Adou
Friday, 29 January 2010
Every now and again, my parents relate their childhood experiences to me. They lived in a remote village in Malaysia. Farmers by trade, my grandparents relied on their offspring to manage the household and occasionally plough the fields. Financially humble, my grandparents had no access to modern amenities and tools we take for granted today. Firewood stoves were lit to prepare every meal, leftover food was reheated after dinner and stored in stark pantries, soaps were hand-made with organic compounds… Old newspapers were even used as substitutes for feminine products! Such is the simple yet tough life of days long gone…
And these are the times I realise I was indeed born with a silver spoon in my mouth…
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No. 1 — January 29th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Those images are great. I love how gritty they appear