old photographs

i was browsing through an old album of ours a couple of weeks ago ... lots of memories there. It was nice to be a child, isn't it? carefree, no responsibilities, play at will, and lots of fun ...but some of the photos were a bit "vague" in the sense I don't have any recollection whatsoever on when it was taken ...hehehehe ...like this one below...i know it was taken in our old longhouse ...with our neighbours ...i think i must be primary 1 or 2 then ...dad told us that the pic was taken either during Gawai or Christmas coz that was when we would stayed overnight the longest at the longhouse ...coz our longhouse is about 45 mins from our home in Sri Aman, we often have daily visit instead ...anyway, i think the photo was taken by Aunty Ivy coz she had scribbled something at the back of the photographs ...

These two, on the other hand, were taken in Sri Aman ...way back in the early 1980s i think ...i know i was in primary school then. Our neighbour took the pic ..of me, my brother and his sons and daughters ...i vaguely remembered this event ..i knew it was during the Merdeka celebration - coz i recalled going to see the parade, and the traditional longboat races! We have lost contacts with this family ...after their dad (who took the picture) died, they moved away ...the three younger kids were sent to the orphanage, if i'm not mistaken ...

lots of happy memories there ..captured in the old photographs ...unlike now, where most of my photos are still stored digitally in the PC ...what if the PC got corrupted??? I did store some in the CD...but then again, what  if the CD got lost, corrupted and so on ...