Do you have an old kerosene lamp at home? Lamps such as these aren’t commonplace at home anymore, since electricity has taken care of all our nigh time lighting needs. yg remembers the time when kerosene lamps were used in the old days.

when we first started living in the kampong, there was no electricity at all. it was pitch dark at night and we had to rely on the kerosene lamp, also called a wick lamp. even when electricity was introduced to the kampong with the help of a very large and noisy generator, the supply was not continuous. the electric light came on at around six thirty in the evening and just before midnight, the generator would be shut down. all in all, we had about five hours of electricity each day.

Find out more about the kerosene lamp in ygblog.

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