Bird shops and shophouses

As a kid my dad would drive by rows and rows of shop houses at chinatown and joo chiat. my sisters and i used to tell him, " Daddy! i want to live in a shop house one day!!" Back then, he would say. " save up money then, when you grow up, you might be able to live in one." but now, he would say, " so many shophouses disappearing.. there goes ur dream vivianne.." 

One of the reasons why i wanted to stay in a shophouse was so that i could own a bird shop. Passing by those shops. i would peer through the car window and look at the colourful birds singing and hopping in their cages, hoping to get a new home soon. And their shop owner carefully and tenderly handling the birds like they were own children..

Some of you may wonder.. bird shophouse? never seen one! well, they were many around last time. But now, due to urbanization and people loosing interest in keeping birds as pets, these shops slowly closed one by one. now the only ones left are in very remote corners that used to burst with life...

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