Last
week I went back to Kuantan and stayed there for three night at my home away
from home, the Vistana Hotel. While there I relived my childhood memories, as
well visit places like Sungei Lembing, In Sungei lembing was the largest load
Tin Mine in the world during the colonial era. There is a museum there now,
housed in the once bungalow of the top British administrator of that place. the
local call the Tuan Besar. The next day went to Pekan and visit the newly
refurbished museum there, the Sultan Abu Bakar Museum. It houses priceless
artifact of an era gone by. I like the way the museum is managed and may visit
it again in the near future. As usual I went to the Teluk Cempedak beach, a
beach that I called my own. I grew up here and always never far away from the
beach and the sea. Thus, it has become part of me; I love the salty smell of
the sea air as well the sound of the sea bashing the shore endlessly all days
and nights. It kept the golden sandy beach clean just like before. In my teens,
it was a place we kids would go camping on weekends, learn to swim as well
respect the sea. I have always love the sea and the environment around it. That
is why even at this age of late seventies I kept going back there. At time,
early in the morning to watch the sunrise or in the evening to enjoy the fresh
air or just walk along the beach. I have decided to go back to my Kampong
Kuantan more often now. In a way to enjoy the remaining part of my life at the
place where I was born and bred. So, folk’s life is like that; old age brings
back memories of the past and I loved it.
Have a nice day.
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