Mohammad Nor Khalid was born on 5 March 1951 in a kampung (village) in Kota Baru, Perak, Malaysia. His father was a government clerk with the Malaysian Armed Forces, and his mother a housewife.[2] Khalid was a stocky boy with a cherubic face, which led his family to nickname him bulat (round). His friends shortened it to "Lat"; it became the name by which he was more commonly known in his kampung and later in the world.[2][3][4] Lat was the eldest child in his family,[nb 1] and he often played in the jungles, plantations, and tin mines with his friends.[2][nb 2] Their toys were usually improvised from everyday sundries and items of nature.[5] Lat liked to doodle with materials provided by his parents,[9] and his other forms of recreation were reading comics and watching television; Lat idolised local cartoonist Raja Hamzah, who was popular with his tales of swashbuckling Malay heroes.[10] Malaysian art critic and historian Redza Piyadasa believes Lat's early years in the kampung ingrained the cartoonist with pride in his kampung roots and a "peculiarly Malay" outlook—"full of [...] gentleness and refinement".[11]
Lat's formal education began at a local Malay kampung school; these institutions often taught in the vernacular and did not aspire to academic attainment.[12] The boy changed schools several times; the nature of his father's job moved the family from one military base to another across the country, until they settled back at his birthplace in 1960.[13][14] A year later, Lat passed the Special Malay Class Examination, qualifying him to attend an English medium boarding school—National Type Primary School—in the state's capital, Ipoh.[2][15] His achievement helped his father make the decision to sell their kampung estate and move the family to the town;[16] society in those days considered education at an English medium school a springboard to a good future.[17][18] Lat continued his education at Anderson School,[19] Perak's "premier non-missionary English medium school".[2][20] Redza highlights Lat's move to Ipoh for higher schooling as a significant point in the cartoonist's development; the multi-racial environment helped establish his diverse friendships, which in turn broadened his cultural perspectives.[21]car rental double mattresses
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