Photo A Day Challenge
Day 10|Childhood
A Walk Down Memory Lane...
Day 10|Childhood
A Walk Down Memory Lane...
I found this picture today of my grandparents, my siblings and I. It must be taken nearly 30 years ago.
This is one of my fondest childhood memories. Every holiday season, my parents would pack us all up in the car and drive 7 hours up north to Penang (Malaysia) where my grandparents live. It's a big wooden house on stilts with a gazillion rooms. There is no front door, just some wooden steps leading up to the house. Creaky floorboards covered with vinyl, old style plantation shutters and an outside dunny! The house is old style colonial and it's simply beautiful.
I remember the aroma of roasted peanuts and sesame seeds, hot sticky sugary caramel as my grandmother makes peanut brittle for Chinese New Year. I remember my grandfather, holding my hand and leading me out the long driveway, to a little mobile candy shack. Buying us Hacks lollies, little black liquorice wrapped in red cello.
My grandfather passed away nearly 30 years ago...
And not long after, that historic house was demolished to make way for modern development.
This is one of my fondest childhood memories. Every holiday season, my parents would pack us all up in the car and drive 7 hours up north to Penang (Malaysia) where my grandparents live. It's a big wooden house on stilts with a gazillion rooms. There is no front door, just some wooden steps leading up to the house. Creaky floorboards covered with vinyl, old style plantation shutters and an outside dunny! The house is old style colonial and it's simply beautiful.
I remember the aroma of roasted peanuts and sesame seeds, hot sticky sugary caramel as my grandmother makes peanut brittle for Chinese New Year. I remember my grandfather, holding my hand and leading me out the long driveway, to a little mobile candy shack. Buying us Hacks lollies, little black liquorice wrapped in red cello.
My grandfather passed away nearly 30 years ago...
And not long after, that historic house was demolished to make way for modern development.
This is one tiny bit of my childhood memories.
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