambutan,kuran, jambu air, kuini,manggis & durian. At these times we would disappear in fruit tree canopy. You can only tell where we were by the sound of fruit skin droppings.n You can ask Ayah A on his adventure with buah durian. Can't blame us on our deeds, we're just having fun the kampong way.
During this time, the mighty Pahang river,offers endless round of fun. Practising tarzan jump by climbing on trees on the riverbank before made our dives into the river. Looking for kijin, a kind of river shell, eaten after boiled, was heaven.
The swamp is another swimming pool albeit smaller one. We practised our swimming in the parit below our home. The thing is with mandi air paya, after you are air dried, you're covered by something white or creamy. And we got nice beating for that. Forget to scrub properly, the mud would show afterward.
Season biji getah, is also during the dry season, That's when the mature rubber seeds explode and send it's seeds flying everywhere. There was a kind of rubber seed which has a peculiar looking and an especially hard shell. we would gather these shell and challenge anyone to a contest,by placing two rubber seeds together and press them hard.
Dry season is also the season to fish. We would descend into paya with all kind of apparatus to corner our favorite fishes. This is where my fishing passion develops.
If everything else didn't fancy us, we resort to our own invention: single action & semi auto bamboo rifle.-all beg our attention.
So you see we're quite busy. we didn't harass our elders to entertain us.
We did it ourselves.
We have the whole kampong to ourselves.
We know all the tracks, the shortcuts and the interesting places & things in the kampong.
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