Did you hear the cock crow this morning....I do not believe we hear it now especially in the urban area or in the cities...Doesn't the cock crow now?....Where have they gone.....I have not heard one for quite sometime already....When I was growing up in the forties...It is the cock crows that wake us up...there was no alarm clock then....in the wee hours of the morning and the cock start to crow and soon another would crow...follow with the other... crows....in a chain reaction...and soon the whole 'Kampong' village would be fill with the sound of cock crows.....it is a sound that we are use to hear in the wee hours of early morning...the air were cool...the the well water cold...we wake up every morning to the tune of the cock crows...and indeed the cock crows without fail...You wake up and rush to the well to take your bath....using bucket to get the water from the bottom of the well...and use it for bathing...clear and fresh water...were our daily dose of the great bath...every morning without even thinking of the coldness of the water......we took the shower....it was the way then...but now not only we lost completely the sound of those cock crows...we could not ever think of taking our bath in the early morning using cold water....Now a days it is always with the warm shower in our bathroom...Not beside the well outside the house...in the cold morning and in the darkness of the early morning...before the sun rises....Thinking back of those days....I sometime wonder...what we had miss..the fun of getting the water from the bottom of the well and the quarrel among brothers as to who should take bath first....the shout from our mother to finish the bathing and come for breakfast and get ready for school....Well that was the days...Wonderful and I still could visualized those great moment in the days of my childhood....