Who knows..it could feature in Russell Lee's series years later :)
The House
It stood dilapidated with its greenish paint peeling off in most places and its monstrous many antennas erected all over the roof. Passer-bys will see a creaky old house that has seen its better days but to me, it will always remain a place of foregone boyhood where I had my most fun during my growing years. But it wasn’t ALWAYS like this..
Sammy! Yelled my paternal grandmother…it was already 9 am and she was getting ready to lug my kid brother and myself to my MATERNAL grandmother’s house in the east side of the Singapore for a game of “Dua Dee” – the colorful cards the older ladies were so fond of. For me, a 14 year old, the day stretched magnificently ahead – school exams were over…holidays are here (yah!)..and I am going to my favourite haunt then – the big house in East Coast!
The number 10 bus then will take us from Telok Blangah to Siglap – the 45 minutes were in my memories always warm and cosy as we chugged along lazily away from the city and we began to see more and more houses rather than flats. The anticipation of what we were going to do (the other cousins and me) always created a buzz of pleasant fluttering in my stomach..and I always will look out for the BP (then) sign which will tell us, we are reaching the place.
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