Love of pets and and old cars

Most of men in my dad's family loved old cars and pets. Two of dad's sons and several of their cousins were self taught mechanics, like dad himself and encek Engtun. At Pasir Gombong, along with the Plymouth, there used to be a WWII era motorcycle dad used to ride around. Encek Eng Tek rode an old Mercedez, similar to encek Eng Liang's, while encek Eng Tun used to came there with his Australian Holden.

But for pets, dad only loved singing birds, not the dogs, specially not the fishes. He even didn't like to eat fish. As for exotic pets, no one can top dad's, even encek Eng Giok's peacocks. One day at Pasir Gombong, to everyone's surprise including mom's, dad brought a 9 month old orang utan named Betty. She was an affectionate little ape, specially to dad, but not to kid like me. When I tried to play with her, she would pull my hand from her cage and wouldn't let go until an adult came and free me. Betty only stayed several months with us, because later on dad learned that orang utan was an endangered species, prohibited to be kept as pet.