The Amazing Ipoh Trip - Part 2 (Down Memory Lane)

So in Part 1 of my Amazing Ipoh Trip, I and my family braved climbing a high cave in Ipoh and not to mention a freaky hotel at a train station, and those were some of the 'unusual' places we visited in my parents' cozy little hometown of Ipoh. Another part of the fun was also revisiting some of the old places we used to go to regularly as children, which for us included one of our late grandmother's old home in this place called Merdeka Garden (if you ask me how to get there, I would be completely lost coz' my dad does all the driving in Ipoh. :P).

So this is my grandma's old house, and my brother and I were quite sad when we saw it because....


...it looked...so... NEW! The house had been sold to someone we didn't know and the gate and few other things had been replaced, so it certainly was not the old haunt we were familiar with.

However, we brightened up as soon as we saw this...


The old playground near our grandma's place, where my brother and I used to love going to play at, was still there. And it looked EXACTLY the same! Except for one rather new and strange looking rocket thingy which I conveniently left out of the pictures. But anyway, my bro and I had a fun time reliving our childhood days and having a go at the playground. These are the old bars that I liked to climb, sit down and look over everyone else at the playground. Haha....

And the big concrete tubes, which kinda reminds me of something I would put in my gerbil's cage for them to play in....

Then my brother wanted to visit his old primary school (I was too young at the time, so I never went to school in Ipoh, and had no school to visit). So we drove over there, and while my dad rested in the car, I followed my bro and his wife into his old primary school and documented the grand event.

You would think there should've been a school guard or something that would've at least asked us what was our business there, if not prevent us from going in. Well, there was a guard, but when we walked up to the guardhouse to ask permission to go in, he didn't even bother to ask anything. My brother just told him this was his old school and he just wanted to look around, and the guard was ok with it.

I don't give them points for security, that's for sure!

So we got in a got right up to where my bro's old classroom used to be, which is the class in session right behind him and his wife (I think she was quite embarrassed walking around a school while it was in session. Ah well....).


Anyhow, according to my bro, everything was pretty much the same as he remembered, even the classroom chairs, the nearby 'lalang' he used to run around in with his friends, and even the cafeteria, of which he had very fond memories of the food...

... or not.

And the school was still fully operational, with some kids in class at the time. I didn't want to disturb their lessons, so I practiced my fine art of discreet photo-taking as we walked past the classroom.
It takes great skill to take such a good discreet photo, ya know! :P

*Ahem*... the next place we dropped by was my dad's old school this time, St Michael's, which is a rather nice looking old school kinda... school.
We didn't go inside, but merely drove into the compound to look around. There was also this prefect walking back and forth outside the doors of the school, doing the sign of the cross repeatedly as he walked.

Perhaps he was bored. Perhaps he was praying. Perhaps he was possessed. Whatever it was, guarding the silly school gate was one of the many reasons I never wanted to be a prefect in school (guarding the school toilet was another reason). And I turned out pretty fine without ever having been one. La dee daaa...

Alrighty, so that was my family's short trip down memory lane in Ipoh. Stay tuned for Part 3 of the Amazhing Ipoh trip... the one you've all salivating for... FOOD. Hmm.... :) Hold your tummies, people!

The Amazing Ipoh Trip - Part 2 (Down Memory Lane)