journey thru thick time (1967-1972) from muar to pengkalan chepa

 

pantai sabak is about 4.5 km away from where we lived. so sometimes we brought our picnic basket there to swim in the sea. we will normally bring meehun goreng and sardine sandwich. there is something about salt water that make sardine

sandwich taste especially delicious.

on the beach there were people selling drinks and snacks. u can also find people selling belangkas bakar, grill horseshoe crabs. the smell of it makes your saliva drools in many different ways.

sometimes u have to be very careful when swimming coz there were lots of ampai ampai or jellyfish. they say vinegar is the best cure for it.

there were lots of old british bunkers in the area which were used to fight off the japanese during the WW2. pantai sabak was the first landing place attacked by the japs in malaya which took place on dec 8 1941. two hours after the attacked at pantai sabak, they bombed pearl harbour. they managed to conquer the place very quickly with the help from their airforce. they easily chased the british out and invaded the whole malaya a few months after.

there was a propaganda film done by the japanese during the war which is called ‘ the tiger of malaya’. the film was inspired by a real life story about a japanese man who grew up in terengganu and whose father had a barber shop. he was later recruited to be a spy for the japanese military.