My Primary School days in Sibu at the Methodist Primary School were memorable for a few things. One was the class library ran by the English teacher, who would opened the classroom cupboard and organized 10 minutes of class silent reading time for English. We would each return and borrow books, some times two at a time, for a week's reading pleasure. We had English Class Library for all six years of our primary school. I even won the best reader in the class when I was in Primary Six. That was one of the few small awards I won. And honestly speaking, I did not win many prizes in my life.
Through my reading I met many characters and that was very important in my young life. I started have imaginary friends and they popped up every where.
Life can be quite lonely in a big extended family - there were the usual- the pecking order, the bullying, someone was allowed to speak louder than others, the cold shoulders, the uninvited guest, the in laws who were ignored, lots of showing off, and cold wars, etc. All these are today, meat for Korean and Chinese drama. Yes, we had most of the drama in our family. Truth be told!
When things got rough, I would retreat into the One Hundred Acre Wood, thanks to Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin. Perhaps this kind of retreat helped me have selective memory. Some of the real incidents were just vague memories.
The One Hundred Acre Wood is not in Sarawak. It is from a book, Winnie the Pooh, which we read when we were young.
Winnie is a bear and is a HE.
Christopher Robin, the little boy, and Winnie the Pooh were friends and they had many adventures together. A.A. Milne fired the imagination of millions of children through his writing.
I would one day like to visit this place, and IMAGINE once again what it is like to be happy and with good friends.
The Hundred Acre Wood of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories is in actuality Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, England, where the Winnie-the-Pooh stories were set. A. A. Milne's country home at Cotchford Farm, Hartfield was situated just north of Ashdown Forest, and Five Hundred Acre Wood is a dense beech wood that Christopher Robin Milne would explore on his way from Cotchford Farm onto the Forest. Five Hundred Acre Wood is long-established, having been originally sold off from the Forest in 1678. The wood remains privately owned, being part of Buckhurst Park estate,[1] and is not therefore generally accessible to the public, though two footpaths which are public rights of way, one of which is part of a long-distance footpath, the Wealdway, cross through the wood and may be used by members of the public. (From Wikipedia)
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