House Cleaning - June Challenge #7

Not to my surprise, it's house cleaning time. The thing you learn from growing up to be the youngest child of the family is... well everything. I remember the good old days when my dad would just call me over for every plumbing situation that we had so I could stand there observing how to do it.

On one hand, I was not interested in it at all. It's completely the opposite of when my dad asks me to teach him how to fix a problem on the computer. I was not an enthusiastic learner nor was I an enthusiastic teacher, but I knew I had to go through it, since it was to be my duty from then on anyways. The days before I cleaned all the filters in our air conditioners and today I fixed a clogged sink in my bathroom.

Oh the wonders of what I will be doing tomorrow... *cough that was sarcastic cough*

Though the complaints, I was grateful today at knowing how to do these stuff. I feel just a bit of pride in myself knowing that I'm not one of those brats not being able to touch filth. I often remember how both my parents teach me the value of wealth, not through words, but through actions. With my grand fathers and mothers having immigrated to Thailand when they were young they had to start from nothing. My dad once told me that his dad was only a little boy flying in to Bangkok in one of those tiny water-landing planes with his father and they started their own hole-in-the-wall shop in Phahurat, Indian district of Bangkok. There is always one of those people in your life whom you can never imagine being young. That person for me was my grandfather. We would drive for an hour from our house into Bangkok when I was around 7 to visit that hole in the wall. My grandfather, who I called Papa (father), would always give me a piece of raisin and 20 Baht. I would stand there for a while when he talked to my dad in Hindi which I don't understand. Looking at that old shop really made me remember how my parents both grew up in a much more common world with much less comfort. So really, house cleaning is not something I should be complaining about at all.