Leave from the school.
Here we are - Petronas Gallery.
Today we came here for the #tanahairku exhibition. This exhibition is about Two Decades of Bringing Malaysians Together exhibition that features PETRONAS TV commercials, webfilms, print ads and on ground activations which has a unifying values to bring Malaysians together.
There are three section of the exhibition that I liked the most.
These three section represent my childhood time in between 7 to 17 years old. The first picture is waiting bus at bus station. As my parents are working, so I took the bus going and back from my secondary school. I still remember there's a lot of different school bus parked around the bus station, and lots of stalls selling junk food, fruits, and snack around. The second picture makes me remember my primary school.
Paper file, exercise book, and the steel pencil box, are the must have things to bring to the school. At my time since primary school, that time is around 1998 - 2003, there still do not have any pencil case made by cloth and zip, but is made by steel or plastic box. Beside with the brown color desk and chair that made by wood also a signature things that inside the primary school at that time. In todays, when I'm going back to school, I can't see this kind of desk and chair anymore. The last two pictures is "Draw Out The Childhood Dreams", this section made me think back to my kindergarden. Teachers always asked us to draw things that in our mind.
In my childhood time, there's do not have much electronic entertainment. What I do is cycling, drawing, playing hide and seek, chasing little chic as my house is in the kampung. But nowadays, kids just stick with that electronic devices, playing games, watching movies and cartoon using Ipad, tablets, TV, playstation. And todays world is dangerous, most of the parents do not let their children take public transport, they scared kidnap happen to their child. Kids nowadays cannot feel the freedom that I had in my childhood time. So i feel this 3 section is the most meaningful and memorable for me in this exhibition.
There is many sections of the exhibition use objects from the past to evoke a sense of nostalgia in the audience. The object that held some nostalgia significance for me is tricycle. Tricycle is significant to me is because my grandfather is a tricyclist in Teluk Intan, Perak. When I was still young, I remember that my grandpa going out to work with his tricycle. After his work, he will come back and bring me and my brother going to the nearby grocery shop to buy some sweets for us. Sometime, me and my brother also will play around the tricycle when it was parked outside the house.
Lastly, is some photo section to bring you around the exhibition with me.
Together our journey continues in our TANAHAIR.
