Hidden Love

I've always love Geography way back during my schooldays since primary. Geo's periods always turned me into an attentive being ready to soak up whatever information imparted by the teacher. Opening Geo's textbooks would transport me to a different place exploring matters that put it into the world map.

Once back when I was in Darjah 6, our Geo teacher, Mr. Chung concluded the lesson for that day by saying that next week we would go to Singapore. I spent the weekend agonising on how to inform my parents about it for I knew they couldn't provide me with the money needed for the trip. 

Back to school on Monday and Tuesday, I noticed that everybody acted as if there wasn't anything interesting in the midst. Life was normal. Being a quiet person, I didn't ask anybody about the trip and let the turmoil stayed in my head and waited for the next period of the subject. 

Only on the next lesson did I realise there wasn't going to be any trip to Singapore. Mr. Chung entered the class and immediately said, " Buka buku teks dan kita akan pergi ke Singapura, pelabuhan entrepot." Reality hit me hard and the dream I had harboured crashed into a million pieces. No trip to enjoy, just a new topic to learned. My only saving grace was I kept everything to myself and didn't breath any word to anybody. Good bye my dream.

That was the very first time I had ever entertained the idea of visiting a place abroad and only when I was in university I got the chance to let that idea to bloom again. After years of gallivanting around a quarter of the world did I realise and admitted my deep love for travelling. It is hidden no more. 

Fyi, Geography was known as Ilmu Alam during my time. For the life of me, I couldn't find any photo of those precious book.