Sunday, June 03, 2012

Nostalgic Wall


This is my neighbour’s house located at the junction of two roads. This wall holds precious memories for my family.

When my three children were young – they are in their twenties now – I used to bring them here after dinner. Can you guess what we did? We played the shadows game; making shapes of animals using the light of the nearby street lamp. One special game that I liked to play with my youngest – and cheekiest – was to pretend to hammer her head with my fist like a pile-driver. Try to picture this. With each ‘blow’, it looked as if she was being driven deeper and deeper into the ground. She seemed to get such a big kick out of it.


** The wall looks a bit dirty now. They are going to renovate and repaint it soon.

7 comments:

Zen said...

Are you doing wayang kulit singapore style and not indonesian?

Lam Chun See said...

One hand hold camera, 1 hand make shadow.

TheSounDOne said...

sometimes, it's amazing how a simple thing such as an old wall can bring back fond memories....

Lam Chun See said...

Sorry. I need to re-install the Word Verification feature. Tried taking it out the past few days. Have been flooded with spam comments.

Icemoon said...

Chun See can do an reenactment and upload the video :)

Lam Chun See said...

Haha. The are now too tall to bang the head. Maybe wait a few years for the grand children.

SingaporeanLifeStyle.com said...

Hi again!

I really like the part about making shadows under the streetlamps (on walls, streets, drains, etc)

Thanks for mentioning this. Brings back memories!