Growing up in a
‘cowboy’ town……
Occasionally, in
my moments of solitude, my memory would travel through time and takes me back
to the times when I was that little boy that lived in this small ‘cowboy’ town
of Tampin, Negri Sembilan, a border town at the southern-tip Main Range of Peninsular
Malaysia. And most times the play-back of those memories would go back to the
times of my life during the 60’s. And life as I knew it then was simply laid
back, easy and peaceful. Not too complicated, complex and fast-paced as it is
today. I was born in the early 50’s and just a couple of years before colonized
Malaya gained independence from the British colonial rule. But it was during my formative years in the
60’s that I learned the most of life’s basics. Perhaps that is why pieces of these
memories never failed to make its play-backs repeatedly in my head even till
this day. And each time those memories come back to mind, I’d simply cherish
them all the same as how I have always enjoyed watching for the hundredth times
the late Tan Sri P.Ramlee’s ‘Bujang Lapok’ movie series.
