近打河堤 Kinta embankment

傍晚五六点，妈妈比较空闲的时候，她会牵着我们的手往近打河堤走，只须五分钟的路程罢了。一上石阶我们就甩开妈妈的手，跑上河堤，斜斜的坡度，我们坐上纸皮由上面滑下去，一面尖叫着，好刺激！又沿着河堤边跑上跑下，有时候见到一两头牛在吃草，就停下来不敢往那边跑了。

妈妈坐在堤上，双手抱着膝盖望着我们，她的脑中一定是浮现拍拖时候的甜蜜回忆，她与爱人时常在此相约黄昏后。。。

Sometimes five or six o’clock in the evening, when mamma finished all the house work, she would take us by the hand to the Kinta river bank to play, just five minute walking distance from our house. Once we reached the stony steps we would let go of mamma’s hand, ran up the embankment, by the slanting slope, we would use the cardboard to slide down from the top screaming, it was exciting! We were running up and down along the river bank, sometimes there were cattle grazing, we would stop there too afraid to go pass the cows.
Mamma sat there, hands surrounding her knees looking at us, sweet memories of dating with lover after dusk had came into her mind . . .