9 more days! installed gate

Night market @ OUG tonight. Must go…must goo…must go and buy food and vcds…aaahhhhh
– 7:00PMIt’s bloody noisy now. The people who are installing our new front gate are here now. I bought them some snacks while I was on my way back home from lunch.

Mum got those guys from the newspaper classifieds. Mum chatted with the boss, a middle-aged man with 3 sons and a daughter. his sons didn’t even finish high school (they quitted when they were in form 1), and now all of them are helping him to manage the factory. Mum expressed her concern for the uneducated children. One of his children sprung up in defence saying, “Who will be fixing your gates, I were to be given education?” Very true. In Western countries, it’s very expensive to get people to do rough work for you. Most people opt to do it themselves rather than hiring people. Back in the old days, we could easily hire a gardener, a driver and maids without struggling to pay the bills. Dad always dream of this during his younger days but it seems it’s impossible now. All we could afford now is someone to tidy up our garden once a month, no driver and a maid once a week (we used to have an Indonesian maid, but she ran away after few months).

9 more days and I’m leaving for UK. Summer holiday is going to be over. *sigh*
– 3:20PM