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27-04-2017, 05:30 PM
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I walked past a fire hydrant near my office at noon on my way out for lunch. It triggered some memories which I thought I will write about it here.
When I was in kindergarten, I was often fascinated when I see a fire hydrant. The bright fire engine red colour, sprouting out from the ground was like a instant attraction to me.
When I was lonely, I would always run to nearby fire hydrant outside my grandparents' bungalow, imagining that I was a young, tall and macho fireman, in full webbing with cool sun shades, arriving in a stylo milo fire engine.
"Weee-oooo, Weee-oooo", "Weee-oooo", and the fire engine would arrive at the house on fire. Then I would leap out like a hero, launched the fire ladders like a pro, and become a life saver to those trapped in there.
Even up to this day, (decades after my initial childhood obsession with this funny looking red object lying innocuously everywhere), I will always stop and look at one , whichever country I am in, be it Singapore or elsewhere.
Here's some pictures of my obsession with fire hydrants from the internet. The usual boring fire hydrant seen around Singapore nowadays.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_vBa_dqHvu8/TqjHsD7cpAI/AAAAAAAAEqo/PahX4E_It6Q/s640/DSC04891.JPG
Older versions of fire hydrants are still around in some parts of Singapore, and sometimes when I walk past them, I wonder whether they are still functioning, aside from its aesthetic value.
https://thelongnwindingroad.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/img_0329.jpg?w=510
Children are always asked this question since time immemorial : "What you want to be when you grow up?" (Then), I had always replied : "Fireman!". Simply because the fire hydrant was my playmate when I was a little one. Or at least it was my best friend and kept me away from loneliness.
I remembered a kindergarten classmate with the last name "Loong" (Nota Bene : Not the same Loong that the 69% is intimately fond of), affirmatively and proudly declared he wanted to be a One Eye Pirate, much to the laughter of some and chuckling of others in the class. I wonder what and how he's doing now. Perhaps he is a very successful billionaire.
Well, I didn't grow up to be a tall and macho fireman but I do don a pair of cool aviator shades now and then.
What was your childhood ambition? Did it materialise ? :)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (https://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?243098-Fire-Hydrant&goto=newpost).
I walked past a fire hydrant near my office at noon on my way out for lunch. It triggered some memories which I thought I will write about it here.
When I was in kindergarten, I was often fascinated when I see a fire hydrant. The bright fire engine red colour, sprouting out from the ground was like a instant attraction to me.
When I was lonely, I would always run to nearby fire hydrant outside my grandparents' bungalow, imagining that I was a young, tall and macho fireman, in full webbing with cool sun shades, arriving in a stylo milo fire engine.
"Weee-oooo, Weee-oooo", "Weee-oooo", and the fire engine would arrive at the house on fire. Then I would leap out like a hero, launched the fire ladders like a pro, and become a life saver to those trapped in there.
Even up to this day, (decades after my initial childhood obsession with this funny looking red object lying innocuously everywhere), I will always stop and look at one , whichever country I am in, be it Singapore or elsewhere.
Here's some pictures of my obsession with fire hydrants from the internet. The usual boring fire hydrant seen around Singapore nowadays.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_vBa_dqHvu8/TqjHsD7cpAI/AAAAAAAAEqo/PahX4E_It6Q/s640/DSC04891.JPG
Older versions of fire hydrants are still around in some parts of Singapore, and sometimes when I walk past them, I wonder whether they are still functioning, aside from its aesthetic value.
https://thelongnwindingroad.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/img_0329.jpg?w=510
Children are always asked this question since time immemorial : "What you want to be when you grow up?" (Then), I had always replied : "Fireman!". Simply because the fire hydrant was my playmate when I was a little one. Or at least it was my best friend and kept me away from loneliness.
I remembered a kindergarten classmate with the last name "Loong" (Nota Bene : Not the same Loong that the 69% is intimately fond of), affirmatively and proudly declared he wanted to be a One Eye Pirate, much to the laughter of some and chuckling of others in the class. I wonder what and how he's doing now. Perhaps he is a very successful billionaire.
Well, I didn't grow up to be a tall and macho fireman but I do don a pair of cool aviator shades now and then.
What was your childhood ambition? Did it materialise ? :)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (https://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?243098-Fire-Hydrant&goto=newpost).