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One of the things I find surprising about the kangaroo is that he loves gardening. It’s such a contradiction to his high tech brain that runs like a CPU, but I think once in a while, he likes to chill out at home with his plants and flowers. Being a city gal like myself, I find this highly amusing and fascinating.

In Singapore, our rented apartments always had potted plants and blooms of several hues which the kangaroo would love splurging on. Then he would spend glorious hours tending to them like pets on weekends. When we moved to Japan, most of them went to my parents’ home for safekeeping.

It was a hobby he picked up when he was growing up in Aussie country town, Tamworth, his birthplace. In fact, he told me that he set up a gardening service with his good friend. They got right into it and had a wide clientele which consisted of all their neighbours. Unfortunately his business partner earned enough money to buy a handheld Sony playstation and was not motivated to continue. “It was my first lesson in business — you will always meet people with different goals even though you are running the same company.” Nevertheless he ploughed on by himself and earned a ton of cash during the summer when he was 15.

Anyway, our housewarming is next weekend so we went to Tokyu Hands to load up on party supplies and flowers.

The kangaroo is already thinking of expanding our garden to grow my favourite herbs and veggies. Imagine organic produce right in our backyard!

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