When my sister was born, the traditional midwife was very observant and she immediately told my mum that the baby had a bad eye.
That really worried my parents no end. But we had a good childhood in Pulau Kerto.
When we moved to Sibu, my father decided that my sister required an eye surgery before she went to Primary One. So my father took her to Singapore and they sailed on the Rajah Brooke, second class.
Today more than 60 years later she remembers leaving Sibu and sailing through quite a calm South China Sea. They arrived at the Keppel Pier where they alighted. She cannot remember what food they had because she stayed in the cabin most of the time as she was quite scared. She was just a little under 6 years of age.
Father took her to the hospital (it must be the only one then) with aunt Lily's help. She was a little too young for the surgery and the specialist recommended the corrective surgery to be done when she was older. She was fitted with a pair of corrective glasses, which she also stopped wearing after a year or so as they did not really help her.
They then came back to Sibu and then not long after that our father passed away quite untimely.
She never had her eye surgery. But she went on to be a great scholar, became a trained teacher. Today she still has her eye problem but no one ever noticed it. She remains our most observant sibling.
No one should really cross her as she can "see through everything"!! Perhaps God has blessed her with extra sensory powers.
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