tea drinking commoners

As far as I know everyone in the family loves a cup of tea - with or without milk, but probably only one of us likes it unsweetened. Mother taught us how to drink tea mixed with condensed milk or with sugar since we were very young. In the family tea is always black not green or any other colour!

Minum tea is at around 5pm in the household unless mother is ill or out. In which case we go to Kedai mamak to have teh tarik!

I grew up with a forest!

what do you normally see and hear when you wake up?..

Do you see this?


Or this?

For at least 5 years of my life I would wake up in the morning to the sounds of the forest because my bed was only a few meters away from it. It's not like the forest was always outside my bedroom window because about 30 years ago it was actually a watermelon farm. For whatever reason, the farm was abandoned and the forest came back (because it was forest before the farm). So I can claim that I grew up with a forest! (that sounds so dramatic).

Since the house is very close to the forest, some of the forest denizens do come to visit, some like the long-tailed macaques do so more regularly than others like this scarab beetle.