The little red bug

This pretty little red bug features very prominently in my childhood memories.

One of our little joys as a kid was to catch insects, and the ladybird was one of the girls' favourites (while the boys liked to keep spiders for sparring purposes). On hindsight, now that I've grown old and wiser and more environment conscious, it's actually quite cruel to these tiny creatures.

Ladybird is also closely associated to my first library of English storybooks. At that time, we read about Cinderella, Jack and the beansprout and other fairy tales from the tiny, hardcover "Ladybird Classics".

These books also served as our toys, as we stacked them to become doll houses, or lined them up to become roads for our toy cars.

These are life's simple pleasures for simple kids with simple needs during those good, old and memorable days.