Did you have any imaginary friend as a kid?

    I did have some imaginary friends when I was studying in SJK elementary school in Ampang, Selangor, Malaysia.

    In 1989, there was a renowned film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” has had a significant effect for every kid on that generation. It turns out, I imagined that some of my friends that there are seven dwarfs were living in the small holes of my school back yards. I believed this fairy tale story. Perhaps I wanted to be a pretty “Snow White” in my childhood.

    Every noon in my elementary school, after I had finished my lunch time, I used to have some fun on the yards behind a small classroom on the sloped hills. There were too many small holes in yards. Sometimes I took the napping time advantages and finding some woods or stick in front of the yards.  After then, I used some long stick to find something or were trying to dig some deeper holes with the harder stick. I was shouting recklessly in the holes to get the dwarfs heard.  I desperately wanted to hear if some of the dwarfs responded to my yelling.

    The back yards faced opposite to the outside of the schools with the fence, every time I walked back to my home, I was standing still to the yards, and I hope I could see if anything would be escaped from the holes. After one or two months, the drive of my curiosity was lesser when a stray cat gave a birth to 5 newborn kitties beside my home. I love teasing them with noisy backgrounds when they were hiding in a wood pallet stocked in my neighbor’s house.