Gardening and parenting
“That’s it”, I told Benghui last night. You wake up early tomorrow and do some gardening. He was still watching a Korean series movie Happy Together.
Oh boy, how I regret that statement. At 5.30a.m. , he woke me up. Is there a fire, is mummy sick, is grandma’s leg ok were the first thoughts on my mind. My heart went to fast mode.
Benghui : Daddy, i want to work in the garden.
I thought to myself I started the whole thing so I must see it through. True enough, he worked hard. I tried to put the dog in the cage because Oopi was so excited and tried to give us sneak licks. It resisted all attempts to force it to enter its cage. Benghui took Oopi’s plate and made as if to go to the cage. Oopi went in immediately.
Benghui : You see daddy, mummy always does it like this giggle giggle.
He washed the concrete table and chairs.
He pruned the plants ( in this case a local orange tree )
This used to be a banana tree which gave us excellent yield. The guy who gave us said it was called Lau Hieng Dieng banana ( named after a SUPP politician supposedly because he introduced it into a local community or he planted it during some ceremony or other. It gave us excellent yields and after it fruited, we chopped it down and its offspring just kept bearing fruit. My father-in-law suggested I chop it down because it was bringing bad feng-shui. It refuses to disappear. It keeps on renewing itself.
What is this? It is my pathetic attempt to make an ‘artistic pictorial composition’ . hahahahahhahahah
A flower of a citrus fruit.
The fruit from the flower
Flower of the humble star fruit.
Left unattended and unwrapped, the fruits drop to the ground.
Benghui offered to take over the gardening and from the kitchen we both heard Mrs Bengbeng shouting. She had just woken up.
Mrs Bengbeng: Beng, you siao huh? ( crazy ). So many mosquitoes and the sun is so bright. Benghui, don’t touch anything. The garden is dirty. Come in immediately, you hear. Come in now. Beng, make sure he is careful. He is too young, you siao lang. ( crazy man )
Benghui winks at me and goes in.
This is what I see when I enter the house. 
Mrs bengbeng is complaining he is not studying enough.
Bengbeng | Gardening, My personal stuff, Parenting
that banana plants hor, u need to dig up the roots & all if u dunwan it to grow anymore but why bad fengshui?
in law believes it attracts ” ……..”
*raise hand* can visit ur garden onot?
would love to meet up with u
You have durian tree?
only across the river…
Belimbing? We used to have a tree at the back of our house too.. that was in Kuala Lipis. Really sour fruits though.
This holidays… Joseph learned to ride the bicycle!
i will consider the bicycle bit
Benghui really good boy la. I think my future son will not wake up until 12pm hehe. And the two of us can play Nintendo together secretly without mummy knowing.
in my next life i want to b yr child in the next life
Your Benghui is an absolute gem. Woke up at 5.30am?? My kids will not even think of helping let alone wake up at 5.30am.
Aiyah, he did so much work out in the garden, he deserves a rest in front of the tv. What a waste of star fruit. I have not had star fruit for yonks and yours just drop to the ground and rot?
Send to me lah! 
star fruit too much trouble
Wow! Can visit your garden or not? Looks like nice fruit trees you have there…LOL!
Benghui is such a good boy…how sweet!
Jus ordinary sibu untidy garden
I laughed and laughed at the end. Still laughing while typing this. thanks for giving me a such a good laugh so early in my day. haha. It will set me laughing throughout my day just thinking about it.
I am so glad we are friends
. It feels like that when I read your stuff.