morning chaos

usually the morning wake-up alarm at home is the sounds of construction of a house at the malay village behind our housing area. the sound of hammers, drills and machines have never failed to wake me up.

but today, it is a different story. the sounds of constructions were muffled by the discussion of mom and grandma behind the house. i could not hear what they were discussing from my bedroom until they decided to call brother jet to 'join' them. JET!!!!!!! they yelled all the way from downstairs.

then curiousity got the better of me and i got off bed.

and the whole story unfolded. hahaha...what a funny one.

above is the illustration.

mom actually got up on the wall today to cut the branches which had overgrown and overshot to our side from the malay village. while she was resting her hand, of all places she put the parang on the open pipe hole where water from the roof flows to the drain. that was when the chaos started. the parang slipped from her grip and it fell into the pipe and all the way to the bottom. ho ho ho!

how do you get the parang out now??? she tied two poles together to make them long enough to reach the bottom of the pipe and hooked a metal hook onto the pole. tried as she might, she could not hook the parang out.

then dad also came and he suggested tying strings with a noose at the end. jet lowered the noose a few times and did not get the 'hook' until mom muttered a buddhist prayer...nam mou o li tou fu...and lo and behold...the noose got the parang and they pulled it out!

miracle?? i dunno.

the episode ended then. phew! what a relief! i think it lasted for about 30 minutes. what a way to start the morning. and as for the prayer part...mom said can buy lottery today. haha. granma said....see if you believe in it it will work.

me?...err...skip.

will not be hearing the construction tomorrow as i will be in kl. will update when i get back.