The GREAT Wall

It’s long been abandoned. They’ve been thinking of renovating it. She could have got that done long time ago had she wanted to but I supposed she rather saved up the money for something else. Perhaps she’s waiting for me to offer some help. I decided to help.

” Why did you get the white cement? We use white cement for tiles. We are not doing tiles,” one of my brothers called me to check.

I rang the shop again and spoke to ‘Boss’ asking him to change it. He said “OK, I’ll just deduct whatever you don’t want”. That’s easy! I thought he would have made a big fuss and asked me to just keep it.

I was at the hardware shop a few days back to place an order for all the things needed for this little project. I seriously thought this kind of little construction project was not so much of my kind of thing but it turned out that it did give me some sort of pleasure. Being in the dusty shop with all the gigantic tools did make me feel more matured and a little bit manlier (not during the bargaining though), standing in front of this ‘Boss’ and all his assistants inquiring about all these things:-

9 bags of cement @ RM11 a bag
900 Bricks @ 0.16 cent per brick
6 small bags of 'Cement Kapor'
A small lorry of soft sand @ RM75
5 feet of small wires
Etc....

They were all delivered and the labour turned up as planned too - 2 sweet and hardworking Burmese guys for 3 days @ reasonable wages.

It’s now almost complete. Though it’s only a small part of my parents’ house but it does make a difference. It looks good. I feel proud to see it erected. It's not the longest. It may be relatively way too small compared to many other walls being built. It’s practically NOTHING compared to The Great Wall of China but to me it’s MY GREAT wall……….