Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Favours & Remembrances
Hi,
Some of the things my friends did for me.
A relationship means nothing if there is nothing that one can remember by that relationship. A good friendship usually leaves behind lots of good remembrances, in both directions. Now at this ripe old age I would like to tell some of these. I shall limit it to four stories here.
One year after I was gainfully employed, I bought a Fiat 600D, a 767 cc engine Italian car. I had nowhere to park it other than by the roadside in front of a shop in front of my house. A colleague, F......C....., visited me; later on his own initiative he had four concrete slabs cast and placed them over the drain alongside the road. And with that I parked my car safely off the road, on the other side of the drain.
There is a small wooden box on my shelf. It contains my collection of picture postcards. At one stage of my life I enjoyed horse racing at the Singapore Turf Club. My interest went so far that I kept records to track the historical performances of the horses. When I mentioned that I needed some container to file my self-designed paper records, a colleague named W...P....... had this beautiful wooden box made of teak wood; that was its purpose then, to filerecords of racing horse s.
When I moved into my present house I wanted a special chiku tree, one with big size fruits. Another colleague, D.....G.. told me to wait. I waited, and several weeks later he handed me the marcotted chiku plant which still bear fruits for me today. He also helped me to obtain dried sludge for my fruit trees as and when I required it.Dried sludge is an excellent fertiliser.
Under my mango tree in the garden I wanted to build a ring pond to rear some tropical fish. My idea was such that the fish therein would have endless space to swim forward, in a circular channel. To reinforce this pond I needed wire netting for the base and the side cement walls. Another colleague, F......F.. told me to save my money. I did save the money, because he found for me some remnants of metal netting which was very suitable for the purpose.
Friends like these and others responded readily and willing and FOC or free of charge. All our response then was to say Thank You, and that was all, no treat, no lunch, no dinner in return. We just did this kind of things for each other. That were our relationships, our friendships, the old fashion way.
Have a nice day
Ronald
Some of the things my friends did for me.
A relationship means nothing if there is nothing that one can remember by that relationship. A good friendship usually leaves behind lots of good remembrances, in both directions. Now at this ripe old age I would like to tell some of these. I shall limit it to four stories here.
One year after I was gainfully employed, I bought a Fiat 600D, a 767 cc engine Italian car. I had nowhere to park it other than by the roadside in front of a shop in front of my house. A colleague, F......C....., visited me; later on his own initiative he had four concrete slabs cast and placed them over the drain alongside the road. And with that I parked my car safely off the road, on the other side of the drain.
There is a small wooden box on my shelf. It contains my collection of picture postcards. At one stage of my life I enjoyed horse racing at the Singapore Turf Club. My interest went so far that I kept records to track the historical performances of the horses. When I mentioned that I needed some container to file my self-designed paper records, a colleague named W...P....... had this beautiful wooden box made of teak wood; that was its purpose then, to filerecords of racing horse s.
When I moved into my present house I wanted a special chiku tree, one with big size fruits. Another colleague, D.....G.. told me to wait. I waited, and several weeks later he handed me the marcotted chiku plant which still bear fruits for me today. He also helped me to obtain dried sludge for my fruit trees as and when I required it.Dried sludge is an excellent fertiliser.
Under my mango tree in the garden I wanted to build a ring pond to rear some tropical fish. My idea was such that the fish therein would have endless space to swim forward, in a circular channel. To reinforce this pond I needed wire netting for the base and the side cement walls. Another colleague, F......F.. told me to save my money. I did save the money, because he found for me some remnants of metal netting which was very suitable for the purpose.
Friends like these and others responded readily and willing and FOC or free of charge. All our response then was to say Thank You, and that was all, no treat, no lunch, no dinner in return. We just did this kind of things for each other. That were our relationships, our friendships, the old fashion way.
Have a nice day
Ronald
# posted by chunmu @ 6:37 PM 
