A couple of days before, a friend said to me he never and never wanted to write any blogs in a slipshod manner, and it is real feelings that we should write about. I nodded and I didn’t question, because that’s exactly what I think. I also have to confess that I sometimes do write in haste, however, it doesn’t mean what I write is non-sense, and I meant every word I said. Like what I am going to put on my blog today. It is one of my little wishes hiding deeply in my heart and every time I think of it I feel a beautiful delicate life beckoning in the coming future.
What impressed me most about Mrs. Manee Lugg when we first met was that she does gardening. A wish of owning my own garden has been rooted in my mind since I was thirteen or so. It happens all because of a book named Secret Garden. Gardens in that story are merely clues that link the entire story, but they had magical effect on me. They not only strengthened my love for plants especially flowers, but also set up a small wish for me to fight for. I want a garden to pay attention to, to look after, to spend lots of my spare time on… Can you imagine violets, lavenders, lilies and daisies blooming gracefully in your front yard? And those charming rose vines twining on the white fences? Or the scene that all of them sway gently in the comfortable breeze or the twilight of a summer day. If possible, this garden should only be taken care of by me myself. However, I sadly aware that usually childhood dreams fade and eventually vanish as a person grows up, but this small dream is the last one that I want to forget.
Luckily I still have small wishes like this.
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Ho Josie, dreams come true. You must have a dream or how fo you make your dreams come true? I like gardening too. When I was a child growing up in Malaysia, we lived in the kampong (you know this word). We planted a lot of our own vegetables, fruit trees and had some chickens. It was just so satisfying to harvest our products, fresh from the 'farm'. However, now in Singapore we do not have much space for gardening, but I do have pots of plants in the house, Plant make a world of difference to a home, as you have said so.
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