[Don't read this story if you found it quite long. Read it only when you feel bored.]

Have you ever tried to plant and grow a flower or fruit tree by yourself before? I guess not many of your answer will be a “Yes”, neither do I.

After experienced with so many problems, handled with so many types of contingencies that arisen in my plan, eventually I can make a real full stop for the 1st paragraph of my life story and declare myself temporarily revert back to peaceful life.

However, while remaining in such silent moment, it is hard to control my mind to recall back all the past memory. Some bad, some good, but I think most of them are real bad experiences, yet very useful to me in the future.

While lying on my bed, I stare at the fluffy cloud upon the blue-blue sky, the wind flow into my room gently and touch on my face, it makes me feel so tired, so....tired....and so drowsy...Before a Man reach to the path of success, there are so many efforts, energy, and blood, have to pay. My eyes become heavy and heavier...I guess I should take a long-long nap now.

Time machine has brought me back to the primitive.

“Once upon a time, there was a young little kid who living in a sweet and fortunate life with his family. Every morning surely awaken from the sweet dream, and without anything to worry what will happen next. 1st thing to do was to go to the balcony, taking a fresh air, fixed his gaze at the sunrise on the line of the coast ahead and picking up a sunshine smile. As usual, he will then run to the garden to see his grandmamma who was always there to decorate and taking care with her plants. He squatted down and looked at her quietly, without interfering her leisure moment. She just looked at him and smiled.

Notwithstanding this kid knew that gardening is one of his grandmama’s hobbies, the real passionate which couldn’t be devastated just because of tiredness. But still, he has a doubt that why grandmama would devotes all the time in caring with those plants even though they might shrivel up one day.Unexpectedly, the answer given by his grandmother could be sum up as the ending part of this Apple Tress Story, despite the fact that he couldn't understand at that moement.

This kid treats his life with casual and slightly amused indulgence. He was thinking “why don’t I enjoy eating those apple which plant and grown up by my parents,” Therefore to make his life easier without the need to plant by himself.Such juvenile nature of his decadence simply intolerable by his parent and so this kid has been reprimanded and was told that: “You already reach the age ample enough to be independent, and so please stop eating free meal everyday. Go and plant your own apple tree by yourself, one day you might find that the taste is more unique than those you eating right now.” However, such an expostulation did not worked on him, he continue indulged himself by having fun and ask for free apple all the time. In his mind, no matter how the apple has been planted or who going to plant it, apple still an apple, the taste wouldn’t vary so much, as long as it can fulfil his daily needs, he don’t even care where the apple comes from.

One day, his father couldn’t stand anymore to see this attitude continues and eventually compelled to come to such a decision. “You are no longer to have the privilege to take my apple anymore, not even one! The apple you still eating inside your mouth is the last one I can give you. Get out from this house and take the seed, plant it yourself. You don’t even have the right to plant in my land, please go far far away! ”This young boy knew that his father was not joking at this very moment, and so he quickly puked out the seed and hold it tightly, because this could be the last hope before he has lost everything.



This kid believed that with his extraordinary intelligent, he may be able to survive without the need of the help from his parent. Therefore, he decided to travel to the other Island and commenced the journey of planting his own apple tree. However, this poor little kid never expect that this could be the real nightmare begins.

Once arrived to this new island, he started to search for an accommodation. He was thinking to look for a friend who he believed that this friend might give him a hand in redeem for his previous help. But this poor kid had been rejected directly, even though tried to beg for a night to sleep on the floor. He was then prepared himself to sleep with those drunken and smelly vagrant in the underground- tube tunnel for couple of weeks before he can get a new room to stay. At this very critical moment, fate doesn’t push him to the dead corner; instead he found an empty room through some stranger. I suppose it must be the universal circulation, when u got something, you will have to pay for something else. The room is even dirty and stink than the underground-tube tunnel, further with the agreement that he must surrender 6month rental to the landlord, he knew clearly that this is definitely ridiculous, but the extreme cold weather had again changed his mind and compelling him to agree with such unreasonable clause. He was then allowed to stay for 5 days before the landlord came over to collect money from him. For the sake of avoiding staying under the cold, he made such a decision just to gain these 5days time in order to re-charge his energy before stand up and fight again! Yes, fight! Eventually, he understands, when everything is on his own, he have to fight in order to survive irrespective of any agreement that promised to someone.

When the fifth day arrived, likewise the long charged of energy, 4 o’clock in the midnight, he already prepared properly... for the plan of --- runaway! Pulling all his luggage and boxes to the new house which he had found a day ago. Moving all the stuff under such an extreme cold weather was a real torture experience, finger and the toe was so freezing, even one second of breathing, the air might went into the lung and causing the cells frozen. He did not even realised that the knife had stabbed through one of the boxes and scratched his leg, rendered a big wound and bleeding severely. He was just dragging all his stuff and moved forward and moved. The Sun had just risen up when this poor kid arrived to his new shelter. He smiled. He knew the reason why he smiled...

The new house symbolised a new start for him. Time flies, after allocated properly for his personal life and accommodation matter, it was already 3 months since the day he left home. One of the silent nights, he lied on his bed and hold tightly with the apple seed, and there are so much feeling which couldn’t expressed with just a word. Simply because it could be a big day for him tomorrow as this was like a “finally” to him. The next morning, he brought all the tools and the seed to the backyard along with the mood of excitement and started to plant it. However, “finally” seemed still far away from his destination, there were so many tools he lacked of before he can plant it into the ground. The tools is not cheap, therefore, in order to get a comprehensive one, he had to work, even though it was the very lowest profile job. In this stage, he had to abandon his noble prestige, experience the taste of spirit been humiliated and fleered by everyone and from nowhere. This could be considered as one of the hardest stage in his life. However, he stood firmly still and insisted with his faith, didn’t even care for all the blood, tiredness, effort which he had paid for in return for the tools.

Day by day, collectively with all the money, he finally bought all the tools and prepared for the stage of planting. This night, he was the most fortunate people in the world; he could felt the satisfactory within his mind for the very 1st time.


He looked after the tree everyday like his grandmamma did. Taking care properly from the Spring to Summer, and the Sun burnt him like the ironing on the human skin; From Summer to Autumn, the wind blown into his bone like a house without a window; From Autumn to the winter, the cold could almost froze a human’s heart and the blood from being operated. Even though suffering in fever, flu, and the cold, this kid still insisted with his iron-will just to preserve his apple tree from being destroyed. I guess Luck still not accompany with this kid enough, instead more and more hard stage going after him.




One day, the storm snowing attacked on this island, he had nothing to do to prevent this natural disaster. Looking on the ground where the apple tree was planted, but it had now covered with a thick mantle of snow. It was a real huge impact to this poor kid, destroyed all his monthly efforts within just a few hours. I suppose he had reached to his limit, He bit his teeth tightly, just to endure the tears from dropping out, because he knew that he is not such a vulnerable man, nevertheless he failed to… Fate fooling on him again and again…

Probably because of the inheritance attitude since young, the desire of victory and determination had again geared up his mind and driven him to insist on the mission. He swore in his mind firmly: “From today onwards, if there is anything happens on me, I only allow myself to be controlled by the emotion just for 30minutes, and then the rest of the time the emotion must be dead in my cells.”

With such a faith, after the storm snowing stopped, he was then plant the apple tree again! The weather of the 4 season had again tortured him more severely than before, but this time he seemed no more feeling to such a pain on his skin and emotion.Instead moved forward like a bull!

Eventually after a year…the day has come! The apple tree has been grown up, and there are so many and many apples hanging on the tree. He was so excited and couldn’t wait for those apples become ripe to eat, as he wanted to try the unique taste which his dad had told him before. It didn’t take long for it to be ripe. Once the apples dropped on the ground, this kid quickly picked up and took the first bite. He stunned…

Subsequently, he called back to his father
“Dad, finally I tasted the apple that I planted by my own.”
“How was the taste then? Is it unique as I told you?”
“No, dad, it is actually the same and normal taste as what I eaten at home... However, which made it so unique is actually just because of one apple tree, but it took me almost 2 years to plant it! How many troubles I had to face, and how many types of human being that I needed to experience before I can plant it on the ground and grow it.”
His father made a big laugh in the other side. The kid continued: “To be frank, Poverty to a man is a real terrible life to live with in this realistic society.Thanks dad! From this moment on, I will preserve well for this and the only apple tree that I planted for so hard.
“No, son, you not only have to take care your own apple tree well, likewise it is the time I shall declare to pass my entire Kingdom of Apple to your hand now when you come back to your own island. I’m believe that you have the right and capable to own it now.”
Without anymore question: “Yes, daddy, I will and I shall.”

Time Machine brings me back from the story. I sit on bed quietly, trying to recall few plot within the storyline. I guess I already understand the answer given by that grandmamma.

Going to kitchen, open the fridge and grab an apple, walk to the backyard and look at the moon upon the sky, take a bite of the apple and taste it. It actually bought from tesco 2days ago, and nonthing special actually,haha!

But there is a feeling I need to express to myself and to everyone else. Lets look forward for the Return of Xeno…I'm sure this day will be very soon.




-The End of the Apple Tree Story.-