Thursday, June 1, 2000

1967 School Holiday Trip To Kota Kinabalu

June 1967

Its school holiday again. The short holidays is only two weeks. I was in Form I in Kuching High School. My parent several months ago decided to make a trip to visit Grandmother in KOta Kinabalu.

We flew MAS airline forker friendship which stopped over to pick up passengers in Sibu and Miri before reaching Kota Kinabalu. Perphap with a short stop in Brunei which I am not very sure now. But I definetly remember the stop in Brunei on the way back because our whole family put up a couple of nights in Modern Studio owned by Grand Aunty who married to Brunei from Papar.

Grand Uncle run Modern Studio situated in the mid of the town. ...........
I remember the adult talked about a new Sultan of Brunei. That the old Sultan felt he was aging and that it was time to let the son (the eldest son?) to take over the Sultanet.

Being a photo studio that took pictures for customers, the shop also sales picture flames and postcards. Among the postcards display stack were postcards display for sales. Being no other thingd to do to past time, I browse and browse the postcards over and over again. Among the postcards displayed I remembered were The Mosque with Goldren Dome and portraite of the Sultan and the new Sultan, the son. Later Grand Uncle gave a complete set of the postcards after noticing I shown great interest on it.

I kept the postcards for many years until they gradually displaced and lost as time pass by. But the faces of the Sultan of Brunei both the father and the son still I can remembers till today.