Throwback Thursday: My Love For Movies

My love for movies didn’t just appear one day — it was planted, watered, and grown by my late father. When I was little, he would always bring me to the cinema to watch the latest Disney films. And if we weren’t at the cinema, he’d buy us the VHS tapes instead. I still remember having The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and The Lion King lined up neatly at home. And honestly… the scene where Ursula gets impaled by a shipwreck? Traumatizing. I still think about it sometimes.

But those cinema trips — that’s where everything really started. Every weekend, I’d ask my father, “What are we watching this week?” unless we were going out of KL. It became our thing. Our little tradition. And it went on all the way until I was in my early teens.

We even used to go for movie premieres. There was this cinema in Chow Kit called Federal Cinema, and that’s where I watched my very first premiere. The last premiere we went to together was a Senario movie. If we weren’t at Federal Cinema, we’d head over to Alpha Angle in Wangsa Maju. Just thinking about these places brings back such vivid childhood memories.

Looking back at all this now fills my heart in a way that’s hard to explain. My father gave me such a meaningful childhood — one I can always return to whenever I go for a movie night alone. Whenever I sit in that dark theatre waiting for the screen to light up, it feels like a small part of him is sitting beside me. And I think that’s why movies will always be special to me.