My first school was Sekolah Kebangsaan Pusat Kuala Ibai, Kuala Terengganu. I was in standard 1 in the year of 1965.
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| Sekolah Pusat Kuala Ibai today. |
I remember in the year of 1965, the school has only 3 single storey split buildings for classes and administration office and one isolated public toilet constructed outside those classrooms. They also have another isolated building for canteen and a large area for soccer field, hockey and netball arenas. Somehow, the road leading to the main entrance are made of red brown soil which during the wet season has caused so much problems to the teachers' cars. They have to climb the road leading to the school parking area and pupils' may have to push the cars many occasions then.
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| the kelat fruits |
In the middle of the 3 buildings are the school's gardens with big pokok Kelat or wood Chelate trees, a kind of Malaysian heavy hardwood red beech species. The trees were big with the stems bigger than a man's hug. The trees produced small round fruits about the size of our fingertips. When ripen, the fruits turned into black color and tasted sweet and good for consuming. The fruits were our favorite those days and we would climb the trees and risking ourselves to get them.
It was very difficult to climb up those trees. However there were few stooges whom have proven their skills and managed to climb the same...and I was one of them. As a reward for our creativeness and braveness, we were forced to be presence in front of the Headmaster's office to receive punishment by 3 canning on the right hand palm. It was painful so that we hated the trees so much later on.
When I visited the school recently, the trees were no more there to give way to the school's new 4 storey building classes erected thereon. The isolated toilet also gone to give way to new buildings. I noticed there were many new buildings constructed in the school compound in place of the old buildings.
The are not even a single building in my era available in the school now...
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