MY FAMILY
We are a poor family.
There are altogether nine members in my family, including my father and mother.
The children are seven in all, four boys and three girls.
My father is a hawker, selling fruits in the streets of Singapore and my mother is a washerwoman.
My father earns about twenty-five dollars a day and my mother is getting about fifty dollars a month.
Though poor, ours is a happy family. My parents seldom quarrel and they are thrifty.
All my brothers and sisters are studying in English Schools.
My eldest brother Ronnie is studying in secondary four in a government school.
He says that he will pass this year, with four good credits at least.
On school days may brother goes to school by bus and we children are in a nearby primary school not very far from our home.
During the weekends my eldest brother helps us with our studies.
By Professor S. Srinivasan