Comments on: Moonlight Memories

By: Marita Paige

Marita Paige — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

ooohh, I so miss those nuts! Thanks for bringing back the memory for me, Peter.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Marita,
You are welcome.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

well…when i was a child, i used to play with bottle caps. there would be 5 caps where we would all ‘timbang’ with a hand and see if we could catch all 5 in mid-air. and the winner would being the game by ’shoot’ those bottle caps. (it’s a difficult procedure to explain). and it was great fun back then. all of us played those bottle caps like it was a ‘game for professionals’ and we used to ‘train’ at home, and practise our ’shooting’ skills with each bottle caps placed at ‘great’ distances.

alas..i believe such games are now ‘banned’ (though it’s not stated in the constitution of malaysia), for the fear that the sharp edges of the caps would pierce through the skin of any delicate hands of those who are not careful.

By: lilian

lilian — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Peter
Thanks for bringing back the good ‘ole days memories. I lived in Bayan Lepas in the 60s and 70s. Used to go to the cinema for every Taiwanese and Indian movies. It costs only 40 sen for mom and free for me. The chairs have lice (bark sart in hokkien, is that the English name?) and will come back with big, itchy bites each time. Those days when we would stand up and clap when the hero won the fight against the bad guys or cry along with those soppy Chen-Chen, Ching Han, Ling Ching Hsia love stories. Of course, I am a lot older than you so you probably had not been to the cinema in Bayan Lepas.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Dave,
When I was in the lower secondary, we kicked around a bottle cap much like one would do with a soccer ball. During one aerial tussle for the crown, I fell flat on my face and fractured my two front teeth. Yes, it is dangerous all right but for different reasons.

Lilian,
I am not much younger than you. I have watched Taiwanese and Hindi movies on a 30sen ticket before too. No air conditioner inside the cinema. It got a kind of weird smell and the floor was full of kuaci shells. Those were the days Lin Ching Hsia and Chin Han ruled the silver screens but I was too young to understand what the soppiness was about.