Date : Sunday, May 02, 2010
Time : 3:09 PM
Title : infinity

Over breakfast this morning, Daddy told my sis&i his dream retirement plans.
1. Buy a piece of land in JB
2. Plant fruit trees and vegetables. (he even know which fruit trees and veggies to
grow)
3. Build a kampong house. (Level one will be just an empty space for cars, level two
will have four bedrooms and a common room in the middle of those four rooms. An
open-air common room mind you.)
"Raining how? Use umbrella to move from room to room?"
"Ya lah. Or the corridors can be sheltered."
"What if you come back to singapore and people steal your fruits!"
"Take lah. Just don't chop them off."
"People will rob your house."
"Its a kampong house. Don't even have a TV, nothing to rob."
4. Buy a portable air-conditioner.
5. Build a bomb shelter just to lock his air-conditioner in it.
"If I use a build-in air conditioner people CONFIRM come and take."

My dad's still a kampong boy at heart, he wants to keep goats and chickens too so he
will have eggs and warm goat's milk(eww). He spoke with so much hope, with wandering
eyes like a child dreaming of his perfect job. My sister agreed to pay for it without
much thought, there was probably no need for any. My dad has done so much for the both of us.

It is now a common dream :)

"My grandchildren will be very happy. Farm stay LEH."
I know farm stays usually refer to those in Aussie or Newzealand but now I picture my
kids telling their classmates,
"I went to my ahgong's farm during the holidays to eat mango and feed chickens, you
leh?"
If the best they can come out with is, "CHEY farm only, so smelly."
I'm pretty sure my child will still be able to smile and be proud of his/her ahgong's humble little farm.
Moreover, he/she will have something to write for compositions like
"My Grandfather" or "The Most Memorable Holiday".