PENNY LANE
- The Beatles -


Little Jen could barely speak when she started coming to our house.

She and my sister first only shared giggles between the wire fence that separates our houses. Very quickly, she became a regular visitor to our home.

I used to love listening to them talk to each other. A duck and chicken lost in translation. One in Chinese, the other in Malay. But they got along like they've been best friends forever.

I was away most of the time while she continues growing up. But I still see her over the holidays and she still brings along her homework whenever she drops by. By then, she'll always be the one entrusted to look after our home when the family is away on holidays.

My sister has since left Miri to further her studies, but little Jen keeps coming back, sometimes to keep me company, other times just to talk about mysterious barkings around the neighbourhood or the snobbish boy at school.

One day, she'll move on too.

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