Brother

When I read the story quoted by my friend TW (see http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/cal-culator/article?mid=81), a similar one came through my mind.

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It was about a pair of brother and sister, some fifty years ago.

Both of them attended the primary school only briefly, and started working in local factories at their teens. They were both hardworking and soon saved some money.

The brother married a colleague of his and moved into public housing. He used the savings to start his own business, and was rather successful in the following 20 years. To his credit, he foresaw the decline of local industry, sold his factory in 1980s, and decided to have an early retirement.

The problem was, throughout the years, he stayed in his original public housing - the price of property has gone up so much that he would never has his own flat. Before he eventually goes to meet Chairman Mao, his biggest wish is, in fact, to leave a place for his son to live.

But we know it just too well it could never come true.

(to be continued ...)